Emergency contraception

Quality:

Emergency contraception - birth control measures that, if taken after sexual intercourse, may prevent pregnancy. Article “Emergency contraception” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.59 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Emergency contraception”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1201 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 61 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1554 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #304 in April 2023
• Global: #1193 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3964 in January 2013
• Global: #7484 in December 2011

There are 28 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	Polish (pl) Antykoncepcja postkoitalna		87.2727
2	Catalan (ca) Contracepció postcoital		84.6154
3	English (en) Emergency contraception		82.5928
4	Arabic (ar) منع الحمل في حالات الطوارئ		70.2171
5	Ukrainian (uk) Екстрена контрацепція		69.3393
6	Russian (ru) Экстренная контрацепция		67.5702
7	Spanish (es) Anticonceptivo de emergencia		66.3386
8	French (fr) Contraception d'urgence		48.9867
9	Hebrew (he) גלולת חירום למניעת היריון		45.5532
10	Czech (cs) Nouzová antikoncepce		36.3809

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Emergency contraception		5 869 615
2	Spanish (es) Anticonceptivo de emergencia		3 597 217
3	Russian (ru) Экстренная контрацепция		1 485 702
4	Persian (fa) پیشگیری اضطراری از بارداری		992 431
5	French (fr) Contraception d'urgence		744 333
6	Korean (ko) 사후 피임약		409 224
7	Polish (pl) Antykoncepcja postkoitalna		259 643
8	Portuguese (pt) Contracepção de emergência		200 156
9	Finnish (fi) Jälkiehkäisy		179 007
10	Arabic (ar) منع الحمل في حالات الطوارئ		109 796

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) Emergency contraception		3 028
2	Russian (ru) Экстренная контрацепция		1 379
3	Spanish (es) Anticonceptivo de emergencia		384
4	Korean (ko) 사후 피임약		334
5	French (fr) Contraception d'urgence		326
6	Polish (pl) Antykoncepcja postkoitalna		185
7	Persian (fa) پیشگیری اضطراری از بارداری		182
8	Finnish (fi) Jälkiehkäisy		111
9	Hebrew (he) גלולת חירום למניעת היריון		111
10	Chinese (zh) 紧急避孕		100

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Emergency contraception		476
2	Spanish (es) Anticonceptivo de emergencia		145
3	French (fr) Contraception d'urgence		139
4	Russian (ru) Экстренная контрацепция		74
5	Polish (pl) Antykoncepcja postkoitalna		61
6	Hebrew (he) גלולת חירום למניעת היריון		35
7	Finnish (fi) Jälkiehkäisy		34
8	Catalan (ca) Contracepció postcoital		24
9	Italian (it) Contraccezione post-coitale		24
10	Norwegian (no) Nødprevensjon		23

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) Emergency contraception		2
2	Catalan (ca) Contracepció postcoital		1
3	Greek (el) Επείγουσα αντισύλληψη		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Sürgősségi fogamzásgátlás		1
5	Ukrainian (uk) Екстрена контрацепція		1
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tránh thai khẩn cấp		1
7	Arabic (ar) منع الحمل في حالات الطوارئ		0
8	Czech (cs) Nouzová antikoncepce		0
9	Danish (da) Nødprævention		0
10	Spanish (es) Anticonceptivo de emergencia		0

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

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