Application of the TOPSIS Method for Assessing Sustainable Development in the Context of Education and Health Determinants in ASEAN Countries in 2019

The aim of the paper is to present the practical use of a multi-criteria TOPSIS method for linear ordering of multi-feature facilities, in order to expertly assess the level of sustainable, education and health development of South East Asia countries (ASEAN) in 2019. The article has been divided into two main parts. The theoretical (methodological) part contains the characteristics of TOPSIS method and in the empirical part, the results of the analysis were presented. The main source of statistical data is the annual report published by The Association of Southeast Asian Nations: ASEAN Statistical Yearbook 2019, which contains information on most important development areas (e.g. population, education and health, employment, macroeconomics, transport, tourism, agriculture, etc.). The proposed research concept can be used to build the computational models and indicators in order to look for more complex dependencies among factors which determine sustainable development of studied phenomena and objects.