Kim Il Sung

Quality:

Kim Il-sung - founder and first supreme leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994. This person is the 1039^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Kim Il Sung” in English Wikipedia has 94.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 204 references and 21 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5195^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1619^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3376^th most popular in all topics.

The 1102^nd most popular in AI.

The 1039^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3554^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 1461^st most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2110^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 688^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Kim Il Sung” was edited by 22 authors in English Wikipedia (1461^st place) and written by 74 authors in all languages (688^th place).

Since the creation of article “Kim Il Sung”, its content was written by 1661 registered users of English Wikipedia (1619^th place) and edited by 6169 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1102^nd place).

Kim Il-sung is on the 1039^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1971 times in English Wikipedia and cited 15770 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #194 in December 2011
• Global: #60 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #129 in December 2011
• Global: #74 in December 2011

There are 54 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	Thai (th) คิม อิล-ซ็อง		98.0952
2	English (en) Kim Il Sung		94.6311
3	Korean (ko) 김일성		91.2314
4	Norwegian (no) Kim Il-sung		86.0388
5	Chinese (zh) 金日成		82.1876
6	Indonesian (id) Kim Il Sung		80.8216
7	Catalan (ca) Kim Il-sung		74.5578
8	Japanese (ja) 金日成		71.5453
9	French (fr) Kim Il-sung		70.1538
10	Vietnamese (vi) Kim Nhật Thành		66.6571

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kim Il Sung		19 883 037
2	Japanese (ja) 金日成		5 251 658
3	Russian (ru) Ким Ир Сен		4 233 904
4	Chinese (zh) 金日成		2 680 213
5	Spanish (es) Kim Il-sung		2 554 369
6	German (de) Kim Il-sung		2 427 545
7	Polish (pl) Kim Ir Sen		1 669 741
8	French (fr) Kim Il-sung		1 484 251
9	Italian (it) Kim Il-sung		1 395 342
10	Korean (ko) 김일성		1 227 397

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) Kim Il Sung		127 955
2	Russian (ru) Ким Ир Сен		27 056
3	Japanese (ja) 金日成		19 135
4	Chinese (zh) 金日成		16 335
5	Spanish (es) Kim Il-sung		15 863
6	German (de) Kim Il-sung		9 825
7	Arabic (ar) كيم إل سونغ		9 104
8	Persian (fa) کیم ایل سونگ		8 348
9	French (fr) Kim Il-sung		7 120
10	Italian (it) Kim Il-sung		6 209

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kim Il Sung		1 661
2	Korean (ko) 김일성		424
3	Japanese (ja) 金日成		373
4	Chinese (zh) 金日成		309
5	Russian (ru) Ким Ир Сен		286
6	German (de) Kim Il-sung		270
7	French (fr) Kim Il-sung		248
8	Spanish (es) Kim Il-sung		222
9	Italian (it) Kim Il-sung		217
10	Polish (pl) Kim Ir Sen		171

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) Kim Il Sung		22
2	Chinese (zh) 金日成		7
3	Korean (ko) 김일성		6
4	Spanish (es) Kim Il-sung		5
5	Japanese (ja) 金日成		5
6	French (fr) Kim Il-sung		4
7	Thai (th) คิม อิล-ซ็อง		4
8	Turkish (tr) Kim İl-sung		4
9	Catalan (ca) Kim Il-sung		2
10	German (de) Kim Il-sung		2

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information