Fiscal illusion

Fiscal illusion - a failure to accurately perceive the amount of government expenditure when government revenues are not completely transparent or are not fully perceived by taxpayers. Article “Fiscal illusion” in English Wikipedia has 19 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 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.

In June 2025 the article “Fiscal illusion” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Fiscal illusion”, its content was written by 28 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 70 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 362 times in English Wikipedia and cited 464 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #128228 in February 2017
• Global: #311695 in June 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #633580 in August 2011
• Global: #966852 in June 2012

There are 8 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	English (en) Fiscal illusion		19.0326
2	Russian (ru) Фискальная иллюзия		17.6778
3	Turkish (tr) Mali aldanma		17.206
4	Portuguese (pt) Ilusão fiscal		15.4706
5	Japanese (ja) 財政錯覚		13.0725
6	Spanish (es) Teoría de la ilusión financiera		2.943
7	Italian (it) Illusione finanziaria		2.4276
8	Polish (pl) Iluzja podatkowa		0.1595

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Fiscal illusion" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fiscal illusion		87 111
2	Italian (it) Illusione finanziaria		22 892
3	Turkish (tr) Mali aldanma		6 350
4	Polish (pl) Iluzja podatkowa		4 808
5	Spanish (es) Teoría de la ilusión financiera		3 891
6	Portuguese (pt) Ilusão fiscal		3 684
7	Russian (ru) Фискальная иллюзия		1 925
8	Japanese (ja) 財政錯覚		1 260

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Fiscal illusion" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fiscal illusion		755
2	Turkish (tr) Mali aldanma		63
3	Japanese (ja) 財政錯覚		55
4	Italian (it) Illusione finanziaria		27
5	Portuguese (pt) Ilusão fiscal		20
6	Russian (ru) Фискальная иллюзия		20
7	Spanish (es) Teoría de la ilusión financiera		17
8	Polish (pl) Iluzja podatkowa		16

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

Language versions of the article "Fiscal illusion" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fiscal illusion		28
2	Italian (it) Illusione finanziaria		24
3	Spanish (es) Teoría de la ilusión financiera		5
4	Japanese (ja) 財政錯覚		4
5	Polish (pl) Iluzja podatkowa		3
6	Portuguese (pt) Ilusão fiscal		2
7	Russian (ru) Фискальная иллюзия		2
8	Turkish (tr) Mali aldanma		2

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

Language versions of the article "Fiscal illusion" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fiscal illusion		1
2	Spanish (es) Teoría de la ilusión financiera		0
3	Italian (it) Illusione finanziaria		0
4	Japanese (ja) 財政錯覚		0
5	Polish (pl) Iluzja podatkowa		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Ilusão fiscal		0
7	Russian (ru) Фискальная иллюзия		0
8	Turkish (tr) Mali aldanma		0

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

Language versions of the article "Fiscal illusion" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fiscal illusion		362
2	Portuguese (pt) Ilusão fiscal		91
3	Spanish (es) Teoría de la ilusión financiera		3
4	Italian (it) Illusione finanziaria		3
5	Japanese (ja) 財政錯覚		3
6	Russian (ru) Фискальная иллюзия		1
7	Turkish (tr) Mali aldanma		1
8	Polish (pl) Iluzja podatkowa		0

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#	Language	Value
en	English Fiscal illusion
es	Spanish Teoría de la ilusión financiera
it	Italian Illusione finanziaria
ja	Japanese 財政錯覚
pl	Polish Iluzja podatkowa
pt	Portuguese Ilusão fiscal
ru	Russian Фискальная иллюзия
tr	Turkish Mali aldanma

Best Rank

English: #633580 08.2011

Global: #966852 06.2012

Best Rank

English: #128228 02.2017

Global: #311695 06.2009

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