Civil society

Quality:

Civil society - social activities of individuals or groups in which the state has no involvement; civil society is the collection of non-governmental organisations and institutions which are the will and desire of citizens. Article “Civil society” in English Wikipedia has 78.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 101 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.14 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 “Civil society”, its content was written by 397 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2032 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2403 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12120 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3883 in March 2023
• Global: #3281 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #25042 in April 2015
• Global: #7728 in November 2014

There are 48 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 society		78.7331
2	Chinese (zh) 公民社会		76.4181
3	Hindi (hi) नागरिक समाज		70.5377
4	Korean (ko) 시민 사회		66.3682
5	Turkish (tr) Sivil toplum		58.8606
6	Armenian (hy) Քաղաքացիական հասարակություն		56.9827
7	Estonian (et) Kodanikuühiskond		51.25
8	French (fr) Société civile		51.0183
9	Ukrainian (uk) Громадянське суспільство		43.8338
10	Serbian (sr) Civilno društvo		42.3412

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Civil society		4 857 263
2	Russian (ru) Гражданское общество		3 727 156
3	Spanish (es) Sociedad civil (ciencia política)		3 623 317
4	Ukrainian (uk) Громадянське суспільство		1 309 840
5	French (fr) Société civile		1 188 796
6	Polish (pl) Społeczeństwo obywatelskie		907 281
7	Arabic (ar) مجتمع مدني		854 917
8	Portuguese (pt) Sociedade civil		760 505
9	German (de) Zivilgesellschaft		566 606
10	Kazakh (kk) Азаматтық қоғам		476 826

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 society		4 299
2	Russian (ru) Гражданское общество		1 482
3	French (fr) Société civile		1 148
4	German (de) Zivilgesellschaft		715
5	Chinese (zh) 公民社会		561
6	Japanese (ja) 市民社会		551
7	Spanish (es) Sociedad civil (ciencia política)		515
8	Polish (pl) Społeczeństwo obywatelskie		508
9	Persian (fa) جامعه مدنی		428
10	Ukrainian (uk) Громадянське суспільство		301

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Civil society		397
2	German (de) Zivilgesellschaft		190
3	French (fr) Société civile		153
4	Russian (ru) Гражданское общество		135
5	Spanish (es) Sociedad civil (ciencia política)		89
6	Dutch (nl) Burgermaatschappij		85
7	Ukrainian (uk) Громадянське суспільство		78
8	Polish (pl) Społeczeństwo obywatelskie		61
9	Chinese (zh) 公民社会		61
10	Turkish (tr) Sivil toplum		53

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	Azerbaijani (az) Vətəndaş cəmiyyəti		1
2	Danish (da) Civilsamfundet		1
3	German (de) Zivilgesellschaft		1
4	French (fr) Société civile		1
5	Indonesian (id) Masyarakat sipil		1
6	Romanian (ro) Societate civilă		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Громадянське суспільство		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Xã hội dân sự		1
9	Arabic (ar) مجتمع مدني		0
10	Belarusian (be) Грамадзянская супольнасць		0

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

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