third world country in English

underdeveloped or developing country, country in which the average standard of living is significantly lower than it is in countries with widespread industrial production and development

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1. Our battered forecabin now looked like the canopy of some decrepit truck jacked up for repairs in some Third World country. Sentencedict.com

2. Akhtar, a Muslim Philip Roth, Anatomises how the US, for some time the world’s most successful third world country, came to be so unsuccessful