Journal of Decision Engineering

Context: Among the various aspects of human problems, morality and ethics have a special position. From the beginning, economic review have emphasized

the role of ethics on explaining and setting ­up economic theory.  According to the association,purpose of research is 144 country categorized based on Global Competitiveness Index.

Method: In this research based on the extracted feature from competitive global

 index, classification countries are considered in 144 countries while ethical

features is divided in 5 subsets which is defined Individual , small groups ,

Business ,and king ethics  and all of the subsets. This study is executed on data

mining which is K means algorithm.

Finding: rank of Iran is second in personal and Social network ethics ,and is

 fourth in  Corporate and small group and rulers ethics and  Morality . rank of

Developed countries e.g. America and Britain is first in Morality ,and Malaysia

which is Islamic country is first in all categorize except personal ethic.

Results: The results show that the developed countries from the developing world have better grades.result of this research is categrized countries based on ethics nevertheless such studies can help explain to growth and economic development causes.