third world

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   underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively

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Questions about third world

What does third world mean?

third world means "underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively".

Is third world a common word?

third world is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.