Peter principle

Quality:

The Peter Principle - book and concept by Laurence J. Peter that states that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence". This book is the 167^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 181^st most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Peter principle” in English Wikipedia has 48.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 43 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 181^st most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 167^th most popular in books.

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

Since the creation of article “Peter principle”, its content was written by 365 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1264 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Peter Principle is on the 181^st place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 167^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 70 times in English Wikipedia and cited 310 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3550 in October 2001
• Global: #3677 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #660 in August 2018
• Global: #1833 in August 2018

There are 35 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	Portuguese (pt) Princípio de Peter		60.118
2	English (en) Peter principle		48.5246
3	German (de) Peter-Prinzip		33.01
4	Danish (da) Peter-princippet		31.6393
5	French (fr) Principe de Peter		27.7111
6	Tamil (ta) பீட்டர் கோட்பாடு		25.9875
7	Catalan (ca) Principi de Peter		25.336
8	Hungarian (hu) Peter-elv		24.8191
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Peterov princip		23.7694
10	Spanish (es) Principio de Peter		22.5353

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Peter principle		11 797 194
2	French (fr) Principe de Peter		2 971 427
3	German (de) Peter-Prinzip		2 838 929
4	Spanish (es) Principio de Peter		1 433 422
5	Russian (ru) Принцип Питера		1 169 890
6	Japanese (ja) ピーターの法則		1 105 714
7	Chinese (zh) 彼得原理		594 129
8	Italian (it) Principio di Peter		459 019
9	Portuguese (pt) Princípio de Peter		326 158
10	Dutch (nl) Peterprincipe		311 572

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) Peter principle		27 140
2	German (de) Peter-Prinzip		10 228
3	French (fr) Principe de Peter		7 302
4	Japanese (ja) ピーターの法則		4 479
5	Spanish (es) Principio de Peter		2 277
6	Italian (it) Principio di Peter		2 269
7	Chinese (zh) 彼得原理		2 130
8	Russian (ru) Принцип Питера		1 708
9	Dutch (nl) Peterprincipe		1 158
10	Polish (pl) Zasada Petera		840

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Peter principle		365
2	German (de) Peter-Prinzip		185
3	French (fr) Principe de Peter		181
4	Russian (ru) Принцип Питера		68
5	Spanish (es) Principio de Peter		48
6	Dutch (nl) Peterprincipe		46
7	Hebrew (he) העיקרון הפיטרי		43
8	Chinese (zh) 彼得原理		41
9	Danish (da) Peter-princippet		29
10	Italian (it) Principio di Peter		25

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) Peter principle		2
2	Arabic (ar) مبدأ بيتر		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Принцип на Питър		0
4	Catalan (ca) Principi de Peter		0
5	Czech (cs) Peterův princip		0
6	Danish (da) Peter-princippet		0
7	German (de) Peter-Prinzip		0
8	Spanish (es) Principio de Peter		0
9	Basque (eu) Peterren hatsarrea		0
10	Persian (fa) اصل پیتر		0

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

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