Papers
Ranking countries according to economic, social and political indicators
Author(s)Kirti Peniwati
PPM Graduate School of Management
Indonesia
T Hsiao
Taiwan Power Co.
Taiwan, Province of China
Publication date: May, 2002
Journal: Mathematical ModellingVol.: 95- Issue: 35- Pages: 203-209
Publisher: Elsevier
Abstract: Despite its inadequacies, the GNP is still the best known and most widely used economic indicator to measure development. A number of authors have considered otherrelevant indicators, such as life expectancy, infant mortality, literacy and so on, as measures of development. In this paper we offer a composite index that touches more on the quality of life to measure the degree of development of the nations of the world. The criteria used here are: GNP per capita, physical quality of life, percentage of national income received by the poorest 40%, population density in agricultural areas, political rights and civil liberties, No. of telephones per capita and No. of drug-related offenses. We then used absolute measurement to obtain a composite index for each of nearly two dozen nations. The U.S.A. ranked second to Australia.
Keywords: Ranking