Merit

Merit - concept considered fundamental to Buddhist ethics. Article “Merit” in Swedish Wikipedia has 19.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Swedish) language version.

Since the creation of article “Merit”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia and edited by 275 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in Swedish Wikipedia and cited 6199 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Swedish): #3130 in January 2016
• Global: #52825 in November 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Swedish): #17573 in July 2014
• Global: #125370 in November 2024

There are 17 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) Merit (Buddhism)		100
2	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan (Buddhisme)		42.5586
3	Chinese (zh) 福德 (佛教)		29.981
4	Arabic (ar) فضل (بوذية)		29.9527
5	Hungarian (hu) Érdem (buddhizmus)		27.4442
6	Japanese (ja) 功徳		25.9546
7	Vietnamese (vi) Công đức		25.7806
8	Thai (th) บุญ		22.8457
9	Ukrainian (uk) Пунья		22.6849
10	Russian (ru) Пунья		22.6413

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Merit" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Merit (Buddhism)		672 021
2	Thai (th) บุญ		347 683
3	Japanese (ja) 功徳		186 069
4	Chinese (zh) 福德 (佛教)		92 446
5	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan (Buddhisme)		39 714
6	Hindi (hi) पुण्य		34 150
7	German (de) Tham bun		30 488
8	Russian (ru) Пунья		26 992
9	Swedish (sv) Merit		10 612
10	French (fr) Punya		8 998

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Merit" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Merit (Buddhism)		1 748
2	Thai (th) บุญ		675
3	Japanese (ja) 功徳		616
4	Chinese (zh) 福德 (佛教)		535
5	Vietnamese (vi) Công đức		140
6	Russian (ru) Пунья		107
7	German (de) Tham bun		79
8	Hindi (hi) पुण्य		41
9	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan (Buddhisme)		41
10	French (fr) Punya		34

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

Language versions of the article "Merit" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Merit (Buddhism)		124
2	German (de) Tham bun		29
3	Chinese (zh) 福德 (佛教)		27
4	Thai (th) บุญ		26
5	Hindi (hi) पुण्य		12
6	Japanese (ja) 功徳		10
7	French (fr) Punya		8
8	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan (Buddhisme)		7
9	Russian (ru) Пунья		7
10	Swedish (sv) Merit		5

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

Language versions of the article "Merit" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Merit (Buddhism)		2
2	Arabic (ar) فضل (بوذية)		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Punya (buddizm)		0
4	German (de) Tham bun		0
5	Estonian (et) Pälvimus		0
6	French (fr) Punya		0
7	Hebrew (he) מעלה (בודהיזם)		0
8	Hindi (hi) पुण्य		0
9	Hungarian (hu) Érdem (buddhizmus)		0
10	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan (Buddhisme)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Merit" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Merit (Buddhism)		2 511
2	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan (Buddhisme)		677
3	Hungarian (hu) Érdem (buddhizmus)		622
4	Thai (th) บุญ		568
5	Chinese (zh) 福德 (佛教)		470
6	French (fr) Punya		334
7	Vietnamese (vi) Công đức		270
8	Japanese (ja) 功徳		260
9	Arabic (ar) فضل (بوذية)		161
10	Ukrainian (uk) Пунья		99

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فضل (بوذية)
az	Azerbaijani Punya (buddizm)
de	German Tham bun
en	English Merit (Buddhism)
et	Estonian Pälvimus
fr	French Punya
he	Hebrew מעלה (בודהיזם)
hi	Hindi पुण्य
hu	Hungarian Érdem (buddhizmus)
id	Indonesian Kebajikan (Buddhisme)
ja	Japanese 功徳
ru	Russian Пунья
sv	Swedish Merit
th	Thai บุญ
uk	Ukrainian Пунья
vi	Vietnamese Công đức
zh	Chinese 福德 (佛教)

Best Rank

Swedish: #17573 07.2014

Global: #125370 11.2024

Best Rank

Swedish: #3130 01.2016

Global: #52825 11.2021

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