The Century of the Self

The Century of the Self - 2002 film by Adam Curtis. This television series is the 5839^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series. Article “The Century of the Self” in English Wikipedia has 26.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Century of the Self”, its content was written by 130 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 207 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Century of the Self is on the 5839^th place in global ranking of television series on Wikipedia in all the time.

The Century of the Self is on the 9411^th place in global ranking of films on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 50 times in English Wikipedia and cited 108 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #41538 in December 2012
• Global: #84648 in December 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #46298 in January 2015
• Global: #91137 in January 2015

There are 12 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	Estonian (et) The Century of the Self		37.808
2	Swedish (sv) The Century of the Self		26.0647
3	English (en) The Century of the Self		26.0563
4	German (de) The Century of the Self		16.993
5	Portuguese (pt) O Século do Ego		12.3575
6	Japanese (ja) 自己の世紀		8.7971
7	Spanish (es) El siglo del individualismo		4.5063
8	French (fr) The Century of the Self		4.2168
9	Catalan (ca) El segle de l'individualisme		3.6034
10	Persian (fa) قرن نفس (فیلم)		3.3962

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Century of the Self" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Century of the Self		2 139 013
2	Spanish (es) El siglo del individualismo		83 472
3	German (de) The Century of the Self		54 394
4	Portuguese (pt) O Século do Ego		34 528
5	Dutch (nl) The Century of the Self		33 467
6	Persian (fa) قرن نفس (فیلم)		17 525
7	French (fr) The Century of the Self		6 310
8	Norwegian (no) The Century of the Self		5 183
9	Japanese (ja) 自己の世紀		4 352
10	Swedish (sv) The Century of the Self		1 906

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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 "The Century of the Self" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Century of the Self		7 751
2	Spanish (es) El siglo del individualismo		403
3	German (de) The Century of the Self		358
4	Portuguese (pt) O Século do Ego		284
5	French (fr) The Century of the Self		106
6	Dutch (nl) The Century of the Self		64
7	Persian (fa) قرن نفس (فیلم)		49
8	Japanese (ja) 自己の世紀		36
9	Estonian (et) The Century of the Self		29
10	Swedish (sv) The Century of the Self		27

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Century of the Self		130
2	German (de) The Century of the Self		14
3	Dutch (nl) The Century of the Self		12
4	Norwegian (no) The Century of the Self		12
5	Spanish (es) El siglo del individualismo		11
6	Persian (fa) قرن نفس (فیلم)		8
7	French (fr) The Century of the Self		5
8	Portuguese (pt) O Século do Ego		5
9	Swedish (sv) The Century of the Self		4
10	Estonian (et) The Century of the Self		3

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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 "The Century of the Self" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) El segle de l'individualisme		0
2	German (de) The Century of the Self		0
3	English (en) The Century of the Self		0
4	Spanish (es) El siglo del individualismo		0
5	Estonian (et) The Century of the Self		0
6	Persian (fa) قرن نفس (فیلم)		0
7	French (fr) The Century of the Self		0
8	Japanese (ja) 自己の世紀		0
9	Dutch (nl) The Century of the Self		0
10	Norwegian (no) The Century of the Self		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 "The Century of the Self" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Century of the Self		50
2	Estonian (et) The Century of the Self		23
3	French (fr) The Century of the Self		14
4	German (de) The Century of the Self		5
5	Persian (fa) قرن نفس (فیلم)		3
6	Dutch (nl) The Century of the Self		3
7	Norwegian (no) The Century of the Self		3
8	Swedish (sv) The Century of the Self		3
9	Spanish (es) El siglo del individualismo		2
10	Portuguese (pt) O Século do Ego		2

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan El segle de l'individualisme
de	German The Century of the Self
en	English The Century of the Self
es	Spanish El siglo del individualismo
et	Estonian The Century of the Self
fa	Persian قرن نفس (فیلم)
fr	French The Century of the Self
ja	Japanese 自己の世紀
nl	Dutch The Century of the Self
no	Norwegian The Century of the Self
pt	Portuguese O Século do Ego
sv	Swedish The Century of the Self

Best Rank

English: #46298 01.2015

Global: #91137 01.2015

Best Rank

English: #41538 12.2012

Global: #84648 12.2016

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