Tendency of the rate of profit to fall

Tendency of the rate of profit to fall - hypothesis in Marxist economics that, since technological innovation replaces people with machinery and since only labor produces additional value, surplus value per capital decreases, and the average rate of industrial profit falls in the long term. Article "Tendency of the rate of profit to fall" in English Wikipedia has 80.8 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 97 references and 16 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Tendency of the rate of profit to fall", its content was written by 174 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 433 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 291 times in English Wikipedia and cited 891 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12744 in December 2018
• Global: #28455 in December 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #113369 in December 2021
• Global: #135990 in December 2021

There are 16 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Tendencia decreciente de la tasa de ganancia		90.3813
2	English (en) Tendency of the rate of profit to fall		80.7791
3	German (de) Gesetz des tendenziellen Falls der Profitrate		68.9917
4	Russian (ru) Тенденция нормы прибыли к понижению		62.0317
5	Portuguese (pt) Lei da tendência à queda da taxa de lucro		51.8953
6	Arabic (ar) ميل معدل الربح إلى الانخفاض		32.5026
7	Dutch (nl) Wet van de dalende winstvoet		30.544
8	French (fr) Baisse tendancielle du taux de profit		25.4245
9	Japanese (ja) 利潤率の傾向的低下の法則		24.0787
10	Indonesian (id) Kecenderungan laba untuk menurun		23.3176

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Tendency of the rate of profit to fall" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tendency of the rate of profit to fall		826 741
2	Italian (it) Caduta tendenziale del saggio di profitto		206 555
3	Russian (ru) Тенденция нормы прибыли к понижению		186 361
4	German (de) Gesetz des tendenziellen Falls der Profitrate		159 707
5	French (fr) Baisse tendancielle du taux de profit		137 485
6	Japanese (ja) 利潤率の傾向的低下の法則		76 258
7	Spanish (es) Tendencia decreciente de la tasa de ganancia		27 179
8	Korean (ko) 이윤율의 경향적 저하 법칙		21 583
9	Swedish (sv) Profitkvotens fallande tendens		18 657
10	Dutch (nl) Wet van de dalende winstvoet		5 292

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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 "Tendency of the rate of profit to fall" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tendency of the rate of profit to fall		3 957
2	Russian (ru) Тенденция нормы прибыли к понижению		793
3	Italian (it) Caduta tendenziale del saggio di profitto		694
4	French (fr) Baisse tendancielle du taux de profit		654
5	Spanish (es) Tendencia decreciente de la tasa de ganancia		574
6	German (de) Gesetz des tendenziellen Falls der Profitrate		522
7	Japanese (ja) 利潤率の傾向的低下の法則		330
8	Portuguese (pt) Lei da tendência à queda da taxa de lucro		156
9	Korean (ko) 이윤율의 경향적 저하 법칙		81
10	Swedish (sv) Profitkvotens fallande tendens		59

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

Language versions of the article "Tendency of the rate of profit to fall" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tendency of the rate of profit to fall		174
2	German (de) Gesetz des tendenziellen Falls der Profitrate		103
3	French (fr) Baisse tendancielle du taux de profit		38
4	Russian (ru) Тенденция нормы прибыли к понижению		33
5	Italian (it) Caduta tendenziale del saggio di profitto		23
6	Japanese (ja) 利潤率の傾向的低下の法則		21
7	Spanish (es) Tendencia decreciente de la tasa de ganancia		9
8	Korean (ko) 이윤율의 경향적 저하 법칙		6
9	Swedish (sv) Profitkvotens fallande tendens		6
10	Dutch (nl) Wet van de dalende winstvoet		5

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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 "Tendency of the rate of profit to fall" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Tendencia decreciente de la tasa de ganancia		1
2	Arabic (ar) ميل معدل الربح إلى الانخفاض		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Mənfəət dərəcəsinin aşağı düşməsi tendensiyası		0
4	German (de) Gesetz des tendenziellen Falls der Profitrate		0
5	English (en) Tendency of the rate of profit to fall		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Tendenca falo de la profitkvoto		0
7	French (fr) Baisse tendancielle du taux de profit		0
8	Indonesian (id) Kecenderungan laba untuk menurun		0
9	Italian (it) Caduta tendenziale del saggio di profitto		0
10	Japanese (ja) 利潤率の傾向的低下の法則		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 "Tendency of the rate of profit to fall" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Tendency of the rate of profit to fall		291
2	Russian (ru) Тенденция нормы прибыли к понижению		215
3	French (fr) Baisse tendancielle du taux de profit		153
4	German (de) Gesetz des tendenziellen Falls der Profitrate		58
5	Arabic (ar) ميل معدل الربح إلى الانخفاض		40
6	Spanish (es) Tendencia decreciente de la tasa de ganancia		30
7	Korean (ko) 이윤율의 경향적 저하 법칙		28
8	Italian (it) Caduta tendenziale del saggio di profitto		23
9	Japanese (ja) 利潤率の傾向的低下の法則		20
10	Dutch (nl) Wet van de dalende winstvoet		10

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ميل معدل الربح إلى الانخفاض
az	Azerbaijani Mənfəət dərəcəsinin aşağı düşməsi tendensiyası
de	German Gesetz des tendenziellen Falls der Profitrate
en	English Tendency of the rate of profit to fall
eo	Esperanto Tendenca falo de la profitkvoto
es	Spanish Tendencia decreciente de la tasa de ganancia
fr	French Baisse tendancielle du taux de profit
id	Indonesian Kecenderungan laba untuk menurun
it	Italian Caduta tendenziale del saggio di profitto
ja	Japanese 利潤率の傾向的低下の法則
ko	Korean 이윤율의 경향적 저하 법칙
nl	Dutch Wet van de dalende winstvoet
pt	Portuguese Lei da tendência à queda da taxa de lucro
ru	Russian Тенденция нормы прибыли к понижению
sl	Slovenian Tendenčno padanje profitne mere
sv	Swedish Profitkvotens fallande tendens

Best Rank

English: #113369 12.2021

Global: #135990 12.2021

Best Rank

English: #12744 12.2018

Global: #28455 12.2018

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