Working poor

Working poor - social class of working people whose incomes fall below a poverty line due to low-income jobs and low familial household income. Article “Working poor” in English Wikipedia has 56.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 49 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.97 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Working poor”, its content was written by 182 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 645 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 785 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2275 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16543 in May 2005
• Global: #23435 in December 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #82319 in November 2014
• Global: #13711 in January 2008

There are 18 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	Spanish (es) Trabajadores pobres		59.569
2	English (en) Working poor		56.3387
3	Russian (ru) Обнищание пролетариата		49.8271
4	Chinese (zh) 工作貧窮		40.6699
5	German (de) Erwerbsarmut		35.719
6	French (fr) Travailleur pauvre		34.0542
7	Japanese (ja) ワーキングプア		28.5409
8	Czech (cs) Pracující chudoba		28.1434
9	Finnish (fi) Työssäkäyvä köyhä		27.3721
10	Hebrew (he) עובדים עניים		24.9157

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Working poor" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) ワーキングプア		1 915 514
2	English (en) Working poor		1 033 201
3	German (de) Erwerbsarmut		263 280
4	Chinese (zh) 工作貧窮		227 960
5	French (fr) Travailleur pauvre		178 381
6	Russian (ru) Обнищание пролетариата		148 888
7	Korean (ko) 노동 빈곤층		58 577
8	Spanish (es) Trabajadores pobres		31 077
9	Czech (cs) Pracující chudoba		6 606
10	Danish (da) Arbejdende fattige		4 758

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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 "Working poor" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Working poor		2 970
2	Japanese (ja) ワーキングプア		1 072
3	Russian (ru) Обнищание пролетариата		593
4	Chinese (zh) 工作貧窮		419
5	German (de) Erwerbsarmut		287
6	French (fr) Travailleur pauvre		142
7	Spanish (es) Trabajadores pobres		73
8	Czech (cs) Pracující chudoba		48
9	Korean (ko) 노동 빈곤층		44
10	Finnish (fi) Työssäkäyvä köyhä		24

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Working poor		182
2	Japanese (ja) ワーキングプア		148
3	German (de) Erwerbsarmut		98
4	French (fr) Travailleur pauvre		78
5	Chinese (zh) 工作貧窮		42
6	Russian (ru) Обнищание пролетариата		27
7	Korean (ko) 노동 빈곤층		18
8	Spanish (es) Trabajadores pobres		11
9	Hebrew (he) עובדים עניים		9
10	Czech (cs) Pracující chudoba		7

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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 "Working poor" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Обнищание пролетариата		3
2	Persian (fa) شاغلان فقیر		1
3	Arabic (ar) فقراء عاملون		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Работещи бедни		0
5	Czech (cs) Pracující chudoba		0
6	Danish (da) Arbejdende fattige		0
7	German (de) Erwerbsarmut		0
8	English (en) Working poor		0
9	Spanish (es) Trabajadores pobres		0
10	Estonian (et) Palgavaene		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 "Working poor" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Working poor		785
2	Japanese (ja) ワーキングプア		492
3	Russian (ru) Обнищание пролетариата		228
4	Chinese (zh) 工作貧窮		218
5	Korean (ko) 노동 빈곤층		209
6	Arabic (ar) فقراء عاملون		94
7	French (fr) Travailleur pauvre		87
8	German (de) Erwerbsarmut		50
9	Spanish (es) Trabajadores pobres		40
10	Persian (fa) شاغلان فقیر		32

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فقراء عاملون
bg	Bulgarian Работещи бедни
cs	Czech Pracující chudoba
da	Danish Arbejdende fattige
de	German Erwerbsarmut
en	English Working poor
es	Spanish Trabajadores pobres
et	Estonian Palgavaene
fa	Persian شاغلان فقیر
fi	Finnish Työssäkäyvä köyhä
fr	French Travailleur pauvre
he	Hebrew עובדים עניים
ja	Japanese ワーキングプア
ko	Korean 노동 빈곤층
nl	Dutch Werkende armen
ru	Russian Обнищание пролетариата
sl	Slovenian Revni zaposleni
zh	Chinese 工作貧窮

Best Rank

English: #82319 11.2014

Global: #13711 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #16543 05.2005

Global: #23435 12.2007

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