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Countries in the world were divided into the First, Second and Third world during the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union. This was so as to dinstiguish between countries that remained non-aligned or not moving at all with either NATO (capitalism), which represented the First World, or the Soviet Union and its allies (communism), which represented the Second World. This definition provided a way of broadly categorizing the nations of the Earth into three groups based on social, political, and economic divisions. However, we now refer to third-world countries as those poorer and less developed countries in the world.

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