Origin of life

Quality:

Origin of life - subject in science, philosophy and mythology. Article “Origin of life” in Simple English Wikipedia has 76.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 48 references and 25 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Origin of life” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3219^th place) and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Origin of life”, its content was written by 68 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1549^th place) and edited by 1757 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 37 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2844 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #8 in May 2017
• Global: #4196 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #43 in September 2017
• Global: #18516 in September 2014

There are 25 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	Basque (eu) Biziaren jatorria		86.5343
2	French (fr) Origine de la vie		83.0095
3	Simple English (simple) Origin of life		76.1262
4	Dutch (nl) Oorsprong van het leven		74.2423
5	Italian (it) Origine della vita		71.7726
6	Czech (cs) Vznik života		68.4759
7	Catalan (ca) Origen de la vida		59.7721
8	Hebrew (he) מוצא החיים		53.4641
9	Galician (gl) Teorías acerca da orixe da vida		47.8532
10	Swedish (sv) Livets uppkomst		42.9421

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Возникновение жизни		3 571 551
2	French (fr) Origine de la vie		1 643 209
3	Italian (it) Origine della vita		1 211 969
4	Simple English (simple) Origin of life		746 111
5	Swedish (sv) Livets uppkomst		606 676
6	Persian (fa) پیدایش زندگی		552 411
7	Polish (pl) Pochodzenie życia		465 014
8	Czech (cs) Vznik života		426 163
9	Dutch (nl) Oorsprong van het leven		364 725
10	Ukrainian (uk) Виникнення життя на Землі		277 805

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Возникновение жизни		4 976
2	French (fr) Origine de la vie		2 633
3	Italian (it) Origine della vita		1 581
4	Persian (fa) پیدایش زندگی		902
5	Dutch (nl) Oorsprong van het leven		780
6	Polish (pl) Pochodzenie życia		594
7	Czech (cs) Vznik života		501
8	Swedish (sv) Livets uppkomst		304
9	Hebrew (he) מוצא החיים		299
10	Finnish (fi) Elämän alkuperä		291

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Origine de la vie		322
2	Russian (ru) Возникновение жизни		244
3	Italian (it) Origine della vita		152
4	Hebrew (he) מוצא החיים		138
5	Dutch (nl) Oorsprong van het leven		110
6	Polish (pl) Pochodzenie życia		88
7	Swedish (sv) Livets uppkomst		85
8	Persian (fa) پیدایش زندگی		70
9	Simple English (simple) Origin of life		68
10	Finnish (fi) Elämän alkuperä		66

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) أصل الحياة		2
2	Catalan (ca) Origen de la vida		1
3	Czech (cs) Vznik života		1
4	Basque (eu) Biziaren jatorria		1
5	French (fr) Origine de la vie		1
6	Italian (it) Origine della vita		1
7	Dutch (nl) Oorsprong van het leven		1
8	Russian (ru) Возникновение жизни		1
9	Simple English (simple) Origin of life		1
10	Ukrainian (uk) Виникнення життя на Землі		1

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

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