Analysis and Explanation of Correlation between Human Development and Sustainable Development Indices and Adaptation of these Indices in Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Economic and Agricultural Development, University of Tehran

2 Expert, Affair of Planning, Supervision and Spatial Planning, Budget and Planning Organization, Tehran

3 Head of Environment, Affair of Planning, Supervision and Spatial Planning, Budget and Planning

Abstract

The index of sustainable development goals have attracted attention of many researchers and policy makers in recent years. The Human Development Index, which is based on several key indicators, although an older approach to comparing countries is often considered as a health and education issue, but an indicator is still acceptable amongst researchers and policymakers. The purpose of this study is to survey the status of Iran in the human development index and the indicators of sustainable development goals and also analysis the correlation between these two indicators based on the information of all countries. In this research, Pearson correlation and linear regression were used in SPSS software to verify the relationship between two indicators. The results show that there is a meaningful and strong correlation between these two indicators. In the survey of correlation between the 17 goals of SDGs and HDI, it is clear that goals of 15 and 17 do not have a meaningful relationship with the human development index. While other communication goals were meaningful with the human development index. In general, it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between the human development index and the index of sustainable development goals. One of the drawbacks of the SDGs is the ambitious Goals that will make it hard to mobilize people and rulers to achieve all these ideal goals.

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Journals of Environmental Education and Sustainable Development
Volume 9, Issue 1
2020
Pages 109-132

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