FOMO

Fear of missing out - type of social anxiety that one is either not in the know or missing out on information, events, experiences, or life decisions that could make one's life better. Article “FOMO” in Japanese Wikipedia has 33 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 72 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “FOMO”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 589 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 676 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #30237 in March 2025
• Global: #2771 in May 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #44514 in February 2021
• Global: #14374 in November 2024

There are 30 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) Fear of missing out		82.3427
2	Thai (th) โรคกลัวตกกระแส		67.4212
3	German (de) Fear of missing out		64.4293
4	Chinese (zh) 错失恐惧症		59.3869
5	Indonesian (id) FOMO		57.1232
6	Hebrew (he) חרדת החמצה		49.362
7	Italian (it) FOMO		45.3663
8	Korean (ko) 포모		42.6497
9	French (fr) Syndrome FOMO		41.2464
10	Turkish (tr) Günceli kaçırma korkusu		37.9433

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fear of missing out		2 819 581
2	Spanish (es) Síndrome FOMO		516 620
3	Russian (ru) Боязнь пропустить интересное		469 309
4	French (fr) Syndrome FOMO		410 972
5	German (de) Fear of missing out		409 854
6	Italian (it) FOMO		350 773
7	Chinese (zh) 错失恐惧症		286 972
8	Hebrew (he) חרדת החמצה		174 058
9	Korean (ko) 포모		103 371
10	Indonesian (id) FOMO		102 924

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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 "FOMO" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fear of missing out		17 346
2	Spanish (es) Síndrome FOMO		6 413
3	French (fr) Syndrome FOMO		4 114
4	Italian (it) FOMO		4 090
5	German (de) Fear of missing out		4 032
6	Russian (ru) Боязнь пропустить интересное		3 701
7	Korean (ko) 포모		2 846
8	Indonesian (id) FOMO		2 058
9	Chinese (zh) 错失恐惧症		2 009
10	Portuguese (pt) Síndrome de FOMO		1 835

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fear of missing out		264
2	German (de) Fear of missing out		51
3	Italian (it) FOMO		36
4	French (fr) Syndrome FOMO		33
5	Hebrew (he) חרדת החמצה		30
6	Spanish (es) Síndrome FOMO		24
7	Chinese (zh) 错失恐惧症		19
8	Indonesian (id) FOMO		15
9	Russian (ru) Боязнь пропустить интересное		13
10	Japanese (ja) FOMO		10

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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 "FOMO" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Fear of missing out		2
2	English (en) Fear of missing out		2
3	Italian (it) FOMO		2
4	Spanish (es) Síndrome FOMO		1
5	Indonesian (id) FOMO		1
6	Arabic (ar) فومو		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Qaçırmaq qorxusu		0
8	Catalan (ca) Síndrome FOMO		0
9	Czech (cs) FOMO		0
10	Greek (el) Fomo		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 "FOMO" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fear of missing out		249
2	Arabic (ar) فومو		122
3	Chinese (zh) 错失恐惧症		58
4	Korean (ko) 포모		36
5	Persian (fa) ترس از جا ماندن		30
6	French (fr) Syndrome FOMO		24
7	Ukrainian (uk) Синдром втрачених можливостей		24
8	German (de) Fear of missing out		18
9	Russian (ru) Боязнь пропустить интересное		18
10	Hebrew (he) חרדת החמצה		14

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فومو
az	Azerbaijani Qaçırmaq qorxusu
ca	Catalan Síndrome FOMO
cs	Czech FOMO
de	German Fear of missing out
el	Greek Fomo
en	English Fear of missing out
es	Spanish Síndrome FOMO
eu	Basque FOMO sindrome
fa	Persian ترس از جا ماندن
fi	Finnish FOMO
fr	French Syndrome FOMO
he	Hebrew חרדת החמצה
hu	Hungarian FOMO
hy	Armenian Բաց թողնելու վախի սինդրոմ
id	Indonesian FOMO
it	Italian FOMO
ja	Japanese FOMO
ko	Korean 포모
nl	Dutch Fear of missing out
no	Norwegian FOMO
pl	Polish FOMO
pt	Portuguese Síndrome de FOMO
ru	Russian Боязнь пропустить интересное
th	Thai โรคกลัวตกกระแส
tr	Turkish Günceli kaçırma korkusu
uk	Ukrainian Синдром втрачених можливостей
uz	Uzbek Biror narsani yoʻqotishdan qoʻrqish
vi	Vietnamese FOMO
zh	Chinese 错失恐惧症

Best Rank

Japanese: #44514 02.2021

Global: #14374 11.2024

Best Rank

Japanese: #30237 03.2025

Global: #2771 05.2020

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