Life vest

Quality:

Personal flotation device - equipment to help the wearer keep afloat in water. Article “Life vest” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Life vest”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 863 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2122 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2138 in July 2009
• Global: #8471 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6075 in July 2015
• Global: #66359 in June 2008

There are 34 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	German (de) Rettungsweste		57.1861
2	English (en) Personal flotation device		53.6501
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Redningsvest		48.7018
4	Malay (ms) Jaket keselamatan		35.5434
5	Azerbaijani (az) Xilasedici jilet		33.9448
6	Chinese (zh) 救生衣		28.7476
7	Estonian (et) Päästevest		28.1732
8	French (fr) Gilet de sauvetage		27.6722
9	Swedish (sv) Flytväst		27.5408
10	Russian (ru) Спасательный жилет		27.4804

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Personal flotation device		1 676 889
2	German (de) Rettungsweste		286 134
3	Japanese (ja) 救命胴衣		244 994
4	Russian (ru) Спасательный жилет		163 070
5	French (fr) Gilet de sauvetage		104 605
6	Polish (pl) Kamizelka ratunkowa		98 905
7	Spanish (es) Chaleco salvavidas		62 687
8	Indonesian (id) Baju pelampung		57 287
9	Swedish (sv) Flytväst		44 176
10	Finnish (fi) Pelastusliivit		44 142

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) Personal flotation device		3 284
2	Japanese (ja) 救命胴衣		412
3	Russian (ru) Спасательный жилет		385
4	German (de) Rettungsweste		359
5	Chinese (zh) 救生衣		224
6	Polish (pl) Kamizelka ratunkowa		222
7	French (fr) Gilet de sauvetage		169
8	Simple English (simple) Life vest		125
9	Italian (it) Giubbotto salvagente		114
10	Finnish (fi) Pelastusliivit		97

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Personal flotation device		283
2	German (de) Rettungsweste		120
3	French (fr) Gilet de sauvetage		53
4	Japanese (ja) 救命胴衣		36
5	Dutch (nl) Reddingsvest		36
6	Italian (it) Giubbotto salvagente		32
7	Russian (ru) Спасательный жилет		31
8	Swedish (sv) Flytväst		27
9	Polish (pl) Kamizelka ratunkowa		25
10	Finnish (fi) Pelastusliivit		20

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	Basque (eu) Salbamendu-jaka		1
2	Russian (ru) Спасательный жилет		1
3	Arabic (ar) وسيلة الطفو الشخصية		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Xilasedici jilet		0
5	Catalan (ca) Armilla salvavides		0
6	Danish (da) Redningsvest		0
7	German (de) Rettungsweste		0
8	English (en) Personal flotation device		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Savoveŝto		0
10	Spanish (es) Chaleco salvavidas		0

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

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