“Industrializing” or “Industrialising”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “industrializing” and 1 prefer “industrialising”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	industrializing	industrialising	Preference
United States	100	0	“industrializing”
United Kingdom	50	50	No clear preference
India	100	0	“industrializing”
Philippines	100	0	“industrializing”
Canada	100	0	“industrializing”
Australia	0	100	“industrialising”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	0	0	Not enough data
New Zealand	0	0	Not enough data
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
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.

“industrializing”

China, like many other currently industrializing countries, has had a relatively…
Without these industrializing countries, change will never reach…
…markets in Britain and the industrializing economies of Northwestern Europe.
…in prospecting, exploration, developing and industrializing metals (law 634/January 10, 2008)
…plus strong savings in newly industrializing countries in Asia.
…became wealthy and evolves by industrializing, and are accompanied by a…
…Chung-Hee for the purpose of industrializing the nation by concentrating electronic,…
…automated equipment, Metka could start industrializing metal works (blasting, cutting, drilling).
…countries (plus outsourcing to newly industrializing economies).
…exploring, developing, extracting, storing and industrializing metals obtained through any extraction…

“industrialising”

…in Guben, then a mid-sized industrialising town straddling the Neiße River,…
…the needs of a rapidly industrialising society.
…long run from a stable, industrialising Communist China.
…consequences of the rapidly expanding, industrialising city of Manchester in the…
…good sought after by rapidly industrialising Europe, while also serving as…
…resources and cash crops to industrialising nations.
…economic growth in industrialised and industrialising societies existed.
…labourers migrated to Germany's rapidly industrialising cities.
…less common than in other industrialising nations.
…the edge of the rapidly industrialising port city of Liverpool.

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