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Rank Country Continent Matches % Developed Rank change
1  San Marino Europe 5 100.0% 3 Increase
2  Liechtenstein Europe 4 100.0% 1 Decrease
3  Iceland Europe 166 89.8% 1 Decrease
4  New Zealand Oceania 673 85.1% 3 Increase
5  France Europe 547 84.6% 2 Decrease
6  Japan Asia 1061 84.4% 2 Increase
7  Luxembourg Europe 17 82.4% 1 Decrease
8  Austria Europe 73 82.2% 5 Increase
9  Cyprus Asia 185 82.2% 4 Decrease
10  Australia Oceania 906 81.8% 1 Increase
11  South Korea Asia 390 81.5% 2 Decrease
12  Singapore Asia 803 81.3% Steady
13  Sweden Europe 216 79.6% 3 Decrease
14  Portugal Europe 591 79.4% 1 Increase
15  Norway Europe 124 78.2% 1 Increase
16  Slovenia Europe 86 76.7% 3 Increase
17  Finland Europe 135 76.3% 7 Increase
18  Germany Europe 390 74.4% 5 Increase
19  Netherlands Europe 126 73.8% 5 Decrease
20  Denmark Europe 124 73.4% 2 Decrease
21  Taiwan Asia 277 73.3% 1 Decrease
22  Czech Republic Europe 73 72.6% 5 Decrease
23  Slovakia Europe 36 72.2% 18 Increase
24  Italy Europe 621 70.4% 2 Decrease
25  Canada North America 951 68.5% 4 Decrease
26  Spain Europe 451 66.7% Steady
27  Bahrain Asia 47 66.0% 3 Increase
28  Belgium Europe 123 65.0% 4 Increase
29  United Kingdom Europe 1262 65.0% 4 Decrease
30  United States North America 2037 63.9% 1 Decrease
31  Andorra Europe 8 62.5% Steady
32   Switzerland Europe 135 60.7% 4 Decrease
33  Israel Asia 1025 59.3% 6 Decrease
34  Estonia Europe 62 58.1% NEW
35  Chile South America 368 57.6% 2 Increase
36  Malta Europe 84 57.1% 2 Decrease
37  Saint Kitts and Nevis Caribbean 16 56.3% NEW
38  Greece Europe 997 55.8% 1 Increase
39  Lithuania Europe 33 54.5% NEW
40  United Arab Emirates Asia 130 53.8% 5 Decrease

Countries new to the ranking (since June 2012)

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Countries falling out of the ranking (since June 2012)

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a Ireland was knocked out of the list due to a humorous news piece titled "It’s official: Ireland is a Third World country", which was published on 21 August 2012 by Irish online news website TheJournal.ie. If we were to remove all results related to that news article, Ireland would be listed at #23, just above Slovakia.

Methodology

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To calculate which countries are perceived by the English-speaking world as being developed, five queries were submitted to the Google search engine:

  1. " is|being a very|highly developed country|nation|state|economy|market"|" has been a developed country|nation|state|economy"
  2. " is|being a developed country|nation|state|economy|market"|" is|being a first|1st world country|nation|state|economy|market"
  3. " is not a developing country|nation|state|economy|market"|" is not a third|3rd world country|nation|state|economy|market"
  4. " is|being a|an developing|undeveloped|failed|poor|impoverished|destitute country|nation|state|economy|market"|" is a third|3rd world country|nation|state|economy|market"
  5. " is not a developed country|nation|state|economy|market"|" is not a first|1st world country|nation|state|economy|market"

If the results of the first three queries outnumbered the results of the latter two, the country was considered "developed."

Alternative names were also used for some countries (e.g. "America," "US" and "USA" for the United States).

False positives are counted as the time to analyze the context of each and every search match would be too great or analyzing it only for smaller search results would create a bias.

Field date

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Queries were submitted on 3 September 2012.

Version history

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  • First release: May 2010. Field date: 10-17 May 2010.
  • Second release: September 2010 (I). Field date: 16-18 September 2010. Changed "is a" to "is|being a;" changed "first and "third" to "first|1st" and "third|3rd," respectively.
  • Third release: September 2010 (II). Field date: 26 September 2010. Merged and modified queries.
  • Fourth release: February 2011. Field date: 28 February 2011.
  • Fifth release: March 2011. Field date: 28 February and 3 March 2011. Added a new query: "X is|being a very|highly developed country|nation|state|economy|market"|"X has been a developed country|nation|state|economy". Removed "% Developing" column from table.
  • Sixth release: June 2011. Field date: 6 June 2011.
  • Seventh release: September 2011. Field date: 1 September 2011.
  • Eighth release: December 2011. Field date: 30 November 2011.
  • Ninth release: March 2012. Field date: 3 March 2012.
  • Tenth release: June 2012. Field date: 31 May 2012.
  • Eleventh release: September 2012. Field date: 3 September 2012.