emerging market

American  

noun

1. a market in a less developed country whose economy is just beginning to grow.

   emerging markets open to foreign investors.

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emerging market British  

noun

1. a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country

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Example Sentences

For the world's emerging market countries, there is another challenge in a fragmenting world economy: What will drive their own growth, if not demand from larger economies?

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

Nicolas Jaquier, emerging market fixed income portfolio manager at Ninety One, is more positive.

From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026

“People looked and said ‘hey, this is, in a business sense, an emerging market.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

“This scenario requires caution from emerging market economies amid heightened volatility of asset and commodities prices,” the central bank said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

The banking system, while increasing consumer lending and growing at a high rate, is still small relative to the banking sectors of Russia's emerging market peers.

From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency