Angela Merkel

Quality:

This person is the 331^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Angela Merkel” in English Wikipedia has 94.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 462 references and 43 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2438^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1269^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 873^rd most popular in all topics.

The 360^th most popular in AI.

The 331^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9842^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3965^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2934^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Angela Merkel” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 38 authors in all languages (2934^th place).

Since the creation of article “Angela Merkel”, its content was written by 1829 registered users of English Wikipedia (1269^th place) and edited by 9026 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (360^th place).

Angela Merkel is on the 331^st place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3870 times in English Wikipedia (7192^nd place) and cited 21930 times in all languages (7837^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #65 in November 2005
• Global: #13 in November 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #131 in September 2021
• 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, 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	German (de) Angela Merkel		100
2	Norwegian (no) Angela Merkel		96.2386
3	French (fr) Angela Merkel		95.1589
4	English (en) Angela Merkel		94.2488
5	Hebrew (he) אנגלה מרקל		93.8884
6	Turkish (tr) Angela Merkel		91.3358
7	Arabic (ar) أنغيلا ميركل		90.4648
8	Portuguese (pt) Angela Merkel		87.2705
9	Serbian (sr) Ангела Меркел		86.3158
10	Vietnamese (vi) Angela Merkel		86.2417

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Angela Merkel		30 610 558
2	German (de) Angela Merkel		26 432 452
3	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		8 408 599
4	French (fr) Angela Merkel		6 067 097
5	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		5 729 418
6	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		3 698 921
7	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		2 989 808
8	Japanese (ja) アンゲラ・メルケル		2 878 918
9	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		2 046 053
10	Portuguese (pt) Angela Merkel		1 744 805

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		60 543
2	German (de) Angela Merkel		44 956
3	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		13 557
4	French (fr) Angela Merkel		9 182
5	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		7 271
6	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		6 640
7	Japanese (ja) アンゲラ・メルケル		5 611
8	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		4 572
9	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		4 519
10	Persian (fa) آنگلا مرکل		3 186

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		1 891
2	English (en) Angela Merkel		1 829
3	French (fr) Angela Merkel		538
4	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		404
5	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		371
6	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		332
7	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		262
8	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		221
9	Japanese (ja) アンゲラ・メルケル		218
10	Dutch (nl) Angela Merkel		217

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	English (en) Angela Merkel		7
2	Catalan (ca) Angela Merkel		3
3	German (de) Angela Merkel		3
4	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		3
5	Hebrew (he) אנגלה מרקל		2
6	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		2
7	Serbian (sr) Ангела Меркел		2
8	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		2
9	Azerbaijani (az) Angela Merkel		1
10	Greek (el) Άνγκελα Μέρκελ		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information