Developing country

Quality:

Developing country - nation with a low living standard relative to other countries. Article “Developing country” in English Wikipedia has 90.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 236 references and 43 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.76 points.

This article has the best quality in Thai Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7797^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 6587^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4775^th most popular in all topics.

The 5334^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Developing country” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Developing country”, its content was written by 1019 registered users of English Wikipedia (6587^th place) and edited by 3486 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5334^th place).

The article is cited 3330 times in English Wikipedia (9266^th place) and cited 20296 times in all languages (8494^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #812 in May 2018
• Global: #1099 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1178 in April 2012
• Global: #2070 in April 2012

There are 51 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	Thai (th) ประเทศกำลังพัฒนา		100
2	Romanian (ro) Țară în curs de dezvoltare		94.4473
3	English (en) Developing country		90.4101
4	Armenian (hy) Զարգացող երկրներ		73.7898
5	Hindi (hi) विकासशील देश		71.1882
6	Chinese (zh) 发展中国家		67.0111
7	German (de) Entwicklungsland		51.1604
8	Finnish (fi) Kehitysmaa		49.589
9	Portuguese (pt) País em desenvolvimento		49.5082
10	Indonesian (id) Negara berkembang		47.9394

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Developing country		16 845 301
2	German (de) Entwicklungsland		3 191 087
3	Spanish (es) País en vías de desarrollo		3 042 742
4	Russian (ru) Развивающиеся страны		2 430 305
5	Japanese (ja) 開発途上国		2 158 058
6	French (fr) Pays en développement		2 001 132
7	Portuguese (pt) País em desenvolvimento		1 904 308
8	Indonesian (id) Negara berkembang		1 866 628
9	Chinese (zh) 发展中国家		1 124 617
10	Vietnamese (vi) Nước đang phát triển		1 053 879

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) Developing country		30 494
2	Japanese (ja) 開発途上国		3 371
3	Chinese (zh) 发展中国家		3 083
4	Russian (ru) Развивающиеся страны		2 825
5	Spanish (es) País en vías de desarrollo		1 627
6	German (de) Entwicklungsland		1 617
7	Persian (fa) کشورهای در حال توسعه		1 368
8	French (fr) Pays en développement		1 332
9	Portuguese (pt) País em desenvolvimento		1 209
10	Vietnamese (vi) Nước đang phát triển		847

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Developing country		1 019
2	German (de) Entwicklungsland		368
3	Russian (ru) Развивающиеся страны		226
4	French (fr) Pays en développement		176
5	Dutch (nl) Ontwikkelingsland		156
6	Chinese (zh) 发展中国家		120
7	Spanish (es) País en vías de desarrollo		111
8	Japanese (ja) 開発途上国		94
9	Portuguese (pt) País em desenvolvimento		93
10	Arabic (ar) دولة نامية		84

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) Developing country		2
2	Armenian (hy) Զարգացող երկրներ		2
3	Arabic (ar) دولة نامية		1
4	Czech (cs) Rozvojová země		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Fejlődő ország		1
6	Japanese (ja) 開発途上国		1
7	Romanian (ro) Țară în curs de dezvoltare		1
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Zemlja u razvoju		1
9	Turkish (tr) Gelişmekte olan ülke		1
10	Urdu (ur) ترقی پذیر ملک		1

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

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