Demography of Japan

Quality:

Demographics of Japan - demographics of country. Article “Demographics of Japan” in English Wikipedia has 84.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 168 references and 33 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.46 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 2026 the article “Demographics of Japan” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Demographics of Japan”, its content was written by 671 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1545 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 336 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4238 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #245 in February 2001
• Global: #245 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1586 in January 2017
• Global: #1887 in March 2011

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, 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) Demographics of Japan		84.6651
2	Ukrainian (uk) Населення Японії		78.3651
3	Italian (it) Demografia del Giappone		73.784
4	Japanese (ja) 日本の人口統計		67.1886
5	Chinese (zh) 日本人口		63.2292
6	Russian (ru) Население Японии		58.1365
7	French (fr) Démographie du Japon		55.5341
8	Spanish (es) Demografía de Japón		46.4171
9	German (de) Demografie Japans		46.1154
10	Hungarian (hu) Japán demográfiája		41.4667

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Demographics of Japan		8 450 997
2	Japanese (ja) 日本の人口統計		5 876 307
3	Russian (ru) Население Японии		1 955 733
4	Spanish (es) Demografía de Japón		1 162 514
5	French (fr) Démographie du Japon		1 045 070
6	Chinese (zh) 日本人口		997 175
7	Portuguese (pt) Demografia do Japão		400 627
8	German (de) Demografie Japans		368 923
9	Ukrainian (uk) Населення Японії		333 897
10	Arabic (ar) سكان اليابان		227 682

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) Demographics of Japan		41 868
2	Japanese (ja) 日本の人口統計		8 466
3	Russian (ru) Население Японии		5 897
4	Chinese (zh) 日本人口		3 516
5	French (fr) Démographie du Japon		3 332
6	German (de) Demografie Japans		1 024
7	Spanish (es) Demografía de Japón		977
8	Korean (ko) 일본의 인구		556
9	Italian (it) Demografia del Giappone		440
10	Portuguese (pt) Demografia do Japão		281

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Demographics of Japan		671
2	French (fr) Démographie du Japon		154
3	German (de) Demografie Japans		116
4	Japanese (ja) 日本の人口統計		111
5	Spanish (es) Demografía de Japón		110
6	Russian (ru) Население Японии		103
7	Chinese (zh) 日本人口		57
8	Italian (it) Demografia del Giappone		40
9	Portuguese (pt) Demografia do Japão		30
10	Ukrainian (uk) Населення Японії		19

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) Demographics of Japan		7
2	Hebrew (he) דמוגרפיה של יפן		1
3	Russian (ru) Население Японии		1
4	Chinese (zh) 日本人口		1
5	Arabic (ar) سكان اليابان		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Yaponiya əhalisi		0
7	Belarusian (be) Насельніцтва Японіі		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Население на Япония		0
9	German (de) Demografie Japans		0
10	Spanish (es) Demografía de Japón		0

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

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