Economic sanctions

Quality:

Economic sanction - financial penalty applied by nations to persons, nations or companies to affect political change. Article “Economic sanctions” in English Wikipedia has 81.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 169 references and 25 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Economic sanctions”, its content was written by 459 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 786 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1362 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3556 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1725 in September 2003
• Global: #5099 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5470 in February 2022
• Global: #6734 in February 2022

There are 26 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	Malay (ms) Sekatan ekonomi		84
2	Ukrainian (uk) Економічні санкції		82.0606
3	English (en) Economic sanctions		81.8078
4	Armenian (hy) Տնտեսական պատժամիջոցներ		73.3218
5	Turkish (tr) Ekonomik yaptırımlar		50.8568
6	German (de) Wirtschaftssanktionen		47.3317
7	Japanese (ja) 経済制裁		39.4593
8	Italian (it) Sanzioni economiche		34.1872
9	Dutch (nl) Economische sanctie		33.4374
10	Persian (fa) تحریم اقتصادی		32.5393

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Economic sanctions		5 178 601
2	Japanese (ja) 経済制裁		388 183
3	Russian (ru) Экономические санкции		379 302
4	Chinese (zh) 經濟制裁		232 923
5	Persian (fa) تحریم اقتصادی		178 892
6	German (de) Wirtschaftssanktionen		157 204
7	Polish (pl) Sankcje gospodarcze		149 286
8	Italian (it) Sanzioni economiche		59 926
9	Arabic (ar) عقوبات اقتصادية		58 135
10	Spanish (es) Sanción económica		33 445

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 sanctions		11 033
2	Russian (ru) Экономические санкции		1 021
3	Japanese (ja) 経済制裁		878
4	Persian (fa) تحریم اقتصادی		630
5	Chinese (zh) 經濟制裁		609
6	Arabic (ar) عقوبات اقتصادية		411
7	Italian (it) Sanzioni economiche		281
8	French (fr) Sanction économique		214
9	Turkish (tr) Ekonomik yaptırımlar		201
10	Polish (pl) Sankcje gospodarcze		167

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Economic sanctions		459
2	Japanese (ja) 経済制裁		66
3	German (de) Wirtschaftssanktionen		60
4	Chinese (zh) 經濟制裁		32
5	Persian (fa) تحریم اقتصادی		26
6	Italian (it) Sanzioni economiche		26
7	Russian (ru) Экономические санкции		24
8	Polish (pl) Sankcje gospodarcze		15
9	Arabic (ar) عقوبات اقتصادية		10
10	Dutch (nl) Economische sanctie		9

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	Indonesian (id) Sanksi ekonomi		1
2	Japanese (ja) 経済制裁		1
3	Dutch (nl) Economische sanctie		1
4	Arabic (ar) عقوبات اقتصادية		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) İqtisadi sanksiyalar		0
6	Catalan (ca) Sanció econòmica		0
7	German (de) Wirtschaftssanktionen		0
8	Greek (el) Οικονομικές κυρώσεις		0
9	English (en) Economic sanctions		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Ekonomia sankcio		0

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

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