Utilitarianism

Quality:

Utilitarianism - ethical theory which holds that the right action is the one that maximizes aggregate well-being. Article “Utilitarianism” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 4 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 3643^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6838^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4589^th most popular in all topics.

The 8068^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9579^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Utilitarianism”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6838^th place) and edited by 2854 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8068^th place).

The article is cited 195 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13463 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #132 in October 2004
• Global: #2093 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1429 in March 2020
• Global: #2001 in May 2019

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) Utilitarianism		80.9259
2	Arabic (ar) نفعية		69.6708
3	Vietnamese (vi) Chủ nghĩa công lợi		68.2854
4	Japanese (ja) 功利主義		63.4758
5	German (de) Utilitarismus		59.4728
6	Latin (la) Utilitarismus		57.7576
7	Uzbek (uz) Utilitarizm		52.2475
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Utilitarisme		51.476
9	Portuguese (pt) Utilitarismo		50.2172
10	Hebrew (he) תועלתנות		49.4429

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Utilitarianism		20 229 377
2	Spanish (es) Utilitarismo		4 295 858
3	German (de) Utilitarismus		4 182 092
4	Russian (ru) Утилитаризм		1 739 261
5	Japanese (ja) 功利主義		1 708 584
6	Polish (pl) Utylitaryzm		1 659 564
7	French (fr) Utilitarisme		1 506 346
8	Portuguese (pt) Utilitarismo		1 460 531
9	Chinese (zh) 功利主義		1 383 894
10	Swedish (sv) Utilitarism		724 878

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) Utilitarianism		24 597
2	German (de) Utilitarismus		6 128
3	Japanese (ja) 功利主義		4 583
4	Russian (ru) Утилитаризм		3 171
5	French (fr) Utilitarisme		2 526
6	Chinese (zh) 功利主義		2 355
7	Spanish (es) Utilitarismo		1 954
8	Polish (pl) Utylitaryzm		1 340
9	Korean (ko) 공리주의		1 296
10	Persian (fa) فایده‌گرایی		974

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Utilitarianism		860
2	German (de) Utilitarismus		289
3	French (fr) Utilitarisme		205
4	Spanish (es) Utilitarismo		167
5	Dutch (nl) Utilitarisme		86
6	Italian (it) Utilitarismo		85
7	Japanese (ja) 功利主義		85
8	Chinese (zh) 功利主義		76
9	Portuguese (pt) Utilitarismo		72
10	Hebrew (he) תועלתנות		70

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) Utilitarianism		7
2	Spanish (es) Utilitarismo		3
3	Arabic (ar) نفعية		2
4	French (fr) Utilitarisme		2
5	Greek (el) Ωφελιμισμός		1
6	Persian (fa) فایده‌گرایی		1
7	Japanese (ja) 功利主義		1
8	Polish (pl) Utylitaryzm		1
9	Slovenian (sl) Utilitarizem		1
10	Chinese (zh) 功利主義		1

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

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