The Economist

Quality:

The Economist - British weekly news and international affairs publication (founded 1843). Article “The Economist” in English Wikipedia has 91.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 213 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.79 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9492^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9270^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “The Economist” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages (9270^th place).

Since the creation of article “The Economist”, its content was written by 869 registered users of English Wikipedia (9492^nd place) and edited by 2238 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 9474 times in English Wikipedia (2152^nd place) and cited 27870 times in all languages (6069^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1603 in August 2004
• Global: #3677 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #37 in February 2008
• Global: #132 in February 2008

There are 50 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	Chinese (zh) 经济学人		95.662
2	Persian (fa) اکونومیست		95
3	Korean (ko) 디 이코노미스트		92.2666
4	English (en) The Economist		91.0822
5	Ukrainian (uk) Економіст (журнал)		68.5528
6	German (de) The Economist		64.1846
7	Catalan (ca) The Economist		59.2319
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) The Economist		50.0356
9	Russian (ru) The Economist		49.3106
10	Portuguese (pt) The Economist		45.3313

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Economist		9 097 535
2	Chinese (zh) 经济学人		646 863
3	Spanish (es) The Economist		570 256
4	German (de) The Economist		530 924
5	French (fr) The Economist		529 943
6	Russian (ru) The Economist		510 431
7	Japanese (ja) エコノミスト		507 519
8	Italian (it) The Economist		441 718
9	Portuguese (pt) The Economist		222 314
10	Persian (fa) اکونومیست		174 574

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) The Economist		20 666
2	Chinese (zh) 经济学人		2 130
3	Persian (fa) اکونومیست		1 676
4	Spanish (es) The Economist		1 468
5	German (de) The Economist		1 364
6	Russian (ru) The Economist		1 169
7	Japanese (ja) エコノミスト		1 116
8	French (fr) The Economist		1 011
9	Italian (it) The Economist		714
10	Portuguese (pt) The Economist		578

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Economist		869
2	French (fr) The Economist		143
3	German (de) The Economist		126
4	Italian (it) The Economist		104
5	Chinese (zh) 经济学人		103
6	Russian (ru) The Economist		85
7	Japanese (ja) エコノミスト		57
8	Dutch (nl) The Economist		49
9	Hebrew (he) האקונומיסט		48
10	Spanish (es) The Economist		43

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) The Economist		6
2	Arabic (ar) ذي إيكونوميست		2
3	Malay (ms) The Economist		2
4	Catalan (ca) The Economist		1
5	Czech (cs) The Economist		1
6	Basque (eu) The Economist		1
7	Persian (fa) اکونومیست		1
8	Armenian (hy) The Economist		1
9	Italian (it) The Economist		1
10	Korean (ko) 디 이코노미스트		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information