Quick, let's misquote Gene Roddenberry
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Earth did a lot of heavy lifting in 200 years if Somalia was churning out spaceship engineers.
It had a major human cull event (WW3). Those dependent on Unicef and CARE would die first.
And good fucking riddance.
30% of the human population is lost in WW3 according to Memory Alpha wiki pages but precisely which parts of the world that includes can be tricky to clarify. Many places were supposedly nuked like Washington, New York, and Paris but it also mentions most, if not all, major cities were destroyed and all governments too.
How to heavy lift a zero-rated nation: WW3 (canonically), then move new settlers into the now-vacant-of-life location because why waste space? Dark, but likely how it happened.