Need

Quality:

Need - thing that is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life. Article “Need” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.13 points.

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 “Need”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1425 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2932 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #213 in May 2004
• Global: #5588 in October 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5571 in September 2009
• Global: #4989 in September 2014

There are 44 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) Bedürfnis		69.53
2	Malay (ms) Keperluan		65.022
3	Indonesian (id) Kebutuhan		41.5406
4	English (en) Need		31.931
5	Russian (ru) Потребность		31.1539
6	French (fr) Besoin		26.7023
7	Hebrew (he) צורך		26.4432
8	Portuguese (pt) Necessidade (psicologia)		25.4408
9	Chinese (zh) 需要		25.0103
10	Esperanto (eo) Bezono		22.9094

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Necesidad		5 229 562
2	Russian (ru) Потребность		3 433 877
3	English (en) Need		3 144 549
4	German (de) Bedürfnis		1 675 567
5	Indonesian (id) Kebutuhan		1 232 268
6	Italian (it) Bisogno		1 231 122
7	French (fr) Besoin		1 193 412
8	Polish (pl) Potrzeba		894 882
9	Japanese (ja) ニーズ		487 666
10	Ukrainian (uk) Потреба		437 254

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) Need		3 730
2	Russian (ru) Потребность		2 285
3	German (de) Bedürfnis		1 674
4	French (fr) Besoin		553
5	Polish (pl) Potrzeba		411
6	Spanish (es) Necesidad		407
7	Indonesian (id) Kebutuhan		405
8	Italian (it) Bisogno		329
9	Chinese (zh) 需要		265
10	Persian (fa) نیاز		211

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Bedürfnis		247
2	English (en) Need		221
3	French (fr) Besoin		160
4	Russian (ru) Потребность		104
5	Spanish (es) Necesidad		96
6	Italian (it) Bisogno		73
7	Vietnamese (vi) Nhu cầu		46
8	Dutch (nl) Behoefte		45
9	Hebrew (he) צורך		42
10	Polish (pl) Potrzeba		39

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) Need		4
2	Azerbaijani (az) Ehtiyac		1
3	German (de) Bedürfnis		1
4	Persian (fa) نیاز		1
5	French (fr) Besoin		1
6	Chinese (zh) 需要		1
7	Arabic (ar) حاجة		0
8	Belarusian (be) Патрэбнасць		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Потребност		0
10	Catalan (ca) Necessitat		0

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

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