List of famines

List of famines - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of famines” in English Wikipedia has 69.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 627 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.71 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “List of famines” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “List of famines”, its content was written by 356 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 886 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 179 times in English Wikipedia and cited 376 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3894 in November 2024
• Global: #9946 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #48514 in March 2020
• Global: #57860 in March 2020

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	Chinese (zh) 饥荒列表		81.123
2	English (en) List of famines		69.4286
3	Turkish (tr) Kıtlıklar listesi		67.2527
4	Thai (th) รายชื่อทุพภิกขภัย		66.2021
5	Ukrainian (uk) Список голодів		59.8668
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista de fomes em massa		58.0557
7	Czech (cs) Seznam hladomorů		53.5122
8	French (fr) Liste de famines		47.8447
9	Japanese (ja) 飢饉の一覧		45.8054
10	Arabic (ar) قائمة المجاعات		44.5902

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

The most popular language versions of the article "List of famines" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of famines		2 241 708
2	German (de) Liste von Hungersnöten		267 349
3	French (fr) Liste de famines		187 011
4	Japanese (ja) 飢饉の一覧		171 868
5	Chinese (zh) 饥荒列表		127 838
6	Arabic (ar) قائمة المجاعات		96 828
7	Portuguese (pt) Lista de fomes em massa		73 438
8	Italian (it) Lista delle carestie		54 421
9	Finnish (fi) Luettelo nälänhädistä		41 622
10	Czech (cs) Seznam hladomorů		40 186

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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 "List of famines" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of famines		12 273
2	Chinese (zh) 饥荒列表		1 038
3	German (de) Liste von Hungersnöten		997
4	Japanese (ja) 飢饉の一覧		885
5	French (fr) Liste de famines		791
6	Turkish (tr) Kıtlıklar listesi		379
7	Arabic (ar) قائمة المجاعات		219
8	Italian (it) Lista delle carestie		219
9	Portuguese (pt) Lista de fomes em massa		218
10	Czech (cs) Seznam hladomorů		207

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of famines		356
2	German (de) Liste von Hungersnöten		244
3	French (fr) Liste de famines		55
4	Italian (it) Lista delle carestie		40
5	Ukrainian (uk) Список голодів		32
6	Chinese (zh) 饥荒列表		30
7	Finnish (fi) Luettelo nälänhädistä		26
8	Japanese (ja) 飢饉の一覧		25
9	Portuguese (pt) Lista de fomes em massa		22
10	Czech (cs) Seznam hladomorů		17

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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 "List of famines" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of famines		6
2	Portuguese (pt) Lista de fomes em massa		1
3	Arabic (ar) قائمة المجاعات		0
4	Czech (cs) Seznam hladomorů		0
5	German (de) Liste von Hungersnöten		0
6	Finnish (fi) Luettelo nälänhädistä		0
7	French (fr) Liste de famines		0
8	Italian (it) Lista delle carestie		0
9	Japanese (ja) 飢饉の一覧		0
10	Swedish (sv) Lista över svältkatastrofer under 1900-talet		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 "List of famines" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) List of famines		179
2	Arabic (ar) قائمة المجاعات		51
3	Chinese (zh) 饥荒列表		34
4	German (de) Liste von Hungersnöten		28
5	Ukrainian (uk) Список голодів		19
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista de fomes em massa		14
7	French (fr) Liste de famines		13
8	Turkish (tr) Kıtlıklar listesi		10
9	Japanese (ja) 飢饉の一覧		9
10	Finnish (fi) Luettelo nälänhädistä		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قائمة المجاعات
cs	Czech Seznam hladomorů
de	German Liste von Hungersnöten
en	English List of famines
fi	Finnish Luettelo nälänhädistä
fr	French Liste de famines
it	Italian Lista delle carestie
ja	Japanese 飢饉の一覧
pt	Portuguese Lista de fomes em massa
sv	Swedish Lista över svältkatastrofer under 1900-talet
th	Thai รายชื่อทุพภิกขภัย
tr	Turkish Kıtlıklar listesi
uk	Ukrainian Список голодів
zh	Chinese 饥荒列表

Best Rank

English: #48514 03.2020

Global: #57860 03.2020

Best Rank

English: #3894 11.2024

Global: #9946 12.2013

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