Desertification

Quality:

Desertification - land degradation in which an area becomes a desert, losing its bodies of water, flora, and fauna, caused by climate change, overexploitation of soil, or other causes. Article “Desertification” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 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.

In June 2026 the article “Desertification” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4079^th place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Desertification”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2496 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 25 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7468 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #324 in November 2011
• Global: #2573 in May 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2450 in November 2015
• Global: #4577 in May 2010

There are 50 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	English (en) Desertification		94.374
2	Chinese (zh) 沙漠化		88.2489
3	Persian (fa) بیابان‌زایی		84.9831
4	Greek (el) Ερημοποίηση		77.145
5	Hindi (hi) मरुस्थलीकरण		76.724
6	Czech (cs) Dezertifikace		74.6091
7	Slovenian (sl) Dezertifikacija		67.2605
8	Bulgarian (bg) Опустиняване		60.526
9	Arabic (ar) تصحر		58.7344
10	Russian (ru) Опустынивание		53.6364

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Desertification		5 168 109
2	Spanish (es) Desertificación		3 282 709
3	Arabic (ar) تصحر		2 047 471
4	German (de) Desertifikation		1 355 362
5	Portuguese (pt) Desertificação		1 123 795
6	Japanese (ja) 砂漠化		1 104 448
7	French (fr) Désertification		799 968
8	Russian (ru) Опустынивание		498 851
9	Italian (it) Desertificazione		495 272
10	Chinese (zh) 沙漠化		303 913

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) Desertification		7 339
2	German (de) Desertifikation		1 311
3	Russian (ru) Опустынивание		1 080
4	Chinese (zh) 沙漠化		1 056
5	Japanese (ja) 砂漠化		773
6	Spanish (es) Desertificación		575
7	French (fr) Désertification		381
8	Czech (cs) Dezertifikace		239
9	Persian (fa) بیابان‌زایی		229
10	Korean (ko) 사막화		193

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Desertification		718
2	German (de) Desertifikation		332
3	French (fr) Désertification		148
4	Italian (it) Desertificazione		146
5	Spanish (es) Desertificación		135
6	Portuguese (pt) Desertificação		89
7	Arabic (ar) تصحر		77
8	Russian (ru) Опустынивание		72
9	Japanese (ja) 砂漠化		67
10	Dutch (nl) Verwoestijning		58

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) Desertification		11
2	Greek (el) Ερημοποίηση		2
3	Spanish (es) Desertificación		2
4	Arabic (ar) تصحر		1
5	French (fr) Désertification		1
6	Romanian (ro) Deșertificare		1
7	Simple English (simple) Desertification		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Səhralaşma		0
9	Belarusian (be) Апустыньванне		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Опустиняване		0

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

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