Developed Countries

The developed Pays are countries whose majority of the population reaches all her vital needs thus that with a certain comfort and education. The first definitions called only upon the Economic development, the developed countries being those having a fort Gross domestic product. One reasons now in term of Human development.

Indicators of development

The Programme of the United Nations for the development (UNDP) retains two definitions for the developed countries:

country having a Index of human development equal to or higher than 0,8: that relates to 53 countries;
country of OECD, Central Europe, the Eastern Europe and CEI (definition used for the classification according to the Indicating of human poverty IPH-2): this geographical concept is political and arbitrary, but watch well the reality of the distribution of the developed countries.

Because of this geographical distribution, one often speaks about the “countries of North” to indicate the developed countries, in opposition to the “countries of the South” (Developing country).

One can note that as a whole, the most developed countries

are Démocratie S (see Human development );

History

In fact countries, at the time of the industrial revolutions, profited from a labor and raw materials extremely cheap which made it possible to develop the industrial tools, knowledge and the economy. Thereafter, some of these countries knew to control the social disparities created by following policies of distribution of the richnesses by the tax and the public services: education, Health.

While making reach most of their population richnesses (increase in the incomes and reduction in the vital expenditure like health), these countries extended their interior market to most of the population: the vital citizens having provided for their need could start to buy goods and services superflux, of comfort… What maintained the economic machine.

Certain very developed countries knew a later development and a modernization (end XIX {{E}} - beginning XX {{E}} century) thanks to an considerable effort of the population, either volunteer and sacrificial (case of the Japan of the era Meiji), or forced (case of the the USSR after the Russian Révolution).

See too

economic Typology of the countries

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