"Industrialized" means that a place or country has developed and is focused on using machinery and technology for manufacturing goods and production, instead of relying mainly on agriculture or natural resources. Full definition
In spite of high growth rates, sales of organic agricultural products in industrialized countries in 2000 are estimated at less than 2 percent of total retail food sales. (fao.org)
Dr. Samuel J. Fomon wrote: «The increase in breast - feeding in industrialized countries in the 1970s was worldwide, and the reasons for the increase after several decades of decline are not easy to identify. (breastfeedingtoday-llli.org)
• American 15 - year - olds scored at the international average of industrialized nations in science and reading and below the international average in math on the most recent Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, released last year. (hechingerreport.org)