Kollaps (Buch)

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - 2005 essay by Jared Diamond. This book is the 2191^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Kollaps (Buch)” in German Wikipedia has 30.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Kollaps (Buch)”, its content was written by 49 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 613 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is on the 2191^st place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 17 times in German Wikipedia and cited 358 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #10303 in February 2022
• Global: #9499 in August 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #94785 in October 2010
• Global: #86469 in January 2010

There are 17 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, 2026 (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) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed		50.8275
2	German (de) Kollaps (Buch)		30.2247
3	French (fr) Effondrement (essai)		24.2592
4	Arabic (ar) الانهيار: كيف تختار المجتمعات الفشل أو النجاح		20.6018
5	Esperanto (eo) Collapse		20.5442
6	Russian (ru) Коллапс (книга)		16.5525
7	Chinese (zh) 大崩壞		16.1395
8	Italian (it) Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere		14.8305
9	Ukrainian (uk) Колапс (книга)		14.0322
10	Spanish (es) Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen		12.8334

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Kollaps (Buch)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed		1 769 928
2	French (fr) Effondrement (essai)		268 951
3	Spanish (es) Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen		193 264
4	German (de) Kollaps (Buch)		101 397
5	Italian (it) Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere		74 621
6	Chinese (zh) 大崩壞		48 156
7	Japanese (ja) 文明崩壊 (書籍)		46 934
8	Hebrew (he) התמוטטות (ספר)		31 485
9	Russian (ru) Коллапс (книга)		18 827
10	Swedish (sv) Undergång: Civilisationernas uppgång eller fall		15 904

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Kollaps (Buch)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed		3 340
2	French (fr) Effondrement (essai)		597
3	Spanish (es) Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen		261
4	German (de) Kollaps (Buch)		253
5	Japanese (ja) 文明崩壊 (書籍)		233
6	Italian (it) Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere		227
7	Russian (ru) Коллапс (книга)		213
8	Chinese (zh) 大崩壞		156
9	Hebrew (he) התמוטטות (ספר)		90
10	Korean (ko) 문명의 붕괴: 과거의 위대했던 문명은 왜 몰락했는가		38

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

Language versions of the article "Kollaps (Buch)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed		213
2	French (fr) Effondrement (essai)		112
3	Italian (it) Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere		52
4	German (de) Kollaps (Buch)		49
5	Hebrew (he) התמוטטות (ספר)		32
6	Spanish (es) Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen		28
7	Chinese (zh) 大崩壞		24
8	Finnish (fi) Romahdus: Miten yhteiskunnat päättävät tuhoutua tai menestyä		18
9	Japanese (ja) 文明崩壊 (書籍)		17
10	Hungarian (hu) Összeomlás – Tanulságok a társadalmak továbbéléséhez		16

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

Language versions of the article "Kollaps (Buch)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Effondrement (essai)		1
2	Arabic (ar) الانهيار: كيف تختار المجتمعات الفشل أو النجاح		0
3	German (de) Kollaps (Buch)		0
4	English (en) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Collapse		0
6	Spanish (es) Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen		0
7	Finnish (fi) Romahdus: Miten yhteiskunnat päättävät tuhoutua tai menestyä		0
8	Hebrew (he) התמוטטות (ספר)		0
9	Hungarian (hu) Összeomlás – Tanulságok a társadalmak továbbéléséhez		0
10	Italian (it) Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere		0

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

Language versions of the article "Kollaps (Buch)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed		86
2	French (fr) Effondrement (essai)		81
3	Spanish (es) Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen		37
4	Hebrew (he) התמוטטות (ספר)		28
5	Italian (it) Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere		22
6	German (de) Kollaps (Buch)		17
7	Chinese (zh) 大崩壞		16
8	Russian (ru) Коллапс (книга)		13
9	Arabic (ar) الانهيار: كيف تختار المجتمعات الفشل أو النجاح		12
10	Finnish (fi) Romahdus: Miten yhteiskunnat päättävät tuhoutua tai menestyä		10

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الانهيار: كيف تختار المجتمعات الفشل أو النجاح
de	German Kollaps (Buch)
en	English Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
eo	Esperanto Collapse
es	Spanish Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen
fi	Finnish Romahdus: Miten yhteiskunnat päättävät tuhoutua tai menestyä
fr	French Effondrement (essai)
he	Hebrew התמוטטות (ספר)
hu	Hungarian Összeomlás – Tanulságok a társadalmak továbbéléséhez
it	Italian Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere
ja	Japanese 文明崩壊 (書籍)
ko	Korean 문명의 붕괴: 과거의 위대했던 문명은 왜 몰락했는가
pl	Polish Upadek (książka)
ru	Russian Коллапс (книга)
sv	Swedish Undergång: Civilisationernas uppgång eller fall
uk	Ukrainian Колапс (книга)
zh	Chinese 大崩壞

Best Rank

German: #94785 10.2010

Global: #86469 01.2010

Best Rank

German: #10303 02.2022

Global: #9499 08.2016

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