Independence

Quality:

Independence - condition of a nation, country, or state which exercises self-government, and usually sovereignty, over the territory. Article “Independence” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 3 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 “Independence”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6452^nd place) and edited by 2094 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 634 times in Simple English Wikipedia (2335^th place) and cited 22176 times in all languages (7494^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #179 in November 2004
• Global: #1101 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #615 in July 2014
• Global: #7996 in September 2015

There are 51 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) Independence		45.9409
2	Chinese (zh) 独立		45.1018
3	Malay (ms) Kemerdekaan		30.3844
4	Latin (la) Independentia		27.1386
5	Italian (it) Indipendenza		25.0372
6	Indonesian (id) Kemerdekaan		24.7398
7	Spanish (es) Independencia		24.0411
8	Portuguese (pt) Independência		23.8182
9	Greek (el) Ανεξαρτησία		23.6386
10	Catalan (ca) Independència		23.3245

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Independencia		5 481 563
2	English (en) Independence		3 739 210
3	Portuguese (pt) Independência		925 445
4	French (fr) Indépendance (politique)		769 615
5	Polish (pl) Niepodległość		706 303
6	Russian (ru) Независимость		577 773
7	Arabic (ar) استقلال		562 025
8	Hindi (hi) स्वतन्त्रता		470 412
9	Japanese (ja) 独立		414 551
10	Malay (ms) Kemerdekaan		413 210

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) Independence		12 018
2	Spanish (es) Independencia		4 941
3	Russian (ru) Независимость		3 071
4	French (fr) Indépendance (politique)		1 636
5	Portuguese (pt) Independência		1 310
6	German (de) Staatliche Unabhängigkeit		1 242
7	Japanese (ja) 独立		931
8	Simple English (simple) Independence		841
9	Italian (it) Indipendenza		775
10	Chinese (zh) 独立		735

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Independence		308
2	French (fr) Indépendance (politique)		212
3	Spanish (es) Independencia		185
4	Portuguese (pt) Independência		88
5	Dutch (nl) Onafhankelijkheid (staatkunde)		72
6	Polish (pl) Niepodległość		72
7	Italian (it) Indipendenza		63
8	Russian (ru) Независимость		58
9	Hindi (hi) स्वतन्त्रता		56
10	Persian (fa) استقلال		55

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) Independence		3
2	Catalan (ca) Independència		2
3	Persian (fa) استقلال		1
4	Chinese (zh) 独立		1
5	Arabic (ar) استقلال		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Müstəqillik		0
7	Belarusian (be) Незалежнасць		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Независимост		0
9	Czech (cs) Nezávislost		0
10	Danish (da) Uafhængighed (politik)		0

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

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