Hunger (physiology)

Hunger - sensation experienced when one feels the physiological need to eat food. Article “Hunger (physiology)” in English Wikipedia has 51 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 42 references and 15 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Hunger (physiology)”, its content was written by 163 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 725 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 218 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1254 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16467 in April 2024
• Global: #9701 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #92430 in November 2016
• Global: #39148 in April 2013

There are 14 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	German (de) Hunger		60.3999
2	English (en) Hunger (physiology)		51.0395
3	Tamil (ta) பசி		46.8227
4	Hindi (hi) भूख (शरीर क्रिया विज्ञान)		41.8536
5	Serbian (sr) Глад (физиологија)		34.142
6	Spanish (es) Hambre		31.3404
7	Finnish (fi) Nälkä		22.5387
8	Russian (ru) Голод (физиология)		22.2896
9	Persian (fa) گرسنگی (فیزیولوژی)		20.7079
10	Catalan (ca) Ganes de menjar		12.6571

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Hunger (physiology)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Hambre		1 889 186
2	English (en) Hunger (physiology)		1 449 923
3	German (de) Hunger		1 277 021
4	Russian (ru) Голод (физиология)		355 310
5	Finnish (fi) Nälkä		139 735
6	Swedish (sv) Hunger		65 937
7	Arabic (ar) الجوع (حالة تحفيزية)		46 715
8	Thai (th) ความหิว		25 917
9	Tamil (ta) பசி		18 600
10	Armenian (hy) Քաղց		6 155

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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 "Hunger (physiology)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hunger (physiology)		5 516
2	Russian (ru) Голод (физиология)		1 581
3	German (de) Hunger		1 220
4	Spanish (es) Hambre		1 028
5	Finnish (fi) Nälkä		236
6	Arabic (ar) الجوع (حالة تحفيزية)		112
7	Tamil (ta) பசி		97
8	Swedish (sv) Hunger		49
9	Persian (fa) گرسنگی (فیزیولوژی)		34
10	Thai (th) ความหิว		26

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Hunger		280
2	English (en) Hunger (physiology)		163
3	Spanish (es) Hambre		146
4	Finnish (fi) Nälkä		45
5	Swedish (sv) Hunger		27
6	Russian (ru) Голод (физиология)		22
7	Thai (th) ความหิว		11
8	Catalan (ca) Ganes de menjar		10
9	Tamil (ta) பசி		8
10	Persian (fa) گرسنگی (فیزیولوژی)		3

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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 "Hunger (physiology)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hindi (hi) भूख (शरीर क्रिया विज्ञान)		2
2	Arabic (ar) الجوع (حالة تحفيزية)		0
3	Catalan (ca) Ganes de menjar		0
4	German (de) Hunger		0
5	English (en) Hunger (physiology)		0
6	Spanish (es) Hambre		0
7	Persian (fa) گرسنگی (فیزیولوژی)		0
8	Finnish (fi) Nälkä		0
9	Armenian (hy) Քաղց		0
10	Russian (ru) Голод (физиология)		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 "Hunger (physiology)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Hunger		366
2	Spanish (es) Hambre		278
3	English (en) Hunger (physiology)		218
4	Russian (ru) Голод (физиология)		101
5	Armenian (hy) Քաղց		89
6	Swedish (sv) Hunger		50
7	Arabic (ar) الجوع (حالة تحفيزية)		40
8	Finnish (fi) Nälkä		33
9	Tamil (ta) பசி		33
10	Persian (fa) گرسنگی (فیزیولوژی)		18

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الجوع (حالة تحفيزية)
ca	Catalan Ganes de menjar
de	German Hunger
en	English Hunger (physiology)
es	Spanish Hambre
fa	Persian گرسنگی (فیزیولوژی)
fi	Finnish Nälkä
hi	Hindi भूख (शरीर क्रिया विज्ञान)
hy	Armenian Քաղց
ru	Russian Голод (физиология)
sr	Serbian Глад (физиологија)
sv	Swedish Hunger
ta	Tamil பசி
th	Thai ความหิว

Best Rank

English: #92430 11.2016

Global: #39148 04.2013

Best Rank

English: #16467 04.2024

Global: #9701 07.2003

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