The search typology of the countries of the world. Part 4. Cluster analysis and typology results

The final part of the series of articles presents the results of the search typology of the countries of the world. The possibility of classifying 197 countries according to 60 socio-economic indicators through cluster analysis was investigated. Based on the divisional strategy, 9 clusters were allocated using the method of normalized Euclidean distances. The multi-criterion approach, based on 60 statistical indicators, made it possible to differentiate countries by the level of economic development, demographic well-being, population growth rates, the scale of state intervention in the economy, investment, sectoral structure of the economy, inflation, social benefits, services, food, mobile communications, and the Internet. The types of countries identified were below average, mostly burdened by rapid population growth and widespread poverty; successful developing and middle-developed countries, including such giants as China and India; compact in size of super-rich oil producing states, exceeding all other clusters in terms of GDP per capita; promising medium-developed states, to which cluster analysis referred Russia and the United States; Countries with a good set of indicators, mainly in Western and Central Europe. Some of the obtained groupings of countries correspond to previously developed typologies, the other part is new. The obtained typology can be used in country studies, economic geography, expert developments in the world economy and teaching the corresponding discipline.