Sustainable development

Quality:

Sustainable development - mode of human development that meets current demands without compromising the needs of future generations. Article “Sustainable development” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 628^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2331^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1553^rd most popular in all topics.

The 1795^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1089^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Sustainable development”, its content was written by 53 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2331^st place) and edited by 5221 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1795^th place).

The article is cited 52 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 19581 times in all languages (8492^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #45 in June 2019
• Global: #455 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #64 in June 2019
• Global: #175 in November 2013

There are 52 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) Sustainable development		94.2857
2	Turkish (tr) Sürdürülebilir gelişme		92.5298
3	German (de) Nachhaltige Entwicklung		88.8316
4	French (fr) Développement durable		78.1858
5	Uzbek (uz) Barqaror rivojlanish		77.4362
6	Spanish (es) Desarrollo sostenible		72.2393
7	Hebrew (he) פיתוח בר-קיימא		67.7872
8	Estonian (et) Jätkusuutlik areng		61.1673
9	Portuguese (pt) Desenvolvimento sustentável		59.8875
10	Slovenian (sl) Trajnostni razvoj		55.3428

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Desarrollo sostenible		20 060 910
2	English (en) Sustainable development		19 732 335
3	French (fr) Développement durable		9 080 032
4	Portuguese (pt) Desenvolvimento sustentável		4 665 200
5	Italian (it) Sviluppo sostenibile		2 178 080
6	Arabic (ar) تنمية مستدامة		2 083 546
7	Russian (ru) Устойчивое развитие		2 025 255
8	Indonesian (id) Pembangunan berkelanjutan		1 331 607
9	Polish (pl) Zrównoważony rozwój		1 270 242
10	Ukrainian (uk) Сталий розвиток		1 026 059

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) Sustainable development		47 740
2	Spanish (es) Desarrollo sostenible		7 450
3	French (fr) Développement durable		5 643
4	Russian (ru) Устойчивое развитие		4 516
5	Simple English (simple) Sustainable development		2 812
6	Chinese (zh) 可持续发展		1 663
7	Portuguese (pt) Desenvolvimento sustentável		1 508
8	Arabic (ar) تنمية مستدامة		1 397
9	Ukrainian (uk) Сталий розвиток		1 254
10	Polish (pl) Zrównoważony rozwój		1 094

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sustainable development		1 252
2	French (fr) Développement durable		736
3	Spanish (es) Desarrollo sostenible		454
4	German (de) Nachhaltige Entwicklung		303
5	Italian (it) Sviluppo sostenibile		295
6	Portuguese (pt) Desenvolvimento sustentável		170
7	Dutch (nl) Duurzame ontwikkeling		144
8	Russian (ru) Устойчивое развитие		137
9	Swedish (sv) Hållbar utveckling		137
10	Norwegian (no) Bærekraftig utvikling		116

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	German (de) Nachhaltige Entwicklung		5
2	English (en) Sustainable development		4
3	French (fr) Développement durable		2
4	Hebrew (he) פיתוח בר-קיימא		1
5	Italian (it) Sviluppo sostenibile		1
6	Japanese (ja) 持続可能な開発		1
7	Russian (ru) Устойчивое развитие		1
8	Swedish (sv) Hållbar utveckling		1
9	Arabic (ar) تنمية مستدامة		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Dayanıqlı inkişaf		0

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

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