Kent, I think you and I are using very different definitions of "Third World" country. I am using the one that is in common usage. I have no idea what one you are using.

This appears to be the criteria you are using...

How are the rest of you doing? We still have plenty of turnips, a few beets, and some sheep we can slaughter. Here in the country, we are less affected by the crash. It must be eerie in the cities, the deserted malls, the freeways nearly empty at 5 p.m., the theatres and nightclubs abandoned for the churches and soup kitchens. I think of the emigrants swimming south across the Rio Grande, hoping for a new life in Mexico. I think of Miami, that once-proud city, depopulated, the now-pensionless elderly having fled Northward to live with their grandchildren, the Cuban-Americans seeking refuge in Havana. How everyone's lifestyle must have changed - people buying only the bare necessities, grocery stores with no expensive convenience foods, lottery tickets and cigarettes sitting dusty on the store shelves while everyone spends hoarded pennies on parsnips and cabbage, Applebee's, Ruby Tuesday, and TGIFriday's going out of business as everyone cooks at home, L.L. Bean and The Gap closing as families sew their own clothing. Who would have believed, in the old days of childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes, that America would now be having epidemics of scurvy and beriberi? I could not do it now, for it would break my heart, but someday I must visit your world

By these criteria, India, which is considered to be a third world country, would not fall into that category. Third world countries are all of those countries that have not reached the status of developed country. The developed countries are mostly found in Europe and to some extent in Asia (Japan, and Hong Kong, for instance), and Israel. Third World, or Developing countries are most of the countries in South America, Central America, Africa, much of the Middle East, and much of Asia, and parts of the former Soviet Block.

While hardly a scholarly work, this Wikipedia article nevertheless gives a pretty good synopsis. It certainly matches the criteria of Third World countries that I have been aware of for many years...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

I have no idea where you got your definition.