A method of Assessing Country's Sustainable Development Capacity

This paper use PCA and DEA to establish a sustainable development model. First, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method is used to cluster the twelve factors which have selected. Then extract four indexes from all the factors, which are environmental pollution, resource consumption, economic and technology development. More importantly, by innovatively using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. It is a new statistical analysis method that can apply in sustainability evaluation. Based on PCA and DEA, the evaluation model can be formulated successfully. Then choose seven high sustainable countries' data as samples, use the value of validity coefficient to determine the sustainable standard.