Body mass index

Quality:

Body mass index - measure of relative weight based on an individual's mass and height. Article “Body mass index” in English Wikipedia has 88.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 100 references and 28 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 2393^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 6447^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1092^nd most popular in all topics.

The 4072^nd most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Body mass index” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Body mass index”, its content was written by 1028 registered users of English Wikipedia (6447^th place) and edited by 3941 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4072^nd place).

The article is cited 858 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6139 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #341 in January 2002
• Global: #406 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #457 in April 2018
• Global: #367 in April 2018

There are 51 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) Body mass index		88.5388
2	Tamil (ta) உடல் நிறை குறியீட்டெண்		86.25
3	Hindi (hi) शरीर द्रव्यमान सूचकांक		67.6255
4	German (de) Body-Mass-Index		54.0447
5	Catalan (ca) Índex de massa corporal		47.5755
6	Estonian (et) Kehamassiindeks		40.8968
7	Finnish (fi) Painoindeksi		39.6305
8	Chinese (zh) 身體質量指數		38.4656
9	Spanish (es) Índice de masa corporal		36.6788
10	Norwegian (no) Kroppsmasseindeks		36.5576

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Body mass index		30 839 365
2	German (de) Body-Mass-Index		11 607 605
3	Spanish (es) Índice de masa corporal		11 290 349
4	Russian (ru) Индекс массы тела		6 825 074
5	French (fr) Indice de masse corporelle		5 313 661
6	Japanese (ja) ボディマス指数		4 682 904
7	Portuguese (pt) Índice de massa corporal		2 778 484
8	Italian (it) Indice di massa corporea		2 722 603
9	Polish (pl) Wskaźnik masy ciała		2 682 356
10	Chinese (zh) 身體質量指數		2 294 192

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) Body mass index		34 900
2	Russian (ru) Индекс массы тела		16 762
3	German (de) Body-Mass-Index		9 584
4	Japanese (ja) ボディマス指数		3 666
5	French (fr) Indice de masse corporelle		3 026
6	Spanish (es) Índice de masa corporal		1 995
7	Polish (pl) Wskaźnik masy ciała		1 625
8	Chinese (zh) 身體質量指數		1 561
9	Persian (fa) شاخص توده بدنی		1 524
10	Italian (it) Indice di massa corporea		1 260

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Body mass index		1 028
2	German (de) Body-Mass-Index		491
3	French (fr) Indice de masse corporelle		233
4	Spanish (es) Índice de masa corporal		205
5	Dutch (nl) Queteletindex		181
6	Russian (ru) Индекс массы тела		142
7	Italian (it) Indice di massa corporea		125
8	Portuguese (pt) Índice de massa corporal		120
9	Polish (pl) Wskaźnik masy ciała		117
10	Japanese (ja) ボディマス指数		97

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	Turkish (tr) Vücut kitle indeksi		4
2	English (en) Body mass index		2
3	Catalan (ca) Índex de massa corporal		1
4	Danish (da) Body mass index		1
5	Hindi (hi) शरीर द्रव्यमान सूचकांक		1
6	Korean (ko) 체질량 지수		1
7	Portuguese (pt) Índice de massa corporal		1
8	Russian (ru) Индекс массы тела		1
9	Tamil (ta) உடல் நிறை குறியீட்டெண்		1
10	Uzbek (uz) Tana vazni indeksi		1

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

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