Animal sacrifice

Animal sacrifice - formal, ritualized killing of an animal as a sacred act. Article “Animal sacrifice” in English Wikipedia has 95.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 142 references and 27 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Animal sacrifice”, its content was written by 279 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 519 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1513 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3495 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7209 in February 2003
• Global: #12496 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #43039 in November 2009
• Global: #60301 in November 2009

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, 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	Turkish (tr) Hayvan kurbanı		97.9307
2	Chinese (zh) 動物祭		97.1023
3	English (en) Animal sacrifice		95.8404
4	Catalan (ca) Sacrifici d'animals		93.5385
5	Greek (el) Θυσία ζώων		65.0354
6	Indonesian (id) Pengurbanan hewan		32.3653
7	Portuguese (pt) Sacrifício animal		32.1443
8	Tamil (ta) விலங்குகளை பலியிடுதல்		31.9595
9	Dutch (nl) Offerdier		29.7596
10	Arabic (ar) قرابين حيوانية		27.0847

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Animal sacrifice		1 607 559
2	Turkish (tr) Hayvan kurbanı		277 269
3	Spanish (es) Sacrificio de animales		177 944
4	German (de) Tieropfer		95 439
5	Portuguese (pt) Sacrifício animal		62 985
6	Dutch (nl) Offerdier		35 835
7	Arabic (ar) قرابين حيوانية		18 064
8	Indonesian (id) Pengurbanan hewan		16 053
9	Chinese (zh) 動物祭		11 992
10	Greek (el) Θυσία ζώων		10 158

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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 "Animal sacrifice" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Animal sacrifice		3 904
2	Spanish (es) Sacrificio de animales		324
3	German (de) Tieropfer		313
4	Chinese (zh) 動物祭		241
5	Turkish (tr) Hayvan kurbanı		178
6	Portuguese (pt) Sacrifício animal		124
7	Persian (fa) قربانی کردن حیوان		46
8	Greek (el) Θυσία ζώων		39
9	Dutch (nl) Offerdier		36
10	Tamil (ta) விலங்குகளை பலியிடுதல்		32

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Animal sacrifice		279
2	Turkish (tr) Hayvan kurbanı		66
3	German (de) Tieropfer		37
4	Spanish (es) Sacrificio de animales		28
5	Dutch (nl) Offerdier		24
6	Indonesian (id) Pengurbanan hewan		19
7	Portuguese (pt) Sacrifício animal		10
8	Catalan (ca) Sacrifici d'animals		9
9	Bulgarian (bg) Животинско жертвоприношение		8
10	Swedish (sv) Offerdjur		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 "Animal sacrifice" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Sacrifici d'animals		1
2	Arabic (ar) قرابين حيوانية		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Животинско жертвоприношение		0
4	German (de) Tieropfer		0
5	Greek (el) Θυσία ζώων		0
6	English (en) Animal sacrifice		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Bestofero		0
8	Spanish (es) Sacrificio de animales		0
9	Persian (fa) قربانی کردن حیوان		0
10	Hindi (hi) पशुबलि		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 "Animal sacrifice" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Animal sacrifice		1 513
2	Turkish (tr) Hayvan kurbanı		360
3	Portuguese (pt) Sacrifício animal		241
4	Arabic (ar) قرابين حيوانية		207
5	Persian (fa) قربانی کردن حیوان		183
6	Tamil (ta) விலங்குகளை பலியிடுதல்		166
7	Spanish (es) Sacrificio de animales		164
8	Chinese (zh) 動物祭		145
9	German (de) Tieropfer		132
10	Vietnamese (vi) Động vật hiến tế		92

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قرابين حيوانية
bg	Bulgarian Животинско жертвоприношение
ca	Catalan Sacrifici d'animals
de	German Tieropfer
el	Greek Θυσία ζώων
en	English Animal sacrifice
eo	Esperanto Bestofero
es	Spanish Sacrificio de animales
fa	Persian قربانی کردن حیوان
hi	Hindi पशुबलि
id	Indonesian Pengurbanan hewan
ko	Korean 동물공희
nl	Dutch Offerdier
pt	Portuguese Sacrifício animal
simple	Simple English Animal sacrifice
sv	Swedish Offerdjur
ta	Tamil விலங்குகளை பலியிடுதல்
tr	Turkish Hayvan kurbanı
vi	Vietnamese Động vật hiến tế
zh	Chinese 動物祭

Best Rank

English: #43039 11.2009

Global: #60301 11.2009

Best Rank

English: #7209 02.2003

Global: #12496 02.2003

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