Out of Africa

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Recent African origin of modern humans - dominant model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans, according to which Homo sapiens developed in the Horn of Africa 300–200 kya and dispersed to the rest of the world in multiple events. Article “Out of Africa” in Simple English Wikipedia has 40.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 6 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Out of Africa” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5783^rd place) and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Out of Africa”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1246 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 26 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2399 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2285 in March 2018
• Global: #2435 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4612 in March 2026
• Global: #31204 in March 2010

There are 35 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	Hebrew (he) מוצאו האפריקאי של האדם המודרני		100
2	English (en) Recent African origin of modern humans		93.6168
3	Portuguese (pt) Hipótese da origem única		87.5448
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Nova hipoteza o jedinstvenom porijeklu		83.97
5	Chinese (zh) 人类单地起源说		76.3202
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Ut frå Afrika		62.36
7	Tamil (ta) நவீன மனிதரின் ஆப்பிரிக்கத் தோற்றக் கோட்பாடு		58.8974
8	Romanian (ro) Originea africană recentă a oamenilor moderni		46.4109
9	Turkish (tr) Modern insanın yakın zamanlı Afrika kökeni		44.8266
10	Armenian (hy) Մարդու աֆրիկյան ծագման տեսություն		43.885

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Recent African origin of modern humans		5 386 308
2	Japanese (ja) アフリカ単一起源説		615 967
3	German (de) Out-of-Africa-Theorie		555 354
4	French (fr) Origine africaine de l'Homme moderne		454 631
5	Chinese (zh) 人类单地起源说		390 795
6	Spanish (es) Teoría del origen africano reciente de la humanidad		191 208
7	Italian (it) Origine africana dell'Homo sapiens		150 484
8	Indonesian (id) Teori leluhur manusia modern dari Afrika		139 896
9	Portuguese (pt) Hipótese da origem única		137 910
10	Dutch (nl) Enkele-oorspronghypothese		136 151

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) Recent African origin of modern humans		19 870
2	Japanese (ja) アフリカ単一起源説		1 777
3	German (de) Out-of-Africa-Theorie		1 405
4	Chinese (zh) 人类单地起源说		1 343
5	Russian (ru) Теория африканского происхождения человека		1 209
6	French (fr) Origine africaine de l'Homme moderne		849
7	Spanish (es) Teoría del origen africano reciente de la humanidad		454
8	Italian (it) Origine africana dell'Homo sapiens		444
9	Polish (pl) Teoria wyjścia z Afryki		428
10	Persian (fa) نظریه خروج از آفریقا		335

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Recent African origin of modern humans		556
2	French (fr) Origine africaine de l'Homme moderne		99
3	Dutch (nl) Enkele-oorspronghypothese		61
4	Chinese (zh) 人类单地起源说		60
5	German (de) Out-of-Africa-Theorie		54
6	Italian (it) Origine africana dell'Homo sapiens		53
7	Russian (ru) Теория африканского происхождения человека		39
8	Japanese (ja) アフリカ単一起源説		35
9	Portuguese (pt) Hipótese da origem única		29
10	Spanish (es) Teoría del origen africano reciente de la humanidad		28

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	Hebrew (he) מוצאו האפריקאי של האדם המודרני		2
2	Arabic (ar) نظرية الخروج من إفريقيا		1
3	German (de) Out-of-Africa-Theorie		1
4	Basque (eu) Gizaki modernoen arestiko afrikar jatorria		1
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Nova hipoteza o jedinstvenom porijeklu		1
6	Simple English (simple) Out of Africa		1
7	Swedish (sv) Ut ur Afrika-hypotesen		1
8	Tamil (ta) நவீன மனிதரின் ஆப்பிரிக்கத் தோற்றக் கோட்பாடு		1
9	Chinese (zh) 人类单地起源说		1
10	Belarusian (be) Гіпотэза афрыканскага паходжання чалавека		0

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

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