Measuring Economic Resistance for Iran & Selected Countries (Comparing Aggregating Methods for Constructing the Composite Index)

The aim of this study is to estimate, measure and also to compare aggregate methods for constructing the composite index of Economic Resistance for Iran & selected countries. Therefor in this article an attempt has been done for measuring and evaluation of main macro-economic objectives, and economic resistive situation. Also Iran's status between the seven greatest rival countries in the region in the six indices by Using “Distance-to-reference” method has been determined using five popular methods in constructing composite indicator (SAW, TOPSIS, revised PCA, Taxonomy and revised Optimum Deviation).
The result of the composite economic indicator reveals that Iran's status was fourth between the selected countries at 2000 & 2005 years, but this status has depreciative trend to fifth rank at 2010 & 2014 years.