Expected value

Quality:

Expectation - long-run average value of a random variable. Article “Expected value” in English Wikipedia has 70.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 51 references and 19 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8058^th most popular in all topics.

In June 2026 the article “Expected value” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Expected value”, its content was written by 404 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1607 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1214 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7004 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #319 in August 2001
• Global: #360 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2589 in February 2015
• Global: #3539 in February 2015

There are 46 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) Expected value		70.2825
2	German (de) Erwartungswert		48.3225
3	Finnish (fi) Odotusarvo		44.5996
4	French (fr) Espérance mathématique		44.4112
5	Catalan (ca) Esperança matemàtica		42.8824
6	Ukrainian (uk) Математичне сподівання		38.0915
7	Serbian (sr) Очекивана вредност		28.5493
8	Spanish (es) Esperanza (matemática)		25.261
9	Indonesian (id) Nilai harapan		25.2448
10	Hindi (hi) प्रत्याशा मान		24.9141

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Expected value		12 396 415
2	Russian (ru) Математическое ожидание		3 618 870
3	German (de) Erwartungswert		3 226 827
4	French (fr) Espérance mathématique		2 420 117
5	Spanish (es) Esperanza (matemática)		2 289 625
6	Chinese (zh) 期望值		1 484 320
7	Japanese (ja) 期待値		1 255 991
8	Italian (it) Valore atteso		991 842
9	Polish (pl) Wartość oczekiwana		897 875
10	Hebrew (he) תוחלת		621 860

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) Expected value		19 924
2	French (fr) Espérance mathématique		4 825
3	Russian (ru) Математическое ожидание		4 239
4	German (de) Erwartungswert		3 981
5	Chinese (zh) 期望值		1 663
6	Spanish (es) Esperanza (matemática)		1 257
7	Polish (pl) Wartość oczekiwana		1 094
8	Japanese (ja) 期待値		985
9	Italian (it) Valore atteso		973
10	Hebrew (he) תוחלת		872

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Expected value		404
2	German (de) Erwartungswert		181
3	French (fr) Espérance mathématique		138
4	Italian (it) Valore atteso		84
5	Russian (ru) Математическое ожидание		78
6	Hebrew (he) תוחלת		67
7	Spanish (es) Esperanza (matemática)		59
8	Chinese (zh) 期望值		54
9	Dutch (nl) Verwachting (wiskunde)		50
10	Japanese (ja) 期待値		40

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	Vietnamese (vi) Giá trị kỳ vọng		2
2	Arabic (ar) قيمة متوقعة		1
3	English (en) Expected value		1
4	Hebrew (he) תוחלת		1
5	Polish (pl) Wartość oczekiwana		1
6	Russian (ru) Математическое ожидание		1
7	Belarusian (be) Матэматычнае спадзяванне		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Математическо очакване		0
9	Catalan (ca) Esperança matemàtica		0
10	Czech (cs) Střední hodnota		0

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

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