Assassination of Olof Palme

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Assassination of Olof Palme - February 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme. Article "Assassination of Olof Palme" in English Wikipedia has 77 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 126 references and 29 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Assassination of Olof Palme" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Assassination of Olof Palme", its content was written by 281 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1038 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 372 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1657 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #650 in June 2020
• Global: #145 in June 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6478 in November 2021
• Global: #3662 in November 2021

There are 22 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	Danish (da) Palmemordet		100
2	Swedish (sv) Mordet på Olof Palme		93.6117
3	Greek (el) Δολοφονία του Ούλωφ Πάλμε		88.1683
4	Spanish (es) Asesinato de Olof Palme		83.6893
5	Persian (fa) ترور اولاف پالمه		79.7394
6	English (en) Assassination of Olof Palme		77.0005
7	Hebrew (he) רצח אולוף פלמה		69.3063
8	Norwegian (no) Palme-mordet		67.3222
9	French (fr) Assassinat d'Olof Palme		60.4528
10	Romanian (ro) Asasinarea lui Olof Palme		54.9502

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Assassination of Olof Palme		1 777 772
2	Swedish (sv) Mordet på Olof Palme		1 434 566
3	Spanish (es) Asesinato de Olof Palme		259 534
4	Russian (ru) Убийство Улофа Пальме		159 323
5	Norwegian (no) Palme-mordet		151 041
6	Danish (da) Palmemordet		143 124
7	French (fr) Assassinat d'Olof Palme		130 218
8	Dutch (nl) Moord op Olof Palme		123 442
9	Finnish (fi) Olof Palmen murha		68 827
10	Chinese (zh) 帕爾梅遇刺案		46 188

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) Assassination of Olof Palme		9 274
2	Swedish (sv) Mordet på Olof Palme		2 431
3	Russian (ru) Убийство Улофа Пальме		896
4	Norwegian (no) Palme-mordet		714
5	Finnish (fi) Olof Palmen murha		679
6	French (fr) Assassinat d'Olof Palme		453
7	Danish (da) Palmemordet		445
8	Dutch (nl) Moord op Olof Palme		399
9	Spanish (es) Asesinato de Olof Palme		312
10	Turkish (tr) Olof Palme suikastı		250

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Swedish (sv) Mordet på Olof Palme		303
2	English (en) Assassination of Olof Palme		281
3	Danish (da) Palmemordet		76
4	French (fr) Assassinat d'Olof Palme		67
5	Norwegian (no) Palme-mordet		67
6	Dutch (nl) Moord op Olof Palme		50
7	Spanish (es) Asesinato de Olof Palme		40
8	Finnish (fi) Olof Palmen murha		32
9	Russian (ru) Убийство Улофа Пальме		25
10	Chinese (zh) 帕爾梅遇刺案		19

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	Swedish (sv) Mordet på Olof Palme		6
2	English (en) Assassination of Olof Palme		1
3	Finnish (fi) Olof Palmen murha		1
4	Norwegian (no) Palme-mordet		1
5	Russian (ru) Убийство Улофа Пальме		1
6	Turkish (tr) Olof Palme suikastı		1
7	Arabic (ar) اغتيال أولوف بالمه		0
8	Catalan (ca) Assassinat d'Olof Palme		0
9	Czech (cs) Atentát na Olofa Palmeho		0
10	Danish (da) Palmemordet		0

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

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