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Developed by Amartya Sen who is asserting that countries’ level of development cannot be explained with only increase in national income, The Human Development Index incorporates components of health, education and income in calculation. Human Development Index values of countries, first presented with Development Reports prepared by United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the year 1990, are measured using four criteria: “Life Expectancy at Birth”, “Expected Years of Schooling”, “Mean Years of Schooling” and “Gross national income per capita” In this study, in order to classify countries according to their level of development a model based on above-mentioned four criteria and consisting of 188 alternatives is presented. It is aimed to detect the proper grouping of countries with UTADIS approach. This study represents a first attempt in terms of applying UTADIS technique, which has a limited application in literature, for Human Development Index values of the countries. With the applied UTADIS model, 111 of the 188 alternatives are classified as the same grouping by UNDP, while 77 are classified in a different group. According to the results of UTADIS analysis, observed that the classification of many countries has to be updated. |
