Deep state

Quality:

Deep state - clandestine form of government of a state, operated through networks of covert power groups. Article “Deep state” in Simple English Wikipedia has 1.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 “Deep state”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 724 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1260 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3577 in June 2022
• Global: #1854 in March 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #27737 in December 2022
• Global: #8173 in November 2024

There are 25 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) Deep state		85.5177
2	Hebrew (he) דיפ סטייט		70.2158
3	Portuguese (pt) Estado paralelo		58.6166
4	Ukrainian (uk) Глибинна держава		43.5022
5	Norwegian (no) Dypstat		41.8171
6	Spanish (es) Estado profundo		39.7923
7	Vietnamese (vi) Nhà nước ngầm		33.8922
8	French (fr) État profond		33.6281
9	Polish (pl) Głębokie państwo		31.8924
10	Italian (it) Stato profondo		30.5695

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Deep state		3 818 689
2	Turkish (tr) Derin devlet		787 435
3	Arabic (ar) الدولة العميقة		416 397
4	Chinese (zh) 深層政府		347 241
5	French (fr) État profond		315 319
6	Spanish (es) Estado profundo		229 460
7	Italian (it) Stato profondo		170 830
8	Hebrew (he) דיפ סטייט		166 297
9	Greek (el) Παρακράτος		89 485
10	Portuguese (pt) Estado paralelo		62 607

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) Deep state		37 169
2	Hebrew (he) דיפ סטייט		3 757
3	French (fr) État profond		2 907
4	Spanish (es) Estado profundo		2 621
5	Chinese (zh) 深層政府		2 449
6	Korean (ko) 딥 스테이트		2 172
7	Turkish (tr) Derin devlet		1 846
8	Arabic (ar) الدولة العميقة		1 804
9	Polish (pl) Głębokie państwo		1 017
10	Italian (it) Stato profondo		929

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Deep state		341
2	French (fr) État profond		89
3	Hebrew (he) דיפ סטייט		61
4	Chinese (zh) 深層政府		31
5	Persian (fa) دولت پنهان		29
6	Arabic (ar) الدولة العميقة		23
7	Spanish (es) Estado profundo		22
8	Italian (it) Stato profondo		22
9	Greek (el) Παρακράτος		21
10	Portuguese (pt) Estado paralelo		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) Deep state		9
2	Croatian (hr) Duboka država		2
3	Polish (pl) Głębokie państwo		2
4	French (fr) État profond		1
5	Italian (it) Stato profondo		1
6	Korean (ko) 딥 스테이트		1
7	Portuguese (pt) Estado paralelo		1
8	Turkish (tr) Derin devlet		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Nhà nước ngầm		1
10	Arabic (ar) الدولة العميقة		0

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

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