Saddam Hussein

Quality:

Saddam Hussein - Iraqi president, army officer and Baathist politician (1937–2006). This person is the 242^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 352^nd most popular person in Danish Wikipedia. Article “Saddam Hussein” in Danish Wikipedia has 23.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Danish) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Danish Wikipedia:

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The 958^th most popular in Danish Wikipedia.

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The 392^nd most editable in Danish Wikipedia.

The 352^nd most popular in people in Danish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 647^th most popular in all topics.

The 199^th most popular in AI.

The 242^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Danish Wikipedia:

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The 397^th most popular in Danish Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 107^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 974^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Saddam Hussein”, its content was written by 129 registered users of Danish Wikipedia (392^nd place) and edited by 10414 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (199^th place).

Saddam Hussein is on the 352^nd place in local ranking of people in Danish Wikipedia and on the 242^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 178 times in Danish Wikipedia and cited 24587 times in all languages (6670^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Danish): #3 in December 2006
• Global: #1 in December 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Danish): #295 in May 2011
• Global: #107 in June 2025

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Saddam Hussein		100
2	Spanish (es) Sadam Huseín		99.0038
3	German (de) Saddam Hussein		95.7143
4	Arabic (ar) صدام حسين		94.2153
5	Polish (pl) Saddam Husajn		90.1561
6	Kazakh (kk) Саддам Хусейн		87.2647
7	Vietnamese (vi) Saddam Hussein		85.1601
8	Russian (ru) Саддам Хусейн		82.0044
9	Italian (it) Saddam Hussein		76.3079
10	Hebrew (he) סדאם חוסיין		74.3475

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Saddam Hussein		48 722 480
2	Arabic (ar) صدام حسين		11 887 296
3	Russian (ru) Саддам Хусейн		7 364 578
4	Spanish (es) Sadam Huseín		6 185 580
5	German (de) Saddam Hussein		5 578 975
6	French (fr) Saddam Hussein		4 954 295
7	Persian (fa) صدام حسین		3 788 235
8	Japanese (ja) サッダーム・フセイン		3 266 217
9	Italian (it) Saddam Hussein		2 845 803
10	Turkish (tr) Saddam Hüseyin		2 832 461

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Saddam Hussein		642 707
2	Russian (ru) Саддам Хусейн		86 702
3	Spanish (es) Sadam Huseín		66 694
4	Arabic (ar) صدام حسين		58 947
5	German (de) Saddam Hussein		57 622
6	French (fr) Saddam Hussein		47 341
7	Italian (it) Saddam Hussein		46 900
8	Persian (fa) صدام حسین		41 876
9	Turkish (tr) Saddam Hüseyin		38 506
10	Portuguese (pt) Saddam Hussein		34 349

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Saddam Hussein		3 379
2	German (de) Saddam Hussein		760
3	French (fr) Saddam Hussein		566
4	Russian (ru) Саддам Хусейн		429
5	Spanish (es) Sadam Huseín		399
6	Italian (it) Saddam Hussein		393
7	Arabic (ar) صدام حسين		379
8	Dutch (nl) Saddam Hoessein		283
9	Japanese (ja) サッダーム・フセイン		282
10	Hebrew (he) סדאם חוסיין		239

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Saddam Hussein		23
2	Russian (ru) Саддам Хусейн		7
3	Italian (it) Saddam Hussein		5
4	Czech (cs) Saddám Husajn		3
5	German (de) Saddam Hussein		3
6	French (fr) Saddam Hussein		3
7	Hebrew (he) סדאם חוסיין		3
8	Spanish (es) Sadam Huseín		2
9	Norwegian (no) Saddam Hussein		2
10	Portuguese (pt) Saddam Hussein		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information