A multicriteria approach for developing new human development index

The National Planning Institute (NPI) computes the Human Development Index(HDI) to rank countries all over the world. The HDI is based on Life expectancy,literacy rate and enrollment of all different educational stages and Income. In thisresearch, a new HDI is developed using a multicriteria approach and it is used torank the Governorates of Egypt. The proposed new index is compared with theNPI index and other developed index. We found that our new index is moreapplicable and convincible to others.