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Need - thing that is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life. Article “Need” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.14 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 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1407 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2947 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #213 in May 2004
  • Global: #5594 in October 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #5544 in September 2009
  • Global: #5699 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, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Bedürfnis
70.4605
2Malay (ms)
Keperluan
62.9997
3Indonesian (id)
Kebutuhan
41.6562
4Russian (ru)
Потребность
31.0995
5English (en)
Need
29.5385
6Hebrew (he)
צורך
27.3021
7French (fr)
Besoin
26.76
8Portuguese (pt)
Necessidade (psicologia)
25.5372
9Esperanto (eo)
Bezono
22.9288
10Kazakh (kk)
Қажеттіліктер
22.5165
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Need" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Spanish (es)
Necesidad
5 206 588
2English (en)
Need
3 084 347
3Russian (ru)
Потребность
2 866 468
4German (de)
Bedürfnis
1 650 822
5Italian (it)
Bisogno
1 224 065
6Indonesian (id)
Kebutuhan
1 221 355
7French (fr)
Besoin
1 180 509
8Polish (pl)
Potrzeba
888 045
9Japanese (ja)
ニーズ
483 348
10Ukrainian (uk)
Потреба
433 579
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Need" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Need
5 959
2Russian (ru)
Потребность
4 051
3Spanish (es)
Necesidad
2 435
4German (de)
Bedürfnis
1 454
5French (fr)
Besoin
791
6Indonesian (id)
Kebutuhan
631
7Polish (pl)
Potrzeba
498
8Italian (it)
Bisogno
432
9Simple English (simple)
Need
419
10Japanese (ja)
ニーズ
385
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Need" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Bedürfnis
245
2English (en)
Need
216
3French (fr)
Besoin
158
4Russian (ru)
Потребность
103
5Spanish (es)
Necesidad
94
6Italian (it)
Bisogno
73
7Dutch (nl)
Behoefte
45
8Vietnamese (vi)
Nhu cầu
45
9Hebrew (he)
צורך
42
10Polish (pl)
Potrzeba
39
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Need" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Chinese (zh)
需要
2
2Hebrew (he)
צורך
1
3Arabic (ar)
حاجة
0
4Azerbaijani (az)
Ehtiyac
0
5Belarusian (be)
Патрэбнасць
0
6Bulgarian (bg)
Потребност
0
7Catalan (ca)
Necessitat
0
8Czech (cs)
Potřeba
0
9Danish (da)
Behov
0
10German (de)
Bedürfnis
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Need" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1German (de)
Bedürfnis
313
2Russian (ru)
Потребность
229
3Korean (ko)
니드
210
4French (fr)
Besoin
175
5English (en)
Need
160
6Polish (pl)
Potrzeba
148
7Portuguese (pt)
Necessidade (psicologia)
137
8Spanish (es)
Necesidad
135
9Ukrainian (uk)
Потреба
133
10Japanese (ja)
ニーズ
132
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Global:
Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
حاجة
azAzerbaijani
Ehtiyac
beBelarusian
Патрэбнасць
bgBulgarian
Потребност
caCatalan
Necessitat
csCzech
Potřeba
daDanish
Behov
deGerman
Bedürfnis
elGreek
Ανάγκη (κοινωνία)
enEnglish
Need
eoEsperanto
Bezono
esSpanish
Necesidad
euBasque
Behar
faPersian
نیاز
fiFinnish
Tarve
frFrench
Besoin
heHebrew
צורך
hrCroatian
Potrebe
huHungarian
Szükséglet
hyArmenian
Պահանջմունք (հոգեբանություն)
idIndonesian
Kebutuhan
itItalian
Bisogno
jaJapanese
ニーズ
kaGeorgian
საჭიროება
kkKazakh
Қажеттіліктер
koKorean
니드
ltLithuanian
Poreikis
msMalay
Keperluan
nlDutch
Behoefte
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Behov
noNorwegian
Behov
plPolish
Potrzeba
ptPortuguese
Necessidade (psicologia)
roRomanian
Necesitate
ruRussian
Потребность
simpleSimple English
Need
skSlovak
Potreba (ekonómia)
srSerbian
Потреба
svSwedish
Behov
thThai
ความต้องการ
ukUkrainian
Потреба
uzUzbek
Ehtiyoj
viVietnamese
Nhu cầu
zhChinese
需要

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#5544
09.2009
Global:
#5699
09.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#213
05.2004
Global:
#5594
10.2010

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Need from Wikipedia articles about Maslows hierarchy of needs, Goods, Economy, Activity and Economic activity. Whereas reading the article about Need people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Maslows hierarchy of needs, Want, Sense, Wikipedia article and Basic needs.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Need
fr: Besoin
sv: Behov
da: Behov
no: Behov
zh: 需要
fi: Tarve
simple: Need
eo: Bezono
nn: Behov
ko: 니드
eu: Behar

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