African Americans

Quality:

African Americans - Americans with sub-Saharan African ancestry. Article “African Americans” in Simple English Wikipedia has 85 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 66 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.47 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1831^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 52^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4594^th most popular in all topics.

The 1190^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 103^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 745^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6592^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4804^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “African Americans” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (745^th place) and written by 30 authors in all languages (4804^th place).

Since the creation of article “African Americans”, its content was written by 263 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (52^nd place) and edited by 6070 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1190^th place).

The article is cited 2615 times in Simple English Wikipedia (152^nd place) and cited 202950 times in all languages (554^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1 in August 2020
• Global: #94 in December 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #50 in December 2024
• Global: #475 in June 2020

There are 53 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	English (en) African Americans		97.0789
2	Hungarian (hu) Afroamerikaiak		87.9616
3	Simple English (simple) African Americans		84.9655
4	French (fr) Afro-Américains		81.1465
5	Catalan (ca) Negres estatunidencs		74.7618
6	Finnish (fi) Afroamerikkalaiset		68.617
7	Turkish (tr) Afroamerikalılar		61.7869
8	Czech (cs) Afroameričané		60.4094
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Afroamerikanarar		55.2921
10	Georgian (ka) აფრო-ამერიკელები		53.1128

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) African Americans		28 790 422
2	Russian (ru) Афроамериканцы		2 256 696
3	French (fr) Afro-Américains		2 035 939
4	German (de) Afroamerikaner		1 956 689
5	Japanese (ja) アフリカ系アメリカ人		1 312 696
6	Portuguese (pt) Afro-americanos		911 911
7	Polish (pl) Afroamerykanie		642 027
8	Italian (it) Afroamericani		626 415
9	Chinese (zh) 非裔美国人		612 787
10	Spanish (es) Afroestadounidense		556 308

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) African Americans		91 357
2	Russian (ru) Афроамериканцы		5 144
3	Simple English (simple) African Americans		4 255
4	German (de) Afroamerikaner		3 866
5	French (fr) Afro-Américains		3 821
6	Japanese (ja) アフリカ系アメリカ人		3 161
7	Persian (fa) سیاه‌پوستان آمریکا		2 253
8	Italian (it) Afroamericani		2 157
9	Spanish (es) Afroestadounidense		1 923
10	Chinese (zh) 非裔美国人		1 615

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) African Americans		2 426
2	French (fr) Afro-Américains		341
3	German (de) Afroamerikaner		333
4	Simple English (simple) African Americans		263
5	Russian (ru) Афроамериканцы		219
6	Italian (it) Afroamericani		180
7	Hebrew (he) אפרו-אמריקאים		148
8	Dutch (nl) Afro-Amerikanen		143
9	Japanese (ja) アフリカ系アメリカ人		139
10	Swedish (sv) Afroamerikaner		101

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	English (en) African Americans		10
2	Japanese (ja) アフリカ系アメリカ人		3
3	German (de) Afroamerikaner		2
4	Simple English (simple) African Americans		2
5	Catalan (ca) Negres estatunidencs		1
6	Estonian (et) Afroameeriklased		1
7	Hebrew (he) אפרו-אמריקאים		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Afroamerikaiak		1
9	Korean (ko) 아프리카계 미국인		1
10	Latin (la) Afroamericani		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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information