Black market

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Black market

Quality:

Black market - market in which goods or services are traded illegally. Article “Black market” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 8466th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
The 6815th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Black market” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (6815th place) and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Black market”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1907 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 38 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8281 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #466 in February 2020
  • Global: #3932 in January 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #8466 in June 2025
  • Global: #15932 in November 2016

There are 46 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Slovenian (sl)
Črni trg
78.1442
2English (en)
Black market
77.0522
3Uzbek (uz)
Qora bozor
62.8533
4Romanian (ro)
Piața neagră
60.4583
5Italian (it)
Mercato nero
51.6909
6German (de)
Schwarzmarkt
50.4791
7Arabic (ar)
سوق سوداء
50.0258
8Basque (eu)
Merkatu beltz
39.5616
9Serbian (sr)
Crno tržište
38.0289
10Chinese (zh)
黑市
36.1196
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Black market" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Black market
7 321 862
2Spanish (es)
Mercado negro
1 212 736
3Japanese (ja)
闇市
1 084 465
4Portuguese (pt)
Mercado negro
591 275
5Russian (ru)
Чёрный рынок
565 960
6German (de)
Schwarzmarkt
516 188
7French (fr)
Marché noir
343 663
8Arabic (ar)
سوق سوداء
268 040
9Italian (it)
Mercato nero
203 764
10Indonesian (id)
Pasar gelap
187 341
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Black market" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Black market
27 208
2Japanese (ja)
闇市
6 461
3Portuguese (pt)
Mercado negro
2 728
4Russian (ru)
Чёрный рынок
2 544
5Spanish (es)
Mercado negro
2 190
6Arabic (ar)
سوق سوداء
1 750
7German (de)
Schwarzmarkt
1 314
8French (fr)
Marché noir
910
9Italian (it)
Mercato nero
879
10Simple English (simple)
Black market
799
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Black market" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Black market
709
2German (de)
Schwarzmarkt
138
3Japanese (ja)
闇市
98
4French (fr)
Marché noir
91
5Spanish (es)
Mercado negro
72
6Hebrew (he)
שוק שחור
71
7Dutch (nl)
Zwarte markt
59
8Russian (ru)
Чёрный рынок
54
9Italian (it)
Mercato nero
50
10Polish (pl)
Czarny rynek
50
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Black market" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Black market
2
2Armenian (hy)
Սև շուկա
2
3Indonesian (id)
Pasar gelap
1
4Simple English (simple)
Black market
1
5Arabic (ar)
سوق سوداء
0
6Azerbaijani (az)
Qara bazar
0
7Bulgarian (bg)
Черен пазар
0
8Catalan (ca)
Mercat negre
0
9Czech (cs)
Černý trh
0
10German (de)
Schwarzmarkt
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Black market" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Black market
2 267
2German (de)
Schwarzmarkt
612
3Japanese (ja)
闇市
579
4French (fr)
Marché noir
505
5Russian (ru)
Чёрный рынок
499
6Spanish (es)
Mercado negro
361
7Italian (it)
Mercato nero
305
8Chinese (zh)
黑市
289
9Portuguese (pt)
Mercado negro
280
10Hebrew (he)
שוק שחור
265
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
سوق سوداء
azAzerbaijani
Qara bazar
bgBulgarian
Черен пазар
caCatalan
Mercat negre
csCzech
Černý trh
deGerman
Schwarzmarkt
elGreek
Μαύρη αγορά
enEnglish
Black market
eoEsperanto
Nigra merkato
esSpanish
Mercado negro
etEstonian
Varimajandus
euBasque
Merkatu beltz
faPersian
بازار سیاه
fiFinnish
Musta pörssi
frFrench
Marché noir
heHebrew
שוק שחור
hiHindi
काला बाज़ार
hrCroatian
Crno tržište
huHungarian
Feketegazdaság
hyArmenian
Սև շուկա
idIndonesian
Pasar gelap
itItalian
Mercato nero
jaJapanese
闇市
koKorean
암시장
ltLithuanian
Juodoji rinka
msMalay
Pasaran gelap
nlDutch
Zwarte markt
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Svartebørs
noNorwegian
Svartebørs
plPolish
Czarny rynek
ptPortuguese
Mercado negro
roRomanian
Piața neagră
ruRussian
Чёрный рынок
shSerbo-Croatian
Crno tržište
simpleSimple English
Black market
slSlovenian
Črni trg
srSerbian
Crno tržište
svSwedish
Svart marknad
thThai
ตลาดมืด
trTurkish
Karaborsa
ukUkrainian
Чорний ринок
urUrdu
کالا بازار
uzUzbek
Qora bozor
viVietnamese
Kinh tế ngầm
zhChinese
黑市
zhminnanMin Nan
Iá-mih

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#8466
06.2025
Global:
#15932
11.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#466
02.2020
Global:
#3932
01.2024

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Black market from Wikipedia articles about The Substance, Silk Road, Academic certificate, Drug trafficking and Darknet market. Whereas reading the article about Black market people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Grey market, Secrecy, Shinbashi, Prostitution and Human trafficking.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 闇市
zh: 黑市
simple: Black market
zhminnan: Iá-mih

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