Capital punishment by country

Quality:

Capital punishment by country - Wikimedia list article. Article “Capital punishment by country” in English Wikipedia has 74.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 463 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.3 points.

This article has the best quality in Arabic Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8465^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 2560^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Capital punishment by country” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 40 authors in all languages (2560^th place).

Since the creation of article “Capital punishment by country”, its content was written by 890 registered users of English Wikipedia (8465^th place) and edited by 1768 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 599 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2491 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #34 in September 2002
• Global: #106 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7327 in April 2015
• Global: #11264 in July 2018

There are 20 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Arabic (ar) عقوبة الإعدام حسب الدولة		82.7886
2	English (en) Capital punishment by country		74.673
3	Chinese (zh) 各國死刑列表		72.0379
4	Greek (el) Θανατική ποινή στον κόσμο		71.6959
5	Italian (it) Pena di morte nel mondo		70.3413
6	Finnish (fi) Kuolemanrangaistus maittain		69.619
7	French (fr) Application de la peine de mort dans le monde		67.845
8	Korean (ko) 나라별 사형제 현황		67.1302
9	Romanian (ro) Aplicarea pedepsei cu moartea după țară		64.4603
10	Urdu (ur) سزائے موت بلحاظ ملک		63.667

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Capital punishment by country		6 257 238
2	Japanese (ja) 世界の死刑制度の現状		1 498 957
3	French (fr) Application de la peine de mort dans le monde		1 325 937
4	Russian (ru) Применение смертной казни по странам		1 098 203
5	Chinese (zh) 各國死刑列表		498 769
6	Greek (el) Θανατική ποινή στον κόσμο		304 653
7	Korean (ko) 나라별 사형제 현황		273 241
8	Swedish (sv) Dödsstraff efter land		213 323
9	Italian (it) Pena di morte nel mondo		192 554
10	Arabic (ar) عقوبة الإعدام حسب الدولة		118 495

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) Capital punishment by country		23 776
2	Japanese (ja) 世界の死刑制度の現状		4 489
3	Russian (ru) Применение смертной казни по странам		3 082
4	Chinese (zh) 各國死刑列表		3 018
5	French (fr) Application de la peine de mort dans le monde		2 903
6	Italian (it) Pena di morte nel mondo		2 648
7	Persian (fa) مجازات اعدام بر پایه کشور		1 111
8	Portuguese (pt) Pena de morte por país		749
9	Korean (ko) 나라별 사형제 현황		736
10	Greek (el) Θανατική ποινή στον κόσμο		678

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Capital punishment by country		890
2	Italian (it) Pena di morte nel mondo		194
3	French (fr) Application de la peine de mort dans le monde		164
4	Japanese (ja) 世界の死刑制度の現状		100
5	Chinese (zh) 各國死刑列表		93
6	Russian (ru) Применение смертной казни по странам		64
7	Korean (ko) 나라별 사형제 현황		63
8	Swedish (sv) Dödsstraff efter land		41
9	Hebrew (he) עונש מוות לפי מדינה		33
10	Greek (el) Θανατική ποινή στον κόσμο		28

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	English (en) Capital punishment by country		6
2	Hebrew (he) עונש מוות לפי מדינה		5
3	Finnish (fi) Kuolemanrangaistus maittain		3
4	Dutch (nl) Doodstraf wereldwijd		3
5	Portuguese (pt) Pena de morte por país		3
6	Russian (ru) Применение смертной казни по странам		3
7	Greek (el) Θανατική ποινή στον κόσμο		2
8	French (fr) Application de la peine de mort dans le monde		2
9	Italian (it) Pena di morte nel mondo		2
10	Swedish (sv) Dödsstraff efter land		2

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

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