First World

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The First World refers to the group of economically developed, industrialized, and often Western-aligned countries, historically contrasted with the developing or non-aligned nations of the Third World.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
First World canonical 1
Global North 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (54)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cold War term
geopolitical concept
socioeconomic category
alignedAgainst Eastern Bloc
Soviet Union
alignedWith United States of America
surface form: United States

NATO
surface form: Western Bloc
associatedWithOrganization European Economic Community
NATO
OECD
characterizedBy advanced technological infrastructure
developed capitalist economies
high gross domestic product per capita
high level of industrialization
high standard of living
liberal democratic systems
stable political institutions
contrastedInTermsOf degree of industrialization
level of economic development
standard of living
contrastedWith Second World
Third World
criticizedFor Eurocentrism
oversimplification of global inequalities
emergedDuring Cold War
hasAlternativeName Western civilization
surface form: Western world

developed world
industrialized world
historicallyDefinedBy capitalist economic system
membership in Western military alliances
political alignment with the United States
includesTypicalExamples Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
France
Iceland
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States

West Germany
replacedBy First World self-linksurface differs
surface form: Global North
usedInField development studies
international relations
political science
sociology

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Third World contrastedWith First World
First World replacedBy First World self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Global North