Lao

Lao people - ethnic group. Article “Lao” in German Wikipedia has 23 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.21 points.

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 “Lao”, its content was written by 48 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 883 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 81 times in German Wikipedia and cited 3269 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #3548 in December 2003
• Global: #1844 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #86128 in January 2012
• Global: #28033 in October 2022

There are 38 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) Lao people		60.1459
2	Thai (th) ลาว (กลุ่มชาติพันธุ์)		55.5685
3	Vietnamese (vi) Người Lào		51.74
4	Kazakh (kk) Лао		33.0389
5	Italian (it) Lao (etnia)		32.1553
6	Turkish (tr) Laolar		31.8951
7	Indonesian (id) Suku Lao		30.6709
8	Malay (ms) Orang Lao		26.6294
9	Greek (el) Λαοτινοί		26.2694
10	Esperanto (eo) Laŭoj		25.1604

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lao" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lao people		1 745 896
2	Thai (th) ลาว (กลุ่มชาติพันธุ์)		221 993
3	Russian (ru) Лао		196 092
4	Chinese (zh) 佬族		170 616
5	Vietnamese (vi) Người Lào		143 582
6	German (de) Lao		128 190
7	Spanish (es) Pueblo laosiano		101 639
8	Japanese (ja) ラーオ族		92 794
9	French (fr) Lao (peuple)		69 192
10	Italian (it) Lao (etnia)		43 372

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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 "Lao" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lao people		6 975
2	Russian (ru) Лао		935
3	Chinese (zh) 佬族		762
4	Thai (th) ลาว (กลุ่มชาติพันธุ์)		712
5	Japanese (ja) ラーオ族		369
6	Vietnamese (vi) Người Lào		268
7	French (fr) Lao (peuple)		209
8	Spanish (es) Pueblo laosiano		199
9	German (de) Lao		198
10	Italian (it) Lao (etnia)		177

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lao people		281
2	Italian (it) Lao (etnia)		53
3	German (de) Lao		48
4	Russian (ru) Лао		47
5	Chinese (zh) 佬族		40
6	Thai (th) ลาว (กลุ่มชาติพันธุ์)		39
7	French (fr) Lao (peuple)		35
8	Hebrew (he) לאו (עם)		29
9	Dutch (nl) Lao (volk)		26
10	Japanese (ja) ラーオ族		24

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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 "Lao" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Thai (th) ลาว (กลุ่มชาติพันธุ์)		2
2	Arabic (ar) شعب لاو		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Laolar		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Лао		0
5	Czech (cs) Lao		0
6	German (de) Lao		0
7	Greek (el) Λαοτινοί		0
8	English (en) Lao people		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Laŭoj		0
10	Spanish (es) Pueblo laosiano		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 "Lao" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lao people		832
2	Kazakh (kk) Лао		424
3	Thai (th) ลาว (กลุ่มชาติพันธุ์)		279
4	Chinese (zh) 佬族		194
5	Vietnamese (vi) Người Lào		189
6	Russian (ru) Лао		167
7	Italian (it) Lao (etnia)		155
8	French (fr) Lao (peuple)		106
9	Dutch (nl) Lao (volk)		99
10	Japanese (ja) ラーオ族		93

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شعب لاو
az	Azerbaijani Laolar
bg	Bulgarian Лао
cs	Czech Lao
de	German Lao
el	Greek Λαοτινοί
en	English Lao people
eo	Esperanto Laŭoj
es	Spanish Pueblo laosiano
eu	Basque Lao (herria)
fa	Persian قوم لائو
fi	Finnish Laot
fr	French Lao (peuple)
he	Hebrew לאו (עם)
hr	Croatian Lao narod
hu	Hungarian Laók
id	Indonesian Suku Lao
it	Italian Lao (etnia)
ja	Japanese ラーオ族
ka	Georgian ლაო (ხალხი)
kk	Kazakh Лао
ko	Korean 라오인
la	Latin Lai
lt	Lithuanian Laosiečiai
ms	Malay Orang Lao
nl	Dutch Lao (volk)
pl	Polish Laotańczycy
pt	Portuguese Laocianos
ru	Russian Лао
sh	Serbo-Croatian Laošani
sr	Serbian Лаошани
sv	Swedish Lao (etnisk grupp)
th	Thai ลาว (กลุ่มชาติพันธุ์)
tr	Turkish Laolar
uk	Ukrainian Лаосці
uz	Uzbek Lao (xalq)
vi	Vietnamese Người Lào
zh	Chinese 佬族

Best Rank

German: #86128 01.2012

Global: #28033 10.2022

Best Rank

German: #3548 12.2003

Global: #1844 02.2005

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