Deforestation

Quality:

Deforestation - removal of forest and conversion of the land to non-forest use. Article “Deforestation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 489^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 823^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4746^th most popular in all topics.

The 4227^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4593^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Deforestation”, its content was written by 94 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (823^rd place) and edited by 3878 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4227^th place).

The article is cited 251 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 20481 times in all languages (8424^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #21 in October 2016
• Global: #462 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #190 in January 2016
• Global: #185 in January 2014

There are 51 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	Spanish (es) Deforestación		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Desflorestação		100
3	German (de) Entwaldung		100
4	Chinese (zh) 森林砍伐		96.4177
5	Slovenian (sl) Krčenje gozdov		95
6	English (en) Deforestation		93.5447
7	Indonesian (id) Deforestasi		92.4395
8	Czech (cs) Odlesňování		90.9978
9	Hindi (hi) वनोन्मूलन		90
10	Esperanto (eo) Senarbarigo		87.5

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Deforestation		18 194 178
2	Spanish (es) Deforestación		12 328 243
3	French (fr) Déforestation		2 961 121
4	Portuguese (pt) Desflorestação		2 088 630
5	Japanese (ja) 森林破壊		1 205 659
6	Russian (ru) Обезлесение		749 851
7	Italian (it) Diboscamento		747 969
8	Thai (th) การทำลายป่า		548 065
9	Simple English (simple) Deforestation		530 000
10	Hindi (hi) वनोन्मूलन		483 636

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) Deforestation		10 439
2	Spanish (es) Deforestación		3 547
3	Chinese (zh) 森林砍伐		1 906
4	French (fr) Déforestation		1 476
5	Russian (ru) Обезлесение		1 007
6	Japanese (ja) 森林破壊		912
7	Portuguese (pt) Desflorestação		694
8	Persian (fa) جنگل‌زدایی		614
9	German (de) Entwaldung		549
10	Czech (cs) Odlesňování		336

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Deforestation		1 449
2	French (fr) Déforestation		385
3	Spanish (es) Deforestación		335
4	German (de) Entwaldung		222
5	Italian (it) Diboscamento		193
6	Portuguese (pt) Desflorestação		131
7	Dutch (nl) Ontbossing		115
8	Simple English (simple) Deforestation		94
9	Japanese (ja) 森林破壊		81
10	Russian (ru) Обезлесение		75

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	Spanish (es) Deforestación		2
2	Japanese (ja) 森林破壊		2
3	Arabic (ar) إزالة الغابات		1
4	Greek (el) Αποδάσωση		1
5	English (en) Deforestation		1
6	French (fr) Déforestation		1
7	Indonesian (id) Deforestasi		1
8	Romanian (ro) Defrișare		1
9	Slovenian (sl) Krčenje gozdov		1
10	Tamil (ta) காடழிப்பு		1

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

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