Evaluating Environmental Sustainability Position of Turkey Via Bric and Mint Countries With K-Nn Algorithm

Abstract

Environmental sustainability is one of the biggest difficulties met by humanity. It is also one pillar of sustainable development purposes required to be executed. For evaluating and comparing all world countries with respect to this perspective, an index is derived from the United Nations. With this index, the countries of the world are divided into four categories, such as “Very High Developed (VHD)”, “High Developed (HD)”, “Medium Developed (MD)” and lastly, “Low Developed (LD)”. According to the 2019 environmental sustainable index value, Turkey is located in the VHD category. Some of the experts put forward that Turkey will compete with economic giants in 2050. Our hope economically continued efforts will be achieved environmentally also. These thoughts became the starting point of this study. With this aim, the position of Turkey is predicted with the BRIC and MINT countries data regarding to environmental sustainability with the k-NN (Nearest Neighbor) algorithm technique.