Birth defect

Quality:

Congenital disorder - condition present at birth regardless of cause; human disease or disorder developed prior to birth. Article “Birth defect” in English Wikipedia has 80.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 224 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.25 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.

Since the creation of article “Birth defect”, its content was written by 366 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1207 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2767 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8935 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #747 in April 2001
• Global: #747 in April 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9956 in April 2015
• Global: #10540 in October 2011

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, 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) Birth defect		80.6717
2	Ukrainian (uk) Природжена вада		69.0359
3	German (de) Fehlbildung		56.0295
4	Chinese (zh) 先天性障碍		55.186
5	Russian (ru) Пороки развития		49.4919
6	Malay (ms) Kecacatan kelahiran		45.4092
7	Simple English (simple) Birth defect		44.5272
8	Tamil (ta) பிறவிக் குறை		39.2191
9	Hebrew (he) מום מולד		36.9125
10	Spanish (es) Enfermedad congénita		32.5291

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Birth defect		9 781 534
2	Spanish (es) Enfermedad congénita		2 055 551
3	Portuguese (pt) Doença congênita		1 059 084
4	German (de) Fehlbildung		955 384
5	French (fr) Maladie congénitale		901 452
6	Russian (ru) Пороки развития		841 966
7	Polish (pl) Wady wrodzone		644 876
8	Italian (it) Malattia congenita		285 211
9	Dutch (nl) Aangeboren afwijking		262 941
10	Arabic (ar) عيب خلقي		233 810

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) Birth defect		17 092
2	Russian (ru) Пороки развития		1 443
3	German (de) Fehlbildung		975
4	French (fr) Maladie congénitale		914
5	Persian (fa) ناهنجاری مادرزادی		861
6	Chinese (zh) 先天性障碍		787
7	Polish (pl) Wady wrodzone		539
8	Spanish (es) Enfermedad congénita		523
9	Japanese (ja) 先天性異常		466
10	Italian (it) Malattia congenita		241

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Birth defect		366
2	German (de) Fehlbildung		211
3	French (fr) Maladie congénitale		74
4	Russian (ru) Пороки развития		59
5	Dutch (nl) Aangeboren afwijking		57
6	Spanish (es) Enfermedad congénita		51
7	Polish (pl) Wady wrodzone		37
8	Arabic (ar) عيب خلقي		35
9	Portuguese (pt) Doença congênita		34
10	Vietnamese (vi) Bệnh lý bẩm sinh		29

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	Bulgarian (bg) Вродени заболявания		2
2	Ukrainian (uk) Природжена вада		2
3	Arabic (ar) عيب خلقي		1
4	Catalan (ca) Trastorn congènit		1
5	Greek (el) Γενετική ανωμαλία		1
6	German (de) Fehlbildung		0
7	English (en) Birth defect		0
8	Spanish (es) Enfermedad congénita		0
9	Basque (eu) Sortzetiko eritasun		0
10	Persian (fa) ناهنجاری مادرزادی		0

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

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