Not really possible while India and China cling onto their benefits from being classed as Developing Nations. Both these countries are world powers and developed countries are going to be reluctant to increase their advantage further by penalising their own heavy industries whilst giving a pass to theirs.

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China's GDP per capita is $12.5K / year and places it in between Panama and Costa Rica; India is $2.3K / year and is in between Congo and Mauritania.

How are they not developing nations?

The primary reason why the West so heavily outsources work and industry to India and China is to take advantage of how cheap the labor is to developed nations.

so if your population booms and lowers your gdp per pop ratio you are a developing nation? ridiculous. they have nuclear arms and massive international sway - they are hardly developing nations.

OPEC: lolno

Exactly. If my partner and I make $200K / year, we can live comfortably in most places in the US. If we have eight children to support on that $200K / year, we would struggle: the rent increase alone would be ruinous, not to mention food, clothing, and medical costs.

For the US to have GDP per capita similar to China, the US population would have to swell to more than 1.5B people - five times its current population.

China has the world's largest Navy and Army, China is a Nuclear power. China has the 2nd most billionaires. If they want to be seen as a "Developing Nation" maybe they should spend less developing the Military and their Elite class.

North Korea has a larger military than China. North Korea is a nuclear power. Where do you rank them?

Where are you getting that NK has a larger military than China? Per Capita?

International Institute for Strategic Studies, as shown on Wikipedia, including paramilitary personnel like the Worker-Peasant Red Guards.

Is China more developed than Switzerland? Japan? Norway? Is North Korea more developed than South Korea?

Military size or nuclear weapons aren't the standard for a developed vs developing country for a reason.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel

Hahaha, ok, when you add in a huge chunk of NK's population as "Paramilitary" sure. Not realistic. My comment was tongue and cheek. It's funny how such a developing Nation can have so many billionaires.