Political economy

Quality:

Political economics - study of production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government. Article “Political economy” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Political economy”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1637 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 86 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14178 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #346 in April 2012
• Global: #434 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2289 in September 2010
• Global: #11350 in February 2009

There are 47 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	English (en) Political economy		69.9468
2	French (fr) Économie politique		52.7962
3	Spanish (es) Economía política		46.9331
4	Chinese (zh) 政治经济学		39.8918
5	Italian (it) Economia politica		38.5698
6	German (de) Politische Ökonomie		36.522
7	Latin (la) Oeconomia politica		32.2305
8	Indonesian (id) Ilmu ekonomi politik		30.8122
9	Slovenian (sl) Politična ekonomija		30.3241
10	Turkish (tr) Siyasi ekonomi		29.6221

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Political economy		4 940 218
2	Spanish (es) Economía política		3 374 129
3	Russian (ru) Политическая экономия		1 047 356
4	Italian (it) Economia politica		833 595
5	French (fr) Économie politique		760 289
6	Portuguese (pt) Economia política		537 910
7	Vietnamese (vi) Kinh tế chính trị		410 489
8	German (de) Politische Ökonomie		398 694
9	Chinese (zh) 政治经济学		353 997
10	Arabic (ar) اقتصاد سياسي		301 412

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) Political economy		7 925
2	Russian (ru) Политическая экономия		1 388
3	German (de) Politische Ökonomie		976
4	Spanish (es) Economía política		856
5	Chinese (zh) 政治经济学		743
6	French (fr) Économie politique		670
7	Italian (it) Economia politica		522
8	Vietnamese (vi) Kinh tế chính trị		445
9	Persian (fa) اقتصاد سیاسی		377
10	Japanese (ja) 政治経済学		352

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Political economy		368
2	French (fr) Économie politique		154
3	German (de) Politische Ökonomie		118
4	Italian (it) Economia politica		100
5	Spanish (es) Economía política		95
6	Russian (ru) Политическая экономия		83
7	Vietnamese (vi) Kinh tế chính trị		69
8	Chinese (zh) 政治经济学		47
9	Japanese (ja) 政治経済学		43
10	Persian (fa) اقتصاد سیاسی		41

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	Spanish (es) Economía política		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) Siyasi iqtisadiyyat		1
3	English (en) Political economy		1
4	Armenian (hy) Քաղաքատնտեսություն		1
5	Romanian (ro) Economie politică		1
6	Serbian (sr) Politička ekonomija		1
7	Chinese (zh) 政治经济学		1
8	Arabic (ar) اقتصاد سياسي		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Политическа икономия		0
10	Catalan (ca) Economia política		0

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

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