Sustainable development

Quality:

Sustainable development - mode of human development that meets current demands without compromising the needs of future generations. Article “Sustainable development” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 649^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2389^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1662^nd most popular in all topics.

The 1809^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6109^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2563^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Sustainable development” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2563^rd place) and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sustainable development”, its content was written by 54 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2389^th place) and edited by 5263 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1809^th place).

The article is cited 63 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 20817 times in all languages (8276^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #45 in June 2019
• Global: #454 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #65 in June 2019
• Global: #180 in November 2013

There are 52 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) Sustainable development		100
2	German (de) Nachhaltige Entwicklung		87.9344
3	Turkish (tr) Sürdürülebilir gelişme		78.8823
4	Uzbek (uz) Barqaror rivojlanish		77.6123
5	Spanish (es) Desarrollo sostenible		74.1541
6	French (fr) Développement durable		73.8457
7	Hebrew (he) פיתוח בר-קיימא		65.1548
8	Estonian (et) Jätkusuutlik areng		60.229
9	Portuguese (pt) Desenvolvimento sustentável		59.5095
10	Slovenian (sl) Trajnostni razvoj		55.117

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Desarrollo sostenible		20 135 090
2	English (en) Sustainable development		20 016 434
3	French (fr) Développement durable		9 172 050
4	Portuguese (pt) Desenvolvimento sustentável		4 690 854
5	Russian (ru) Устойчивое развитие		2 265 495
6	Italian (it) Sviluppo sostenibile		2 191 852
7	Arabic (ar) تنمية مستدامة		2 104 758
8	Indonesian (id) Pembangunan berkelanjutan		1 340 762
9	Polish (pl) Zrównoważony rozwój		1 282 258
10	Ukrainian (uk) Сталий розвиток		1 058 988

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) Sustainable development		22 913
2	Russian (ru) Устойчивое развитие		3 711
3	French (fr) Développement durable		3 391
4	Spanish (es) Desarrollo sostenible		2 352
5	Persian (fa) توسعه پایدار		1 267
6	Chinese (zh) 可持续发展		781
7	Portuguese (pt) Desenvolvimento sustentável		700
8	Polish (pl) Zrównoważony rozwój		668
9	German (de) Nachhaltige Entwicklung		570
10	Italian (it) Sviluppo sostenibile		474

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sustainable development		1 270
2	French (fr) Développement durable		741
3	Spanish (es) Desarrollo sostenible		460
4	German (de) Nachhaltige Entwicklung		308
5	Italian (it) Sviluppo sostenibile		299
6	Portuguese (pt) Desenvolvimento sustentável		172
7	Dutch (nl) Duurzame ontwikkeling		144
8	Russian (ru) Устойчивое развитие		138
9	Swedish (sv) Hållbar utveckling		138
10	Finnish (fi) Kestävä kehitys		104

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	Catalan (ca) Desenvolupament sostenible		2
2	English (en) Sustainable development		2
3	French (fr) Développement durable		2
4	Czech (cs) Udržitelný rozvoj		1
5	Basque (eu) Garapen iraunkor		1
6	Hebrew (he) פיתוח בר-קיימא		1
7	Croatian (hr) Održivi razvoj		1
8	Romanian (ro) Dezvoltare durabilă		1
9	Simple English (simple) Sustainable development		1
10	Uzbek (uz) Barqaror rivojlanish		1

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

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