Food waste

Quality:

Food waste - food that is discarded, disposed of or lost uneaten. Article “Food waste” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Food waste”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1125 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2335 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #211 in June 2021
• Global: #5249 in August 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5408 in October 2016
• Global: #12784 in June 2012

There are 35 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, 2025 (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) Food loss and waste		94.7078
2	Japanese (ja) 食品ロス		76.4116
3	Hungarian (hu) Élelmiszer-hulladék		69.2753
4	Indonesian (id) Sampah makanan		66.4824
5	Estonian (et) Toidujäätmed		65.1248
6	German (de) Lebensmittelverschwendung		58.4003
7	Dutch (nl) Voedselverspilling		58.3238
8	Hebrew (he) אובדן מזון		58.1824
9	French (fr) Gaspillage alimentaire		54.7033
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chất thải thực phẩm		50.7516

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Food loss and waste		2 392 538
2	French (fr) Gaspillage alimentaire		418 535
3	Japanese (ja) 食品ロス		351 056
4	Portuguese (pt) Desperdício de alimentos		261 112
5	Italian (it) Spreco alimentare		181 682
6	Spanish (es) Desperdicio alimenticio		115 983
7	Korean (ko) 음식물 쓰레기		111 692
8	German (de) Lebensmittelverschwendung		109 151
9	Russian (ru) Пищевые отходы		83 408
10	Arabic (ar) إهدار الطعام		64 923

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) Food loss and waste		5 324
2	Japanese (ja) 食品ロス		1 344
3	French (fr) Gaspillage alimentaire		766
4	Russian (ru) Пищевые отходы		591
5	German (de) Lebensmittelverschwendung		445
6	Spanish (es) Desperdicio alimenticio		425
7	Italian (it) Spreco alimentare		404
8	Portuguese (pt) Desperdício de alimentos		320
9	Chinese (zh) 食物浪費		239
10	Simple English (simple) Food waste		192

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Food loss and waste		427
2	French (fr) Gaspillage alimentaire		100
3	German (de) Lebensmittelverschwendung		72
4	Japanese (ja) 食品ロス		63
5	Italian (it) Spreco alimentare		46
6	Spanish (es) Desperdicio alimenticio		37
7	Finnish (fi) Ruokahävikki		31
8	Hebrew (he) אובדן מזון		29
9	Portuguese (pt) Desperdício de alimentos		27
10	Dutch (nl) Voedselverspilling		24

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) Food loss and waste		5
2	Japanese (ja) 食品ロス		2
3	Danish (da) Madaffald		1
4	French (fr) Gaspillage alimentaire		1
5	Hebrew (he) אובדן מזון		1
6	Chinese (zh) 食物浪費		1
7	Arabic (ar) إهدار الطعام		0
8	Catalan (ca) Residu alimentari		0
9	Czech (cs) Plýtvání potravinami		0
10	German (de) Lebensmittelverschwendung		0

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

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