In this article, we take a look at the 30 least developed countries and their characteristics. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of the world’s least-developed countries, you can ...

Discover what defines a newly industrialized country—economies transitioning from agriculture to industry, with notable GDP growth yet shy of being fully developed.

Out of approximately 195 countries, there are 152 developing countries in the world. An estimated 6.74 billion people in total live in these developing countries; an outstanding number when comparing ...

According to the OECD, there are only 37 countries belonging to the developed countries list. In contrast, there are 152 developing countries. At least, that’s the number according to the definition ...

In less than a week, world leaders will convene in Glasgow for the most important climate conference of the year, the United Nations’ COP26. One of the biggest questions of the conference is whether ...

This article was published in June 2022 and describes the change from using the legacy developed and developing regions categorization to the World Bank's income groups. For more recent updates please ...

Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang received funding to attend Cop29 from the London School of Economics Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, where she also conducts research as a ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2023—Amid the biggest surge in global interest rates in four decades, developing countries spent a record $443.5 billion to service their external public and publicly guaranteed ...

Japan, France, Germany, the United States and other wealthy nations are reaping billions of dollars in economic rewards from a global program meant to help the developing world grapple with the ...