Lender of last resort

Lender of last resort - lender (provider of liquidity), that supplies liquidity to a financial institution or to the financial market in general when it is lacking. Article “Lender of last resort” in English Wikipedia has 76.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 89 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.02 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Lender of last resort”, its content was written by 92 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 264 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 274 times in English Wikipedia and cited 485 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #28230 in August 2004
• Global: #72938 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #43768 in October 2008
• Global: #68055 in October 2008

There are 16 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) Lender of last resort		76.3808
2	German (de) Kreditgeber letzter Instanz		31.5118
3	Turkish (tr) Son kredi mercii		23.3398
4	Arabic (ar) مقرض الملاذ الأخير		20.3053
5	Swedish (sv) Långivare i sista hand		20.1766
6	Russian (ru) Кредитор последней инстанции		18.9613
7	French (fr) Prêteur en dernier ressort		15.568
8	Hebrew (he) מלווה של מוצא אחרון		15.1398
9	Italian (it) Prestatore di ultima istanza		12.7966
10	Polish (pl) Pożyczkodawca ostatniej instancji		9.9435

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lender of last resort" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lender of last resort		866 182
2	German (de) Kreditgeber letzter Instanz		125 743
3	Japanese (ja) 最後の貸し手		83 089
4	Italian (it) Prestatore di ultima istanza		67 135
5	Spanish (es) Prestamista de última instancia		66 870
6	French (fr) Prêteur en dernier ressort		66 560
7	Russian (ru) Кредитор последней инстанции		48 147
8	Chinese (zh) 最后贷款人		18 734
9	Polish (pl) Pożyczkodawca ostatniej instancji		15 490
10	Hebrew (he) מלווה של מוצא אחרון		8 744

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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 "Lender of last resort" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lender of last resort		2 478
2	Japanese (ja) 最後の貸し手		246
3	Chinese (zh) 最后贷款人		123
4	Italian (it) Prestatore di ultima istanza		97
5	German (de) Kreditgeber letzter Instanz		94
6	Russian (ru) Кредитор последней инстанции		75
7	Polish (pl) Pożyczkodawca ostatniej instancji		63
8	Hebrew (he) מלווה של מוצא אחרון		38
9	Spanish (es) Prestamista de última instancia		37
10	French (fr) Prêteur en dernier ressort		37

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lender of last resort		92
2	German (de) Kreditgeber letzter Instanz		39
3	Italian (it) Prestatore di ultima istanza		22
4	French (fr) Prêteur en dernier ressort		19
5	Norwegian (no) Långiver i siste instans		17
6	Russian (ru) Кредитор последней инстанции		13
7	Hebrew (he) מלווה של מוצא אחרון		12
8	Chinese (zh) 最后贷款人		12
9	Japanese (ja) 最後の貸し手		10
10	Greek (el) Δανειστής έσχατης προσφυγής		9

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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 "Lender of last resort" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 最後の貸し手		1
2	Arabic (ar) مقرض الملاذ الأخير		0
3	German (de) Kreditgeber letzter Instanz		0
4	Greek (el) Δανειστής έσχατης προσφυγής		0
5	English (en) Lender of last resort		0
6	Spanish (es) Prestamista de última instancia		0
7	Persian (fa) آخرین مرجع وام		0
8	French (fr) Prêteur en dernier ressort		0
9	Hebrew (he) מלווה של מוצא אחרון		0
10	Italian (it) Prestatore di ultima istanza		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 "Lender of last resort" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lender of last resort		274
2	German (de) Kreditgeber letzter Instanz		38
3	Spanish (es) Prestamista de última instancia		25
4	Japanese (ja) 最後の貸し手		23
5	Chinese (zh) 最后贷款人		18
6	French (fr) Prêteur en dernier ressort		17
7	Arabic (ar) مقرض الملاذ الأخير		16
8	Russian (ru) Кредитор последней инстанции		16
9	Italian (it) Prestatore di ultima istanza		15
10	Greek (el) Δανειστής έσχατης προσφυγής		9

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مقرض الملاذ الأخير
de	German Kreditgeber letzter Instanz
el	Greek Δανειστής έσχατης προσφυγής
en	English Lender of last resort
es	Spanish Prestamista de última instancia
fa	Persian آخرین مرجع وام
fr	French Prêteur en dernier ressort
he	Hebrew מלווה של מוצא אחרון
it	Italian Prestatore di ultima istanza
ja	Japanese 最後の貸し手
no	Norwegian Långiver i siste instans
pl	Polish Pożyczkodawca ostatniej instancji
ru	Russian Кредитор последней инстанции
sv	Swedish Långivare i sista hand
tr	Turkish Son kredi mercii
zh	Chinese 最后贷款人

Best Rank

English: #43768 10.2008

Global: #68055 10.2008

Best Rank

English: #28230 08.2004

Global: #72938 08.2004

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