Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Quality:

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - 2005 essay by Jared Diamond. This book is the 2121st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" in English Wikipedia has 51 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 12 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 2121st most popular in books.

Since the creation of article "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed", its content was written by 209 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 597 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is on the 2121st place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 88 times in English Wikipedia and cited 365 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #9511 in August 2016
  • Global: #9483 in August 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #59167 in December 2008
  • Global: #86073 in January 2010

There are 17 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
50.9741
2German (de)
Kollaps (Buch)
30.854
3French (fr)
Effondrement (essai)
24.3901
4Esperanto (eo)
Collapse
20.7625
5Arabic (ar)
الانهيار: كيف تختار المجتمعات الفشل أو النجاح
20.6865
6Russian (ru)
Коллапс (книга)
16.5272
7Chinese (zh)
大崩壞
16.1608
8Italian (it)
Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere
14.8708
9Ukrainian (uk)
Колапс (книга)
14.6517
10Spanish (es)
Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen
12.9197
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
1 723 524
2French (fr)
Effondrement (essai)
260 128
3Spanish (es)
Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen
188 944
4German (de)
Kollaps (Buch)
97 859
5Italian (it)
Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere
71 135
6Chinese (zh)
大崩壞
45 654
7Japanese (ja)
文明崩壊 (書籍)
44 044
8Hebrew (he)
התמוטטות (ספר)
30 376
9Swedish (sv)
Undergång: Civilisationernas uppgång eller fall
15 532
10Russian (ru)
Коллапс (книга)
14 765
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
4 443
2French (fr)
Effondrement (essai)
724
3Russian (ru)
Коллапс (книга)
375
4Spanish (es)
Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen
340
5German (de)
Kollaps (Buch)
325
6Chinese (zh)
大崩壞
303
7Italian (it)
Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere
294
8Japanese (ja)
文明崩壊 (書籍)
196
9Hebrew (he)
התמוטטות (ספר)
144
10Arabic (ar)
الانهيار: كيف تختار المجتمعات الفشل أو النجاح
35
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
209
2French (fr)
Effondrement (essai)
108
3Italian (it)
Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere
51
4German (de)
Kollaps (Buch)
48
5Hebrew (he)
התמוטטות (ספר)
32
6Spanish (es)
Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen
28
7Chinese (zh)
大崩壞
24
8Finnish (fi)
Romahdus: Miten yhteiskunnat päättävät tuhoutua tai menestyä
18
9Japanese (ja)
文明崩壊 (書籍)
16
10Hungarian (hu)
Összeomlás – Tanulságok a társadalmak továbbéléséhez
15
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Finnish (fi)
Romahdus: Miten yhteiskunnat päättävät tuhoutua tai menestyä
1
2Chinese (zh)
大崩壞
1
3Arabic (ar)
الانهيار: كيف تختار المجتمعات الفشل أو النجاح
0
4German (de)
Kollaps (Buch)
0
5English (en)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
0
6Esperanto (eo)
Collapse
0
7Spanish (es)
Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen
0
8French (fr)
Effondrement (essai)
0
9Hebrew (he)
התמוטטות (ספר)
0
10Hungarian (hu)
Összeomlás – Tanulságok a társadalmak továbbéléséhez
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
88
2French (fr)
Effondrement (essai)
73
3Spanish (es)
Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen
46
4Hebrew (he)
התמוטטות (ספר)
22
5Italian (it)
Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere
22
6German (de)
Kollaps (Buch)
19
7Chinese (zh)
大崩壞
15
8Russian (ru)
Коллапс (книга)
14
9Arabic (ar)
الانهيار: كيف تختار المجتمعات الفشل أو النجاح
13
10Finnish (fi)
Romahdus: Miten yhteiskunnat päättävät tuhoutua tai menestyä
13
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الانهيار: كيف تختار المجتمعات الفشل أو النجاح
deGerman
Kollaps (Buch)
enEnglish
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
eoEsperanto
Collapse
esSpanish
Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen
fiFinnish
Romahdus: Miten yhteiskunnat päättävät tuhoutua tai menestyä
frFrench
Effondrement (essai)
heHebrew
התמוטטות (ספר)
huHungarian
Összeomlás – Tanulságok a társadalmak továbbéléséhez
itItalian
Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere
jaJapanese
文明崩壊 (書籍)
koKorean
문명의 붕괴: 과거의 위대했던 문명은 왜 몰락했는가
plPolish
Upadek (książka)
ruRussian
Коллапс (книга)
svSwedish
Undergång: Civilisationernas uppgång eller fall
ukUkrainian
Колапс (книга)
zhChinese
大崩壞

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#59167
12.2008
Global:
#86073
01.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#9511
08.2016
Global:
#9483
08.2016

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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