1979 oil crisis

1979 energy crisis - 1979 petroleum shortage. Article “1979 oil crisis” in English Wikipedia has 56.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 39 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.96 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “1979 oil crisis” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “1979 oil crisis”, its content was written by 277 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 534 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1034 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2927 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2076 in September 2020
• Global: #12843 in September 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22062 in May 2008
• Global: #31845 in June 2008

There are 20 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) 1979 oil crisis		56.3292
2	Greek (el) Πετρελαϊκή κρίση του 1979		50.8656
3	Basque (eu) 1979ko petrolioaren krisia		25.46
4	Simple English (simple) 1979 oil crisis		22.4975
5	Italian (it) Crisi energetica del 1979		21.191
6	Malay (ms) Krisis minyak 1979		18.7001
7	Chinese (zh) 第二次石油危机		17.5346
8	Persian (fa) بحران انرژی ۱۹۷۹		16.6024
9	Indonesian (id) Krisis energi 1979		14.7624
10	Korean (ko) 1979년 석유 파동		14.405

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

The most popular language versions of the article "1979 oil crisis" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1979 oil crisis		2 647 390
2	French (fr) Deuxième choc pétrolier		463 928
3	Spanish (es) Crisis del petróleo de 1979		316 055
4	Chinese (zh) 第二次石油危机		313 879
5	Italian (it) Crisi energetica del 1979		193 920
6	Dutch (nl) Oliecrisis van 1979		98 823
7	Persian (fa) بحران انرژی ۱۹۷۹		72 897
8	Arabic (ar) أزمة الطاقة (1979)		54 900
9	Swedish (sv) Oljekrisen 1979		53 946
10	Russian (ru) Энергетический кризис (1979)		20 460

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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 "1979 oil crisis" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1979 oil crisis		13 525
2	Chinese (zh) 第二次石油危机		1 885
3	French (fr) Deuxième choc pétrolier		1 205
4	Russian (ru) Энергетический кризис (1979)		879
5	Italian (it) Crisi energetica del 1979		728
6	Spanish (es) Crisis del petróleo de 1979		621
7	Persian (fa) بحران انرژی ۱۹۷۹		469
8	Indonesian (id) Krisis energi 1979		229
9	Portuguese (pt) Crise petrolífera de 1979		219
10	Dutch (nl) Oliecrisis van 1979		218

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

Language versions of the article "1979 oil crisis" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1979 oil crisis		277
2	French (fr) Deuxième choc pétrolier		58
3	Italian (it) Crisi energetica del 1979		50
4	Persian (fa) بحران انرژی ۱۹۷۹		27
5	Dutch (nl) Oliecrisis van 1979		22
6	Spanish (es) Crisis del petróleo de 1979		20
7	Chinese (zh) 第二次石油危机		20
8	Arabic (ar) أزمة الطاقة (1979)		15
9	Swedish (sv) Oljekrisen 1979		9
10	Russian (ru) Энергетический кризис (1979)		7

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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 "1979 oil crisis" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1979 oil crisis		1
2	Simple English (simple) 1979 oil crisis		1
3	Arabic (ar) أزمة الطاقة (1979)		0
4	Catalan (ca) Crisi del petroli de 1979		0
5	Greek (el) Πετρελαϊκή κρίση του 1979		0
6	Spanish (es) Crisis del petróleo de 1979		0
7	Basque (eu) 1979ko petrolioaren krisia		0
8	Persian (fa) بحران انرژی ۱۹۷۹		0
9	French (fr) Deuxième choc pétrolier		0
10	Indonesian (id) Krisis energi 1979		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 "1979 oil crisis" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) 1979 oil crisis		1 034
2	Arabic (ar) أزمة الطاقة (1979)		382
3	French (fr) Deuxième choc pétrolier		295
4	Portuguese (pt) Crise petrolífera de 1979		220
5	Persian (fa) بحران انرژی ۱۹۷۹		200
6	Chinese (zh) 第二次石油危机		145
7	Italian (it) Crisi energetica del 1979		125
8	Spanish (es) Crisis del petróleo de 1979		114
9	Russian (ru) Энергетический кризис (1979)		111
10	Dutch (nl) Oliecrisis van 1979		69

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أزمة الطاقة (1979)
ca	Catalan Crisi del petroli de 1979
el	Greek Πετρελαϊκή κρίση του 1979
en	English 1979 oil crisis
es	Spanish Crisis del petróleo de 1979
eu	Basque 1979ko petrolioaren krisia
fa	Persian بحران انرژی ۱۹۷۹
fr	French Deuxième choc pétrolier
id	Indonesian Krisis energi 1979
it	Italian Crisi energetica del 1979
ko	Korean 1979년 석유 파동
lt	Lithuanian 1979 metų naftos krizė
ms	Malay Krisis minyak 1979
nl	Dutch Oliecrisis van 1979
pt	Portuguese Crise petrolífera de 1979
ru	Russian Энергетический кризис (1979)
simple	Simple English 1979 oil crisis
sv	Swedish Oljekrisen 1979
ur	Urdu تیل کا بحران 1979
zh	Chinese 第二次石油危机

Best Rank

English: #22062 05.2008

Global: #31845 06.2008

Best Rank

English: #2076 09.2020

Global: #12843 09.2020

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