riented economies of the mainly democratic
nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD), Bermuda, Israel, South Africa, and the European ministates; also
known as the First World, high-income countries, the North, industrial
countries; generally have a per capita GDP in excess of $10,000 although
four OECD countries and South Africa have figures well under $10,000 and
two of the excluded OPEC countries have figures of more than $10,000;
the 35 DCs are: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada,
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holy See,
Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg,
Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, NZ, Norway, Portugal, San Marino,
South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, US; note - similar
to the new International Monetary Fund (IMF) term "advanced economies"
which adds Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan but drops Malta,
Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey

** developing countries **

a term used by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the bottom
group in its hierarchy of advanced economies, countries in transition,
and developing countries; recently published IMF statistics include
the following 126 developing countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola,
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh,
Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso,
Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic,
Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Republic of the Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Djibouti,
Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial
Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala,
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran,
Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho,
Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta,
Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of
Micronesia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles,
Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea,
Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint
Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe,
Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands,
Somalia, South Afri