Census

Quality:

Census - survey designed to collect data about all members of a population. This event is the 244^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 508^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Census” in English Wikipedia has 75.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 81 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.39 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 508^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6222^nd most popular in AI.

The 244^th most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “Census” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Census”, its content was written by 830 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3240 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6222^nd place).

Census is on the 508^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 244^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 38919 times in English Wikipedia (323^rd place) and cited 499646 times in all languages (188^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #442 in April 2002
• Global: #726 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2248 in April 2010
• Global: #1823 in May 2010

There are 53 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) Census		75.5163
2	German (de) Volkszählung		60.4053
3	Finnish (fi) Väestönlaskenta		47.982
4	Chinese (zh) 人口普查		46.5187
5	Dutch (nl) Volkstelling		45.6075
6	French (fr) Recensement de la population		41.5157
7	Esperanto (eo) Popolnombrado		41.4321
8	Portuguese (pt) Censo demográfico		38.0256
9	Catalan (ca) Cens de població		36.5409
10	Tamil (ta) மக்கள்தொகைக் கணக்கெடுப்பு		32.8386

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Census		7 693 371
2	Spanish (es) Censo (estadística)		6 315 535
3	French (fr) Recensement de la population		1 812 416
4	Portuguese (pt) Censo demográfico		1 466 172
5	Japanese (ja) 国勢調査		1 104 293
6	German (de) Volkszählung		1 035 752
7	Russian (ru) Перепись населения		841 080
8	Italian (it) Censimento		609 157
9	Indonesian (id) Sensus		527 210
10	Arabic (ar) إحصاء السكان		417 572

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) Census		8 444
2	French (fr) Recensement de la population		3 113
3	Japanese (ja) 国勢調査		1 069
4	German (de) Volkszählung		1 062
5	Russian (ru) Перепись населения		1 006
6	Spanish (es) Censo (estadística)		913
7	Chinese (zh) 人口普查		634
8	Portuguese (pt) Censo demográfico		457
9	Dutch (nl) Volkstelling		453
10	Indonesian (id) Sensus		413

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Census		830
2	German (de) Volkszählung		337
3	French (fr) Recensement de la population		206
4	Spanish (es) Censo (estadística)		195
5	Italian (it) Censimento		125
6	Russian (ru) Перепись населения		124
7	Dutch (nl) Volkstelling		120
8	Portuguese (pt) Censo demográfico		98
9	Danish (da) Folketælling		73
10	Chinese (zh) 人口普查		71

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) Census		4
2	Min Nan (zhminnan) Phó͘-cha		3
3	Catalan (ca) Cens de població		1
4	Persian (fa) سرشماری		1
5	French (fr) Recensement de la population		1
6	Italian (it) Censimento		1
7	Japanese (ja) 国勢調査		1
8	Uzbek (uz) Aholi hisobi		1
9	Arabic (ar) إحصاء السكان		0
10	Belarusian (be) Перапіс насельніцтва		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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