The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - 2006 novel by John Boyne. This book is the 201^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 414^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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:

The 414^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 201^st most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1744 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is on the 414^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 201^st place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 247 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #491 in December 2014
• Global: #1962 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8586 in May 2017
• Global: #4513 in November 2008

There are 31 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) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas		52.0462
2	Romanian (ro) Băiatul cu pijamale în dungi (roman)		41.3456
3	Ukrainian (uk) Хлопчик у смугастій піжамі		39.5683
4	German (de) Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama		33.0394
5	French (fr) Le Garçon en pyjama rayé		27.3945
6	Serbian (sr) Дечак у пругастој пиџами (књига)		23.2043
7	Norwegian (no) Gutten i den stripete pyjamasen		22.6761
8	Galician (gl) O neno do pixama a raias		22.237
9	Arabic (ar) الصبي في البيجامة المخططة		21.5672
10	Indonesian (id) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas		21.279

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas		8 098 626
2	Spanish (es) El niño con el pijama de rayas		6 536 855
3	German (de) Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama		1 916 191
4	Italian (it) Il bambino con il pigiama a righe		745 935
5	Japanese (ja) 縞模様のパジャマの少年		654 677
6	Russian (ru) Мальчик в полосатой пижаме (роман)		604 351
7	Portuguese (pt) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas		487 556
8	Dutch (nl) De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama		427 451
9	Finnish (fi) Poika raidallisessa pyjamassa		258 067
10	Ukrainian (uk) Хлопчик у смугастій піжамі		107 339

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) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas		17 975
2	Spanish (es) El niño con el pijama de rayas		9 780
3	German (de) Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama		7 500
4	Japanese (ja) 縞模様のパジャマの少年		3 070
5	Romanian (ro) Băiatul cu pijamale în dungi (roman)		1 608
6	Russian (ru) Мальчик в полосатой пижаме (роман)		1 599
7	French (fr) Le Garçon en pyjama rayé		1 298
8	Portuguese (pt) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas		644
9	Ukrainian (uk) Хлопчик у смугастій піжамі		572
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chú bé mang pyjama sọc		481

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas		821
2	Spanish (es) El niño con el pijama de rayas		207
3	German (de) Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama		192
4	Italian (it) Il bambino con il pigiama a righe		104
5	Dutch (nl) De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama		75
6	Portuguese (pt) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas		48
7	Norwegian (no) Gutten i den stripete pyjamasen		32
8	Finnish (fi) Poika raidallisessa pyjamassa		25
9	Catalan (ca) El noi del pijama de ratlles		24
10	Russian (ru) Мальчик в полосатой пижаме (роман)		22

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) El niño con el pijama de rayas		1
2	Norwegian (no) Gutten i den stripete pyjamasen		1
3	Russian (ru) Мальчик в полосатой пижаме (роман)		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Хлопчик у смугастій піжамі		1
5	Arabic (ar) الصبي في البيجامة المخططة		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Момчето с раираната пижама		0
7	Catalan (ca) El noi del pijama de ratlles		0
8	Czech (cs) Chlapec v pruhovaném pyžamu		0
9	Danish (da) Drengen i den stribede pyjamas		0
10	German (de) Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama		0

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

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