Dragon Horse

I was curious as to what countries are now considred officially "developed".

ontinent Country GDP
per capita PPP
(2006) [1] HDI
(2004)
North America

Bermuda ( United Kingdom)[2] 69,900 N/A
Canada 35,494 0.950
United States 43,444 0.948

Asia
Hong Kong (SAR of China) 38,127 0.927
Israel 30,464 0.927
Japan 32,647 0.949
Macau (SAR of China)[3][citation needed] 28,436[4] 0.909[5]
Singapore 32,867 0.916
South Korea 23,926 0.912
Taiwan[6] 30,084 0.925[7]

Europe
Andorra[8] 38,800 N/A
Austria 36,031 0.944
Belgium 34,478 0.945
Cyprus 29,105 0.903
Denmark 36,549 0.943
Faroe Islands ( Denmark)[9] 31,000 0.941
Finland 34,819 0.947
France 30,693 0.942
Germany 31,095 0.932
Greece 25,975 0.921
Iceland 40,277 0.960
Ireland 44,087 0.956
Italy 30,732 0.940
Liechtenstein[10] 54,000 N/A
Luxembourg 80,471 0.945
Monaco[11] 30,000 N/A
Netherlands 35,078 0.947
Norway 43,574 0.965
Portugal 22,677 0.904
San Marino 34,100 N/A
Slovenia 23,843 0.910
Spain 27,522 0.938
Sweden 34,409 0.951
Switzerland 37,369 0.947
United Kingdom 35,051 0.940
Vatican City[12] N/A N/A

Oceania
Australia 32,938 0.957
New Zealand 25,531 0.936


No African or South African countries are developed...Eastern European either. This is according to the World Bank and IMF.

OECD is more liberal they include Mexico, Turkey, Russia, South Africa.

I call Bull$#1t on that. :-)

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I don't consider any of the countries you mention "developed." Maybe Russia is developed, maybe.

Turkey, I don't think so, massive unemployment and a massive inefficient state-owned sector, same for Mexico.

Don't know much about South Africa, but I doubt a nation that has not seen East Asian growth rates (10%) and only released 90% of its population from serfdom about 18 years ago could be a developed country.

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