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Better Never to Have Been

Quality:

Better Never to Have Been - 2006 book by David Benatar. Article “Better Never to Have Been” in English Wikipedia has 34.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 9 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 2025 the article “Better Never to Have Been” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Better Never to Have Been”, its content was written by 16 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 37 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 16 times in English Wikipedia and cited 33 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #162405 in June 2020
  • Global: #274556 in October 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #343515 in January 2024
  • Global: #470011 in May 2025

There are 5 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Better Never to Have Been
34.476
2Turkish (tr)
Keşke Hiç Olmasaydık
22.1936
3Esperanto (eo)
Better Never to Have Been
21.9028
4Persian (fa)
هرگز نبودن بهتر است
21.7462
5Russian (ru)
Лучше было бы не родиться: о вреде появления на свет
20.497
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Better Never to Have Been" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Better Never to Have Been
105 695
2Russian (ru)
Лучше было бы не родиться: о вреде появления на свет
48 251
3Persian (fa)
هرگز نبودن بهتر است
8 571
4Turkish (tr)
Keşke Hiç Olmasaydık
1 514
5Esperanto (eo)
Better Never to Have Been
1 070
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Better Never to Have Been" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Better Never to Have Been
2 633
2Russian (ru)
Лучше было бы не родиться: о вреде появления на свет
958
3Persian (fa)
هرگز نبودن بهتر است
70
4Turkish (tr)
Keşke Hiç Olmasaydık
43
5Esperanto (eo)
Better Never to Have Been
6
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Better Never to Have Been" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Better Never to Have Been
16
2Russian (ru)
Лучше было бы не родиться: о вреде появления на свет
11
3Esperanto (eo)
Better Never to Have Been
5
4Persian (fa)
هرگز نبودن بهتر است
3
5Turkish (tr)
Keşke Hiç Olmasaydık
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Better Never to Have Been" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Better Never to Have Been
1
2Russian (ru)
Лучше было бы не родиться: о вреде появления на свет
1
3Esperanto (eo)
Better Never to Have Been
0
4Persian (fa)
هرگز نبودن بهتر است
0
5Turkish (tr)
Keşke Hiç Olmasaydık
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Better Never to Have Been" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Better Never to Have Been
16
2Russian (ru)
Лучше было бы не родиться: о вреде появления на свет
12
3Persian (fa)
هرگز نبودن بهتر است
3
4Esperanto (eo)
Better Never to Have Been
1
5Turkish (tr)
Keşke Hiç Olmasaydık
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Better Never to Have Been
eoEsperanto
Better Never to Have Been
faPersian
هرگز نبودن بهتر است
ruRussian
Лучше было бы не родиться: о вреде появления на свет
trTurkish
Keşke Hiç Olmasaydık

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#343515
01.2024
Global:
#470011
05.2025

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#162405
06.2020
Global:
#274556
10.2021

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Better Never to Have Been from Wikipedia articles about David Benatar, Antinatalism, Benatars asymmetry argument, Nic Pizzolatto and The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. Whereas reading the article about Better Never to Have Been people most often go to Wikipedia articles on David Benatar, Antinatalism, Rust Cohle, Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and Yujin Nagasawa.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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