Recession

Quality:

Recession - business cycle contraction. Article “Recession” in English Wikipedia has 89 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 234 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.68 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8783^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8653^rd most popular in all topics.

In June 2026 the article “Recession” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Recession”, its content was written by 899 registered users of English Wikipedia (8783^rd place) and edited by 2003 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2030 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8843 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #66 in August 2022
• Global: #102 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #135 in January 2008
• Global: #187 in October 2008

There are 49 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	English (en) Recession		88.9897
2	Armenian (hy) Տնտեսական անկում		85.0583
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Recesija		69.039
4	Hindi (hi) आर्थिक शिथिलता		68.7652
5	Chinese (zh) 经济衰退		58.0685
6	Korean (ko) 경기후퇴		53.8231
7	Serbian (sr) Recesija		50.5358
8	Romanian (ro) Recesiune		49.2244
9	Slovenian (sl) Recesija		48.5806
10	French (fr) Récession (économie)		46.1792

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Recession		14 268 573
2	Russian (ru) Рецессия		3 343 607
3	Spanish (es) Recesión		3 043 504
4	French (fr) Récession (économie)		1 761 692
5	Polish (pl) Recesja gospodarcza		1 103 203
6	Italian (it) Recessione		925 818
7	Portuguese (pt) Recessão		810 021
8	Indonesian (id) Resesi		662 395
9	Dutch (nl) Recessie		587 388
10	Japanese (ja) 景気後退		394 212

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) Recession		10 922
2	Russian (ru) Рецессия		2 132
3	French (fr) Récession (économie)		915
4	Chinese (zh) 经济衰退		866
5	Spanish (es) Recesión		603
6	Japanese (ja) 景気後退		410
7	Italian (it) Recessione		371
8	Polish (pl) Recesja gospodarcza		292
9	Portuguese (pt) Recessão		272
10	Czech (cs) Recese		230

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Recession		899
2	Dutch (nl) Recessie		78
3	Spanish (es) Recesión		74
4	Russian (ru) Рецессия		73
5	French (fr) Récession (économie)		67
6	Italian (it) Recessione		66
7	Hebrew (he) מיתון		59
8	Portuguese (pt) Recessão		41
9	Japanese (ja) 景気後退		38
10	Danish (da) Recession		37

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	Romanian (ro) Recesiune		3
2	English (en) Recession		2
3	Japanese (ja) 景気後退		1
4	Russian (ru) Рецессия		1
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Recesija		1
6	Swedish (sv) Recession		1
7	Arabic (ar) ركود		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Resessiya (iqtisadiyyat)		0
9	Catalan (ca) Recessió		0
10	Czech (cs) Recese		0

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

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