The number of countries in the world does not change very often, but when it does, mapmakers (and their digital counterparts) ...

This is true of mountainous countries like Afghanistan. Areas likely to be hit by floods, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes or by drought tend to remain less developed. The map below ...

Most future growth will occur in less developed countries, where the population is increasing more than five times as fast as that in developed countries. The phenomenal growth in world population has ...

In the late 1960s, the United Nations began to pay special attention to the least developed countries, recognizing those countries as the most vulnerable among the international community.