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The Sustainable Development Index (SDI) quantify and numerically marks the level of the sustainable development of a country. Such an assessment includes three components: economic, ecological (or environmental), and social. The index was performed by the World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development - the member of the World Data System (WDS) of the International Council for Science (ICSU).), the Institute for Applied System Analysis of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

The economic component of the concept consists of optimizing the use of limited resources and the management of material and energy saving technologies. Such management would create a stream of cumulative income, which would preserve — and not reduce — the cumulative capital (physical, natural and human) employed in the creation of this cumulative income. From an ecological perspective, sustainable development provides for the integrity of both natural biological and physical systems and ensures their viability. The social component is oriented to human development, preserved stability of public and cultural systems, and the reduction of the amount of societal conflict.

Coordinating a system and balance of these three components is a massive and complex task. Particularly, the interrelationship between social and ecological components results in the necessity of preserving identical opportunities for today’s and future generations to exploit natural resources. The interaction of social and economic components compels achieving a valid distribution of material benefits amongst people and granting targeted help to poor layers of society. Finally, the interrelationship of natural protection and economic factors demands a cost assessment of the influence of technology on the environment.

The solution to these problems is today’s central challenge for national governments, pre-eminent international organizations and all forward thinking people of the world. In this study a new metric for measuring the sustainable development processes in the space of the above indicated three components is proposed and the global simulation of these processes is carried out in the context of quality of life and security.

Methodology
The sustainable development assessment and analysis methodology includes a sustainable development model that is an interdisciplinary integration of models known in natural, economic, and social sciences and the methodology of applying formal statistical methods and expert methods evaluation to analyze sustainable development processes. According to this methodology, we will characterize the sustainable development process by two main components: security and quality of human life.

Thus, the Sustainable Development Index means the quantitative measure of sustainable development, which takes into account security and quality of human life.

The quality of life component is an integral value that simultaneously takes into account all three dimensions of sustainable development, and therefore reflects the interconnection between three inseparable spheres of the society’s development: economic, environmental, and social.

The security of life component is an integral estimation that takes into account the overall impact of the set of threats on sustainable development of countries; the index of vulnerability of a country to the impact of the set of threats reflects the degree of that country’s approximation simultaneously to all threats in the space determined by the Minkowski norm.

2018 Ranking
In 2018 SDI was released at the World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development, with 137 countries being rankedSDI 2018 full list is available in the report.