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Tg thinkingeography.com MEDCs and LEDCs Dr Andrew Lee How kinds of countries are named More and Less Economically Developed Country (MEDC and LEDC) are terms used to describe countries according to their economic status. Separating countries into two groups will always be difficult. Some countries will clearly belong to one group or another, but those in the middle will be harder to classify. A country’s economic development relates to the degree to which it has a high income, but often other things will come along with a high income such as good infrastructure (roads, banks, ports etc) stable government (freedom of speech, democracy) etc. There are other ways to broadly classify countries, and these include the older division of First, Second and Third World countries and the more modern measure called HDI. HDI (Human Development Index) is a group of statistics which together form a number which is used to ‘measure’ the overall development of a country. This includes education, GDP per person, life expectancy and literacy. This measure has been criticised for not considering the country’s ecological record. Measures of this type are always imprecise. This does not, however, mean that the measures are not useful. They are useful when broad decisions or comparisons have to be made, even though there are gaps in what they are able to fully describe.