The concept was coined in 1952 by French demographer , who likened the unaligned nations of the Cold War to the "Third Estate" of the French Revolution—the commoners who were neither the clergy nor the nobility. In the original "Three Worlds" model:
Nations that remained neutral or unaligned with either superpower. The Third World
The Evolution of "The Third World": From Cold War Alliances to Economic Stigma The concept was coined in 1952 by French
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The United States, Western Europe, and their capitalist allies.