Balanced budget amendment

Balanced budget amendment - constitutional rule requiring that a state cannot spend more than its income. Article “Balanced budget amendment” in English Wikipedia has 73.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 106 references and 21 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.

In June 2026 the article “Balanced budget amendment” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Balanced budget amendment”, its content was written by 236 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 490 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 505 times in English Wikipedia and cited 783 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2148 in July 2011
• Global: #17205 in August 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14033 in July 2011
• Global: #28532 in July 2011

There are 9 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) Balanced budget amendment		73.3506
2	German (de) Schuldenbremse		60.6657
3	French (fr) Règle d'or budgétaire		42.8844
4	Italian (it) Pareggio di bilancio		31.3569
5	Basque (eu) Defizitaren muga konstituzional		24.6794
6	Spanish (es) Regla de oro presupuestaria		18.1109
7	Finnish (fi) Velkajarru		14.7079
8	Catalan (ca) Regla del dèficit zero		9.9054
9	Simple English (simple) Balanced budget amendment		0.3452

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Balanced budget amendment" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Balanced budget amendment		1 179 365
2	Italian (it) Pareggio di bilancio		347 333
3	German (de) Schuldenbremse		291 437
4	French (fr) Règle d'or budgétaire		219 423
5	Spanish (es) Regla de oro presupuestaria		48 240
6	Finnish (fi) Velkajarru		13 969
7	Catalan (ca) Regla del dèficit zero		5 838
8	Simple English (simple) Balanced budget amendment		4 833
9	Basque (eu) Defizitaren muga konstituzional		254

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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 "Balanced budget amendment" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Balanced budget amendment		1 291
2	Italian (it) Pareggio di bilancio		789
3	German (de) Schuldenbremse		201
4	French (fr) Règle d'or budgétaire		165
5	Finnish (fi) Velkajarru		146
6	Spanish (es) Regla de oro presupuestaria		35
7	Catalan (ca) Regla del dèficit zero		14
8	Simple English (simple) Balanced budget amendment		8
9	Basque (eu) Defizitaren muga konstituzional		2

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Balanced budget amendment		236
2	German (de) Schuldenbremse		113
3	Italian (it) Pareggio di bilancio		54
4	French (fr) Règle d'or budgétaire		52
5	Catalan (ca) Regla del dèficit zero		14
6	Spanish (es) Regla de oro presupuestaria		10
7	Finnish (fi) Velkajarru		6
8	Simple English (simple) Balanced budget amendment		4
9	Basque (eu) Defizitaren muga konstituzional		1

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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 "Balanced budget amendment" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Balanced budget amendment		1
2	Catalan (ca) Regla del dèficit zero		0
3	German (de) Schuldenbremse		0
4	Spanish (es) Regla de oro presupuestaria		0
5	Basque (eu) Defizitaren muga konstituzional		0
6	Finnish (fi) Velkajarru		0
7	French (fr) Règle d'or budgétaire		0
8	Italian (it) Pareggio di bilancio		0
9	Simple English (simple) Balanced budget amendment		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 "Balanced budget amendment" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Balanced budget amendment		505
2	German (de) Schuldenbremse		89
3	French (fr) Règle d'or budgétaire		80
4	Italian (it) Pareggio di bilancio		75
5	Spanish (es) Regla de oro presupuestaria		19
6	Finnish (fi) Velkajarru		8
7	Catalan (ca) Regla del dèficit zero		6
8	Simple English (simple) Balanced budget amendment		1
9	Basque (eu) Defizitaren muga konstituzional		0

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Regla del dèficit zero
de	German Schuldenbremse
en	English Balanced budget amendment
es	Spanish Regla de oro presupuestaria
eu	Basque Defizitaren muga konstituzional
fi	Finnish Velkajarru
fr	French Règle d'or budgétaire
it	Italian Pareggio di bilancio
simple	Simple English Balanced budget amendment

Best Rank

English: #14033 07.2011

Global: #28532 07.2011

Best Rank

English: #2148 07.2011

Global: #17205 08.2011

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