Economic sanctions

Quality:

Economic sanction - financial penalty applied by nations to persons, nations or companies to affect political change. Article “Economic sanctions” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Economic sanctions”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 838 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3756 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2473 in September 2020
• Global: #5104 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #13847 in February 2022
• Global: #6727 in February 2022

There are 27 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	Malay (ms) Sekatan ekonomi		83.3333
2	English (en) Economic sanctions		81.7443
3	Korean (ko) 경제 제재		81.5385
4	Ukrainian (uk) Економічні санкції		81.2205
5	Armenian (hy) Տնտեսական պատժամիջոցներ		73.1596
6	Turkish (tr) Ekonomik yaptırımlar		51.0597
7	German (de) Wirtschaftssanktionen		49.9339
8	Japanese (ja) 経済制裁		41.336
9	Dutch (nl) Economische sanctie		35.4919
10	Italian (it) Sanzioni economiche		34.0338

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Economic sanctions		5 300 020
2	Japanese (ja) 経済制裁		398 200
3	Russian (ru) Экономические санкции		397 488
4	Chinese (zh) 經濟制裁		238 640
5	Persian (fa) تحریم اقتصادی		187 355
6	German (de) Wirtschaftssanktionen		170 742
7	Polish (pl) Sankcje gospodarcze		151 735
8	Italian (it) Sanzioni economiche		61 639
9	Arabic (ar) عقوبات اقتصادية		59 799
10	Spanish (es) Sanción económica		34 418

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) Economic sanctions		5 465
2	Persian (fa) تحریم اقتصادی		964
3	Japanese (ja) 経済制裁		609
4	Chinese (zh) 經濟制裁		366
5	Russian (ru) Экономические санкции		302
6	German (de) Wirtschaftssanktionen		146
7	French (fr) Sanction économique		110
8	Polish (pl) Sankcje gospodarcze		105
9	Spanish (es) Sanción económica		96
10	Italian (it) Sanzioni economiche		86

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Economic sanctions		484
2	Japanese (ja) 経済制裁		67
3	German (de) Wirtschaftssanktionen		63
4	Chinese (zh) 經濟制裁		33
5	Persian (fa) تحریم اقتصادی		29
6	Italian (it) Sanzioni economiche		28
7	Russian (ru) Экономические санкции		25
8	Polish (pl) Sankcje gospodarcze		16
9	French (fr) Sanction économique		14
10	Arabic (ar) عقوبات اقتصادية		10

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) Economic sanctions		4
2	French (fr) Sanction économique		3
3	Japanese (ja) 経済制裁		1
4	Romanian (ro) Sancțiuni economice		1
5	Arabic (ar) عقوبات اقتصادية		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) İqtisadi sanksiyalar		0
7	Catalan (ca) Sanció econòmica		0
8	German (de) Wirtschaftssanktionen		0
9	Greek (el) Οικονομικές κυρώσεις		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Ekonomia sankcio		0

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

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