Contract for difference

Contract for difference - contract stipulating that the seller will pay to the buyer the difference between the current value of an asset and its value at contract time. Article “Contract for difference” in English Wikipedia has 52.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 59 references and 24 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.82 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.

In June 2025 the article “Contract for difference” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Contract for difference”, its content was written by 246 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 831 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 283 times in English Wikipedia and cited 912 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12885 in July 2022
• Global: #10976 in June 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #40230 in January 2015
• Global: #27408 in March 2020

There are 30 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	English (en) Contract for difference		52.381
2	Armenian (hy) Տարբերության պայմանագիր		46.988
3	German (de) Differenzkontrakt		44.5552
4	Spanish (es) Contrato por diferencia		38.292
5	French (fr) Contrat de différence		35.7363
6	Italian (it) Contratto per differenza		32.9046
7	Dutch (nl) Contract for difference		31.0803
8	Slovak (sk) Kontrakt na rozdiel		29.793
9	Romanian (ro) Contractul de diferență		26.5936
10	Bulgarian (bg) Договор за разлика		25.0944

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Contract for difference" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contract for difference		3 050 188
2	German (de) Differenzkontrakt		1 126 557
3	Spanish (es) Contrato por diferencia		506 100
4	Japanese (ja) 差金決済取引		476 204
5	Italian (it) Contratto per differenza		443 523
6	Russian (ru) Контракт на разницу цен		418 808
7	French (fr) Contrat de différence		325 892
8	Polish (pl) Kontrakt różnicy kursowej		182 663
9	Chinese (zh) 差價合約		172 525
10	Dutch (nl) Contract for difference		123 884

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Contract for difference" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contract for difference		5 291
2	German (de) Differenzkontrakt		1 385
3	French (fr) Contrat de différence		1 017
4	Chinese (zh) 差價合約		864
5	Japanese (ja) 差金決済取引		853
6	Spanish (es) Contrato por diferencia		732
7	Polish (pl) Kontrakt różnicy kursowej		680
8	Russian (ru) Контракт на разницу цен		632
9	Italian (it) Contratto per differenza		588
10	Czech (cs) Contract for difference		425

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

Language versions of the article "Contract for difference" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contract for difference		246
2	German (de) Differenzkontrakt		127
3	Italian (it) Contratto per differenza		65
4	French (fr) Contrat de différence		59
5	Spanish (es) Contrato por diferencia		53
6	Japanese (ja) 差金決済取引		33
7	Polish (pl) Kontrakt różnicy kursowej		31
8	Russian (ru) Контракт на разницу цен		31
9	Danish (da) Differencekontrakt		25
10	Dutch (nl) Contract for difference		22

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

Language versions of the article "Contract for difference" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contract for difference		2
2	Armenian (hy) Տարբերության պայմանագիր		2
3	French (fr) Contrat de différence		1
4	Turkish (tr) Fark kontratları		1
5	Chinese (zh) 差價合約		1
6	Arabic (ar) عقد الفرق		0
7	Belarusian (be) Кантракт на розніцу цэн		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Договор за разлика		0
9	Catalan (ca) Contracte per diferències		0
10	Czech (cs) Contract for difference		0

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

Language versions of the article "Contract for difference" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Contract for difference		283
2	Hebrew (he) חוזה הפרשים		135
3	Japanese (ja) 差金決済取引		121
4	French (fr) Contrat de différence		77
5	Polish (pl) Kontrakt różnicy kursowej		58
6	Ukrainian (uk) Контракт на різницю цін		50
7	German (de) Differenzkontrakt		27
8	Dutch (nl) Contract for difference		24
9	Spanish (es) Contrato por diferencia		21
10	Chinese (zh) 差價合約		16

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عقد الفرق
be	Belarusian Кантракт на розніцу цэн
bg	Bulgarian Договор за разлика
ca	Catalan Contracte per diferències
cs	Czech Contract for difference
da	Danish Differencekontrakt
de	German Differenzkontrakt
en	English Contract for difference
es	Spanish Contrato por diferencia
fa	Persian قرارداد ما به التفاوت
fr	French Contrat de différence
he	Hebrew חוזה הפרשים
hy	Armenian Տարբերության պայմանագիր
id	Indonesian Kontrak untuk perbedaan
it	Italian Contratto per differenza
ja	Japanese 差金決済取引
lt	Lithuanian Sandoris dėl kainų skirtumo
nl	Dutch Contract for difference
no	Norwegian Differansekontrakt
pl	Polish Kontrakt różnicy kursowej
pt	Portuguese Contrato por diferença
ro	Romanian Contractul de diferență
ru	Russian Контракт на разницу цен
sk	Slovak Kontrakt na rozdiel
sv	Swedish Contract for difference
tr	Turkish Fark kontratları
uk	Ukrainian Контракт на різницю цін
uz	Uzbek Narxlar orasidagi farq boʻyicha kontrakt
vi	Vietnamese CFD
zh	Chinese 差價合約

Best Rank

English: #40230 01.2015

Global: #27408 03.2020

Best Rank

English: #12885 07.2022

Global: #10976 06.2010

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