UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF MEDIA

STUDIES
DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION
PREPARED BY: DR. KAMALJEET KAUR

Developed and under developed countries

DISCOVER . LEARN . EMPOWER
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 Lecture objectives
1 To understand the concept of developed and developing
countries

2 To be aware about the name of developed and developing

countries

Lecture outcomes
LO ELEMENTS Level
Number
LO1 Students will identifies the difference between developed  Apply
and developing countries
LO2 Students will know about the name of various countries
Analys Developed Vs Underdeveloped Countries
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Developed and Under Developed
• High income countries are known
as developed / advanced
economies while low income
countries are known as
underdeveloped economies.
• Developed or advanced
economies are also characterised
by high standard of living,
universal and quality education,
better health care facilities and
high life expectancy.
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 Developed Countries with High HDI

Country human Development Index Pop-2021

Norway 0.953 5465.63
Switzerland 0.944 8715.494
Australia 0.939 25788.215
Ireland 0.938 4982.907
Germany 0.936 83900.473
Iceland 0.935 343.353
Hong Kong 0.933 7552.81
Sweden 0.933 10160.169
Singapore 0.932 5896.686
Netherlands 0.931 17173.099
Denmark 0.929 5813.298
Canada 0.926 38067.903
United States 0.924 332915.073
United Kingdom 0.922 68207.116
Finland 0.92 5548.36
New Zealand 0.917 4860.643
Liechtenstein 0.916 38.25
Belgium 0.916 11632.326
Japan 0.909 126050.804
Austria 0.908 9043.07

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https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/developed-countries
 Developing Countries with moderate HDI
Iraq 0.685 41179.35
El Salvador 0.674 6518.499
Kyrgyzstan 0.672 6628.356
Morocco 0.667 37344.795
Nicaragua 0.658 6702.385
Cape Verde 0.654 561.898
Guyana 0.654 790.326
Tajikistan 0.65 9749.627
Guatemala 0.65 18249.86
Namibia 0.647 2587.344
India 0.64 1393409.038
Micronesia 0.627 116.254
Timor-Leste 0.625 1343.873
Honduras 0.617 10062.991

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 Under Developed countries with low HDI
Ethiopia 0.463 117876.227
Gambia 0.46 2486.945
Guinea 0.459 13497.244
DR Congo 0.457 92377.993
Guinea-Bissau 0.455 2015.494
Yemen 0.452 30490.64
Eritrea 0.44 3601.467
Mozambique 0.437 32163.047
Liberia 0.435 5180.203
Mali 0.427 20855.735
Burkina Faso 0.423 21497.096
Sierra Leone 0.419 8141.343
Burundi 0.417 12255.433
Chad 0.404 16914.985
South Sudan 0.388 11381.378
Central African Republic 0.367 4919.981
Niger 0.354 25130.817
Tuvalu 0 11.931
Somalia 0 16359.504

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 Criterion for Classifying Economies as
Developed and Underdeveloped
• There is a set of common characteristics of underdeveloped economies such as:-
• low per capita income,
• low levels of living,
• high rate of population growth,
• illiteracy,
• technical backwardness,
• capital deficiency,
• dependence on backward agriculture,
• high level of unemployment,
• unfavourable institutions and so on

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 Meaning and Definition of
Underdevelopment
• Underdevelopment is low level of development characterized by low
real per capita income, wide-spread poverty, lower level of literacy,
low life expectancy and underutilisation of resources etc.
• The state in underdeveloped economy fails to provide acceptable
levels of living to a large fraction of its population, thus resulting into
misery and material deprivations.
• Underdevelopment is a Relative Concept
• Underdevelopment Sustains Absolute Poverty

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 Characteristics of Underdeveloped Economies

• Low Per Capita Income

• Slow Growth Rate of Per Capita Income
• Economic Inequalities
• Low Level of Living
• Low Rate of Capital Formation
• Backward Techniques of Production
• High Growth Rate of Population and Dependency Burden

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 Characteristics of Underdeveloped Economies

• Low Productivity of Labour

• Underutilisation of Natural Resources
• Large Scale Unemployment
• Dominance of Agriculture
• High Incidence of Poverty
• Infrastructural Backwardness
• Low Volume of Foreign Trade

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 BOOKs & REFERENCES
Text Books:-Nibedita Phukan , Development Communication: 

Online References
ParadigmShiftsinDevelopmentCommunication.pdf
Anonymous (December 11, 2015 )Underdevelopment: Concept and Meaning.[Web post] retrieved(Dec.
01,2017) from http//academy.gktoday.in

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Summary
• Concept of developing country.
• Concept of developed country.
• Problems of both countries.

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 Assessment Pattern
• Internal Examination
• External Examination
• Assignments
• Quiz
• Tutorial
• Surprise Test

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THANK YOU

For queries
E-mail ID:- kamaljeet.e7384@cumail.in

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