Abstract
Africa is the least successful region of the world in reducing poverty and it is identified as the world's poorest inhabited continent. However, sub-Sa-haran countries are diverse in terms of socioeconomic level of development. There are several global indicators such as Human Development Index (HDI) which cannot properly diversified sub-Saharan (in majority poor) states properly. Therefore, our research aims in construction of synthetic indicators which may be used to provide ranking of sub-Saharan countries in terms of socioeconomic development, and comparison of rankings based on the constructed synthetic measures to HDI. In the research we distinguished 55 uncorrelated variables describing different life domains: (1) economy, (2) education, (3) environment, (4) health, (5) employment, (6) IT, (7) life condition and infrastructure, (8) public safety and (9) situation of women which are used for the synthetic measure of development construction. All analysed countries were classified into 4 homogenous groups in terms of measures describing selected life domains and standard of living as an aggregated measure.