Census

Quality:

Census - survey designed to collect data about all members of a population. This event is the 233^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 170^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Census” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

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 4384^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 170^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6172^nd most popular in AI.

The 233^rd most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8056^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Census”, its content was written by 37 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4384^th place) and edited by 3209 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6172^nd place).

Census is on the 170^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 233^rd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1124 times in Simple English Wikipedia (420^th place) and cited 497183 times in all languages (181^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #316 in October 2004
• Global: #726 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3016 in January 2010
• Global: #1812 in May 2010

There are 52 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) Census		73.8661
2	German (de) Volkszählung		61.2903
3	Finnish (fi) Väestönlaskenta		48.0214
4	Chinese (zh) 人口普查		46.5553
5	Dutch (nl) Volkstelling		45.8787
6	French (fr) Recensement de la population		40.6019
7	Esperanto (eo) Popolnombrado		40.4643
8	Catalan (ca) Cens de població		36.4587
9	Tamil (ta) மக்கள் தொகைக் கணக்கெடுப்பு		32.926
10	Spanish (es) Censo (estadística)		32.1943

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Census		7 590 955
2	Spanish (es) Censo (estadística)		6 285 083
3	French (fr) Recensement de la population		1 757 339
4	Portuguese (pt) Censo demográfico		1 456 850
5	Japanese (ja) 国勢調査		1 055 001
6	German (de) Volkszählung		1 014 986
7	Russian (ru) Перепись населения		788 739
8	Italian (it) Censimento		601 777
9	Indonesian (id) Sensus		522 429
10	Arabic (ar) إحصاء السكان		404 739

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) Census		15 178
2	French (fr) Recensement de la population		3 727
3	Japanese (ja) 国勢調査		2 204
4	Spanish (es) Censo (estadística)		2 130
5	Russian (ru) Перепись населения		1 595
6	German (de) Volkszählung		1 529
7	Arabic (ar) إحصاء السكان		1 121
8	Chinese (zh) 人口普查		1 104
9	Portuguese (pt) Censo demográfico		1 041
10	Simple English (simple) Census		825

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Census		813
2	German (de) Volkszählung		336
3	Spanish (es) Censo (estadística)		195
4	French (fr) Recensement de la population		194
5	Italian (it) Censimento		123
6	Russian (ru) Перепись населения		123
7	Dutch (nl) Volkstelling		118
8	Portuguese (pt) Censo demográfico		96
9	Norwegian (no) Folketelling		77
10	Danish (da) Folketælling		71

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) Census		7
2	Portuguese (pt) Censo demográfico		2
3	Esperanto (eo) Popolnombrado		1
4	Basque (eu) Zentsu (estatistika)		1
5	Indonesian (id) Sensus		1
6	Arabic (ar) إحصاء السكان		0
7	Belarusian (be) Перапіс насельніцтва		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Преброяване на населението		0
9	Catalan (ca) Cens de població		0
10	Czech (cs) Sčítání lidu		0

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

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