Atlantic slave trade

Quality:

Atlantic slave trade - slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean during the early modern period (late 15th century to the early 19th century). Article “Atlantic slave trade” in Simple English Wikipedia has 47.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 21 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6768^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3827^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8732^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5883^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 75^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6173^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Atlantic slave trade” was edited by 6 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (75^th place) and written by 26 authors in all languages (6173^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Atlantic slave trade”, its content was written by 42 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3827^th place) and edited by 2746 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8732^nd place).

The article is cited 199 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11421 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #13 in March 2021
• Global: #469 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2170 in October 2017
• Global: #723 in June 2020

There are 37 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	Catalan (ca) Comerç atlàntic d'esclaus		100
2	Serbian (sr) Атлантска трговина робљем		98.3971
3	Spanish (es) Comercio atlántico de esclavos		97.0758
4	Romanian (ro) Comerțul transatlantic cu sclavi		95.1801
5	Chinese (zh) 大西洋奴隸貿易		94.7425
6	German (de) Atlantischer Sklavenhandel		90.6667
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Den atlantiske slavehandelen		88.8998
8	Hebrew (he) סחר העבדים האטלנטי		87.6923
9	English (en) Atlantic slave trade		79.3895
10	Portuguese (pt) Comércio de escravos no Atlântico		77.2652

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Atlantic slave trade		19 992 654
2	Portuguese (pt) Comércio de escravos no Atlântico		1 782 172
3	Italian (it) Tratta atlantica degli schiavi africani		1 154 436
4	Spanish (es) Comercio atlántico de esclavos		701 340
5	German (de) Atlantischer Sklavenhandel		664 412
6	Chinese (zh) 大西洋奴隸貿易		589 822
7	Dutch (nl) Trans-Atlantische slavenhandel		434 891
8	Russian (ru) Трансатлантическая работорговля		266 657
9	Polish (pl) Transatlantycki handel niewolnikami		220 712
10	Norwegian (no) Den atlantiske slavehandelen		174 499

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) Atlantic slave trade		61 520
2	German (de) Atlantischer Sklavenhandel		3 404
3	Chinese (zh) 大西洋奴隸貿易		2 538
4	Spanish (es) Comercio atlántico de esclavos		2 382
5	Italian (it) Tratta atlantica degli schiavi africani		2 029
6	Portuguese (pt) Comércio de escravos no Atlântico		1 952
7	Russian (ru) Трансатлантическая работорговля		1 682
8	Dutch (nl) Trans-Atlantische slavenhandel		1 550
9	Polish (pl) Transatlantycki handel niewolnikami		1 025
10	Japanese (ja) 大西洋奴隷貿易		690

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Atlantic slave trade		1 649
2	German (de) Atlantischer Sklavenhandel		197
3	Italian (it) Tratta atlantica degli schiavi africani		150
4	Portuguese (pt) Comércio de escravos no Atlântico		133
5	Dutch (nl) Trans-Atlantische slavenhandel		119
6	Spanish (es) Comercio atlántico de esclavos		65
7	Chinese (zh) 大西洋奴隸貿易		65
8	Hebrew (he) סחר העבדים האטלנטי		53
9	Simple English (simple) Atlantic slave trade		42
10	Norwegian (no) Den atlantiske slavehandelen		39

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) Atlantic slave trade		7
2	Simple English (simple) Atlantic slave trade		6
3	Italian (it) Tratta atlantica degli schiavi africani		2
4	Portuguese (pt) Comércio de escravos no Atlântico		2
5	Serbian (sr) Атлантска трговина робљем		2
6	Ukrainian (uk) Трансатлантична работоргівля		2
7	Arabic (ar) تجارة العبيد عبر الأطلسي		1
8	Catalan (ca) Comerç atlàntic d'esclaus		1
9	German (de) Atlantischer Sklavenhandel		1
10	Basque (eu) Atlantikoko esklabo merkataritza		1

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

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