Ozone depletion

Quality:

Ozone depletion - stratospheric phenomena of Earth. Article “Ozone depletion” in English Wikipedia has 93.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 234 references and 32 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 6053^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8846^th most popular in all topics.

The 7289^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Ozone depletion” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ozone depletion”, its content was written by 1054 registered users of English Wikipedia (6053^rd place) and edited by 3000 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7289^th place).

The article is cited 1564 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6527 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #93 in March 2002
• Global: #121 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4121 in October 2011
• Global: #2674 in March 2019

There are 45 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	German (de) Ozonabbau		95
2	English (en) Ozone depletion		93.8351
3	Finnish (fi) Otsonikato		93.0673
4	Portuguese (pt) Rarefação da Camada de Ozono		91.1492
5	Chinese (zh) 臭氧层空洞		90.0237
6	Tamil (ta) ஓசோன் குறைபாடு		90
7	Indonesian (id) Penipisan ozon		85.1186
8	Hindi (hi) ओजोन ह्रास		80.7855
9	French (fr) Destruction de la couche d'ozone		64.0792
10	Bulgarian (bg) Изтъняване на озоновия слой		52.1485

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ozone depletion		12 213 680
2	Spanish (es) Agujero de la capa de ozono		4 019 424
3	Polish (pl) Dziura ozonowa		2 230 203
4	Italian (it) Buco nell'ozono		1 923 982
5	Russian (ru) Озоновая дыра		1 895 859
6	Japanese (ja) オゾンホール		757 065
7	Arabic (ar) نضوب الأوزون		728 904
8	Hindi (hi) ओजोन ह्रास		673 768
9	Vietnamese (vi) Suy giảm ozon		591 015
10	Chinese (zh) 臭氧层空洞		559 429

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) Ozone depletion		12 133
2	Russian (ru) Озоновая дыра		2 042
3	French (fr) Destruction de la couche d'ozone		2 010
4	Spanish (es) Agujero de la capa de ozono		1 508
5	Chinese (zh) 臭氧层空洞		1 460
6	Polish (pl) Dziura ozonowa		1 366
7	Italian (it) Buco nell'ozono		1 158
8	Japanese (ja) オゾンホール		923
9	Dutch (nl) Gat in de ozonlaag		680
10	Czech (cs) Ozonová díra		426

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ozone depletion		1 054
2	Italian (it) Buco nell'ozono		224
3	Spanish (es) Agujero de la capa de ozono		199
4	Polish (pl) Dziura ozonowa		162
5	Dutch (nl) Gat in de ozonlaag		130
6	Russian (ru) Озоновая дыра		117
7	French (fr) Destruction de la couche d'ozone		115
8	Hebrew (he) הידלדלות שכבת האוזון		115
9	Czech (cs) Ozonová díra		72
10	Japanese (ja) オゾンホール		64

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) Ozone depletion		2
2	Tamil (ta) ஓசோன் குறைபாடு		2
3	German (de) Ozonabbau		1
4	Estonian (et) Osooniauk		1
5	Basque (eu) Ozono-geruzaren zulo		1
6	French (fr) Destruction de la couche d'ozone		1
7	Polish (pl) Dziura ozonowa		1
8	Serbian (sr) Oštećenja ozonskog omotača		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Suy giảm ozon		1
10	Chinese (zh) 臭氧层空洞		1

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

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