Legal drinking age

Quality:

Legal drinking age - minimum age for legal alcohol consumption. Article "Legal drinking age" in English Wikipedia has 65.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 420 references and 8 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In July 2024 the article "Legal drinking age" was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (8182^nd place) and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Legal drinking age", its content was written by 1698 registered users of English Wikipedia (1414^th place) and edited by 2158 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 642 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1146 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #340 in November 2008
• Global: #3710 in November 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2367 in January 2011
• Global: #5262 in July 2019

There are 14 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 August 1, 2024 (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	German (de) Mindestalter für Alkoholerwerb		91.4286
2	Finnish (fi) Alkoholilainsäädäntö maittain		77.6286
3	Chinese (zh) 合法飲酒年齡		76
4	Korean (ko) 음주 연령		66.7499
5	Indonesian (id) Usia legal minum minuman beralkohol		66.1714
6	English (en) Legal drinking age		65.5714
7	Portuguese (pt) Idade legal para consumo de bebidas alcoólicas		58.1993
8	Urdu (ur) پینے کی قانونی عمر		54.7548
9	Persian (fa) سن قانونی نوشیدن الکل		46.7411
10	Arabic (ar) السن القانوني لاستهلاك الخمر		33.5449

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Legal drinking age		17 956 843
2	French (fr) Âge légal pour la consommation d'alcool		1 107 434
3	German (de) Mindestalter für Alkoholerwerb		793 534
4	Portuguese (pt) Idade legal para consumo de bebidas alcoólicas		522 159
5	Finnish (fi) Alkoholilainsäädäntö maittain		310 033
6	Chinese (zh) 合法飲酒年齡		290 419
7	Norwegian (no) Aldersgrense på alkoholkonsum		269 681
8	Hebrew (he) גיל שתייה חוקי		249 695
9	Indonesian (id) Usia legal minum minuman beralkohol		93 634
10	Spanish (es) Edad mínima legal para el consumo de alcohol		62 990

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) Legal drinking age		41 560
2	Finnish (fi) Alkoholilainsäädäntö maittain		7 185
3	Norwegian (no) Aldersgrense på alkoholkonsum		6 288
4	French (fr) Âge légal pour la consommation d'alcool		6 160
5	German (de) Mindestalter für Alkoholerwerb		5 292
6	Chinese (zh) 合法飲酒年齡		4 258
7	Portuguese (pt) Idade legal para consumo de bebidas alcoólicas		2 912
8	Hebrew (he) גיל שתייה חוקי		2 449
9	Spanish (es) Edad mínima legal para el consumo de alcohol		1 998
10	Korean (ko) 음주 연령		1 172

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Legal drinking age		1 698
2	German (de) Mindestalter für Alkoholerwerb		122
3	French (fr) Âge légal pour la consommation d'alcool		112
4	Norwegian (no) Aldersgrense på alkoholkonsum		54
5	Hebrew (he) גיל שתייה חוקי		40
6	Chinese (zh) 合法飲酒年齡		38
7	Portuguese (pt) Idade legal para consumo de bebidas alcoólicas		31
8	Persian (fa) سن قانونی نوشیدن الکل		15
9	Finnish (fi) Alkoholilainsäädäntö maittain		13
10	Spanish (es) Edad mínima legal para el consumo de alcohol		11

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) Legal drinking age		11
2	Finnish (fi) Alkoholilainsäädäntö maittain		3
3	Spanish (es) Edad mínima legal para el consumo de alcohol		2
4	French (fr) Âge légal pour la consommation d'alcool		1
5	Arabic (ar) السن القانوني لاستهلاك الخمر		0
6	German (de) Mindestalter für Alkoholerwerb		0
7	Persian (fa) سن قانونی نوشیدن الکل		0
8	Hebrew (he) גיל שתייה חוקי		0
9	Indonesian (id) Usia legal minum minuman beralkohol		0
10	Korean (ko) 음주 연령		0

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

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