Background radiation

Quality:

Background radiation - level of ionizing radiation present in the natural environment. Article “Background radiation” in English Wikipedia has 80.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 65 references and 23 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Background radiation”, its content was written by 282 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 612 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 278 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1058 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3756 in February 2003
• Global: #5317 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8027 in March 2011
• Global: #13710 in March 2011

There are 27 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	English (en) Background radiation		80.3734
2	Indonesian (id) Radiasi alam		66.6192
3	Turkish (tr) Arka plan radyasyonu		63.9307
4	Spanish (es) Radiación de fondo		63.6467
5	Ukrainian (uk) Радіаційний фон		61.6136
6	Russian (ru) Радиационный фон		59.7181
7	Armenian (hy) Ճառագայթային ֆոն		51.2781
8	Chinese (zh) 背景輻射		38.3857
9	Swedish (sv) Bakgrundsstrålning		35.2032
10	French (fr) Rayonnement de fond		33.3754

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Background radiation		2 565 398
2	Polish (pl) Promieniotwórczość naturalna		569 287
3	Russian (ru) Радиационный фон		239 650
4	Chinese (zh) 背景輻射		128 534
5	Italian (it) Fondo di radioattività naturale		115 520
6	Japanese (ja) 環境放射線		96 135
7	Swedish (sv) Bakgrundsstrålning		91 745
8	Indonesian (id) Radiasi alam		89 145
9	Dutch (nl) Achtergrondstraling		80 615
10	Arabic (ar) إشعاع طبيعي		70 378

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) Background radiation		3 952
2	Russian (ru) Радиационный фон		1 297
3	Chinese (zh) 背景輻射		393
4	Italian (it) Fondo di radioattività naturale		201
5	Polish (pl) Promieniotwórczość naturalna		171
6	Ukrainian (uk) Радіаційний фон		135
7	Spanish (es) Radiación de fondo		122
8	Dutch (nl) Achtergrondstraling		104
9	French (fr) Rayonnement de fond		95
10	Japanese (ja) 環境放射線		95

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Background radiation		282
2	Italian (it) Fondo di radioattività naturale		33
3	Dutch (nl) Achtergrondstraling		29
4	Polish (pl) Promieniotwórczość naturalna		27
5	Norwegian (no) Bakgrunnsstråling		25
6	Swedish (sv) Bakgrundsstrålning		22
7	Chinese (zh) 背景輻射		22
8	Japanese (ja) 環境放射線		21
9	Turkish (tr) Arka plan radyasyonu		21
10	Danish (da) Baggrundsstrålingen		18

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	Arabic (ar) إشعاع طبيعي		1
2	Danish (da) Baggrundsstrålingen		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Joniga fona radiado		1
4	Turkish (tr) Arka plan radyasyonu		1
5	Ukrainian (uk) Радіаційний фон		1
6	English (en) Background radiation		0
7	Spanish (es) Radiación de fondo		0
8	Persian (fa) تابش زمینه		0
9	Finnish (fi) Luonnon taustasäteily		0
10	French (fr) Rayonnement de fond		0

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

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