World population

Quality:

World population - total number of living humans on Earth. Article “World population” in English Wikipedia has 79.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 236 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 14.1 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1304^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1549^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 572^nd most popular in all topics.

The 1668^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8465^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4622^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7425^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “World population” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 24 authors in all languages (7425^th place).

Since the creation of article “World population”, its content was written by 1724 registered users of English Wikipedia (1549^th place) and edited by 5412 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1668^th place).

The article is cited 1225 times in English Wikipedia and cited 37987 times in all languages (4440^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #213 in October 2011
• Global: #46 in November 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #275 in January 2016
• Global: #115 in March 2020

There are 46 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	Greek (el) Παγκόσμιος πληθυσμός		100
2	Ukrainian (uk) Населення Землі		98.8889
3	Tamil (ta) உலக மக்கள்தொகை		96.3889
4	Chinese (zh) 世界人口		89.0746
5	German (de) Weltbevölkerung		87.7455
6	Russian (ru) Население Земли		84.3812
7	English (en) World population		79.9128
8	Spanish (es) Población mundial		75.7953
9	Basque (eu) Munduko biztanleria		75.2782
10	Turkish (tr) Dünya nüfusu		68.8324

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) World population		40 685 322
2	Russian (ru) Население Земли		12 271 190
3	Spanish (es) Población mundial		12 245 756
4	German (de) Weltbevölkerung		9 666 131
5	French (fr) Population mondiale		6 277 001
6	Polish (pl) Ludność świata		4 350 146
7	Japanese (ja) 世界人口		4 346 287
8	Italian (it) Popolazione mondiale		3 978 672
9	Portuguese (pt) População mundial		3 748 703
10	Vietnamese (vi) Dân số thế giới		3 036 865

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) World population		66 930
2	Russian (ru) Население Земли		19 630
3	Spanish (es) Población mundial		12 019
4	French (fr) Population mondiale		11 622
5	German (de) Weltbevölkerung		10 647
6	Japanese (ja) 世界人口		7 008
7	Chinese (zh) 世界人口		4 179
8	Italian (it) Popolazione mondiale		3 974
9	Polish (pl) Ludność świata		3 761
10	Persian (fa) جمعیت جهان		3 583

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) World population		1 724
2	Spanish (es) Población mundial		415
3	Russian (ru) Население Земли		407
4	German (de) Weltbevölkerung		388
5	French (fr) Population mondiale		300
6	Italian (it) Popolazione mondiale		230
7	Dutch (nl) Wereldbevolking		177
8	Turkish (tr) Dünya nüfusu		159
9	Polish (pl) Ludność świata		154
10	Portuguese (pt) População mundial		150

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	French (fr) Population mondiale		4
2	Spanish (es) Población mundial		3
3	Greek (el) Παγκόσμιος πληθυσμός		2
4	English (en) World population		2
5	Russian (ru) Население Земли		2
6	Azerbaijani (az) Dünya əhalisi		1
7	Catalan (ca) Població mundial		1
8	Czech (cs) Světová populace		1
9	German (de) Weltbevölkerung		1
10	Basque (eu) Munduko biztanleria		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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