Utilitarianism (book)

Utilitarianism - 1861 essay by John Stuart Mill. This book is the 4316^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Utilitarianism (book)” in English Wikipedia has 32.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.69 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Utilitarianism (book)”, its content was written by 92 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 181 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Utilitarianism is on the 4316^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 260 times in English Wikipedia and cited 347 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #84930 in March 2007
• Global: #113902 in June 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #93189 in April 2008
• Global: #148341 in April 2008

There are 14 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	Hebrew (he) תועלתנות (ספר)		50.1539
2	German (de) Der Utilitarismus		46.0038
3	Greek (el) Ωφελιμισμός (βιβλίο)		42.2642
4	Catalan (ca) L'utilitarisme		39.4592
5	English (en) Utilitarianism (book)		32.2537
6	Spanish (es) El utilitarismo		29.2437
7	Estonian (et) Utilitarianism		27.6923
8	Chinese (zh) 效益主義 (書)		16.6
9	Persian (fa) فایده‌گرایی (کتاب)		13.9717
10	Arabic (ar) النفعية (كتاب)		12.8887

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Utilitarianism (book)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Utilitarianism (book)		939 713
2	German (de) Der Utilitarismus		96 244
3	Spanish (es) El utilitarismo		89 176
4	Japanese (ja) 功利主義論		72 558
5	Greek (el) Ωφελιμισμός (βιβλίο)		19 151
6	Chinese (zh) 效益主義 (書)		13 308
7	Arabic (ar) النفعية (كتاب)		10 465
8	Korean (ko) 공리주의 (책)		5 992
9	Finnish (fi) Utilitarismi (kirja)		4 211
10	Estonian (et) Utilitarianism		2 773

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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 "Utilitarianism (book)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Utilitarianism (book)		1 915
2	Japanese (ja) 功利主義論		1 163
3	Spanish (es) El utilitarismo		442
4	German (de) Der Utilitarismus		248
5	Chinese (zh) 效益主義 (書)		129
6	Korean (ko) 공리주의 (책)		105
7	Arabic (ar) النفعية (كتاب)		65
8	Hebrew (he) תועלתנות (ספר)		53
9	Greek (el) Ωφελιμισμός (βιβλίο)		46
10	Finnish (fi) Utilitarismi (kirja)		36

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Utilitarianism (book)		92
2	German (de) Der Utilitarismus		22
3	Greek (el) Ωφελιμισμός (βιβλίο)		15
4	Japanese (ja) 功利主義論		13
5	Spanish (es) El utilitarismo		10
6	Chinese (zh) 效益主義 (書)		5
7	Arabic (ar) النفعية (كتاب)		4
8	Finnish (fi) Utilitarismi (kirja)		4
9	Hebrew (he) תועלתנות (ספר)		4
10	Catalan (ca) L'utilitarisme		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 "Utilitarianism (book)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) النفعية (كتاب)		0
2	Catalan (ca) L'utilitarisme		0
3	German (de) Der Utilitarismus		0
4	Greek (el) Ωφελιμισμός (βιβλίο)		0
5	English (en) Utilitarianism (book)		0
6	Spanish (es) El utilitarismo		0
7	Estonian (et) Utilitarianism		0
8	Persian (fa) فایده‌گرایی (کتاب)		0
9	Finnish (fi) Utilitarismi (kirja)		0
10	Hebrew (he) תועלתנות (ספר)		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 "Utilitarianism (book)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Utilitarianism (book)		260
2	Chinese (zh) 效益主義 (書)		30
3	Japanese (ja) 功利主義論		12
4	Hebrew (he) תועלתנות (ספר)		11
5	Estonian (et) Utilitarianism		8
6	Spanish (es) El utilitarismo		6
7	German (de) Der Utilitarismus		5
8	Greek (el) Ωφελιμισμός (βιβλίο)		5
9	Finnish (fi) Utilitarismi (kirja)		4
10	Arabic (ar) النفعية (كتاب)		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic النفعية (كتاب)
ca	Catalan L'utilitarisme
de	German Der Utilitarismus
el	Greek Ωφελιμισμός (βιβλίο)
en	English Utilitarianism (book)
es	Spanish El utilitarismo
et	Estonian Utilitarianism
fa	Persian فایده‌گرایی (کتاب)
fi	Finnish Utilitarismi (kirja)
he	Hebrew תועלתנות (ספר)
ja	Japanese 功利主義論
ko	Korean 공리주의 (책)
sr	Serbian Утилитаризам (књига)
zh	Chinese 效益主義 (書)

Best Rank

English: #93189 04.2008

Global: #148341 04.2008

Best Rank

English: #84930 03.2007

Global: #113902 06.2022

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