Human capital flight

Quality:

Human capital flight - emigration of highly skilled or well-educated individuals. Article “Human capital flight” in English Wikipedia has 76.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 319 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.46 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Human capital flight” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Human capital flight”, its content was written by 575 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1615 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 749 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1984 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2219 in December 2013
• Global: #5376 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2649 in December 2013
• Global: #6133 in December 2013

There are 40 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	Portuguese (pt) Fuga de cérebros		81.1818
2	English (en) Human capital flight		76.1177
3	Slovenian (sl) Beg možganov		52.6365
4	Spanish (es) Fuga de cerebros		51.5098
5	Slovak (sk) Odliv mozgov		43.9724
6	Russian (ru) Утечка мозгов		41.8461
7	German (de) Talentabwanderung		41.3815
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chảy máu chất xám		40.2183
9	Estonian (et) Ajude äravool		37.3488
10	Hebrew (he) בריחת מוחות		34.126

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Human capital flight		4 870 287
2	Spanish (es) Fuga de cerebros		1 074 098
3	French (fr) Fuite des cerveaux		524 440
4	German (de) Talentabwanderung		507 706
5	Russian (ru) Утечка мозгов		505 450
6	Turkish (tr) Beyin göçü		411 606
7	Italian (it) Fuga di cervelli		330 261
8	Polish (pl) Drenaż mózgów		284 515
9	Portuguese (pt) Fuga de cérebros		277 614
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chảy máu chất xám		270 227

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) Human capital flight		11 725
2	Russian (ru) Утечка мозгов		1 459
3	Spanish (es) Fuga de cerebros		947
4	French (fr) Fuite des cerveaux		848
5	German (de) Talentabwanderung		724
6	Italian (it) Fuga di cervelli		514
7	Polish (pl) Drenaż mózgów		508
8	Japanese (ja) 頭脳流出		455
9	Vietnamese (vi) Chảy máu chất xám		446
10	Turkish (tr) Beyin göçü		365

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Human capital flight		575
2	German (de) Talentabwanderung		127
3	Italian (it) Fuga di cervelli		104
4	Spanish (es) Fuga de cerebros		100
5	French (fr) Fuite des cerveaux		85
6	Russian (ru) Утечка мозгов		73
7	Hebrew (he) בריחת מוחות		62
8	Turkish (tr) Beyin göçü		62
9	Persian (fa) فرار مغزها		53
10	Portuguese (pt) Fuga de cérebros		42

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) Human capital flight		5
2	Italian (it) Fuga di cervelli		1
3	Arabic (ar) هجرة الأدمغة		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Beyin aхını		0
5	Belarusian (be) Уцечка мазгоў		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Изтичане на мозъци		0
7	Catalan (ca) Fugida de cervells		0
8	Czech (cs) Odliv mozků		0
9	Danish (da) Hjerneflugt		0
10	German (de) Talentabwanderung		0

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

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