Angela Merkel

Quality:

Angela Merkel - chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. This person is the 312^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 391^st most popular person in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “Angela Merkel” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 96.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 195 references and 33 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

no

The 1619^th most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia.

no

The 648^th most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia.

The 391^st most popular in people in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 848^th most popular in all topics.

The 347^th most popular in AI.

The 312^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

no

The 6925^th most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3306^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7490^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Angela Merkel”, its content was written by 148 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia (648^th place) and edited by 8990 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (347^th place).

Angela Merkel is on the 391^st place in local ranking of people in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 312^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 241 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 21287 times in all languages (7759^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #7 in October 2005
• Global: #13 in November 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #45 in September 2017
• Global: #37 in September 2021

There are 55 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) Angela Merkel		100
2	Norwegian (no) Angela Merkel		96.3093
3	French (fr) Angela Merkel		95.2587
4	Hebrew (he) אנגלה מרקל		93.9026
5	English (en) Angela Merkel		93.8106
6	Turkish (tr) Angela Merkel		91.3646
7	Arabic (ar) أنغيلا ميركل		90.4648
8	Portuguese (pt) Angela Merkel		87.5731
9	Serbian (sr) Ангела Меркел		86.3158
10	Czech (cs) Angela Merkelová		85.5925

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Angela Merkel		29 730 486
2	German (de) Angela Merkel		25 713 094
3	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		7 556 228
4	French (fr) Angela Merkel		5 906 490
5	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		5 610 373
6	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		3 525 769
7	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		2 901 202
8	Japanese (ja) アンゲラ・メルケル		2 777 914
9	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		1 984 169
10	Portuguese (pt) Angela Merkel		1 707 727

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) Angela Merkel		78 009
2	German (de) Angela Merkel		39 880
3	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		18 765
4	Japanese (ja) アンゲラ・メルケル		13 751
5	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		10 419
6	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		9 981
7	French (fr) Angela Merkel		9 471
8	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		6 759
9	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		5 168
10	Turkish (tr) Angela Merkel		3 991

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Angela Merkel		1 863
2	English (en) Angela Merkel		1 797
3	French (fr) Angela Merkel		531
4	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		404
5	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		366
6	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		329
7	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		256
8	Dutch (nl) Angela Merkel		216
9	Japanese (ja) アンゲラ・メルケル		215
10	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		215

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	Czech (cs) Angela Merkelová		3
2	German (de) Angela Merkel		3
3	English (en) Angela Merkel		3
4	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		2
5	Catalan (ca) Angela Merkel		1
6	Greek (el) Άνγκελα Μέρκελ		1
7	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		1
8	French (fr) Angela Merkel		1
9	Croatian (hr) Angela Merkel		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Angela Merkel		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information