Ethnic Nation Index

The work deals with the most fundamental phenomena of cultural geography–ethnic nation and their quantitative evaluation that are posed by history and ethnology as well. The purpose of this study is to provide an integrated, quantitative assessment of the ethnic population. The object under investigation in this work is ethnic nations within the boundaries of the states. The main purpose of the article is to contribute to the research regarding of the ethnic nations. To achieve the stated work objective, the following work tasks have been formulated: 1) to distinguish the basic indicators describing ethnic nation; 2) to develop a methodology for calculating the index of ethnic nation. This paper presents the original methods (the new index ENI), which is based on the three-index data of Alesina [1], using factorial analysis. Scientific novelty in this work is the index of ethnic nations, which was created by combining component analysis and qualimetric ideas.