Drowning

Quality:

Drowning - respiratory impairment caused by submersion in liquid causing death. Article “Drowning” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Drowning”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1854 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 150 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8578 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2241 in May 2007
• Global: #4178 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1386 in August 2012
• Global: #1913 in June 2008

There are 40 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	Korean (ko) 익사		99.7898
2	English (en) Drowning		87.0297
3	German (de) Ertrinken		72.2653
4	French (fr) Noyade		63.5511
5	Spanish (es) Ahogamiento		55.5968
6	Malay (ms) Lemas		51.082
7	Russian (ru) Утопление		35.2632
8	Arabic (ar) غرق		34.2625
9	Finnish (fi) Hukkuminen		34.1333
10	Serbian (sr) Утопљење		34.0172

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Drowning		7 905 843
2	Japanese (ja) 水死		1 428 033
3	Spanish (es) Ahogamiento		1 239 959
4	Russian (ru) Утопление		1 159 957
5	German (de) Ertrinken		991 319
6	French (fr) Noyade		581 803
7	Portuguese (pt) Afogamento		525 720
8	Arabic (ar) غرق		294 813
9	Dutch (nl) Verdrinking		279 508
10	Polish (pl) Utonięcie		216 909

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) Drowning		17 732
2	German (de) Ertrinken		2 973
3	Spanish (es) Ahogamiento		2 522
4	Japanese (ja) 水死		2 520
5	French (fr) Noyade		2 448
6	Russian (ru) Утопление		1 990
7	Persian (fa) غرق‌شدگی		938
8	Portuguese (pt) Afogamento		779
9	Chinese (zh) 遇溺		714
10	Italian (it) Annegamento		647

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Drowning		668
2	German (de) Ertrinken		218
3	French (fr) Noyade		154
4	Japanese (ja) 水死		88
5	Dutch (nl) Verdrinking		79
6	Russian (ru) Утопление		71
7	Spanish (es) Ahogamiento		60
8	Italian (it) Annegamento		58
9	Portuguese (pt) Afogamento		50
10	Finnish (fi) Hukkuminen		37

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	German (de) Ertrinken		2
2	Catalan (ca) Ofegament		1
3	Czech (cs) Tonutí		1
4	Greek (el) Πνιγμός		1
5	French (fr) Noyade		1
6	Italian (it) Annegamento		1
7	Romanian (ro) Înec		1
8	Arabic (ar) غرق		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Boğulma		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Смърт във вода		0

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

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