Abdication

Quality:

Abdication - voluntary or forced renunciation of sovereign power. Article “Abdication” in English Wikipedia has 56.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 23 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.99 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 2026 the article “Abdication” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Abdication”, its content was written by 251 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1226 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 934 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6951 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #285 in May 2001
• Global: #295 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4670 in September 2022
• Global: #7179 in September 2022

There are 40 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) Abdication		56.7295
2	Swedish (sv) Abdikation		48.3425
3	Polish (pl) Abdykacja		38.3733
4	Japanese (ja) 退位		35.4461
5	Thai (th) การสละราชสมบัติ		32.9882
6	Simple English (simple) Abdication		32.878
7	German (de) Abdikation		28.522
8	Galician (gl) Abdicación		26.696
9	Norwegian (no) Abdikasjon		26.0192
10	French (fr) Abdication		23.696

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Abdication		4 570 018
2	Spanish (es) Abdicación		897 505
3	Polish (pl) Abdykacja		536 537
4	Italian (it) Abdicazione		259 313
5	French (fr) Abdication		229 615
6	Dutch (nl) Abdicatie		229 502
7	German (de) Abdikation		208 059
8	Japanese (ja) 退位		206 944
9	Portuguese (pt) Abdicação		185 045
10	Czech (cs) Abdikace		124 235

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) Abdication		10 313
2	German (de) Abdikation		628
3	Spanish (es) Abdicación		551
4	Polish (pl) Abdykacja		534
5	French (fr) Abdication		450
6	Japanese (ja) 退位		437
7	Italian (it) Abdicazione		383
8	Chinese (zh) 逊位		372
9	Russian (ru) Абдикация		299
10	Portuguese (pt) Abdicação		284

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Abdication		251
2	German (de) Abdikation		104
3	French (fr) Abdication		84
4	Dutch (nl) Abdicatie		82
5	Italian (it) Abdicazione		65
6	Spanish (es) Abdicación		60
7	Polish (pl) Abdykacja		60
8	Japanese (ja) 退位		57
9	Russian (ru) Абдикация		46
10	Portuguese (pt) Abdicação		39

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	Ukrainian (uk) Абдикація		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) Abdikasiya		1
3	Danish (da) Abdikation		1
4	English (en) Abdication		1
5	Galician (gl) Abdicación		1
6	Arabic (ar) التنازل عن العرش		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Абдикация		0
8	Catalan (ca) Abdicació		0
9	Czech (cs) Abdikace		0
10	German (de) Abdikation		0

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

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