Consequentialism

Quality:

Consequentialism - class of ethical theory basing standards of right & wrong on the consequences of actions. Article “Consequentialism” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 1 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 “Consequentialism”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 903 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 81 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4833 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1616 in November 2015
• Global: #22 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2501 in August 2022
• Global: #1814 in December 2014

There are 34 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) Consequentialism		74.0821
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Konsekvencijalizam		68.5716
3	Serbian (sr) Консеквенцијализам		42.8541
4	Latin (la) Consequentialismus		38.6863
5	French (fr) Conséquentialisme		33.1505
6	Indonesian (id) Konsekuensialisme		26.7205
7	Norwegian (no) Teleologisk etikk		25.2814
8	Arabic (ar) عواقبية		25.0147
9	Hindi (hi) परिणामवाद		24.6347
10	Persian (fa) پیامدگرایی		23.2725

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Consequentialism		6 056 520
2	Spanish (es) Consecuencialismo		449 180
3	Russian (ru) Консеквенциализм		336 989
4	French (fr) Conséquentialisme		336 471
5	German (de) Konsequentialismus		311 148
6	Swedish (sv) Konsekventialism		226 473
7	Dutch (nl) Gevolgenethiek		226 054
8	Japanese (ja) 帰結主義		181 276
9	Finnish (fi) Seurausetiikka		158 998
10	Chinese (zh) 結果主義		150 620

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) Consequentialism		10 093
2	Russian (ru) Консеквенциализм		1 327
3	French (fr) Conséquentialisme		869
4	German (de) Konsequentialismus		633
5	Chinese (zh) 結果主義		617
6	Japanese (ja) 帰結主義		525
7	Spanish (es) Consecuencialismo		457
8	Simple English (simple) Consequentialism		393
9	Dutch (nl) Gevolgenethiek		317
10	Polish (pl) Konsekwencjalizm		251

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Consequentialism		418
2	French (fr) Conséquentialisme		72
3	Spanish (es) Consecuencialismo		54
4	German (de) Konsequentialismus		48
5	Dutch (nl) Gevolgenethiek		35
6	Italian (it) Consequenzialismo		32
7	Swedish (sv) Konsekventialism		25
8	Russian (ru) Консеквенциализм		23
9	Finnish (fi) Seurausetiikka		21
10	Japanese (ja) 帰結主義		19

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) Consequentialism		3
2	German (de) Konsequentialismus		2
3	Czech (cs) Konsekvencialismus		1
4	Serbian (sr) Консеквенцијализам		1
5	Arabic (ar) عواقبية		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Консеквенциализъм		0
7	Danish (da) Konsekvensetik		0
8	Greek (el) Συνεπειοκρατία		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Konsekvencismo		0
10	Spanish (es) Consecuencialismo		0

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

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