Money laundering

Quality:

Money laundering - process of transforming profits of crime and corruption into ostensibly legitimate assets. Article “Money laundering” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in German 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 5604^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5759^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5027^th most popular in all topics.

The 6500^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3902^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Money laundering”, its content was written by 32 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5759^th place) and edited by 3127 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6500^th place).

The article is cited 77 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12982 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #116 in April 2019
• Global: #185 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1014 in February 2018
• Global: #2077 in August 2017

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, 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	German (de) Geldwäsche		81.4286
2	Finnish (fi) Rahanpesu		77.6402
3	Hindi (hi) धन-शोधन (मनी लॉन्डरिंग)		77.5
4	English (en) Money laundering		64.6817
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Pranje novca		64.1273
6	Estonian (et) Rahapesu		63.1543
7	Portuguese (pt) Lavagem de dinheiro		54.8143
8	French (fr) Blanchiment d'argent		52.3691
9	Persian (fa) پول‌شویی		45.6181
10	Swedish (sv) Penningtvätt		42.2713

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Money laundering		16 950 011
2	Spanish (es) Lavado de dinero		4 283 029
3	German (de) Geldwäsche		2 814 894
4	Arabic (ar) غسل الأموال		2 066 642
5	Japanese (ja) 資金洗浄		1 981 244
6	French (fr) Blanchiment d'argent		1 588 615
7	Portuguese (pt) Lavagem de dinheiro		1 385 850
8	Russian (ru) Отмывание денег		1 147 775
9	Chinese (zh) 洗錢		1 132 421
10	Persian (fa) پول‌شویی		1 119 427

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) Money laundering		36 210
2	Spanish (es) Lavado de dinero		7 346
3	Japanese (ja) 資金洗浄		6 631
4	Russian (ru) Отмывание денег		5 514
5	Chinese (zh) 洗錢		4 639
6	German (de) Geldwäsche		3 945
7	French (fr) Blanchiment d'argent		2 858
8	Arabic (ar) غسل الأموال		2 372
9	Portuguese (pt) Lavagem de dinheiro		1 989
10	Persian (fa) پول‌شویی		1 729

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Money laundering		912
2	German (de) Geldwäsche		351
3	French (fr) Blanchiment d'argent		252
4	Spanish (es) Lavado de dinero		152
5	Italian (it) Riciclaggio di denaro		96
6	Dutch (nl) Witwassen		95
7	Persian (fa) پول‌شویی		90
8	Portuguese (pt) Lavagem de dinheiro		89
9	Russian (ru) Отмывание денег		88
10	Japanese (ja) 資金洗浄		83

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) Money laundering		7
2	French (fr) Blanchiment d'argent		3
3	Italian (it) Riciclaggio di denaro		3
4	Hebrew (he) הלבנת הון		2
5	Dutch (nl) Witwassen		1
6	Serbian (sr) Прање новца		1
7	Arabic (ar) غسل الأموال		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Çirkli pulların yuyulması		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Пране на пари		0
10	Catalan (ca) Blanqueig de diners		0

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

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