Civil defense

Quality:

Civil defense - protection of the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from military attack. Article “Civil defense” in English Wikipedia has 72.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 39 references and 17 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 2026 the article “Civil defense” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Civil defense”, its content was written by 351 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1196 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1420 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4537 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1223 in March 2002
• Global: #1559 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #32662 in March 2020
• Global: #8062 in October 2014

There are 28 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) Civil defense		72.6149
2	Serbian (sr) Цивилна одбрана		53.3252
3	Spanish (es) Protección civil		51.6528
4	Polish (pl) Obrona cywilna		46.4292
5	Persian (fa) دفاع مدنی		44.2884
6	Norwegian (no) Samfunnssikkerhet		41.8503
7	Russian (ru) Гражданская оборона		40.1761
8	Croatian (hr) Civilna zaštita		39.6139
9	Italian (it) Difesa civile		32.385
10	Esperanto (eo) Civila defendo		32.2701

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Protección civil		4 832 527
2	Russian (ru) Гражданская оборона		2 456 663
3	English (en) Civil defense		2 085 551
4	Polish (pl) Obrona cywilna		667 017
5	Arabic (ar) دفاع مدني		616 660
6	French (fr) Sécurité civile		517 447
7	Portuguese (pt) Defesa civil		413 256
8	Ukrainian (uk) Цивільна оборона		372 774
9	Japanese (ja) 民間防衛		362 891
10	Kazakh (kk) Азаматтық қорғаныс		164 720

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) Civil defense		5 233
2	Portuguese (pt) Defesa civil		3 306
3	Russian (ru) Гражданская оборона		2 774
4	Spanish (es) Protección civil		1 859
5	Japanese (ja) 民間防衛		1 111
6	French (fr) Sécurité civile		907
7	German (de) Bevölkerungsschutz		790
8	Polish (pl) Obrona cywilna		790
9	Azerbaijani (az) Mülki müdafiə		244
10	Chinese (zh) 民事防护		230

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Civil defense		351
2	Spanish (es) Protección civil		183
3	French (fr) Sécurité civile		107
4	Russian (ru) Гражданская оборона		92
5	Portuguese (pt) Defesa civil		60
6	Japanese (ja) 民間防衛		58
7	Polish (pl) Obrona cywilna		50
8	Italian (it) Difesa civile		45
9	Ukrainian (uk) Цивільна оборона		43
10	German (de) Bevölkerungsschutz		37

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) Civil defense		2
2	Spanish (es) Protección civil		1
3	Polish (pl) Obrona cywilna		1
4	Arabic (ar) دفاع مدني		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Mülki müdafiə		0
6	Belarusian (be) Грамадзянская абарона		0
7	Czech (cs) Civilní obrana		0
8	German (de) Bevölkerungsschutz		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Civila defendo		0
10	Persian (fa) دفاع مدنی		0

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

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