Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Classification of countries based on development indices by using K-means and grey relational analysis Subject The topic of the resource Development; Grey relational analysis; K-means clustering; Principal component analysis Description An account of the resource Clustering countries based on their development profile is important, as it helps in the efficient allocation and use of resources for institutions like the World Bank, IMF and many others. However, measuring the status of development in each country is challenging, as development encompasses several facets such as economic, social, environmental and institutional aspects. These dimensions should be captured and aggregated appropriately before attempting to classify countries based on development. In this context, this paper attempts to measure various dimensions of development through four indices namely, Economic Index (EI), Social Index (SI), Sustainability Index (SUI) and Institutional Index (II) for the period between 1996 through 2015 for 102 countries. And then we categorize the countries based on these development indices using the grey relational analysis and K-means clustering method. Our study classifies countries into four clusters with twelve countries in the first cluster, fifty in second, twenty-seven and thirteen countries in third and fourth clusters respectively. Having taken each of the dimensions of development independently, our results show that no cluster has performed poorly in all four aspects. 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Basel S.; Gopakumar K.U.; Rao R.P. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GeoJournal, Vol-87, No. 5, pp. 3915-3933. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-021-10479-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-021-10479-2</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85111681763&amp;doi=10.1007%2Fs10708-021-10479-2&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=be02e6284f17693d55669bae5af2f69a" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85111681763&amp;doi=10.1007%2fs10708-021-10479-2&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=be02e6284f17693d55669bae5af2f69a</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 3432521; CODEN: GEOJD Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Basel S., Department of Economics, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, 560029, India; Gopakumar K.U., Department of Economics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Andhra Pradesh, Prasanthi Nilayam, 515134, India; Rao R.P., Department of Economics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Andhra Pradesh, Prasanthi Nilayam, 515134, India