Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Fourth World is a term which is used to denote several completely different things. Among economists Fourth World is used to denote the poorest nations of the world who have not experienced economic advancement since the end of World War II. Most nations in this definition of the fourth world are in subsaharan Africa. Fourth World is also used to refer to ethnic and minority groups who are not represented by a nation-state. See Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation The Fourth World is also a modern-day superhero comic book mythology invented by Jack Kirby in the early 1970s. See also: Fifth World This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.