User:Pristino/Developed countries

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

Countries new to the ranking (since June 2012)

• Estonia
• Lithuania
• Saint Kitts and Nevis

Countries falling out of the ranking (since June 2012)

• Barbados
• Brunei
• Ireland^a
• Montenegro

^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

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

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

Queries were submitted on 3 September 2012.

Version history

• 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.