File talk:Global North and Global South.svg

Uruguay

Well if we're adding Chile and Argentina, than there's no reason to exclude Uruguay.--J intela (talk) 10:45, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Criteria

So what are the criteria used, exactly to determine "North" vs. "South"? Ukraine, for example is poorer than Argentina or Chile. --Quintucket (talk) 08:09, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

If we go by Human Development Index alone, we get a North/South map like this:

Chile is in Purple, alongside Latvia, both with a HDI of 0.805. The only nations in the "South" that have a HDI higher than that are the oil-rich nations of Bahrain, Brunei, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

The countries in Sky Blue are all in Eastern Europe and beyond. If we raise the bar to the HDI of the Emirates, the countries that would fall to this category are also borderline Eastern Europe, with the exception of Portugal and Andorra.

Are the countries with HDI between 0.806 and 0.850 developed? Where do you draw the line? Because, if you ask me, a Chilean, Chile is still not quite there.

Similarly, none of the "South" nations shown on this map in light red are developed (some people say that South Africa, of all countries, is developed and part of the "North"; I call it shenanigans). But the countries in light blue are on the same HDI range, and don't deserve to be called "developed", either.

OTOH, Moldova is definitely a third world country. Locoluis (talk) 03:33, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Shouldn't the map be updated now that an entire decade has passed? Chile and Argentina rank higher on the Human Development Index than Turkey, Belarus, Kazakhstan, etc - And who ever thought of Kazakhstan being part of the Global North in the first place? It's still a developing country in 2023, let alone in 2012. How are Armenia and Azerbaijan part of the Global North but not China which ranks higher? Either the Gulf states and the Southern Cone (along with a few Caribbean countries, Costa Rica, and maybe Thailand) should be included, or all those former Soviet countries, Eastern Europe, and Turkey should be cut out. The map as it stands right now doesn't make sense. 2600:4040:7669:4700:170B:9D6D:70D4:D4D9 21:51, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Why is Antarctica highlighted red?

It's not a country. 72.76.95.136 20:52, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

It's indisputably geographically south. AnonMoos (talk) 16:06, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

So is New Zealand. The purpose of highlighting is generally to apply the label to countries, so despite it being in the South of the map it's not really relevant. I'd almost prefer it to be gray or white to indicate that it's not within the paradigm. Mhawk10 (talk) 01:25, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

I would argue that should be grey as a non-country. 1ucian0 (talk) 09:00, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

The Kerguelen Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

These two territories should be highlighted blue on the map. 2001:8003:9008:1301:65E9:C745:BC51:AAB3 03:49, 11 December 2021 (UTC)