Angela Merkel

Quality:

Angela Merkel - chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. This person is the 312^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 3^rd most popular person in German Wikipedia. Article “Angela Merkel” in German Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 357 references and 39 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 23^rd most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 5^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 3^rd most popular in people in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 848^th most popular in all topics.

The 347^th most popular in AI.

The 312^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 521^st most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3306^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7490^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Angela Merkel” was edited by 3 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 24 authors in all languages (7490^th place).

Since the creation of article “Angela Merkel”, its content was written by 1863 registered users of German Wikipedia (5^th place) and edited by 8990 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (347^th place).

Angela Merkel is on the 3^rd place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 312^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 2795 times in German Wikipedia (3359^th place) and cited 21287 times in all languages (7759^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2 in November 2005
• Global: #13 in November 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #7 in September 2017
• Global: #37 in September 2021

There are 55 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	German (de) Angela Merkel		100
2	Norwegian (no) Angela Merkel		96.3093
3	French (fr) Angela Merkel		95.2587
4	Hebrew (he) אנגלה מרקל		93.9026
5	English (en) Angela Merkel		93.8106
6	Turkish (tr) Angela Merkel		91.3646
7	Arabic (ar) أنغيلا ميركل		90.4648
8	Portuguese (pt) Angela Merkel		87.5731
9	Serbian (sr) Ангела Меркел		86.3158
10	Czech (cs) Angela Merkelová		85.5925

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Angela Merkel		29 730 486
2	German (de) Angela Merkel		25 713 094
3	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		7 556 228
4	French (fr) Angela Merkel		5 906 490
5	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		5 610 373
6	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		3 525 769
7	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		2 901 202
8	Japanese (ja) アンゲラ・メルケル		2 777 914
9	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		1 984 169
10	Portuguese (pt) Angela Merkel		1 707 727

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) Angela Merkel		78 009
2	German (de) Angela Merkel		39 880
3	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		18 765
4	Japanese (ja) アンゲラ・メルケル		13 751
5	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		10 419
6	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		9 981
7	French (fr) Angela Merkel		9 471
8	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		6 759
9	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		5 168
10	Turkish (tr) Angela Merkel		3 991

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Angela Merkel		1 863
2	English (en) Angela Merkel		1 797
3	French (fr) Angela Merkel		531
4	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		404
5	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		366
6	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		329
7	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		256
8	Dutch (nl) Angela Merkel		216
9	Japanese (ja) アンゲラ・メルケル		215
10	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		215

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	Czech (cs) Angela Merkelová		3
2	German (de) Angela Merkel		3
3	English (en) Angela Merkel		3
4	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		2
5	Catalan (ca) Angela Merkel		1
6	Greek (el) Άνγκελα Μέρκελ		1
7	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		1
8	French (fr) Angela Merkel		1
9	Croatian (hr) Angela Merkel		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Angela Merkel		1

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