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The semantic arguments for what constitutes an emerging market are not likely to end anytime soon. While investors should be mindful of this, it is far more beneficial to look at emerging markets the way that large institutions perceive them.

The following table covers almost every nation that is considered to fall into the category of emerging markets and shows which institutions regard these countries as emerging markets. A shaded cell indicates that the institution given at the column head regards the country in that row as an emerging market. As you can see, there is still some disagreement, but at least it provides investors with something approaching a concrete definition.