Sunk cost

Sunk cost - cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered. Article “Sunk cost” in English Wikipedia has 56.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 65 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.29 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Sunk cost” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sunk cost”, its content was written by 310 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 768 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 291 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2085 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5943 in March 2004
• Global: #11126 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14951 in February 2014
• Global: #24844 in February 2014

There are 23 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Catalan (ca) Cost enfonsat		58.4157
2	English (en) Sunk cost		56.6528
3	Ukrainian (uk) Незворотні затрати		30.3551
4	German (de) Versunkene Kosten		21.9692
5	Spanish (es) Costo hundido		19.6458
6	Arabic (ar) تكلفة غارقة		19.2872
7	Polish (pl) Koszty utopione		17.6893
8	Russian (ru) Невозвратные затраты		17.0661
9	Hebrew (he) עלות שקועה		16.6996
10	Chinese (zh) 沉没成本		16.3564

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Sunk cost" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sunk cost		5 273 799
2	Chinese (zh) 沉没成本		832 361
3	Japanese (ja) 埋没費用		783 903
4	German (de) Versunkene Kosten		557 497
5	Spanish (es) Costo hundido		417 663
6	French (fr) Coût irrécupérable		247 162
7	Russian (ru) Невозвратные затраты		168 828
8	Italian (it) Costo irrecuperabile		139 004
9	Dutch (nl) Verzonken kosten		130 209
10	Polish (pl) Koszty utopione		119 663

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Sunk cost" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sunk cost		18 714
2	Chinese (zh) 沉没成本		2 978
3	French (fr) Coût irrécupérable		2 240
4	Japanese (ja) 埋没費用		1 614
5	German (de) Versunkene Kosten		1 384
6	Russian (ru) Невозвратные затраты		1 032
7	Spanish (es) Costo hundido		734
8	Polish (pl) Koszty utopione		595
9	Italian (it) Costo irrecuperabile		505
10	Korean (ko) 매몰 비용		480

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

Language versions of the article "Sunk cost" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sunk cost		310
2	German (de) Versunkene Kosten		71
3	French (fr) Coût irrécupérable		48
4	Japanese (ja) 埋没費用		47
5	Italian (it) Costo irrecuperabile		35
6	Chinese (zh) 沉没成本		32
7	Dutch (nl) Verzonken kosten		25
8	Norwegian (no) Irreversibel kostnad		23
9	Russian (ru) Невозвратные затраты		23
10	Polish (pl) Koszty utopione		22

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

Language versions of the article "Sunk cost" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sunk cost		6
2	Norwegian (no) Irreversibel kostnad		2
3	Catalan (ca) Cost enfonsat		1
4	Arabic (ar) تكلفة غارقة		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Batma xərci		0
6	Czech (cs) Utopené náklady		0
7	German (de) Versunkene Kosten		0
8	Spanish (es) Costo hundido		0
9	Persian (fa) هزینه هدر رفته		0
10	French (fr) Coût irrécupérable		0

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

Language versions of the article "Sunk cost" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Sunk cost		291
2	Arabic (ar) تكلفة غارقة		239
3	Azerbaijani (az) Batma xərci		218
4	Portuguese (pt) Custo irrecuperável		208
5	Chinese (zh) 沉没成本		180
6	Russian (ru) Невозвратные затраты		158
7	Korean (ko) 매몰 비용		125
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chi phí chìm		100
9	French (fr) Coût irrécupérable		92
10	Japanese (ja) 埋没費用		90

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تكلفة غارقة
az	Azerbaijani Batma xərci
ca	Catalan Cost enfonsat
cs	Czech Utopené náklady
de	German Versunkene Kosten
en	English Sunk cost
es	Spanish Costo hundido
fa	Persian هزینه هدر رفته
fr	French Coût irrécupérable
he	Hebrew עלות שקועה
hu	Hungarian Concorde-effektus
it	Italian Costo irrecuperabile
ja	Japanese 埋没費用
ko	Korean 매몰 비용
nl	Dutch Verzonken kosten
no	Norwegian Irreversibel kostnad
pl	Polish Koszty utopione
pt	Portuguese Custo irrecuperável
ru	Russian Невозвратные затраты
tr	Turkish Batık maliyet
uk	Ukrainian Незворотні затрати
vi	Vietnamese Chi phí chìm
zh	Chinese 沉没成本

Best Rank

English: #14951 02.2014

Global: #24844 02.2014

Best Rank

English: #5943 03.2004

Global: #11126 10.2002

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