Austerity

Quality:

Austerity - political-economic policy aiming to reduce government budget deficits through spending cuts or tax increases. Article “Austerity” in English Wikipedia has 85.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 185 references and 24 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.55 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 “Austerity” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Austerity”, its content was written by 397 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 878 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 981 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2921 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1519 in May 2012
• Global: #1445 in July 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #361 in May 2012
• Global: #1033 in July 2015

There are 29 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) Austerity		85.915
2	Turkish (tr) Kemer sıkma politikası		79.9631
3	Spanish (es) Austeridad económica		57.9477
4	German (de) Austerität		56.4209
5	French (fr) Politique de rigueur		28.1744
6	Esperanto (eo) Severŝparado		26.9935
7	Finnish (fi) Talouskuri		26.9636
8	Portuguese (pt) Austeridade		26.8596
9	Italian (it) Austerità		26.3923
10	Romanian (ro) Austeritate		23.8042

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Austerity		7 781 794
2	German (de) Austerität		1 709 645
3	Portuguese (pt) Austeridade		727 208
4	French (fr) Politique de rigueur		512 679
5	Italian (it) Austerità		424 850
6	Spanish (es) Austeridad económica		339 726
7	Japanese (ja) 緊縮財政政策		203 118
8	Arabic (ar) تقشف		196 644
9	Hebrew (he) צנע		70 173
10	Persian (fa) ریاضت اقتصادی		62 535

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) Austerity		12 976
2	German (de) Austerität		2 792
3	Japanese (ja) 緊縮財政政策		1 054
4	French (fr) Politique de rigueur		708
5	Romanian (ro) Austeritate		618
6	Italian (it) Austerità		608
7	Spanish (es) Austeridad económica		489
8	Portuguese (pt) Austeridade		475
9	Chinese (zh) 緊縮政策		276
10	Polish (pl) Polityka zaciskania pasa		231

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Austerity		397
2	German (de) Austerität		158
3	French (fr) Politique de rigueur		46
4	Portuguese (pt) Austeridade		40
5	Spanish (es) Austeridad económica		39
6	Italian (it) Austerità		38
7	Hebrew (he) צנע		24
8	Arabic (ar) تقشف		22
9	Japanese (ja) 緊縮財政政策		21
10	Finnish (fi) Talouskuri		16

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	Japanese (ja) 緊縮財政政策		2
2	English (en) Austerity		1
3	Korean (ko) 긴축		1
4	Arabic (ar) تقشف		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Политика на строги икономии		0
6	German (de) Austerität		0
7	Greek (el) Λιτότητα		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Severŝparado		0
9	Spanish (es) Austeridad económica		0
10	Persian (fa) ریاضت اقتصادی		0

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

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