Problem of evil

Quality:

Problem of evil - question on reconciling the existence of evil with an omnibenevolent, omniscient and omnipotent God. Article “Problem of evil” in English Wikipedia has 90.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 330 references and 36 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Problem of evil” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Problem of evil”, its content was written by 845 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1653 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 967 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4470 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #23 in February 2001
• Global: #23 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7382 in August 2009
• Global: #15157 in August 2009

There are 36 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	Spanish (es) Problema del mal		91.1815
2	English (en) Problem of evil		90.9312
3	Indonesian (id) Masalah kejahatan		86.6393
4	Italian (it) Problema del male		85.4495
5	Persian (fa) مسئله شر		79.4545
6	Turkish (tr) Kötülük problemi		70.002
7	Greek (el) Πρόβλημα του κακού		58.726
8	Russian (ru) Проблема зла		55.8917
9	Japanese (ja) 悪の問題		38.3015
10	Uzbek (uz) Yovuzlik muammosi		37.4002

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Problem of evil		5 559 477
2	Spanish (es) Problema del mal		1 062 017
3	Persian (fa) مسئله شر		338 689
4	Turkish (tr) Kötülük problemi		306 876
5	Italian (it) Problema del male		269 285
6	Russian (ru) Проблема зла		267 925
7	Chinese (zh) 罪惡問題		216 946
8	Portuguese (pt) Problema do mal		186 660
9	Finnish (fi) Pahan ongelma		136 492
10	Arabic (ar) مشكلة الشر		131 740

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) Problem of evil		13 322
2	Spanish (es) Problema del mal		2 072
3	Russian (ru) Проблема зла		1 306
4	Persian (fa) مسئله شر		1 192
5	Turkish (tr) Kötülük problemi		773
6	Italian (it) Problema del male		716
7	Chinese (zh) 罪惡問題		481
8	French (fr) Problème du mal		399
9	Japanese (ja) 悪の問題		331
10	Portuguese (pt) Problema do mal		304

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Problem of evil		845
2	Spanish (es) Problema del mal		117
3	Italian (it) Problema del male		78
4	Persian (fa) مسئله شر		76
5	Finnish (fi) Pahan ongelma		56
6	Swedish (sv) Det ondas problem		48
7	Chinese (zh) 罪惡問題		43
8	Dutch (nl) Probleem van het lijden		39
9	Turkish (tr) Kötülük problemi		33
10	Polish (pl) Problem zła		32

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) Problem of evil		5
2	Arabic (ar) مشكلة الشر		1
3	Persian (fa) مسئله شر		1
4	Hebrew (he) בעיית הרוע		1
5	Indonesian (id) Masalah kejahatan		1
6	Italian (it) Problema del male		1
7	Japanese (ja) 悪の問題		1
8	Swedish (sv) Det ondas problem		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Şər problemi		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Проблем за злото		0

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

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