PIGS

Quality:

PIGS - derogatory acronym for the economies of Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. Article “PIGS” in Italian Wikipedia has 44.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 48 references and 12 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “PIGS”, its content was written by 71 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 702 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 183 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #999 in February 2010
• Global: #2075 in February 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #1386 in May 2020
• Global: #13161 in May 2010

There are 20 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	Italian (it) PIGS		44.5413
2	Spanish (es) PIGS		35.8204
3	Catalan (ca) PIGS		35.1771
4	English (en) PIGS (economics)		34.9996
5	Portuguese (pt) PIIGS		33.1398
6	Thai (th) พิกส์ (เศรษฐศาสตร์)		32.0141
7	Croatian (hr) PIGS		29.4546
8	French (fr) PIGS		28.0131
9	Czech (cs) PIGS		27.2092
10	Swedish (sv) PIGS-länderna		26.8152

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) PIGS (economics)		2 007 059
2	Chinese (zh) 歐豬五國		779 634
3	Spanish (es) PIGS		436 472
4	Italian (it) PIGS		401 611
5	Portuguese (pt) PIIGS		318 956
6	French (fr) PIGS		161 231
7	Russian (ru) PIGS		112 705
8	Korean (ko) PIGS		45 972
9	Dutch (nl) PIGS		38 622
10	Swedish (sv) PIGS-länderna		34 435

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) PIGS (economics)		2 878
2	Chinese (zh) 歐豬五國		1 148
3	Italian (it) PIGS		398
4	Spanish (es) PIGS		389
5	Portuguese (pt) PIIGS		214
6	French (fr) PIGS		152
7	Russian (ru) PIGS		108
8	Hebrew (he) PIGS		39
9	Swedish (sv) PIGS-länderna		37
10	Korean (ko) PIGS		34

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) PIGS (economics)		274
2	Italian (it) PIGS		71
3	Chinese (zh) 歐豬五國		69
4	Spanish (es) PIGS		56
5	French (fr) PIGS		52
6	Portuguese (pt) PIIGS		36
7	Russian (ru) PIGS		25
8	Dutch (nl) PIGS		22
9	Hebrew (he) PIGS		18
10	Catalan (ca) PIGS		12

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	Catalan (ca) PIGS		1
2	English (en) PIGS (economics)		1
3	Arabic (ar) خنازير (اقتصاد)		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) ПИГС		0
5	Czech (cs) PIGS		0
6	Greek (el) P.I.G.S.		0
7	Spanish (es) PIGS		0
8	Basque (eu) PIGS		0
9	French (fr) PIGS		0
10	Hebrew (he) PIGS		0

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

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