Breathing

Quality:

Breathing - process that moves air in and out of the lungs. Article “Breathing” in Simple English Wikipedia has 50.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 17 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Breathing”, its content was written by 42 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3771^st place) and edited by 2511 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 167 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10297 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #228 in June 2017
• Global: #283 in January 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2320 in August 2010
• Global: #4718 in May 2020

There are 54 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) Breathing		73.3632
2	Portuguese (pt) Respiração		63.5863
3	Esperanto (eo) Spirado		61.5605
4	Armenian (hy) Շնչառություն		61.3912
5	Vietnamese (vi) Hít thở		53.05
6	Simple English (simple) Breathing		50.2722
7	Basque (eu) Arnasketa		50.1183
8	Finnish (fi) Hengitys		47.9011
9	Croatian (hr) Disanje		46.0538
10	Chinese (zh) 呼吸		42.2311

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Breathing		6 466 222
2	Portuguese (pt) Respiração		2 613 553
3	Spanish (es) Ventilación pulmonar		2 549 445
4	Russian (ru) Дыхание		2 227 083
5	Japanese (ja) 呼吸		1 461 025
6	Ukrainian (uk) Дихання		1 030 058
7	Dutch (nl) Ademhalingsstelsel (mens)		942 629
8	French (fr) Ventilation pulmonaire		795 871
9	Polish (pl) Oddychanie		635 792
10	Kazakh (kk) Тыныс алу		615 765

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) Breathing		5 761
2	Russian (ru) Дыхание		2 681
3	Persian (fa) تنفس		1 382
4	Japanese (ja) 呼吸		909
5	Chinese (zh) 呼吸		799
6	Portuguese (pt) Respiração		654
7	Dutch (nl) Ademhalingsstelsel (mens)		537
8	Italian (it) Respirazione (fisiologia umana)		524
9	German (de) Lungenventilation		370
10	French (fr) Ventilation pulmonaire		323

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Breathing		685
2	Portuguese (pt) Respiração		144
3	Dutch (nl) Ademhalingsstelsel (mens)		119
4	Russian (ru) Дыхание		117
5	Spanish (es) Ventilación pulmonar		101
6	French (fr) Ventilation pulmonaire		96
7	German (de) Lungenventilation		86
8	Japanese (ja) 呼吸		78
9	Hebrew (he) נשימה		70
10	Swedish (sv) Andning		70

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) Breathing		5
2	Catalan (ca) Ventilació pulmonar		2
3	Armenian (hy) Շնչառություն		2
4	German (de) Lungenventilation		1
5	Basque (eu) Arnasketa		1
6	Galician (gl) Respiración pulmonar		1
7	Croatian (hr) Disanje		1
8	Japanese (ja) 呼吸		1
9	Arabic (ar) استنشاق		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Nəfəs alma		0

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

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