Laozi

Quality:

Laozi - 6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism. This person is the 2750^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 582^nd most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Laozi” in Simple English Wikipedia has 73.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 52 references and 11 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4661^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4934^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 582^nd most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9586^th most popular in all topics.

The 4855^th most popular in AI.

The 2750^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7189^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Laozi”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4934^th place) and edited by 3647 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4855^th place).

Laozi is on the 582^nd place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2750^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 95 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9239 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #94 in May 2004
• Global: #525 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #715 in August 2013
• Global: #6834 in November 2025

There are 55 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	Malay (ms) Laozi		95.3846
2	Chinese (zh) 老子		86.6308
3	English (en) Laozi		81.8247
4	Esperanto (eo) Laŭzio		78.2683
5	Simple English (simple) Laozi		73.7681
6	Portuguese (pt) Lao Zi		66.7813
7	Japanese (ja) 老子		65.0154
8	Basque (eu) Laozi		64.9973
9	Catalan (ca) Laozi		64.5192
10	Latin (la) Laocius		58.438

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Laozi		10 807 486
2	Spanish (es) Lao-Tse		2 937 359
3	Chinese (zh) 老子		2 527 988
4	Russian (ru) Лао-цзы		2 080 552
5	Japanese (ja) 老子		1 683 892
6	French (fr) Lao Tseu		1 423 140
7	German (de) Laozi		1 287 056
8	Vietnamese (vi) Lão Tử		853 985
9	Italian (it) Laozi		754 037
10	Portuguese (pt) Lao Zi		637 978

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) Laozi		31 193
2	Chinese (zh) 老子		9 672
3	Japanese (ja) 老子		5 964
4	Spanish (es) Lao-Tse		5 163
5	French (fr) Lao Tseu		4 143
6	Russian (ru) Лао-цзы		3 883
7	German (de) Laozi		3 283
8	Vietnamese (vi) Lão Tử		2 332
9	Italian (it) Laozi		2 177
10	Portuguese (pt) Lao Zi		1 736

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Laozi		782
2	Chinese (zh) 老子		260
3	German (de) Laozi		226
4	French (fr) Lao Tseu		203
5	Russian (ru) Лао-цзы		154
6	Italian (it) Laozi		152
7	Spanish (es) Lao-Tse		120
8	Japanese (ja) 老子		119
9	Vietnamese (vi) Lão Tử		112
10	Dutch (nl) Laozi		109

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) Laozi		5
2	Dutch (nl) Laozi		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Lao-tszı		1
4	Catalan (ca) Laozi		1
5	German (de) Laozi		1
6	Basque (eu) Laozi		1
7	Persian (fa) لائوتسه		1
8	Japanese (ja) 老子		1
9	Serbian (sr) Лао Це		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lão Tử		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information