Virtual water

Virtual water - hidden flow of water if food or other commodities are traded from one place to another; e.g. it takes 1340 m³ of water on average to produce 1000 kg of wheat. Article “Virtual water” in English Wikipedia has 31 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Virtual water”, its content was written by 111 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 495 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 33 times in English Wikipedia and cited 227 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3531 in March 2003
• Global: #6913 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #180795 in March 2012
• Global: #22091 in March 2015

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 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	German (de) Virtuelles Wasser		44.7647
2	English (en) Virtual water		31.0218
3	Italian (it) Acqua virtuale		27.4755
4	Swedish (sv) Virtuellt vatten		25.2437
5	Tamil (ta) மறை நீர்		24.4506
6	Norwegian (no) Virtuelt vann		23.6914
7	Catalan (ca) Aigua virtual		23.2736
8	Spanish (es) Agua virtual		21.9505
9	Polish (pl) Wirtualna woda		21.0207
10	French (fr) Eau virtuelle		16.5313

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Virtual water" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Virtuelles Wasser		749 208
2	English (en) Virtual water		537 191
3	Japanese (ja) 仮想水		392 718
4	Portuguese (pt) Água virtual		146 044
5	Persian (fa) آب مجازی		98 610
6	French (fr) Eau virtuelle		83 565
7	Italian (it) Acqua virtuale		39 983
8	Swedish (sv) Virtuellt vatten		32 405
9	Tamil (ta) மறை நீர்		17 612
10	Spanish (es) Agua virtual		15 684

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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 "Virtual water" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virtual water		2 370
2	German (de) Virtuelles Wasser		835
3	Japanese (ja) 仮想水		368
4	Spanish (es) Agua virtual		251
5	Persian (fa) آب مجازی		165
6	French (fr) Eau virtuelle		116
7	Catalan (ca) Aigua virtual		89
8	Korean (ko) 가상수		64
9	Tamil (ta) மறை நீர்		52
10	Italian (it) Acqua virtuale		43

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Virtuelles Wasser		157
2	English (en) Virtual water		111
3	French (fr) Eau virtuelle		46
4	Japanese (ja) 仮想水		33
5	Italian (it) Acqua virtuale		31
6	Persian (fa) آب مجازی		23
7	Portuguese (pt) Água virtual		20
8	Swedish (sv) Virtuellt vatten		20
9	Hebrew (he) מים וירטואליים		16
10	Norwegian (no) Virtuelt vann		13

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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 "Virtual water" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) ماء افتراضي		0
2	Catalan (ca) Aigua virtual		0
3	German (de) Virtuelles Wasser		0
4	English (en) Virtual water		0
5	Spanish (es) Agua virtual		0
6	Persian (fa) آب مجازی		0
7	French (fr) Eau virtuelle		0
8	Hebrew (he) מים וירטואליים		0
9	Italian (it) Acqua virtuale		0
10	Japanese (ja) 仮想水		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 "Virtual water" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Eau virtuelle		73
2	German (de) Virtuelles Wasser		38
3	English (en) Virtual water		33
4	Japanese (ja) 仮想水		33
5	Persian (fa) آب مجازی		15
6	Italian (it) Acqua virtuale		6
7	Arabic (ar) ماء افتراضي		5
8	Portuguese (pt) Água virtual		5
9	Korean (ko) 가상수		4
10	Catalan (ca) Aigua virtual		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ماء افتراضي
ca	Catalan Aigua virtual
de	German Virtuelles Wasser
en	English Virtual water
es	Spanish Agua virtual
fa	Persian آب مجازی
fr	French Eau virtuelle
he	Hebrew מים וירטואליים
it	Italian Acqua virtuale
ja	Japanese 仮想水
ko	Korean 가상수
no	Norwegian Virtuelt vann
pl	Polish Wirtualna woda
pt	Portuguese Água virtual
sv	Swedish Virtuellt vatten
ta	Tamil மறை நீர்

Best Rank

English: #180795 03.2012

Global: #22091 03.2015

Best Rank

English: #3531 03.2003

Global: #6913 03.2003

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