Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: agterlikheid
- Amharic: backwardness
- Arabic: التخلف
- Azerbaijani: gerilik
- Bashkir: подданыйҙары
- Belarusian: адсталасць
- Bulgarian: изостаналост
- Bengali: পশ্চাৎপদতা
- Bosnian: backwardness
- Catalan: l'endarreriment
- Cebuano: backwardness
- Czech: zaostalost
- Welsh: backwardness
- Danish: tilbageståenhed
- German: Rückständigkeit
- Greek: καθυστέρηση
- Esperanto: malfruiĝo
- Spanish: el atraso
- Estonian: mahajäämuse
- Basque: atzerapen
- Persian: عقب ماندگی
- Finnish: jälkeenjääneisyys
- French: de l'arriération
- Irish: cúlmhaireacht
- Scottish Gaelic: backwardness
- Galician: atraso
- Gujarati: પછાતપણું
- Hebrew: נחשלות
- Hindi: पिछड़ेपन
- Croatian: zaostalost
- Haitian: fèblès
- Hungarian: maradiság
- Armenian: հետամնացության դեպքերը
- Indonesian: keterbelakangan
- Icelandic: afturför
- Italian: arretratezza
- Japanese: 遅
- Javanese: backwardness
- Georgian: ჩამორჩენილობის
- Kazakh: артта қалуы
- Khmer: ក្រោយ
- Kannada: backwardness
- Korean: 후진성
- Kyrgyz: артта калгандыгы.
- Latin: backwardness
- Luxembourgish: Rückständigkeit
- Lao: ລັ
- Lithuanian: atsilikimas
- Latvian: atpalicību
- Malagasy: backwardness
- Mari: пычкемышлык
- Maori: backwardness
- Macedonian: назадност
- Malayalam: backwardness
- Mongolian: хоцрогдсон
- Marathi: मागासलेपणा
- Hill Mari: пӹцкемӹш
- Malay: kemunduran
- Maltese: ritard
- Burmese: backwardness
- Nepali: backwardness
- Dutch: achterstand
- Norwegian: tilbakeliggenhet
- Punjabi: ਪੱਛੜੇਪਣ
- Papiamento: e atraso
- Polish: umysłowe
- Portuguese: atraso
- Romanian: înapoiere
- Russian: отсталость
- Sinhalese: පසුගාමීත්වයේ
- Slovak: zaostalosti
- Slovenian: zaostalost
- Albanian: prapambetjes
- Serbian: неразвијености
- Sundanese: backwardness
- Swedish: eftersläpningen
- Swahili: kuzidi
- Tamil: பின்தங்கிய
- Telugu: backwardness
- Tajik: отсталость
- Thai: backwardness
- Tagalog: kamahinaan
- Turkish: geriliği
- Tatar: отсталость
- Udmurt: отсталость
- Ukrainian: відсталість
- Urdu: پسماندگی
- Uzbek: backwardness
- Vietnamese: lạc hậu
- Xhosa: backwardness
- Yiddish: אפגעשטאנענקייט
- Chinese: 落后
Synonyms, close and similar words for backwardness
- retardation
- underdevelopment
- lack of development