Diversity and Socio-Economic Development of Regions in Some Asian Countries

Abstract

The article examines the relationship between socioeconomic development and ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity on regional level for the two types of countries: with relatively high (China and India) and low (Japan and South Korea) level of diversity. We use data from the websites of official statistical services and databases "Ethnologue" and the Global Terrorism Database. In order to make initial variables comparable they were grouped in several categories (GRP, unemployment, crime, conflict, culture, education, health, telecommunications). Ethnic and religious diversity indices were calculated as the Gini-Simpson index. According to our estimates based on primary