Asylum seeker

Quality:

Asylum seeker - individual who seeks refuge, esp. political asylum, in a foreign country. Article “Asylum seeker” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Asylum seeker”, its content was written by 35 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5426^th place) and edited by 854 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3418 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #24 in May 2013
• Global: #6016 in September 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #125 in March 2014
• Global: #23139 in September 2015

There are 26 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	German (de) Asylbewerber		73.2857
2	English (en) Asylum seeker		55.5833
3	Ukrainian (uk) Шукачі притулку		54.4182
4	Hebrew (he) מבקש מקלט		50.3772
5	Swedish (sv) Asylsökande		34.1281
6	Norwegian (no) Asylsøker		32.9943
7	Romanian (ro) Solicitant de azil		31.7672
8	Russian (ru) Лицо, ищущее убежище		27.8681
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Asylsøkjar		27.3928
10	Catalan (ca) Asil humanitari		26.878

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Asylum seeker		1 598 518
2	German (de) Asylbewerber		887 754
3	Spanish (es) Asilo humanitario		584 760
4	Dutch (nl) Asielzoeker		223 690
5	Persian (fa) پناهجو		126 767
6	Simple English (simple) Asylum seeker		117 190
7	Norwegian (no) Asylsøker		115 097
8	Finnish (fi) Turvapaikanhakija		113 327
9	Swedish (sv) Asylsökande		107 547
10	Arabic (ar) طالب لجوء		31 730

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) Asylum seeker		6 107
2	German (de) Asylbewerber		414
3	Persian (fa) پناهجو		307
4	Russian (ru) Лицо, ищущее убежище		189
5	Chinese (zh) 尋求庇護者		176
6	Dutch (nl) Asielzoeker		168
7	Simple English (simple) Asylum seeker		157
8	Spanish (es) Asilo humanitario		156
9	French (fr) Demandeur d'asile		82
10	Hebrew (he) מבקש מקלט		71

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Asylbewerber		213
2	English (en) Asylum seeker		146
3	Spanish (es) Asilo humanitario		100
4	Dutch (nl) Asielzoeker		82
5	Swedish (sv) Asylsökande		51
6	Norwegian (no) Asylsøker		50
7	Finnish (fi) Turvapaikanhakija		45
8	Simple English (simple) Asylum seeker		35
9	Hebrew (he) מבקש מקלט		33
10	Arabic (ar) طالب لجوء		13

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) Asylum seeker		1
2	Romanian (ro) Solicitant de azil		1
3	Arabic (ar) طالب لجوء		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Sığınacaq axtaran		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Търсещ убежище		0
6	Catalan (ca) Asil humanitari		0
7	Danish (da) Asylansøger		0
8	German (de) Asylbewerber		0
9	Greek (el) Αιτών άσυλο		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Azilpetanto		0

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

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