Economic inequality

Quality:

Income inequality - distribution of income or wealth between different groups. Article “Economic inequality” in English Wikipedia has 93.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 249 references and 40 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Economic inequality”, its content was written by 723 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1534 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1819 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6588 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2925 in November 2018
• Global: #5406 in November 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7339 in December 2014
• Global: #13815 in November 2014

There are 36 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	Portuguese (pt) Desigualdade econômica		94.8619
2	English (en) Economic inequality		93.5544
3	Korean (ko) 경제적 불평등		90.0222
4	Turkish (tr) Ekonomik eşitsizlik		83.5164
5	Persian (fa) نابرابری اقتصادی		83.1162
6	Finnish (fi) Taloudellinen epätasa-arvo		81.5799
7	Polish (pl) Nierówności społeczne		71.9236
8	Russian (ru) Экономическое неравенство		69.8799
9	Ukrainian (uk) Економічна нерівність		69.6615
10	Japanese (ja) 経済的不平等		61.2654

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Economic inequality		5 444 197
2	Portuguese (pt) Desigualdade econômica		1 215 170
3	Spanish (es) Desigualdad de ingreso		1 004 176
4	Chinese (zh) 貧富差距		500 550
5	Japanese (ja) 経済的不平等		397 589
6	French (fr) Inégalités de revenu		363 954
7	Italian (it) Disuguaglianza economica		299 002
8	Korean (ko) 경제적 불평등		252 559
9	Polish (pl) Nierówności społeczne		251 955
10	Russian (ru) Экономическое неравенство		198 558

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) Economic inequality		5 852
2	Chinese (zh) 貧富差距		865
3	Spanish (es) Desigualdad de ingreso		781
4	Portuguese (pt) Desigualdade econômica		621
5	Russian (ru) Экономическое неравенство		577
6	Japanese (ja) 経済的不平等		544
7	French (fr) Inégalités de revenu		358
8	Korean (ko) 경제적 불평등		317
9	Polish (pl) Nierówności społeczne		253
10	Italian (it) Disuguaglianza economica		232

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Economic inequality		723
2	French (fr) Inégalités de revenu		122
3	Portuguese (pt) Desigualdade econômica		106
4	Spanish (es) Desigualdad de ingreso		62
5	Italian (it) Disuguaglianza economica		61
6	Finnish (fi) Taloudellinen epätasa-arvo		58
7	Hebrew (he) אי-שוויון כלכלי		49
8	Japanese (ja) 経済的不平等		47
9	Chinese (zh) 貧富差距		33
10	Czech (cs) Ekonomická nerovnost		30

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	Catalan (ca) Desigualtat econòmica		1
2	French (fr) Inégalités de revenu		1
3	Indonesian (id) Kesenjangan ekonomi		1
4	Italian (it) Disuguaglianza economica		1
5	Korean (ko) 경제적 불평등		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Економічна нерівність		1
7	Arabic (ar) تفاوت (اقتصاد)		0
8	Czech (cs) Ekonomická nerovnost		0
9	Danish (da) Økonomisk ulighed		0
10	Greek (el) Οικονομική ανισότητα		0

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

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