Hillbilly Elegy

Quality:

Hillbilly Elegy - 2016 memoir by J. D. Vance. This book is the 516^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 359^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Hillbilly Elegy” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 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:

The 359^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 516^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Hillbilly Elegy”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 325 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Hillbilly Elegy is on the 359^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 516^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 806 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3289 in July 2024
• Global: #304 in July 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #117 in July 2024
• Global: #41 in July 2024

There are 19 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) Hillbilly Elegy		54.9567
2	Portuguese (pt) Hillbilly Elegy (livro)		45.2822
3	Ukrainian (uk) Сільська елегія (роман)		44.0748
4	Chinese (zh) 絕望者之歌		41.5817
5	Norwegian (no) Hillbillyens klagesang		36.2568
6	Russian (ru) Элегия Хиллбилли (книга)		33.4665
7	German (de) Hillbilly-Elegie		33.409
8	Hungarian (hu) Vidéki ballada az amerikai álomról (emlékirat)		29.6281
9	Polish (pl) Elegia dla bidoków (książka)		28.6812
10	Japanese (ja) ヒルビリー・エレジー アメリカの繁栄から取り残された白人たち		28.4083

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hillbilly Elegy		8 570 153
2	German (de) Hillbilly-Elegie		349 382
3	Chinese (zh) 絕望者之歌		157 472
4	French (fr) Hillbilly Élégie		57 312
5	Italian (it) Elegia americana (libro)		56 033
6	Polish (pl) Elegia dla bidoków (książka)		54 040
7	Japanese (ja) ヒルビリー・エレジー アメリカの繁栄から取り残された白人たち		42 712
8	Spanish (es) Hillbilly Elegy, una memoria de una familia y una cultura en crisis		27 261
9	Dutch (nl) Hillbilly Elegy (boek)		21 283
10	Korean (ko) 힐빌리의 노래		20 407

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) Hillbilly Elegy		62 004
2	German (de) Hillbilly-Elegie		11 706
3	Japanese (ja) ヒルビリー・エレジー アメリカの繁栄から取り残された白人たち		2 695
4	Chinese (zh) 絕望者之歌		1 740
5	Italian (it) Elegia americana (libro)		1 676
6	Russian (ru) Элегия Хиллбилли (книга)		1 543
7	French (fr) Hillbilly Élégie		1 209
8	Polish (pl) Elegia dla bidoków (książka)		973
9	Spanish (es) Hillbilly Elegy, una memoria de una familia y una cultura en crisis		732
10	Dutch (nl) Hillbilly Elegy (boek)		557

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hillbilly Elegy		213
2	German (de) Hillbilly-Elegie		22
3	Chinese (zh) 絕望者之歌		19
4	French (fr) Hillbilly Élégie		12
5	Polish (pl) Elegia dla bidoków (książka)		10
6	Japanese (ja) ヒルビリー・エレジー アメリカの繁栄から取り残された白人たち		9
7	Italian (it) Elegia americana (libro)		6
8	Portuguese (pt) Hillbilly Elegy (livro)		5
9	Czech (cs) Americká elegie		4
10	Dutch (nl) Hillbilly Elegy (boek)		4

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) Hillbilly Elegy		3
2	Czech (cs) Americká elegie		2
3	Hungarian (hu) Vidéki ballada az amerikai álomról (emlékirat)		1
4	German (de) Hillbilly-Elegie		0
5	Spanish (es) Hillbilly Elegy, una memoria de una familia y una cultura en crisis		0
6	Persian (fa) مرثیه هیلبیلی		0
7	French (fr) Hillbilly Élégie		0
8	Italian (it) Elegia americana (libro)		0
9	Japanese (ja) ヒルビリー・エレジー アメリカの繁栄から取り残された白人たち		0
10	Korean (ko) 힐빌리의 노래		0

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

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