Axis of evil

Axis of evil - group of countries identified collectively as enemies by U.S. President George W. Bush during the 2000s. Article “Axis of evil” in English Wikipedia has 63.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 71 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 11.22 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 “Axis of evil” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Axis of evil”, its content was written by 672 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1824 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1209 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3130 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #133 in July 2003
• Global: #224 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16387 in January 2008
• Global: #16980 in January 2008

There are 36 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) Axis of evil		63.5724
2	Arabic (ar) محور الشر		39.2031
3	Persian (fa) محور شرارت		34.696
4	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		30.2294
5	Spanish (es) Eje del mal		27.2612
6	German (de) Achse des Bösen		26.4395
7	Portuguese (pt) Eixo do mal		26.2614
8	Dutch (nl) As van het kwaad		25.9054
9	Catalan (ca) Eix del Mal		24.7139
10	Greek (el) Άξονας του Κακού		21.8488

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Axis of evil" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Axis of evil		4 108 912
2	Japanese (ja) 悪の枢軸		603 924
3	Russian (ru) Ось зла (политика)		539 364
4	Spanish (es) Eje del mal		526 151
5	German (de) Achse des Bösen		441 135
6	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		347 623
7	French (fr) Axe du Mal		284 871
8	Portuguese (pt) Eixo do mal		265 906
9	Italian (it) Asse del male		133 990
10	Persian (fa) محور شرارت		122 954

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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 "Axis of evil" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Axis of evil		25 137
2	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		6 880
3	Russian (ru) Ось зла (политика)		5 475
4	Japanese (ja) 悪の枢軸		3 135
5	Spanish (es) Eje del mal		2 252
6	German (de) Achse des Bösen		2 225
7	Hebrew (he) ציר הרשע		1 547
8	French (fr) Axe du Mal		1 304
9	Portuguese (pt) Eixo do mal		1 241
10	Persian (fa) محور شرارت		1 019

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Axis of evil		672
2	German (de) Achse des Bösen		157
3	French (fr) Axe du Mal		97
4	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		91
5	Spanish (es) Eje del mal		87
6	Russian (ru) Ось зла (политика)		82
7	Japanese (ja) 悪の枢軸		69
8	Hebrew (he) ציר הרשע		59
9	Dutch (nl) As van het kwaad		53
10	Italian (it) Asse del male		45

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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 "Axis of evil" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Axis of evil		6
2	Czech (cs) Osa zla		2
3	German (de) Achse des Bösen		2
4	Italian (it) Asse del male		2
5	Arabic (ar) محور الشر		1
6	Russian (ru) Ось зла (политика)		1
7	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Şər oxu		0
9	Belarusian (be) Вось зла		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Ос на злото		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 "Axis of evil" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Axis of evil		1 209
2	Portuguese (pt) Eixo do mal		325
3	Japanese (ja) 悪の枢軸		228
4	Persian (fa) محور شرارت		174
5	Russian (ru) Ось зла (политика)		138
6	Ukrainian (uk) Вісь зла		132
7	Arabic (ar) محور الشر		115
8	Urdu (ur) شریری کا محور		103
9	Italian (it) Asse del male		100
10	French (fr) Axe du Mal		66

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic محور الشر
az	Azerbaijani Şər oxu
be	Belarusian Вось зла
bg	Bulgarian Ос на злото
ca	Catalan Eix del Mal
cs	Czech Osa zla
da	Danish Ondskabens akse
de	German Achse des Bösen
el	Greek Άξονας του Κακού
en	English Axis of evil
eo	Esperanto Akso de la Malbono
es	Spanish Eje del mal
et	Estonian Kurjuse telg
eu	Basque Gaizkiaren Ardatza
fa	Persian محور شرارت
fi	Finnish Pahan akseli
fr	French Axe du Mal
he	Hebrew ציר הרשע
hy	Armenian Չարի առանցք (քաղաքականություն)
id	Indonesian Poros setan
it	Italian Asse del male
ja	Japanese 悪の枢軸
ko	Korean 악의 축
nl	Dutch As van het kwaad
no	Norwegian Ondskapens akse
pl	Polish Oś zła
pt	Portuguese Eixo do mal
ru	Russian Ось зла (политика)
simple	Simple English Axis of Evil
sv	Swedish Ondskans axelmakter
th	Thai แกนแห่งความชั่วร้าย
tr	Turkish Şeytan ekseni
uk	Ukrainian Вісь зла
ur	Urdu شریری کا محور
vi	Vietnamese Trục ma quỷ
zh	Chinese 邪恶轴心

Best Rank

English: #16387 01.2008

Global: #16980 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #133 07.2003

Global: #224 03.2002

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