Human overpopulation

Quality:

Human overpopulation - undesirable condition where human numbers exceed the current carrying capacity of the environment. Article “Human overpopulation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 46.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4267^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6762^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7918^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2566^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 6679^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Human overpopulation” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (6679^th place) and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Human overpopulation”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6762^nd place) and edited by 2839 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7918^th place).

The article is cited 43 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4516 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #203 in July 2022
• Global: #370 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #689 in March 2022
• Global: #904 in March 2018

There are 39 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	Chinese (zh) 人口過多		96.2385
2	English (en) Human overpopulation		95
3	Vietnamese (vi) Quá tải dân số		93.9662
4	French (fr) Surpopulation		93.0359
5	Portuguese (pt) Superpopulação humana		92.4794
6	German (de) Überbevölkerung		86.3019
7	Bulgarian (bg) Пренаселеност		83.0215
8	Russian (ru) Перенаселение		82.9125
9	Spanish (es) Superpoblación humana		72.2623
10	Swedish (sv) Överbefolkning		72.135

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Human overpopulation		8 174 828
2	Arabic (ar) انفجار سكاني		1 166 691
3	German (de) Überbevölkerung		1 084 932
4	Russian (ru) Перенаселение		959 087
5	Spanish (es) Superpoblación humana		575 039
6	French (fr) Surpopulation		532 295
7	Chinese (zh) 人口過多		335 804
8	Vietnamese (vi) Quá tải dân số		281 737
9	Polish (pl) Przeludnienie		192 643
10	Italian (it) Sovrappopolazione		176 746

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) Human overpopulation		11 545
2	Chinese (zh) 人口過多		2 822
3	Russian (ru) Перенаселение		1 814
4	Simple English (simple) Human overpopulation		1 706
5	German (de) Überbevölkerung		1 232
6	Portuguese (pt) Superpopulação humana		1 198
7	Spanish (es) Superpoblación humana		1 192
8	French (fr) Surpopulation		561
9	Arabic (ar) انفجار سكاني		503
10	Czech (cs) Přelidnění		325

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Human overpopulation		1 275
2	German (de) Überbevölkerung		328
3	French (fr) Surpopulation		173
4	Spanish (es) Superpoblación humana		131
5	Italian (it) Sovrappopolazione		83
6	Russian (ru) Перенаселение		83
7	Arabic (ar) انفجار سكاني		72
8	Dutch (nl) Overbevolking		66
9	Chinese (zh) 人口過多		63
10	Finnish (fi) Liikakansoitus		51

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) Human overpopulation		2
2	Bulgarian (bg) Пренаселеност		1
3	Finnish (fi) Liikakansoitus		1
4	Simple English (simple) Human overpopulation		1
5	Chinese (zh) 人口過多		1
6	Arabic (ar) انفجار سكاني		0
7	Catalan (ca) Superpoblació humana		0
8	Czech (cs) Přelidnění		0
9	Danish (da) Overbefolkning		0
10	German (de) Überbevölkerung		0

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

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