Wikimedia users/Articles per number of speakers

Articles per number of speakers

The following chart provides another take on the penetration of Wikipedia by language.

The main resource to create Wikipedia articles are speakers of the language. Drivers to contribute might differ per culture or language.

In the table below are listed the Wikipedia in descending order of number of articles per thousand speakers of the language. This table might change your view on the reach and participation. Included are languages with 20 million speakers or more. Also included are Wikipedias with more than one hundred thousand articles. Please note that English is not within the top 10 of this list.

Warning: The number of speakers are rough estimates of vernacular language speakers (secondary language speakers have apparently been ignored). The effective source of data should be retrieved from an accurate and maintained source, such as the Unicode CLDR extra data, which also includes data about the literacy level (in order to estimate the number of readers of the language).

Language	Wikipedia	Speakers (million)	Articles (thousand)	Articles per speaker (thousandth)
Volapük	vo	000.00003	0,120	4,000,000.0
Esperanto	eo	002.00000	0,117	0,000,058.5
norsk bokmål	nb	005.00000	0,225	0,000,045.0
svenska	sv	009.00000	0,325	0,000,036.1
suomi	fi	006.00000	0,213	0,000,035.5
Nederlands	nl	020.00000	0,553	0,000,027.7
català	ca	007.00000	0,192	0,000,027.4
dansk	da	005.00000	0,114	0,000,022.8
slovenčina	sk	005.00000	0,109	0,000,021.8
polski	pl	050.00000	0,627	0,000,012.5
čeština	cs	012.00000	0,134	0,000,011.2
Deutsch	de	105.00000	0,943	0,000,009.0
italiano	it	100.00000	0,596	0,000,006.0
English	en	510.00000	3,000	0,000,005.9
română	ro	026.00000	0,130	0,000,005.0
日本語	ja	130.00000	0,609	0,000,004.7
українська	uk	044.00000	0,158	0,000,003.6
français	fr	270.00000	0,839	0,000,003.1
português	pt	180.00000	0,500	0,000,002.8
Türkçe	tr	060.00000	0,134	0,000,002.2
Bahasa Melayu	ms	023.00000	0,046	0,000,002.0
ไทย	th	030.00000	0,049	0,000,001.6
español	es	320.00000	0,504	0,000,001.6
русский	ru	280.00000	0,422	0,000,001.5
Tiếng Việt	vi	068.00000	0,096	0,000,001.4
한국어	ko	078.00000	0,108	0,000,001.4
srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски + српски / srpski + hrvatski + bosanski	sh + sr + hr + bs	021.00000	0,024	0,000,001.1
فارسی	fa	070.00000	0,066	0,000,000.9
azərbaycanca	az	031.00000	0,025	0,000,000.8
తెలుగు	te	070.00000	0,044	0,000,000.6
Bahasa Indonesia	id	180.00000	0,109	0,000,000.6
Sunda	su	027.00000	0,014	0,000,000.5
العربية	ar	250.00000	0,100	0,000,000.4
मराठी	mr	068.00000	0,024	0,000,000.4
മലയാളം	ml	035.00000	0,011	0,000,000.3
中文	zh	900.00000	0,270	0,000,000.3
தமிழ்	ta	066.00000	0,019	0,000,000.3
Jawa	jv	075.00000	0,020	0,000,000.3
ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	035.00000	0,007	0,000,000.2
贛語	gan	021.00000	0,004	0,000,000.2
ગુજરાતી	gu	046.00000	0,008	0,000,000.2
اردو	ur	060.00000	0,010	0,000,000.2
粵語	zh-yue	071.00000	0,011	0,000,000.2
閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	046.00000	0,006	0,000,000.1
বাংলা	bn	185.00000	0,020	0,000,000.1
हिन्दी	hi	360.00000	0,036	0,000,000.1
မြန်မာဘာသာ	my	032.00000	0,002	0,000,000.1
吴语	wuu	077.00000	0,004	0,000,000.1
پښتو	ps	023.00000	0,001	0,000,000.0
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	057.00000	0,002	0,000,000.0
ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	032.00000	0,001	0,000,000.0
客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî	hak	034.00000	0,001	0,000,000.0
湘語 (Xiang)	hsn	036.00000	0,000	0,000,000.0
मैथिली	mai	030.00000	0,000	0,000,000.0
भोजपुरी	bh	026.00000	0,000	0,000,000.0
Hausa	ha	024.00000	0,000	0,000,000.0