Origin of life

Quality:

Abiogenesis - subject in science, philosophy and mythology. Article “Origin of life” in Simple English Wikipedia has 78 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 2025 the article “Origin of life” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5511^th place) and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Origin of life”, its content was written by 68 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1446^th place) and edited by 1899 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 39 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3101 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #8 in May 2017
• Global: #3987 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #29 in June 2010
• Global: #14985 in December 2010

There are 26 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	Basque (eu) Biziaren jatorria		87.3656
2	French (fr) Origine de la vie		83.1718
3	Simple English (simple) Origin of life		77.9673
4	Dutch (nl) Oorsprong van het leven		74.9823
5	Italian (it) Origine della vita		72.0858
6	Czech (cs) Vznik života		69.4462
7	Catalan (ca) Origen de la vida		59.6794
8	Hebrew (he) מוצא החיים		52.7711
9	Galician (gl) Teorías acerca da orixe da vida		47.666
10	Swedish (sv) Livets uppkomst		44.027

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Возникновение жизни		3 160 879
2	Japanese (ja) 生命の起源		2 138 762
3	French (fr) Origine de la vie		1 600 798
4	Italian (it) Origine della vita		1 222 925
5	Simple English (simple) Origin of life		763 255
6	Swedish (sv) Livets uppkomst		600 292
7	Persian (fa) پیدایش زندگی		542 941
8	Polish (pl) Pochodzenie życia		455 047
9	Czech (cs) Vznik života		414 947
10	Dutch (nl) Oorsprong van het leven		352 792

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		6 368
2	Japanese (ja) 生命の起源		4 419
3	French (fr) Origine de la vie		2 910
4	Simple English (simple) Origin of life		2 736
5	Italian (it) Origine della vita		1 914
6	Persian (fa) پیدایش زندگی		831
7	Czech (cs) Vznik života		811
8	Dutch (nl) Oorsprong van het leven		732
9	Polish (pl) Pochodzenie życia		615
10	Korean (ko) 생명의 기원		498

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		318
2	Russian (ru) Возникновение жизни		238
3	Italian (it) Origine della vita		164
4	Japanese (ja) 生命の起源		149
5	Hebrew (he) מוצא החיים		138
6	Dutch (nl) Oorsprong van het leven		110
7	Polish (pl) Pochodzenie życia		88
8	Swedish (sv) Livets uppkomst		84
9	Persian (fa) پیدایش زندگی		68
10	Simple English (simple) Origin of life		68

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	Catalan (ca) Origen de la vida		2
2	Persian (fa) پیدایش زندگی		2
3	Dutch (nl) Oorsprong van het leven		2
4	Esperanto (eo) Origino de la vivo		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Az élet keletkezése		1
6	Japanese (ja) 生命の起源		1
7	Simple English (simple) Origin of life		1
8	Arabic (ar) أصل الحياة		0
9	Belarusian (be) Узнікненне жыцця		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Произход на живота		0

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

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