Child soldier

Quality:

Child soldier - conscription of children in warfare. Article “Child soldier” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Child soldier”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2377 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 98 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5509 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #671 in August 2023
• Global: #3439 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3811 in November 2011
• Global: #9021 in March 2012

There are 35 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	Uzbek (uz) Harbiy xizmatdagi bolalar		100
2	English (en) Children in the military		99.5687
3	Hebrew (he) מעורבות ילדים ונוער בסכסוך מזוין		88.8164
4	Serbian (sr) Deca u vojsci		80
5	Greek (el) Στρατιωτική εκμετάλλευση των παιδιών		56.0015
6	Persian (fa) استفاده نظامی از کودکان		51.3571
7	Catalan (ca) Ús militar de nens		51.2757
8	Dutch (nl) Kindsoldaat		48.839
9	Spanish (es) Niños soldado		46.143
10	French (fr) Enfant soldat		45.0927

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Children in the military		4 691 438
2	Japanese (ja) 少年兵		920 815
3	French (fr) Enfant soldat		870 212
4	German (de) Kindersoldat		838 061
5	Spanish (es) Niños soldado		515 856
6	Italian (it) Bambini soldato		505 500
7	Russian (ru) Дети-солдаты		341 925
8	Dutch (nl) Kindsoldaat		328 459
9	Polish (pl) Dzieci żołnierze		166 176
10	Chinese (zh) 童兵		122 790

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) Children in the military		10 251
2	Japanese (ja) 少年兵		1 388
3	Russian (ru) Дети-солдаты		1 224
4	German (de) Kindersoldat		1 053
5	Persian (fa) استفاده نظامی از کودکان		1 005
6	French (fr) Enfant soldat		873
7	Chinese (zh) 童兵		627
8	Spanish (es) Niños soldado		574
9	Italian (it) Bambini soldato		492
10	Polish (pl) Dzieci żołnierze		289

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Children in the military		919
2	German (de) Kindersoldat		236
3	French (fr) Enfant soldat		233
4	Dutch (nl) Kindsoldaat		126
5	Italian (it) Bambini soldato		122
6	Spanish (es) Niños soldado		106
7	Hebrew (he) מעורבות ילדים ונוער בסכסוך מזוין		105
8	Japanese (ja) 少年兵		86
9	Russian (ru) Дети-солдаты		53
10	Chinese (zh) 童兵		51

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) Children in the military		3
2	Hebrew (he) מעורבות ילדים ונוער בסכסוך מזוין		2
3	Japanese (ja) 少年兵		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Uşaqlardan hərbidə istifadə edilməsi		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Infansoldato		1
6	Spanish (es) Niños soldado		1
7	Persian (fa) استفاده نظامی از کودکان		1
8	French (fr) Enfant soldat		1
9	Indonesian (id) Prajurit anak		1
10	Italian (it) Bambini soldato		1

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

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