新兴工业化国家（Newly industrialized country，NIC）这一类别是政治学家,经济学家和政治经济学家提出的适用于世界上若干国家的社会经济学分类。

新兴工业化国家是指那些经济上还没有达到发达国家的标准，但是在宏观经济学的角度已经超过了其他发展中国家的国家。新兴工业化国家的另一个特点是这些国家正在经历快速的经济增长（）。初期的或者正在进行中的工业化是新兴工业化国家的一个重要的指标。在许多新兴工业化国家当中，可能发生的最主要的社会的大变动是乡村的农业人口迁移到城市，制造业和工厂的增长吸引了大量的劳工。

The category of newly industrialized country (NIC) is a socioeconomic classification applied to several countries around the world by political scientists and economists.

NICs are countries whose economies have not yet reached a developed country's status but have, in a macroeconomic sense, outpaced their developing counterparts. Another characterization of NICs is that of countries undergoing rapid economic growth (usually export-oriented). Incipient or ongoing industrialization is an important indicator of an NIC. In many NICs, social upheaval can occur as primarily rural, or agricultural, populations migrate to the cities, where the growth of manufacturing concerns and factories can draw many thousands of laborers.