Sovereign default

Quality:

Sovereign default - failure or refusal of the government of a sovereign state to pay back its debt in full when due. Article “Sovereign default” in English Wikipedia has 43.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.31 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Sovereign default” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sovereign default”, its content was written by 154 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 677 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 334 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1039 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6591 in November 2011
• Global: #6035 in July 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #23476 in July 2015
• Global: #8196 in March 2022

There are 26 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	German (de) Staatsbankrott		71.6867
2	English (en) Sovereign default		43.9465
3	Indonesian (id) Gagal bayar nasional		42.6428
4	French (fr) Défaut souverain		40.6637
5	Italian (it) Insolvenza sovrana		38.6114
6	Spanish (es) Impago soberano		36.5002
7	Hungarian (hu) Államcsőd		36.4564
8	Chinese (zh) 主权违约		34.6726
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Statsbankerott		30.394
10	Danish (da) Statsbankerot		24.3352

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sovereign default		1 671 074
2	German (de) Staatsbankrott		885 233
3	Russian (ru) Суверенный дефолт		246 981
4	Italian (it) Insolvenza sovrana		192 951
5	Chinese (zh) 主权违约		169 160
6	Greek (el) Πτώχευση κράτους		147 306
7	Hungarian (hu) Államcsőd		117 192
8	Czech (cs) Státní bankrot		108 756
9	Korean (ko) 국가부도		61 664
10	French (fr) Défaut souverain		48 335

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) Sovereign default		5 402
2	German (de) Staatsbankrott		873
3	Chinese (zh) 主权违约		746
4	Italian (it) Insolvenza sovrana		439
5	Russian (ru) Суверенный дефолт		281
6	Hungarian (hu) Államcsőd		259
7	Korean (ko) 국가부도		202
8	Czech (cs) Státní bankrot		157
9	French (fr) Défaut souverain		136
10	Spanish (es) Impago soberano		115

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Staatsbankrott		231
2	English (en) Sovereign default		154
3	Chinese (zh) 主权违约		40
4	Italian (it) Insolvenza sovrana		38
5	Czech (cs) Státní bankrot		28
6	Hungarian (hu) Államcsőd		25
7	French (fr) Défaut souverain		24
8	Dutch (nl) Staatsbankroet		20
9	Greek (el) Πτώχευση κράτους		16
10	Korean (ko) 국가부도		12

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	Chinese (zh) 主权违约		2
2	English (en) Sovereign default		1
3	Croatian (hr) Stečaj države		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Államcsőd		1
5	Italian (it) Insolvenza sovrana		1
6	Swedish (sv) Statsbankrutt		1
7	Arabic (ar) إفلاس سيادي		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Държавен банкрут		0
9	Catalan (ca) Fallida del deute sobirà		0
10	Czech (cs) Státní bankrot		0

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

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