Life imprisonment

Quality:

Life imprisonment - imprisonment intended to last for life. Article “Life imprisonment” in English Wikipedia has 68.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 145 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.62 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6008^th most popular in all topics.

The 7436^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Life imprisonment” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Life imprisonment”, its content was written by 830 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2971 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7436^th place).

The article is cited 5390 times in English Wikipedia (4420^th place) and cited 21442 times in all languages (8034^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2109 in February 2009
• Global: #1695 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4011 in October 2022
• Global: #1911 in July 2018

There are 44 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, 2026 (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	Slovak (sk) Doživotný trest odňatia slobody		70.465
2	English (en) Life imprisonment		68.8378
3	German (de) Lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe		61.557
4	Hebrew (he) מאסר עולם		60.8983
5	French (fr) Emprisonnement à perpétuité		53.0412
6	Russian (ru) Пожизненное лишение свободы		52.9188
7	Dutch (nl) Levenslange gevangenisstraf		51.5336
8	Spanish (es) Cadena perpetua		45.0517
9	Italian (it) Ergastolo		41.3153
10	Greek (el) Ισόβια κάθειρξη		36.6018

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Life imprisonment		12 303 374
2	German (de) Lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe		4 846 722
3	Spanish (es) Cadena perpetua		3 490 602
4	Italian (it) Ergastolo		2 813 735
5	Russian (ru) Пожизненное лишение свободы		2 308 393
6	French (fr) Emprisonnement à perpétuité		2 135 564
7	Japanese (ja) 終身刑		1 008 506
8	Dutch (nl) Levenslange gevangenisstraf		970 214
9	Chinese (zh) 無期徒刑		891 756
10	Finnish (fi) Elinkautinen vankeus		837 693

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) Life imprisonment		39 132
2	German (de) Lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe		13 711
3	Russian (ru) Пожизненное лишение свободы		6 315
4	French (fr) Emprisonnement à perpétuité		5 560
5	Spanish (es) Cadena perpetua		4 931
6	Italian (it) Ergastolo		4 575
7	Japanese (ja) 終身刑		3 547
8	Czech (cs) Doživotí		3 361
9	Chinese (zh) 無期徒刑		3 091
10	Polish (pl) Kara dożywotniego pozbawienia wolności		2 020

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Life imprisonment		830
2	German (de) Lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe		280
3	French (fr) Emprisonnement à perpétuité		252
4	Italian (it) Ergastolo		173
5	Russian (ru) Пожизненное лишение свободы		171
6	Spanish (es) Cadena perpetua		170
7	Chinese (zh) 無期徒刑		137
8	Dutch (nl) Levenslange gevangenisstraf		124
9	Hebrew (he) מאסר עולם		79
10	Czech (cs) Doživotí		67

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) Life imprisonment		6
2	German (de) Lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Ömürlük azadlıqdan məhrumetmə		2
4	Greek (el) Ισόβια κάθειρξη		1
5	Japanese (ja) 終身刑		1
6	Norwegian (no) Livsvarig fengselsstraff		1
7	Portuguese (pt) Prisão perpétua		1
8	Swedish (sv) Livstids fängelse		1
9	Arabic (ar) سجن مؤبد		0
10	Belarusian (be) Пажыццёвае зняволенне		0

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

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