Polyvinyl chloride

Quality:

Polyvinyl chloride - synthetic plastic polymer - A thermoplastic resin produced by the polymerization of vinyl chloride gas.. Article “Polyvinyl chloride” in Simple English Wikipedia has 32.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6237^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 7065^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4663^rd most popular in all topics.

The 6786^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6625^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Polyvinyl chloride”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7065^th place) and edited by 3057 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6786^th place).

The article is cited 50 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10256 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #309 in July 2011
• Global: #2396 in October 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3084 in March 2018
• Global: #1943 in November 2014

There are 49 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	English (en) Polyvinyl chloride		92.8073
2	Greek (el) Πολυβινυλοχλωρίδιο		90.2739
3	German (de) Polyvinylchlorid		86.3794
4	Swedish (sv) Polyvinylklorid		60.8351
5	Bulgarian (bg) Поливинилхлорид		58.4453
6	Malay (ms) Polivinil klorida		53.3857
7	Chinese (zh) 聚氯乙烯		44.842
8	Indonesian (id) Polivinil klorida		41.8512
9	French (fr) Polychlorure de vinyle		41.463
10	Tamil (ta) பாலிவைனைல் குளோரைடு		41.3139

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Polyvinyl chloride		14 065 922
2	Japanese (ja) ポリ塩化ビニル		4 100 383
3	German (de) Polyvinylchlorid		3 853 680
4	Spanish (es) Policloruro de vinilo		3 651 660
5	Russian (ru) Поливинилхлорид		2 826 115
6	French (fr) Polychlorure de vinyle		1 910 020
7	Polish (pl) Poli(chlorek winylu)		1 615 232
8	Italian (it) Polivinilcloruro		1 513 345
9	Chinese (zh) 聚氯乙烯		1 337 609
10	Portuguese (pt) Policloreto de vinila		1 223 395

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) Polyvinyl chloride		26 229
2	Russian (ru) Поливинилхлорид		7 598
3	Japanese (ja) ポリ塩化ビニル		5 950
4	German (de) Polyvinylchlorid		5 895
5	Spanish (es) Policloruro de vinilo		3 525
6	French (fr) Polychlorure de vinyle		3 525
7	Chinese (zh) 聚氯乙烯		3 271
8	Italian (it) Polivinilcloruro		2 647
9	Polish (pl) Poli(chlorek winylu)		1 663
10	Portuguese (pt) Policloreto de vinila		1 589

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Polyvinyl chloride		876
2	German (de) Polyvinylchlorid		352
3	French (fr) Polychlorure de vinyle		187
4	Italian (it) Polivinilcloruro		142
5	Spanish (es) Policloruro de vinilo		134
6	Russian (ru) Поливинилхлорид		117
7	Dutch (nl) Polyvinylchloride		99
8	Chinese (zh) 聚氯乙烯		88
9	Portuguese (pt) Policloreto de vinila		82
10	Japanese (ja) ポリ塩化ビニル		71

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	English (en) Polyvinyl chloride		3
2	Finnish (fi) Polyvinyylikloridi		1
3	French (fr) Polychlorure de vinyle		1
4	Polish (pl) Poli(chlorek winylu)		1
5	Swedish (sv) Polyvinylklorid		1
6	Arabic (ar) بولي كلوريد الفاينيل		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Polivinil xlorid		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Поливинилхлорид		0
9	Catalan (ca) Clorur de polivinil		0
10	Czech (cs) Polyvinylchlorid		0

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

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