Will third world countries exist in 100 years?

In 100 the US wont be around I'll tell you that. This great nation hit its prime its leak already. Just like every great empire it will fall. The USA is losing all its morals and principles that they started off with. It will always be remembered as the greatest nation in history. But China is next. And nope im not asain. Truth hurts

Third world countries exist due to cultural problems. You can't live in the new world while your head is still in the old. When you live in a hut, got no food or water, don't have any money either yet you make 10 kids because that's what god want's or that's what brings honor to your family, things can't get better. When instead of working together for the good of the society you keep fighting for power, things can't get better. When instead of investing money in education you invest money in religious police, things will go down the hill. When a continent with the most natural resources is the poorest one, you know something is wrong with the culture there.

I think that climate change will cause massive droughts and widespread starvation in "third world" countries. It will get so horrible and out of control, that average people in better off nations will just turn a blind eye to it all. I envision the business of supporting those nations drying up as things become tougher on everyone across the globe. It's a dismal outlook (I know) but people are already doing it. I think it's only going to get a lot worse in the next century.

I think the term will have changed to "under developed nations."

And in a hundred years, we will still be searching for balance. Some areas will be better, some will be worse. But it will not be equal.

Trying to separate man from his stupidity is like trying to separate water from the quality of "wet".

As long as people are foolish and believe idiotic things, there will always be the impoverished.

In 100 years? Cute.

Perfect equality is one of the most unrealistic ideas there is, so yes, there will always be under developed nations.

there may still be many poor countries, and they may be different areas from even now. countries now developed may be third world depending on the course of human events by then. Unless, by that time, the whole world becomes governed by a single government, then its all (except a few possibly) or none

Only if the Solar Federation hasnt taken control of everything by then.

China will of course! Look they were poor forever before they finally started coming up in recent years.

yeah..!! dont know for other countries but if I exist then my country will for sure exist... cuz i will never let it drown and vanish.. :)

Yes.
The smart people will all leave and the dumbasses governing them will continue to pocket all the tax money while leaving their people in poverty.

Yes, and the difference in development and technology relative to "first world countries" will probably be the same as it is today.

Sure 3rd world countries could survive. How come they were able to outlived calamities and economic downfalls from the past? What if that happens to the First WC? I bet they would fall faster than economic crisis due to mental depression.

I doubt it. I highly doubt it.

We can give as much money to aid for countries as possible but there is a reason why many of these countries are the way they are.

Oppressive governments and oppressive cultures. Talk about the starving kids in Africa? They live in a country where women are seen as objects and to rape a woman is socially acceptable. Woman gets raped, is shamed by her community, has no access to the things that America takes for granted like food stamps or government funded birth control or abortion or even education! Gives birth to a mouth that can't be fed and lives cycles on all the while, whatever wealth and resources that their nation has to offer goes to whoever in power.

Half the battle for charity organizations and just to establish good enough diplomatic relations with these governments to be able to go to their country and offer aid. A lot of people make ignorant statements about how we need to fund birth control in those countries and hell yeah right! That shit is illegal or at least not socially acceptable there. Most of the countries that have weak or no women's rights (which roughly translates to no children's rights either) are often some of the worst countries for poverty.

It is not so much an issue of money or resources as it is an issue of shitty social values and shitty governments as well as the constant state of warfare and turmoil caused by aforementioned shitty social values. Maybe if they all stopped fighting, raping and money grubbing long enough to cooperate, they would get shit done but unless they do, there is no hope for those countries no matter how much money we first worlders throw at them. Social and political change needs to happen and I can no see hundreds of years of tribal warfare and social BS changing even in a hundred years.

Not only will third world countries cease to exist, all the countries in the world would be united! No boundaries, no religious extremism..
Its either this or whole world be like a famished country where everyone practises hardline Islam..hehe

If there's rich, there will be poor as well.

Unless society gets a major overhaul, I don't see it happening.

Yes.

Not only that, but I'm pretty sure we'll allow euthanasia to the ones that want it, and we will probably place less value on an individual's life, and more value on our own survival.

I could literally see, mainly through over population and resource and finance, individuals dieing on the street, and no one caring.

Is that too negative, or is it reality?
It may not be 100years exactly but very close.
Our world population presently is 7 Billion individuals
Back in 1812 it was ONE billion (just ONE)
In a hundred years from now it will be nearly 20 Billion

Think about that.
It took about 5 Billion YEARS for humans to evolve on Earth and at last become 'human' about 200,000 years ago. And in this 5 Billion years Earthtime we have presently multiplied our population by 7, and by 20 in another 100 years. I mean it took billions of years just to get to one billion, and now it presently doubles every 40years!

Exactly how are schools going to hold 20 more children for each present child in the future? Answer: They won't!

Yes, but we'll all be talking about how sad it is that they have dial-up internet and flip phones instead of trying to help with all the war and hunger and whatnot because (in my optimistic world-view) they will have overcome those issues by then.