Fossil fuel

Quality:

Fossil fuel - combustible fuel containing hydrocarbons formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, examples being coal, petroleum and natural gas. Article “Fossil fuel” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2086^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 820^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5222^nd most popular in all topics.

The 4390^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4026^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Fossil fuel”, its content was written by 94 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (820^th place) and edited by 3813 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4390^th place).

The article is cited 120 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 17326 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #47 in March 2017
• Global: #429 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #632 in June 2013
• Global: #385 in January 2014

There are 54 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) Fossil fuel		94.0047
2	Esperanto (eo) Fosilia brulaĵo		80.8281
3	Czech (cs) Fosilní palivo		73.1165
4	Basque (eu) Erregai fosil		68.9014
5	German (de) Fossile Energie		68.7143
6	Catalan (ca) Combustible fòssil		66.6383
7	Spanish (es) Combustible fósil		66.4993
8	Chinese (zh) 化石燃料		57.827
9	Tamil (ta) புதைபடிவ எரிமம்		56.0975
10	Russian (ru) Ископаемое топливо		46.0576

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fossil fuel		14 394 692
2	Spanish (es) Combustible fósil		5 013 669
3	French (fr) Combustible fossile		3 564 856
4	Portuguese (pt) Combustível fóssil		2 313 051
5	German (de) Fossile Energie		2 181 953
6	Italian (it) Combustibile fossile		1 213 002
7	Japanese (ja) 化石燃料		1 198 019
8	Arabic (ar) وقود أحفوري		991 572
9	Swedish (sv) Fossila bränslen		985 304
10	Indonesian (id) Bahan bakar fosil		879 536

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) Fossil fuel		15 969
2	German (de) Fossile Energie		1 997
3	Persian (fa) سوخت فسیلی		1 938
4	Spanish (es) Combustible fósil		1 850
5	Japanese (ja) 化石燃料		1 367
6	French (fr) Combustible fossile		1 365
7	Italian (it) Combustibile fossile		1 183
8	Russian (ru) Ископаемое топливо		850
9	Chinese (zh) 化石燃料		807
10	Portuguese (pt) Combustível fóssil		606

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fossil fuel		1 149
2	French (fr) Combustible fossile		280
3	German (de) Fossile Energie		270
4	Spanish (es) Combustible fósil		215
5	Dutch (nl) Fossiele brandstof		161
6	Italian (it) Combustibile fossile		157
7	Swedish (sv) Fossila bränslen		130
8	Portuguese (pt) Combustível fóssil		117
9	Simple English (simple) Fossil fuel		94
10	Danish (da) Fossilt brændstof og brændsel		75

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) Fossil fuel		4
2	Croatian (hr) Fosilna goriva		2
3	Indonesian (id) Bahan bakar fosil		2
4	Catalan (ca) Combustible fòssil		1
5	Danish (da) Fossilt brændstof og brændsel		1
6	German (de) Fossile Energie		1
7	Basque (eu) Erregai fosil		1
8	Japanese (ja) 化石燃料		1
9	Romanian (ro) Combustibil fosil		1
10	Thai (th) เชื้อเพลิงซากดึกดำบรรพ์		1

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

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