Simple living

Quality:

Simple living - practices that promote simplicity in one's lifestyle; common practices of simple living include reducing the number of possessions one owns, depending less on technology and services, and spending less money. Article “Simple living” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Simple living”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1266 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 30 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4560 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #416 in April 2017
• Global: #2814 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4213 in May 2011
• Global: #37024 in May 2012

There are 34 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	Volapük (vo) Lifamod balugik		88.9439
2	English (en) Simple living		80.1192
3	Portuguese (pt) Simplicidade voluntária		75.3712
4	Armenian (hy) Հասարակ ապրելակերպ		54.2722
5	Hungarian (hu) Önkéntes egyszerűség		51.8458
6	German (de) Einfaches Leben		47.9944
7	Chinese (zh) 簡單生活		47.3743
8	Dutch (nl) Eenvoudig leven		40.9229
9	Arabic (ar) حياة بسيطة		31.7718
10	French (fr) Simplicité volontaire		30.6734

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Simple living		4 049 639
2	German (de) Einfaches Leben		692 242
3	French (fr) Simplicité volontaire		395 823
4	Spanish (es) Vida sencilla		354 526
5	Russian (ru) Опрощение (идеология)		303 339
6	Italian (it) Semplicità volontaria		232 455
7	Chinese (zh) 簡單生活		122 042
8	Indonesian (id) Hidup sederhana		118 684
9	Portuguese (pt) Simplicidade voluntária		73 693
10	Polish (pl) Minimalizm (filozofia)		56 337

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) Simple living		9 492
2	German (de) Einfaches Leben		1 465
3	Russian (ru) Опрощение (идеология)		722
4	French (fr) Simplicité volontaire		591
5	Chinese (zh) 簡單生活		441
6	Spanish (es) Vida sencilla		366
7	Italian (it) Semplicità volontaria		247
8	Polish (pl) Minimalizm (filozofia)		168
9	Portuguese (pt) Simplicidade voluntária		87
10	Persian (fa) ساده‌زیستی		72

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Simple living		457
2	German (de) Einfaches Leben		198
3	French (fr) Simplicité volontaire		193
4	Italian (it) Semplicità volontaria		62
5	Spanish (es) Vida sencilla		55
6	Russian (ru) Опрощение (идеология)		34
7	Hebrew (he) חיים פשוטים		29
8	Chinese (zh) 簡單生活		23
9	Swedish (sv) Simple living		21
10	Portuguese (pt) Simplicidade voluntária		17

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	Arabic (ar) حياة بسيطة		1
2	Catalan (ca) Simplicitat voluntària		0
3	Czech (cs) Dobrovolná skromnost		0
4	German (de) Einfaches Leben		0
5	Greek (el) Απλή διαβίωση		0
6	English (en) Simple living		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Modera vivostilo		0
8	Spanish (es) Vida sencilla		0
9	Basque (eu) Bizimodu xume		0
10	Persian (fa) ساده‌زیستی		0

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

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