North Korean defectors

Quality:

North Korean defectors - people defecting from North Korea, often to South Korea. Article “North Korean defectors” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2794^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7143^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “North Korean defectors” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2794^th place) and written by 25 authors in all languages (7143^rd place).

Since the creation of article “North Korean defectors”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 982 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1992 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2359 in December 2020
• Global: #6887 in November 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6378 in October 2024
• Global: #14206 in October 2021

There are 16 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	English (en) North Korean defectors		78.5498
2	Chinese (zh) 脫北者		77.406
3	French (fr) Transfuges nord-coréens		77.1647
4	Spanish (es) Desertores norcoreanos		68.3877
5	German (de) Nordkoreanische Flüchtlinge in Südkorea		65.9774
6	Vietnamese (vi) Đào thoát khỏi Bắc Triều Tiên		64.6118
7	Russian (ru) Беженцы из КНДР		51.3813
8	Korean (ko) 북한이탈주민		48.441
9	Indonesian (id) Pembelot Korea Utara		41.5668
10	Finnish (fi) Pohjois-Korean loikkarit		41.1877

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) North Korean defectors		3 311 245
2	Chinese (zh) 脫北者		1 539 447
3	Japanese (ja) 脱北者		1 130 982
4	Russian (ru) Беженцы из КНДР		278 261
5	Korean (ko) 북한이탈주민		259 813
6	Spanish (es) Desertores norcoreanos		101 553
7	German (de) Nordkoreanische Flüchtlinge in Südkorea		80 402
8	Vietnamese (vi) Đào thoát khỏi Bắc Triều Tiên		44 648
9	Persian (fa) فراریان کره شمالی		36 585
10	Dutch (nl) Noord-Koreaanse overlopers		21 151

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) North Korean defectors		29 416
2	Chinese (zh) 脫北者		8 032
3	Japanese (ja) 脱北者		6 439
4	Russian (ru) Беженцы из КНДР		2 050
5	Spanish (es) Desertores norcoreanos		1 386
6	German (de) Nordkoreanische Flüchtlinge in Südkorea		740
7	Korean (ko) 북한이탈주민		662
8	Vietnamese (vi) Đào thoát khỏi Bắc Triều Tiên		645
9	Simple English (simple) North Korean defectors		581
10	French (fr) Transfuges nord-coréens		552

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) North Korean defectors		405
2	Chinese (zh) 脫北者		213
3	Japanese (ja) 脱北者		130
4	Korean (ko) 북한이탈주민		103
5	Russian (ru) Беженцы из КНДР		37
6	German (de) Nordkoreanische Flüchtlinge in Südkorea		24
7	Spanish (es) Desertores norcoreanos		20
8	Vietnamese (vi) Đào thoát khỏi Bắc Triều Tiên		15
9	Indonesian (id) Pembelot Korea Utara		9
10	Esperanto (eo) Rifuĝintoj el Nord-Koreio		6

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) North Korean defectors		18
2	Simple English (simple) North Korean defectors		2
3	Chinese (zh) 脫北者		2
4	French (fr) Transfuges nord-coréens		1
5	Indonesian (id) Pembelot Korea Utara		1
6	Japanese (ja) 脱北者		1
7	German (de) Nordkoreanische Flüchtlinge in Südkorea		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Rifuĝintoj el Nord-Koreio		0
9	Spanish (es) Desertores norcoreanos		0
10	Persian (fa) فراریان کره شمالی		0

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

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