Why Developed Countries Are Really Not Developed

Riad Kherdeen
Political Sense
Published in
6 min readJan 6, 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare just how underdeveloped the self-proclaimed “developed” countries really are. It is more than just a coincidence that the countries hit hardest by the pandemic are the countries that are supposedly the most developed.

Global mortality rates as of January 5, 2021. Data courtesy of the Johns Hopkins University. Map courtesy of the CDC.

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Riad Kherdeen
Political Sense

PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley. Your source for original, critical, thought-provoking content about art, history, culture, and politics.