Global South

Or glob·al south

[gloh-buhl south]

noun

1. the low- or middle-income countries located in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania; Third World.

   The article argues that poverty in the Global South stems from European exploitation of its natural resources.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Global South¹

First recorded in 1965–70; not literally referring to the Southern Hemisphere, but continuing the 20th century contrasts between the wealthy industrial north and the poverty-stricken agricultural south, and probably beginning with Antonio Gramsci’s essay “The Southern Question” (1926), in which he argued southern Italy had, in effect, been colonized by capitalists from northern Italy

Example Sentences

Though widely debunked in the West, this false claim lingered across the Global South.

From BBC

Some Global South leaders have been hesitant in condemning the Russian war against Ukraine.

From BBC

The former federal climate minister, Senator Sherry Rehman, recently argued "when lives are lost in the Global South, when rivers burst their banks, and when livelihoods vanish, there is no real money for climate-vulnerable countries like Pakistan".

From BBC

The moral weight of care work falls mostly on women, many of them immigrants from the Global South, who do the work that allows women like me to have a career, freedom, hobbies, enough rest.

From Salon

"Money is getting exchanged for children on a large scale" she said - not just in Africa but "across the global south".

From BBC