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 43.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 14 references and 7 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 4566^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 7198^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8056^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Human overpopulation”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7198^th place) and edited by 2857 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8056^th place).

The article is cited 40 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4548 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #201 in July 2022
• Global: #372 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #688 in March 2022
• Global: #902 in March 2018

There are 42 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) Human overpopulation		100
2	Chinese (zh) 人口過多		96.2371
3	Vietnamese (vi) Quá tải dân số		93.8011
4	French (fr) Surpopulation		92.9579
5	Portuguese (pt) Superpopulação humana		92.4452
6	German (de) Überbevölkerung		84.032
7	Russian (ru) Перенаселение		82.936
8	Bulgarian (bg) Пренаселеност		80.0063
9	Swedish (sv) Överbefolkning		76.6663
10	Spanish (es) Superpoblación humana		70.8072

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Human overpopulation		8 280 423
2	Arabic (ar) انفجار سكاني		1 192 297
3	German (de) Überbevölkerung		1 103 940
4	Russian (ru) Перенаселение		1 031 273
5	Spanish (es) Superpoblación humana		583 827
6	French (fr) Surpopulation		540 289
7	Chinese (zh) 人口過多		350 700
8	Vietnamese (vi) Quá tải dân số		284 143
9	Polish (pl) Przeludnienie		195 508
10	Italian (it) Sovrappopolazione		181 766

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		6 641
2	Chinese (zh) 人口過多		1 236
3	Russian (ru) Перенаселение		936
4	German (de) Überbevölkerung		902
5	Spanish (es) Superpoblación humana		520
6	Portuguese (pt) Superpopulação humana		437
7	French (fr) Surpopulation		401
8	Japanese (ja) 人口過多		324
9	Vietnamese (vi) Quá tải dân số		236
10	Italian (it) Sovrappopolazione		200

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		1 293
2	German (de) Überbevölkerung		330
3	French (fr) Surpopulation		176
4	Spanish (es) Superpoblación humana		132
5	Italian (it) Sovrappopolazione		84
6	Russian (ru) Перенаселение		84
7	Arabic (ar) انفجار سكاني		75
8	Dutch (nl) Overbevolking		67
9	Chinese (zh) 人口過多		64
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		3
2	Serbian (sr) Prenaseljenost		3
3	Arabic (ar) انفجار سكاني		2
4	Spanish (es) Superpoblación humana		1
5	French (fr) Surpopulation		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Пренаселеност		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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