Who is the poorest country in the world?
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We have a three way tie. East Timor,Somalia, Sierra Leone  all have a Gross Domestic Product per capita of $500
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China.\n\nChina has just over 20% of the world's population--1,306,724,037 2006 (2006 estimate)
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Vatican City has a total land area of 0.44 square kilometers, making it the smallest country in the world.
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Africa isn't a country.\n\n\nThe world is divided into three economic levels, first, second and third world, or it was at one point.  The gap between wealthy and poor has increased, and there are remarkably few second world countries in the world. Actually, I can't think of any.  \n\nFirst world is the wealthiest, like the United States for example, second world is developing... like say... post WWII Germany?  Maybe not.  Third world is bottom of the totem pole.  Right now most of Africa is in that pile, as is a large chunk of South and Central America, as well as some Asian and Eastern Eurpoean countries.
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Benin, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Mali would be the worst but every country in Africa is a developing one.
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Sadly, I think it is Mozambique.
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Maybe it is, but third world countries are primitive and backward compared to 1st and 2nd world countries.  They do things like wash their clothes by hand, have dirt floors in their homes, don't have electricity.
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Can we say Africa? And I dont think that the UN gave any money to help Rwanda after their civil war against the Tutsis or Hutus. I could be wrong about that one.
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When people talk about the poorest countries of the world, they often refer to them with the general term Third World, and they think everybody knows what they are talking about. But when you ask them if there is a Third World, what about a Second or a First World, you almost always get an evasive answer. Other people even try to use the terms as a ranking scheme for the state of development of countries, with the First world on top, followed by the Second world and so on, that's perfect - nonsense. \nAny ways, u have asked for the list so i m trying my best to stop myself from going into the thoughtful mode..... here it goes.. according to World Bank the list of Third world countirs and their GPAs are :- (marked *)\n\n1    Timor-Leste South-East Asia                                    *400 \n2    Malawi Eastern Africa                                                *596 \n3    Somalia Eastern Africa                                              *600 \n4    Democratic Republic of the Congo Middle Africa      *675 \n5    Tanzania Eastern Africa                                             *720 \n6    Yemen Middle East                                                     *745 \n7    Burundi Eastern Africa                                                *753 \n8    Afghanistan Central Asia                                             *800 \n9    Guinea-Bissau Western Africa                                   *856 \n10  Ethiopia Eastern Africa                                               *859 \n11  Niger Western Africa                                                  *896 \n12  Liberia Western Africa                                                *900 \n13  Sierra Leone Western Africa                                      *901 \n14  Madagascar Eastern Africa                                        *911 \n15  Zambia Eastern Africa                                                *911 \n16  Eritrea Eastern Africa                                                 *917
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Nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, generally characterized as poor, having economies distorted by their dependence on the export of primary products to the developed countries in return for finished products. These nations also tend to have high rates of illiteracy, disease, and population growth and unstable governments.
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There is no "first" or "second" world countries.\n\nOriginally it was the "Old World" (Europe) and the "New World" (North and South America).  Once Africa opened up to trade and exploration, they had to have something to call it, and "Newer World" was just silly so "Third World" was adopted.\n\nIt's only fairly recently that the term "Third World" has come to mean an undeveloped and/or impoverished country.
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are you serious they don't have jobs for the citizens. that is the poorest country on earth.
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3rd world countries are countries whose economic standing is in the lower 12%. Any country who relies on foreign aid and excusable debt to sustain itself is third world. suprisingly, most countries are.\n\n2nd world is countries who rank in the middle 40%, these are mostly agricultural countries with light to heavy industrial exports. Tourism also falls into this category.\n\n1st world are the Top 10 world superpowers at anyone time. the top 5 are,\n\nUnited States\nUnited Kingdom\nJapan\nFrance\nCanada (odd isnt it.)\n\nthe current world superpower in all matters of foreign affairs is the united states, making us the most powerful country in the world. \n\nthe highest per capita income, relative to its size for any country, is Vatican City in rome. It is a sovereign nation and has its own economy. it is the most economically stable country on earth.
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It's not forgotten in fact it's one of the riches countries....There is just a huge gap between the poor and the rich. The rich are extremely rich and the poor are extremely poor. They don't have a true middle class.
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Probably becuase poverty is always a relative concept. Being the richer nations they probably still see Africa as the "Dark Continent" back from their sea-faring days.\n\nThat said...\n\nMost other countries probably have more than their share of poverty in their own country to be worried about poverty in another country.
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No.......wars dont make countries poor,  just the poor people poorer and poor living people dead....
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Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day. source 1\nThe GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined. source 2\nNearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. source 3\nLess than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn't happen. 4\n51 percent of the world’s 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations. source 5\nThe wealthiest nation on Earth has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation. source 6\nThe poorer the country, the more likely it is that debt repayments are being extracted directly from people who neither contracted the loans nor received any of the money. source 7\n20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods. source 8\nThe top fifth of the world’s people in the richest countries enjoy 82% of the expanding export trade and 68% of foreign direct investment — the bottom fifth, barely more than 1%. source 9\nIn 1960, the 20% of the world’s people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the poorest 20% — in 1997, 74 times as much. source 10\nAn analysis of long-term trends shows the distance between the richest and poorest countries was about: \n3 to 1 in 1820\n11 to 1 in 1913\n35 to 1 in 1950\n44 to 1 in 1973\n72 to 1 in 1992 source 11\n“The lives of 1.7 million children will be needlessly lost this year [2000] because world governments have failed to reduce poverty levels” source 12\nThe developing world now spends $13 on debt repayment for every $1 it receives in grants. source 13\nA few hundred millionaires now own as much wealth as the world’s poorest 2.5 billion people. source 14\n“The 48 poorest countries account for less than 0.4 per cent of global exports.” source 15\n“The combined wealth of the world’s 200 richest people hit $1 trillion in 1999; the combined incomes of the 582 million people living in the 43 least developed countries is $146 billion.” source 16\n“Of all human rights failures today, those in economic and social areas affect by far the larger number and are the most widespread across the world’s nations and large numbers of people.” source 17\n“Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically undernourished, almost two-thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific.” source 18\nAccording to UNICEF, 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”\n\nThat is about 210,000 children each week, or just under 11 million children under five years of age, each year. source 19\n\nFor economic growth and almost all of the other indicators, the last 20 years [of the current form of globalization, from 1980 - 2000] have shown a very clear decline in progress as compared with the previous two decades [1960 - 1980]. For each indicator, countries were divided into five roughly equal groups, according to what level the countries had achieved by the start of the period (1960 or 1980). Among the findings: \nGrowth: The fall in economic growth rates was most pronounced and across the board for all groups or countries.\nLife Expectancy: Progress in life expectancy was also reduced for 4 out of the 5 groups of countries, with the exception of the highest group (life expectancy 69-76 years).\nInfant and Child Mortality: Progress in reducing infant mortality was also considerably slower during the period of globalization (1980-1998) than over the previous two decades.\nEducation and literacy: Progress in education also slowed during the period of globalizatio