Ocean pollution

Quality:

Marine pollution - pollution that gets thrown in the oceans. Article “Ocean pollution” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Ocean pollution”, its content was written by 31 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6365^th place) and edited by 1087 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4633 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #285 in March 2014
• Global: #4951 in February 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #401 in March 2017
• Global: #20933 in October 2019

There are 30 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	Norwegian (no) Havforurensning		98.9911
2	Hindi (hi) समुद्री प्रदूषण		97.1429
3	English (en) Marine pollution		96.3635
4	Tamil (ta) கடல் மாசுபாடு		89.6821
5	Turkish (tr) Deniz kirliliği		89.0797
6	Spanish (es) Contaminación marina		87.5029
7	Portuguese (pt) Poluição marinha		64.1804
8	French (fr) Pollution marine		60.4801
9	German (de) Verschmutzung der Ozeane		53.1863
10	Catalan (ca) Contaminació marina		50.8907

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Marine pollution		2 941 096
2	French (fr) Pollution marine		780 430
3	Russian (ru) Загрязнение океанов		769 526
4	Spanish (es) Contaminación marina		702 573
5	Arabic (ar) تلوث البحار		546 412
6	Japanese (ja) 海洋汚染		444 643
7	Ukrainian (uk) Забруднення океанів		217 982
8	Chinese (zh) 海洋污染		194 972
9	Tamil (ta) கடல் மாசுபாடு		191 066
10	Portuguese (pt) Poluição marinha		176 939

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) Marine pollution		4 926
2	Spanish (es) Contaminación marina		2 319
3	Russian (ru) Загрязнение океанов		1 297
4	Simple English (simple) Ocean pollution		1 268
5	French (fr) Pollution marine		1 057
6	Korean (ko) 해양 오염		693
7	Japanese (ja) 海洋汚染		674
8	Portuguese (pt) Poluição marinha		514
9	Chinese (zh) 海洋污染		283
10	German (de) Verschmutzung der Ozeane		275

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Marine pollution		375
2	French (fr) Pollution marine		143
3	Russian (ru) Загрязнение океанов		84
4	Japanese (ja) 海洋汚染		64
5	Norwegian (no) Havforurensning		43
6	Spanish (es) Contaminación marina		42
7	Portuguese (pt) Poluição marinha		33
8	Arabic (ar) تلوث البحار		31
9	Simple English (simple) Ocean pollution		31
10	Tamil (ta) கடல் மாசுபாடு		26

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	Arabic (ar) تلوث البحار		0
2	Azerbaijani (az) Okean və dənizlərin çirklənməsi		0
3	Catalan (ca) Contaminació marina		0
4	Danish (da) Havforurening		0
5	German (de) Verschmutzung der Ozeane		0
6	Greek (el) Ρύπανση της θάλασσας		0
7	English (en) Marine pollution		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Marpoluado		0
9	Spanish (es) Contaminación marina		0
10	Estonian (et) Merereostus		0

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

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