Indirect democracy

Quality:

Representative democracy - democracy where citizens elect a small set of people to represent them in decision making. Article “Indirect democracy” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.54 points.

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 “Indirect democracy”, its content was written by 51 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2678^th place) and edited by 2120 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 110 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10685 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #73 in February 2017
• Global: #1775 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #86 in September 2012
• Global: #4562 in August 2008

There are 48 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) Representative democracy		51.6586
2	Turkish (tr) Temsilî demokrasi		44.0875
3	Spanish (es) Democracia representativa		38.5568
4	French (fr) Démocratie représentative		37.4853
5	Estonian (et) Esindusdemokraatia		35.8872
6	Malay (ms) Demokrasi berperwakilan		35.1303
7	Armenian (hy) Ներկայացուցչական ժողովրդավարություն		34.0087
8	German (de) Repräsentative Demokratie		31.7141
9	Serbian (sr) Представничка демократија		31.0912
10	Catalan (ca) Democràcia representativa		29.1362

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Representative democracy		8 225 397
2	Spanish (es) Democracia representativa		4 254 378
3	German (de) Repräsentative Demokratie		1 674 818
4	Portuguese (pt) Democracia representativa		1 060 205
5	French (fr) Démocratie représentative		993 886
6	Japanese (ja) 間接民主主義		697 601
7	Russian (ru) Представительная демократия		573 141
8	Chinese (zh) 代議民主		487 477
9	Italian (it) Democrazia rappresentativa		466 003
10	Swedish (sv) Representativ demokrati		417 215

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) Representative democracy		12 835
2	Spanish (es) Democracia representativa		2 369
3	German (de) Repräsentative Demokratie		1 199
4	Chinese (zh) 代議民主		1 127
5	Japanese (ja) 間接民主主義		1 107
6	French (fr) Démocratie représentative		866
7	Portuguese (pt) Democracia representativa		853
8	Russian (ru) Представительная демократия		634
9	Persian (fa) دموکراسی نیابتی		553
10	Turkish (tr) Temsilî demokrasi		478

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Representative democracy		639
2	German (de) Repräsentative Demokratie		212
3	Spanish (es) Democracia representativa		156
4	French (fr) Démocratie représentative		141
5	Dutch (nl) Representatieve democratie		67
6	Japanese (ja) 間接民主主義		66
7	Hebrew (he) דמוקרטיה ייצוגית		60
8	Russian (ru) Представительная демократия		58
9	Portuguese (pt) Democracia representativa		57
10	Italian (it) Democrazia rappresentativa		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) Representative democracy		5
2	Armenian (hy) Ներկայացուցչական ժողովրդավարություն		3
3	Hebrew (he) דמוקרטיה ייצוגית		2
4	Serbian (sr) Представничка демократија		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Nümayəndəli demokratiya		1
6	Spanish (es) Democracia representativa		1
7	Romanian (ro) Democrație reprezentativă		1
8	Swedish (sv) Representativ demokrati		1
9	Arabic (ar) ديمقراطية تمثيلية		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Представителна демокрация		0

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

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