There are several key demographic attributes of developed, developing, and third world countries. Developed countries have high levels of industrialization and urbanization, along with high per capita incomes dependent on secondary and tertiary sectors. However, they still face population problems like longevity, small workforces, rural populations, and urbanization. Developing countries have over three-fourths of the world's population and lower levels of technology, facing issues such as rapid population growth, unemployment, poor living standards, malnutrition, and slow industrial growth. Third world countries are those not aligned with capitalist or communist systems, though the term is less preferred now. Many have weaker resources and larger populations than others.

1. DEMOGRAPHIC ATTRIBUTES OF DEVELOPED,
DEVELOPING AND 3rd WORLD COUNTRIES
E. Grace Selvarani

2. DEMOGRAPHY :
It is the study of structure of human populations using
records of the number of births, deaths, etc.
ATTRIBUTE :
It is a characteristic quality.

3. Demographic attributes
Demographic attribute is the quality of growing
human populations. The growing pressure of
population on resource base, especially on arable
land has created many socioeconomic, cultural, political, ecological and
economic problems. The population problems
vary in space and time and differs from region to
region. The problems may be more efficiently
examined when taken as developed, developing
and 3rd world countries.

4. DEMOGRAPHIC ATTRIBUTES OF
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

5. DEMOGRAPHIC ATTRIBUTES OF
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
•Developed countries are highly industrialized and
urbanized. In these countries, the per capita income is
not only high, most of their population is dependant
either on secondary or tertiary sector. These countries,
despite high degree of development.
•Efficient agriculture and large-scale industrial
production are also confronted with many of the
population problems.

6. FEW MAJOR POPULATION PROBLEMS OF
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES are,
•Long span of life
•Small workforce
•Rural population
•Urbanization

7. DEMOGRAPHIC ATTRIBUTES OF
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

8. DEMOGRAPHIC ATTRIBUTES OF
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
•Most of the world population lives in the developing
world. The developing countries have over three-fourth
of the total world population (China and India supports
over 23% and 17.6% of the total worlds population
respectively).
•The level of technological development is relatively
low in there countries which affects both agricultural
efficiency and industrial development despite the
availability of local resources.

9. FEW MAJOR POPULATION PROBLEMS OF
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES are,
•Rapid growth of population
•Unemployment
•Poor standard of living
•Malnutrition
•Management of agricultural resources
•Slow growth of Industrial sector
•Orthodoxy
•Problems of under population

10. THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES

11. •“Third World” country is not a country that simply is
primitive, underdeveloped, or poor, as most people think. In
fact, a third world country is actually just a country that is not
considered a capitalist country (first world) and not considered
a communist country (2nd world). This term was originally
coined just after WWII. The “third world” countries were just
everybody else.
•This “everybody else” included an awful lot of countries that
were underdeveloped or poor. Through time, this has given
rise to the misconception that “third world” means only
countries that are underdeveloped and poor, even though there
were, and still are, many countries in this group that are very
well developed and a few of them are among the wealthiest
nations in the world.”
•Over the last few years, the term, “Third World” has become
less preferred.

12. CONCLUSION
•Thus both Developed and Developing countries have many
population related problems in common like urbanization all
around leading to a shortage in providing food to the growing
population.
•Some have a better resource base and a smaller population
as, Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia and Mexico. Some areas are
with weak resource and large population with rigid traditional
ideas and orthodoxy like Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia and
Pakistan.
•Through the study of Demographic Attributes, we could hope
the best in the future by handling the available resource in
each region in a sustainable manner by planning and
implementing new sustaining methodologies.

13. REFERENCES
•Human Geography by Masjid Hussain
•A population Geography by R.C.Chandna
•The human population by W.H.Freeman
•Growing third world by Cheong(ppt)
•Internet