This article intends to analyze the position of the villages in the historical region of
Dobrogea from the development point of view. With the help of a methodology similar to
Human Development Index (HDI) used by the UN, in Romania, in 2009 an inter-institution
project (Sandu et al) elaborated the Village Development Index (VDI).
Based on this statistic information it can be ascertained that the villages in Dobrogea have a
development level superior to the national average. We then built some econometric models to
establish the influence factors such as: ethnicity, coast area, delta area, which may have an
influence on the development level.