What problems tend to be typical of third world nations?
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1. Overpopulation:
This biggest problem facing all Third World nations is the massive population/population growth-rate. Due to illiteracy, lack of knowledge on family planning/contraceptives, younger age of marriages and the idea of "more hands, more work done" means that these countries have exceedingly high birth rates leading to a massively growing population who the Government struggles to provide for.
2. Shortage of Food and Water:
As a consequence of Overpopulation, most of these countries have serious problems with Food and Water Security. They constantly struggle with starvation, drought, extreme thirst/hunger, and mal-nutrition. The "Green Revolution" increased the food security in many countries like India, Pakistan, Mexico and more and it triggered subsequent innovations in plan genetics/agriculture that is helping to solve the Food Question but still as we can see from the various reports on Global Hunger there are still hundreds of millions to billions of people who are starving/malnourished.
3. Lack of Power/Power Resources:
Another common problem is the Energy Question. Most of the third world countries do not have access to energy resources like Oil, Uranium, Thorium, Coal, etc for power generation, operating vehicles and so on. This lack of power leads to death due to exposure (eg: Deaths due to excessive heat wave in 2015 in South Asia), reduced industrial growth rate, increased disruption in all walks of life and most of all - vastly increased Bills to pay for the import of expensive power resources. For eg: India's biggest deficit and hindrance to growth is the massive deficit we accumulate due to Oil imports.