Rule of law

Quality:

Rule of law - doctrine that advocates that every citizen, including those in government, is subject to the law. Article “Rule of law” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 3 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 “Rule of law”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7023^rd place) and edited by 1480 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 128 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11868 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #414 in July 2018
• Global: #2813 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #571 in September 2019
• Global: #11205 in November 2018

There are 43 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) Rule of law		86.2324
2	Georgian (ka) კანონის უზენაესობა		84.2857
3	Chinese (zh) 法治		80.3191
4	Serbian (sr) Владавина права		80.2758
5	Hebrew (he) שלטון החוק		67.0085
6	Ukrainian (uk) Верховенство права		47.3943
7	Armenian (hy) Օրենքի գերակայություն		45.9081
8	Catalan (ca) Imperi de la llei		44.1535
9	Hungarian (hu) Jogállam		43.4971
10	Azerbaijani (az) Hüququn aliliyi		38.2757

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rule of law		8 657 922
2	Spanish (es) Imperio de la ley		686 798
3	Japanese (ja) 法の支配		658 411
4	Chinese (zh) 法治		570 076
5	Polish (pl) Praworządność		550 079
6	Vietnamese (vi) Pháp quyền		451 194
7	Russian (ru) Верховенство права		436 627
8	Hindi (hi) विधि शासन		356 165
9	Ukrainian (uk) Верховенство права		348 567
10	Indonesian (id) Rule of law		333 058

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) Rule of law		8 239
2	Japanese (ja) 法の支配		1 134
3	Chinese (zh) 法治		1 050
4	Russian (ru) Верховенство права		765
5	Spanish (es) Imperio de la ley		468
6	Persian (fa) حاکمیت قانون		281
7	Polish (pl) Praworządność		264
8	Korean (ko) 법치주의		244
9	French (fr) Rule of law		242
10	Turkish (tr) Hukukun üstünlüğü		242

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rule of law		629
2	Chinese (zh) 法治		91
3	Hebrew (he) שלטון החוק		89
4	Japanese (ja) 法の支配		66
5	Vietnamese (vi) Pháp quyền		43
6	Polish (pl) Praworządność		42
7	German (de) Rule of Law		41
8	Spanish (es) Imperio de la ley		41
9	Russian (ru) Верховенство права		37
10	Hungarian (hu) Jogállam		35

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	Serbian (sr) Владавина права		4
2	English (en) Rule of law		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Hüququn aliliyi		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Jogállam		1
5	Romanian (ro) Supremația dreptului		1
6	Tamil (ta) சட்ட ஆட்சி		1
7	Uzbek (uz) Qonun ustuvorligi		1
8	Arabic (ar) سيادة القانون		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Върховенство на закона		0
10	Catalan (ca) Imperi de la llei		0

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

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