Why Australia is at times worse than third world

In the modern Australian vocabulary, the term “third world” has generally been used with a negative connotation to describe part of the developing world, despite the term’s origin as meaning a nation not allied with the capitalist or communist blocs during the Cold War.

Whether you take the term by its original definition or the one that has crept into our collective consciousness over time, many of these nations no longer resemble their Cold War states, nor the commonly held image of struggling developing-world nations.

Some have increasingly modern, well-maintained road networks and highly enviable levels of export-industry complexity in their economies.