Killing of Osama bin Laden

Quality:

Death of Osama bin Laden - U.S. military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan. This event is the 117^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 638^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Killing of Osama bin Laden” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 638^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5061^st most popular in all topics.

The 7040^th most popular in AI.

The 117^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 1430^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Killing of Osama bin Laden”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3002 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7040^th place).

Death of Osama bin Laden is on the 638^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 117^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 37 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5552 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2060 in September 2018
• Global: #2 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7614 in February 2022
• Global: #31 in May 2011

There are 28 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	Italian (it) Morte di Osama bin Laden		100
2	Turkish (tr) Usame bin Ladin'in ölümü		100
3	English (en) Killing of Osama bin Laden		99.224
4	Portuguese (pt) Morte de Osama bin Laden		96.6498
5	Chinese (zh) 奥萨马·本·拉登之死		96.069
6	Vietnamese (vi) Cái chết của Osama bin Laden		95.3636
7	Russian (ru) Операция «Копьё Нептуна»		93.8462
8	Armenian (hy) Գործողություն «Նեպտունի եռաժանի»		86.6667
9	French (fr) Mort d'Oussama ben Laden		83.9204
10	Finnish (fi) Osama bin Ladenin kuolema		78.8999

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Killing of Osama bin Laden		26 378 984
2	Spanish (es) Muerte de Osama bin Laden		2 625 236
3	Japanese (ja) ウサーマ・ビン・ラーディンの殺害		2 470 839
4	French (fr) Mort d'Oussama ben Laden		1 586 653
5	Russian (ru) Операция «Копьё Нептуна»		1 481 879
6	Italian (it) Morte di Osama bin Laden		1 181 045
7	Portuguese (pt) Morte de Osama bin Laden		1 148 275
8	Chinese (zh) 奥萨马·本·拉登之死		660 391
9	Arabic (ar) مقتل أسامة بن لادن		472 981
10	Persian (fa) کشتن اسامه بن لادن		387 984

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) Killing of Osama bin Laden		235 653
2	Spanish (es) Muerte de Osama bin Laden		27 127
3	Japanese (ja) ウサーマ・ビン・ラーディンの殺害		17 133
4	French (fr) Mort d'Oussama ben Laden		14 385
5	Portuguese (pt) Morte de Osama bin Laden		12 257
6	Italian (it) Morte di Osama bin Laden		10 425
7	Russian (ru) Операция «Копьё Нептуна»		10 139
8	Chinese (zh) 奥萨马·本·拉登之死		9 376
9	Arabic (ar) مقتل أسامة بن لادن		5 994
10	Turkish (tr) Usame bin Ladin'in ölümü		5 439

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Killing of Osama bin Laden		1 446
2	French (fr) Mort d'Oussama ben Laden		229
3	Spanish (es) Muerte de Osama bin Laden		134
4	Chinese (zh) 奥萨马·本·拉登之死		133
5	Italian (it) Morte di Osama bin Laden		119
6	Russian (ru) Операция «Копьё Нептуна»		110
7	Hebrew (he) מבצע חנית נפטון		108
8	Portuguese (pt) Morte de Osama bin Laden		104
9	Japanese (ja) ウサーマ・ビン・ラーディンの殺害		69
10	Vietnamese (vi) Cái chết của Osama bin Laden		63

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) Killing of Osama bin Laden		8
2	Portuguese (pt) Morte de Osama bin Laden		2
3	Russian (ru) Операция «Копьё Нептуна»		2
4	Finnish (fi) Osama bin Ladenin kuolema		1
5	French (fr) Mort d'Oussama ben Laden		1
6	Hebrew (he) מבצע חנית נפטון		1
7	Italian (it) Morte di Osama bin Laden		1
8	Arabic (ar) مقتل أسامة بن لادن		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Üsamə bin Ladenin öldürülməsi		0
10	Catalan (ca) Mort d'Ossama bin Laden		0

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

On 28 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Ali Khamenei, Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, Jeffrey Epstein, Supreme Leader of Iran, Mohammad Reza I of Iran, 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran, Neil Sedaka, Masoud Pezeshkian, Resident Evil Requiem.

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