Comparative Comparison of Iran's Human Development Indicators with Sub-Continent Countries of India over the past 35 years using the Vikor Model

Each year, the United Nations Development Program publishes a Human Development Report, in which the index is calculated for each country and ranked accordingly. Iran has always been one of the countries that has not been well positioned in terms of human development. In this regard, the main objective of this study is to compare the comparative indices of human development in Iran with the countries of the subcontinent of India during the period of 2015-2018. The type of research is applied and its method is descriptive-analytical. The method used to analyze the data and information is also used by the Vikor method. The findings show that compared to the countries of the subcontinent of India, Iran is in the first place with a balanced status in most courses, only in one period (1985) with a Vikor coefficient (0.347) in an unbalanced position and fourth rank it is located among countries. Among these countries, India and Pakistan have somewhat balanced and semi-balanced status in terms of human development indicators, and Bhutan has an unbalanced situation in most of the courses.