Modification of the human development index in Ukraine in the regional aspect

Abstract

The paper presents the results of research on the modification of the traditional index of human development to assess its level in Ukraine in the regional aspect. The difference between the proposed modified human development index from existing approaches is the inclusion of an additional component of human development: the development of information and communication technologies, the updating of the indicator system by the component “education” and “environmental welfare” in accordance with the domestic conditions of the development of society, as well as the method of determining weighting coefficients to calculate the integral index. In the process of research, the following methods have been used: the method of generalization, comparison, system analysis and hierarchy analysis method. The calculation of the modified index of human development was carried out on the example of statistical data of regions of Ukraine; the period of research was selected 2015-2017. The results of the measurement demonstrate the presence of the marked unevenness of Ukrainian regions by the level of human development.