Countdown

Countdown - decreasing count indicating the time (typically in seconds) remaining before an event is scheduled to occur. Article “Countdown” in German Wikipedia has 35 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Countdown”, its content was written by 102 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 425 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 157 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1091 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #4620 in September 2003
• Global: #13257 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #8798 in July 2016
• Global: #67368 in December 2008

There are 19 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) Countdown		40.3465
2	German (de) Countdown		34.9712
3	Hebrew (he) ספירה לאחור		29.5118
4	Italian (it) Conto alla rovescia		25.7799
5	Indonesian (id) Hitung mundur		24.5547
6	Turkish (tr) Geri sayım		24.4722
7	Arabic (ar) عد تنازلي		23.5323
8	French (fr) Compte à rebours		22.0188
9	Vietnamese (vi) Đếm ngược		17.1075
10	Russian (ru) Обратный отсчёт		16.7579

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Countdown		1 837 649
2	German (de) Countdown		498 675
3	Spanish (es) Cuenta atrás		206 977
4	Japanese (ja) カウントダウン		196 805
5	French (fr) Compte à rebours		130 972
6	Russian (ru) Обратный отсчёт		55 001
7	Thai (th) การนับถอยหลัง		54 778
8	Chinese (zh) 倒計時		38 417
9	Arabic (ar) عد تنازلي		31 529
10	Korean (ko) 카운트다운		28 327

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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 "Countdown" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Countdown		4 795
2	German (de) Countdown		1 114
3	French (fr) Compte à rebours		297
4	Spanish (es) Cuenta atrás		266
5	Japanese (ja) カウントダウン		260
6	Chinese (zh) 倒計時		222
7	Russian (ru) Обратный отсчёт		217
8	Arabic (ar) عد تنازلي		157
9	Italian (it) Conto alla rovescia		132
10	Turkish (tr) Geri sayım		114

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Countdown		161
2	German (de) Countdown		102
3	French (fr) Compte à rebours		42
4	Japanese (ja) カウントダウン		26
5	Chinese (zh) 倒計時		25
6	Persian (fa) شمارش معکوس		13
7	Spanish (es) Cuenta atrás		9
8	Russian (ru) Обратный отсчёт		8
9	Finnish (fi) Lähtölaskenta		7
10	Korean (ko) 카운트다운		7

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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 "Countdown" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Countdown		1
2	Arabic (ar) عد تنازلي		0
3	German (de) Countdown		0
4	Spanish (es) Cuenta atrás		0
5	Persian (fa) شمارش معکوس		0
6	Finnish (fi) Lähtölaskenta		0
7	French (fr) Compte à rebours		0
8	Hebrew (he) ספירה לאחור		0
9	Indonesian (id) Hitung mundur		0
10	Italian (it) Conto alla rovescia		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 "Countdown" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Korean (ko) 카운트다운		317
2	German (de) Countdown		157
3	English (en) Countdown		153
4	Japanese (ja) カウントダウン		147
5	French (fr) Compte à rebours		84
6	Hebrew (he) ספירה לאחור		64
7	Spanish (es) Cuenta atrás		44
8	Chinese (zh) 倒計時		36
9	Persian (fa) شمارش معکوس		23
10	Russian (ru) Обратный отсчёт		21

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عد تنازلي
de	German Countdown
en	English Countdown
es	Spanish Cuenta atrás
fa	Persian شمارش معکوس
fi	Finnish Lähtölaskenta
fr	French Compte à rebours
he	Hebrew ספירה לאחור
id	Indonesian Hitung mundur
it	Italian Conto alla rovescia
ja	Japanese カウントダウン
ko	Korean 카운트다운
ru	Russian Обратный отсчёт
simple	Simple English Countdown
th	Thai การนับถอยหลัง
tr	Turkish Geri sayım
ur	Urdu الٹ گنتی گھڑیال
vi	Vietnamese Đếm ngược
zh	Chinese 倒計時

Best Rank

German: #8798 07.2016

Global: #67368 12.2008

Best Rank

German: #4620 09.2003

Global: #13257 02.2005

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