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Odious debt

Quality:

Odious debt - legal theory that says that the national debt incurred by a despotic regime should not be enforceable. Article “Odious debt” in English Wikipedia has 31.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Odious debt”, its content was written by 89 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 337 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 113 times in English Wikipedia and cited 276 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #25147 in March 2005
  • Global: #29089 in July 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #93295 in June 2009
  • Global: #90763 in July 2015

There are 19 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Spanish (es)
Deuda odiosa
62.5859
2Greek (el)
Απεχθές χρέος
36.5052
3English (en)
Odious debt
31.8728
4French (fr)
Dette odieuse
30.9371
5Catalan (ca)
Deute il·legítim
25.287
6Esperanto (eo)
Abomeninda ŝuldo
24.7974
7Basque (eu)
Zor gorrotagarri
23.0515
8Italian (it)
Debito odioso
22.6518
9Hindi (hi)
घृणित ऋण
20.6808
10Russian (ru)
Одиозный долг
20.3804
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Odious debt" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Odious debt
517 208
2Spanish (es)
Deuda odiosa
327 899
3French (fr)
Dette odieuse
81 026
4Italian (it)
Debito odioso
49 257
5German (de)
Odious Debts
40 829
6Turkish (tr)
Tiksindirici borç
34 786
7Greek (el)
Απεχθές χρέος
31 573
8Russian (ru)
Одиозный долг
26 821
9Portuguese (pt)
Dívida odiosa
21 867
10Arabic (ar)
دين بغيض
7 791
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Odious debt" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Odious debt
1 543
2Spanish (es)
Deuda odiosa
395
3French (fr)
Dette odieuse
92
4Turkish (tr)
Tiksindirici borç
69
5Arabic (ar)
دين بغيض
68
6Italian (it)
Debito odioso
47
7Russian (ru)
Одиозный долг
46
8German (de)
Odious Debts
38
9Greek (el)
Απεχθές χρέος
28
10Portuguese (pt)
Dívida odiosa
27
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Odious debt" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Odious debt
89
2French (fr)
Dette odieuse
55
3Spanish (es)
Deuda odiosa
46
4Italian (it)
Debito odioso
32
5German (de)
Odious Debts
22
6Portuguese (pt)
Dívida odiosa
12
7Norwegian (no)
Odiøs gjeld
11
8Turkish (tr)
Tiksindirici borç
11
9Bulgarian (bg)
Омразен дълг
9
10Arabic (ar)
دين بغيض
8
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Odious debt" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Esperanto (eo)
Abomeninda ŝuldo
1
2Arabic (ar)
دين بغيض
0
3Bulgarian (bg)
Омразен дълг
0
4Catalan (ca)
Deute il·legítim
0
5Danish (da)
Odiøs gæld
0
6German (de)
Odious Debts
0
7Greek (el)
Απεχθές χρέος
0
8English (en)
Odious debt
0
9Spanish (es)
Deuda odiosa
0
10Basque (eu)
Zor gorrotagarri
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Odious debt" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Odious debt
113
2Spanish (es)
Deuda odiosa
71
3Persian (fa)
بدهی نفرت‌انگیز
22
4French (fr)
Dette odieuse
21
5German (de)
Odious Debts
13
6Arabic (ar)
دين بغيض
7
7Italian (it)
Debito odioso
6
8Catalan (ca)
Deute il·legítim
5
9Portuguese (pt)
Dívida odiosa
5
10Turkish (tr)
Tiksindirici borç
4
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
دين بغيض
bgBulgarian
Омразен дълг
caCatalan
Deute il·legítim
daDanish
Odiøs gæld
deGerman
Odious Debts
elGreek
Απεχθές χρέος
enEnglish
Odious debt
eoEsperanto
Abomeninda ŝuldo
esSpanish
Deuda odiosa
euBasque
Zor gorrotagarri
faPersian
بدهی نفرت‌انگیز
frFrench
Dette odieuse
hiHindi
घृणित ऋण
idIndonesian
Utang najis
itItalian
Debito odioso
noNorwegian
Odiøs gjeld
ptPortuguese
Dívida odiosa
ruRussian
Одиозный долг
trTurkish
Tiksindirici borç

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#93295
06.2009
Global:
#90763
07.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#25147
03.2005
Global:
#29089
07.2021

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Odious debt from Wikipedia articles about Haiti indemnity controversy, Thomas Sankara, External debt of Haiti, Canal Istanbul and Succession of states. Whereas reading the article about Odious debt people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Despotism, External debt of Haiti, Debt of developing countries, Jean-Claude Duvalier and Moral hazard.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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