Kidnapping

Quality:

Kidnapping - taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will. Article “Kidnapping” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 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 “Kidnapping”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1737 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 285 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12153 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #391 in August 2007
• Global: #6670 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4223 in May 2022
• Global: #14893 in October 2008

There are 45 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) Kidnapping		76.4236
2	Italian (it) Sequestro di persona		52.5855
3	Spanish (es) Secuestro		45.1312
4	Malay (ms) Penculikan		43.6855
5	Serbian (sr) Отмица		42.4378
6	Chinese (zh) 绑架		34.2065
7	French (fr) Enlèvement		33.9672
8	Norwegian (no) Kidnapping		33.4158
9	Portuguese (pt) Sequestro		33.0766
10	Hebrew (he) חטיפה		32.1998

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kidnapping		5 042 083
2	Spanish (es) Secuestro		2 611 267
3	Russian (ru) Похищение человека		591 396
4	French (fr) Enlèvement		532 352
5	Japanese (ja) 拉致		485 315
6	Portuguese (pt) Sequestro		442 393
7	German (de) Entführung		421 600
8	Italian (it) Sequestro di persona		344 451
9	Chinese (zh) 绑架		313 671
10	Swedish (sv) Kidnappning		245 267

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) Kidnapping		20 480
2	Spanish (es) Secuestro		3 602
3	Russian (ru) Похищение человека		2 742
4	French (fr) Enlèvement		1 873
5	Chinese (zh) 绑架		1 656
6	Japanese (ja) 拉致		1 435
7	German (de) Entführung		1 326
8	Italian (it) Sequestro di persona		1 275
9	Persian (fa) آدم‌ربایی		866
10	Portuguese (pt) Sequestro		711

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kidnapping		497
2	Spanish (es) Secuestro		126
3	Dutch (nl) Ontvoering		126
4	German (de) Entführung		115
5	French (fr) Enlèvement		92
6	Japanese (ja) 拉致		84
7	Chinese (zh) 绑架		72
8	Norwegian (no) Kidnapping		67
9	Italian (it) Sequestro di persona		65
10	Hebrew (he) חטיפה		64

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	French (fr) Enlèvement		3
2	English (en) Kidnapping		2
3	Italian (it) Sequestro di persona		2
4	German (de) Entführung		1
5	Swedish (sv) Kidnappning		1
6	Arabic (ar) اختطاف		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Adam oğurluğu		0
8	Belarusian (be) Выкраданне чалавека		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Отвличане		0
10	Catalan (ca) Segrest		0

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

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