Is the United States really a developed country?

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Ka-pi96 said:

AsGryffynn said:
The reason it looks that way is because of size. A country as big as the US means structural problems are a lot bigger and harder to fix. It's the reason the US is much wealthier than Russia but technologically, seems to be behind (Russia has multiple high speed rail lines, averages faster and cheaper internet speeds and prices and despite looking like the opposite, is more plastic/NFC friendly, despite having a considerably lower GDP per capita)...
Oh... There's one more thing to it as well...

Not the best example since Russia is quite a bit larger than the US

Russia is not that much bigger than the US. The way maps look is why it looks so much bigger.

It would be more apt to take into account the land that is actually used. There are huge parts of Russia that no one lives period.

Like say Russia is twice the size of the US, the US is over twice the population of Russia.