Welfare state

Quality:

Welfare state - form of government that protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens. Article “Welfare state” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.7 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 7779^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9907^th most popular in all topics.

The 9217^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Welfare state”, its content was written by 28 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7779^th place) and edited by 2675 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9217^th place).

The article is cited 46 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10026 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #43 in May 2005
• Global: #2387 in May 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3951 in June 2008
• Global: #5488 in April 2013

There are 49 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) Welfare state		89.2913
2	French (fr) État-providence		81.1393
3	Spanish (es) Estado del bienestar		71.6547
4	Hungarian (hu) Jóléti állam		68.694
5	German (de) Wohlfahrtsstaat		63.4829
6	Italian (it) Stato sociale		49.5896
7	Slovenian (sl) Socialna država		49.104
8	Japanese (ja) 福祉国家論		47.9382
9	Georgian (ka) საყოველთაო კეთილდღეობის სახელმწიფო		47.3415
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Velferdsstat		46.9648

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Welfare state		7 730 699
2	Spanish (es) Estado del bienestar		6 030 620
3	Portuguese (pt) Estado de bem-estar social		2 468 316
4	Italian (it) Stato sociale		2 154 459
5	French (fr) État-providence		2 042 735
6	Japanese (ja) 福祉国家論		888 942
7	German (de) Wohlfahrtsstaat		770 932
8	Dutch (nl) Verzorgingsstaat		711 843
9	Russian (ru) Государство всеобщего благосостояния		663 308
10	Polish (pl) Państwo dobrobytu		566 795

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) Welfare state		14 032
2	Spanish (es) Estado del bienestar		3 660
3	French (fr) État-providence		1 993
4	Italian (it) Stato sociale		1 297
5	Russian (ru) Государство всеобщего благосостояния		1 244
6	Portuguese (pt) Estado de bem-estar social		1 068
7	Chinese (zh) 福利國家		992
8	Japanese (ja) 福祉国家論		902
9	German (de) Wohlfahrtsstaat		809
10	Polish (pl) Państwo dobrobytu		753

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Welfare state		688
2	French (fr) État-providence		310
3	Spanish (es) Estado del bienestar		193
4	Italian (it) Stato sociale		163
5	German (de) Wohlfahrtsstaat		159
6	Portuguese (pt) Estado de bem-estar social		115
7	Finnish (fi) Hyvinvointivaltio		108
8	Dutch (nl) Verzorgingsstaat		108
9	Hebrew (he) מדינת רווחה		78
10	Japanese (ja) 福祉国家論		74

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) Welfare state		3
2	Galician (gl) Estado de benestar		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Sosial dövlət		1
4	Spanish (es) Estado del bienestar		1
5	Hebrew (he) מדינת רווחה		1
6	Italian (it) Stato sociale		1
7	Serbian (sr) Država blagostanja		1
8	Chinese (zh) 福利國家		1
9	Arabic (ar) دولة رفاهية		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Държава на всеобщото благоденствие		0

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

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