“Industrialized” or “Industrialised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 5 prefer “industrialized” and 4 prefer “industrialised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	industrialized	industrialised	Preference
United States	100	0	“industrialized”
United Kingdom	45	55	“industrialised”
India	68	32	“industrialized”
Philippines	100	0	“industrialized”
Canada	96	4	“industrialized”
Australia	37	63	“industrialised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	41	59	“industrialised”
New Zealand	48	52	“industrialised”
Jamaica	100	0	“industrialized”
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“industrialized”

…made by the leaders of industrialized countries at the 2005 Summit…
…to the ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th…
…primarily by the spread of industrialized agriculture.
…a folk game in modern industrialized and urbanized societies.
…the vaccine for choice for industrialized, polio-free countries.
…difficulties it posed to modern, industrialized societies, which was reprinted several…
…their vision of a less industrialized, more ecologically balanced world.
…been many decades since two industrialized great powers engaged directly in…
…crime rates than the less industrialized cities of Ghent and Bruges.
…inequalities are rising throughout the industrialized world, particularly in Europe.

“industrialised”

Kayseri () is a large industrialised city in Central Anatolia, Turkey.
…upstream, such as the heavily industrialised Rhine-Ruhr area in Germany.
In France as in most industrialised European capitals, slums were widespread…
…found that in urbanised and industrialised areas the pattern had been
…Belgian troops occupied the heavily industrialised Ruhr district (January 1923).
As the first industrialised country in the world, the…
…by the standard of most industrialised countries.
…years later in 1881, more industrialised sectors appeared.
The municipal areas are industrialised.
…before the process became fully industrialised.

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