African Americans

Quality:

African Americans - Americans with sub-Saharan African ancestry. Article “African Americans” in Simple English Wikipedia has 87.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 68 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.61 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 1543^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 55^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4550^th most popular in all topics.

The 1210^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 76^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 53^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5990^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1817^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “African Americans” was edited by 11 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (53^rd place) and written by 47 authors in all languages (1817^th place).

Since the creation of article “African Americans”, its content was written by 247 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (55^th place) and edited by 5974 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1210^th place).

The article is cited 2018 times in Simple English Wikipedia (191^st place) and cited 184925 times in all languages (600^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): #52 in December 2024
• Global: #472 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, 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	English (en) African Americans		94.4334
2	Hungarian (hu) Afroamerikaiak		87.9521
3	Simple English (simple) African Americans		87.5486
4	French (fr) Afro-Américains		81.3941
5	Catalan (ca) Negres estatunidencs		74.647
6	Finnish (fi) Afroamerikkalaiset		68.3368
7	Czech (cs) Afroameričané		61.7001
8	Turkish (tr) Afroamerikalılar		58.6305
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Afroamerikanarar		55.2921
10	Georgian (ka) აფრო-ამერიკელები		54.2927

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) African Americans		27 636 301
2	Russian (ru) Афроамериканцы		2 091 340
3	French (fr) Afro-Américains		1 975 137
4	German (de) Afroamerikaner		1 901 264
5	Japanese (ja) アフリカ系アメリカ人		1 272 527
6	Portuguese (pt) Afro-americanos		892 572
7	Polish (pl) Afroamerykanie		622 814
8	Chinese (zh) 非裔美国人		590 254
9	Italian (it) Afroamericani		544 085
10	Arabic (ar) أمريكيون أفارقة		517 986

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		103 564
2	Simple English (simple) African Americans		11 029
3	Russian (ru) Афроамериканцы		6 897
4	French (fr) Afro-Américains		4 770
5	German (de) Afroamerikaner		3 716
6	Japanese (ja) アフリカ系アメリカ人		3 161
7	Spanish (es) Afroestadounidense		2 503
8	Chinese (zh) 非裔美国人		2 478
9	Italian (it) Afroamericani		2 275
10	Arabic (ar) أمريكيون أفارقة		2 053

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		2 365
2	French (fr) Afro-Américains		335
3	German (de) Afroamerikaner		331
4	Simple English (simple) African Americans		247
5	Russian (ru) Афроамериканцы		218
6	Italian (it) Afroamericani		179
7	Hebrew (he) אפרו-אמריקאים		147
8	Dutch (nl) Afro-Amerikanen		142
9	Japanese (ja) アフリカ系アメリカ人		133
10	Czech (cs) Afroameričané		100

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		16
2	Simple English (simple) African Americans		11
3	Persian (fa) سیاه‌پوستان آمریکا		2
4	Galician (gl) Afroamericano		2
5	Hebrew (he) אפרו-אמריקאים		2
6	Indonesian (id) Afrika Amerika Serikat		2
7	Arabic (ar) أمريكيون أفارقة		1
8	French (fr) Afro-Américains		1
9	Hindi (hi) अफ़्रीकी अमेरिकी		1
10	Armenian (hy) Աֆրոամերիկացիներ		1

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

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