Global Handwashing Day

Global Handwashing Day - Campaign to motivate and mobilize people around the world to improve their handwashing habits. Article “Global Handwashing Day” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 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 “Global Handwashing Day”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 326 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 95 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3750 in October 2019
• Global: #17921 in October 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1234 in October 2020
• Global: #30975 in October 2015

There are 21 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) Global Handwashing Day		70.1646
2	Arabic (ar) اليوم العالمي لغسل اليدين		39.8844
3	Spanish (es) Día Mundial del Lavado de Manos		33.5634
4	French (fr) Journée mondiale du lavage des mains		32.1261
5	Malay (ms) Hari Mencuci Tangan Sedunia		28.8629
6	Polish (pl) Światowy Dzień Mycia Rąk		27.936
7	Indonesian (id) Hari Mencuci Tangan Sedunia		25.3767
8	Persian (fa) روز جهانی شستن دست		25.3205
9	Tamil (ta) உலகக் கைகழுவும் நாள்		24.9275
10	Turkish (tr) Küresel El Yıkama Günü		23.2616

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Global Handwashing Day" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Global Handwashing Day		539 173
2	Spanish (es) Día Mundial del Lavado de Manos		196 601
3	Arabic (ar) اليوم العالمي لغسل اليدين		166 305
4	Indonesian (id) Hari Mencuci Tangan Sedunia		114 502
5	Chinese (zh) 世界洗手日		42 455
6	Polish (pl) Światowy Dzień Mycia Rąk		32 335
7	German (de) Internationaler Hände-Waschtag		31 159
8	Thai (th) วันการล้างมือโลก		24 338
9	French (fr) Journée mondiale du lavage des mains		21 828
10	Japanese (ja) 世界手洗いの日		21 401

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Global Handwashing Day" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Global Handwashing Day		451
2	Spanish (es) Día Mundial del Lavado de Manos		118
3	Chinese (zh) 世界洗手日		108
4	Indonesian (id) Hari Mencuci Tangan Sedunia		71
5	Arabic (ar) اليوم العالمي لغسل اليدين		48
6	German (de) Internationaler Hände-Waschtag		43
7	French (fr) Journée mondiale du lavage des mains		42
8	Korean (ko) 세계 손씻기의 날		35
9	Tamil (ta) உலகக் கைகழுவும் நாள்		34
10	Turkish (tr) Küresel El Yıkama Günü		29

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

Language versions of the article "Global Handwashing Day" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Global Handwashing Day		140
2	French (fr) Journée mondiale du lavage des mains		23
3	Chinese (zh) 世界洗手日		23
4	German (de) Internationaler Hände-Waschtag		22
5	Arabic (ar) اليوم العالمي لغسل اليدين		18
6	Indonesian (id) Hari Mencuci Tangan Sedunia		13
7	Polish (pl) Światowy Dzień Mycia Rąk		13
8	Spanish (es) Día Mundial del Lavado de Manos		12
9	Finnish (fi) Maailman käsienpesupäivä		9
10	Swedish (sv) Internationella handtvättsdagen		9

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

Language versions of the article "Global Handwashing Day" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) اليوم العالمي لغسل اليدين		0
2	Catalan (ca) Dia Mundial de la Neteja de Mans		0
3	German (de) Internationaler Hände-Waschtag		0
4	English (en) Global Handwashing Day		0
5	Spanish (es) Día Mundial del Lavado de Manos		0
6	Persian (fa) روز جهانی شستن دست		0
7	Finnish (fi) Maailman käsienpesupäivä		0
8	French (fr) Journée mondiale du lavage des mains		0
9	Hindi (hi) विश्व हस्त प्रक्षालन दिवस		0
10	Indonesian (id) Hari Mencuci Tangan Sedunia		0

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

Language versions of the article "Global Handwashing Day" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Urdu (ur) ہاتھ دھونے کا عالمی دن		17
2	English (en) Global Handwashing Day		12
3	Chinese (zh) 世界洗手日		7
4	Spanish (es) Día Mundial del Lavado de Manos		5
5	Indonesian (id) Hari Mencuci Tangan Sedunia		5
6	Korean (ko) 세계 손씻기의 날		5
7	Polish (pl) Światowy Dzień Mycia Rąk		5
8	Catalan (ca) Dia Mundial de la Neteja de Mans		4
9	German (de) Internationaler Hände-Waschtag		4
10	French (fr) Journée mondiale du lavage des mains		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اليوم العالمي لغسل اليدين
ca	Catalan Dia Mundial de la Neteja de Mans
de	German Internationaler Hände-Waschtag
en	English Global Handwashing Day
es	Spanish Día Mundial del Lavado de Manos
fa	Persian روز جهانی شستن دست
fi	Finnish Maailman käsienpesupäivä
fr	French Journée mondiale du lavage des mains
hi	Hindi विश्व हस्त प्रक्षालन दिवस
id	Indonesian Hari Mencuci Tangan Sedunia
ja	Japanese 世界手洗いの日
ko	Korean 세계 손씻기의 날
ms	Malay Hari Mencuci Tangan Sedunia
pl	Polish Światowy Dzień Mycia Rąk
simple	Simple English Global Handwashing Day
sv	Swedish Internationella handtvättsdagen
ta	Tamil உலகக் கைகழுவும் நாள்
th	Thai วันการล้างมือโลก
tr	Turkish Küresel El Yıkama Günü
ur	Urdu ہاتھ دھونے کا عالمی دن
zh	Chinese 世界洗手日

Best Rank

Simple English: #1234 10.2020

Global: #30975 10.2015

Best Rank

Simple English: #3750 10.2019

Global: #17921 10.2008

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