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Wikipedia articles per population is the number of Wikipedia articles that exist in a language per million total speakers of that language.

Data is sourced from m:List of Wikipedias and List of languages by total speakers for July 2007. Note, that column "Number of speakers" means Total number, including Second language speakers.

Language Wiki Articles Total number

of speakers

Volapük vo 115,354 25 4,614,160,000
Ido io 15,088 2,500 6,035,200
Interlingua ia 3,558 1,500 2,372,000
Cornish kw 1,321 3,500 377,429
Aragonese an 6,776 30,000 225,867
Norman nrm 2,610 20,000 130,500
Northern Sami se 2,249 20,000 112,450
Scottish Gaelic gd 4,416 60,000 73,600
Icelandic is 16,692 300,000 55,640
Luxembourgish lb 16,354 300,000 54,513
Irish Gaelic ga 5,223 100,000 52,230
Norwegian (Nynorsk) nn 24,432 500,000 48,864
Esperanto eo 86,342 2,000,000 43,171
Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 19,255 450,000 42,789
Estonian et 37,958 1,100,000 34,507
Basque eu 19,158 580,000 33,031
Faroese fo 2,489 80,000 31,113
Kashubian csb 1,552 50,000 31,040
Breton br 14,736 500,000 29,472
Ripuarian ksh 6,859 250,000 27,436
Swedish sv 239,958 9,000,000 26,662
Nepal Bhasa new 25,296 1,000,000 25,296
Norwegian (Bokmål) no 119,734 5,000,000 23,947
Slovenian sl 50,038 2,200,000 22,745
Finnish fi 123,571 6,000,000 20,595
Sanskrit sa 3,870 200,000 19,350
Võro fiu-vro 1,310 70,000 18,714
Welsh cy 10,374 600,000 17,290
Arpitan (Franco-Provençal) frp 1,943 113,000 17,195
Asturian ast 8,706 550,000 15,829
Walloon wa 9,142 600,000 15,237
Dutch nl 318,476 23,000,000 13,846
Corsican co 5,370 400,000 13,425
Danish da 65,813 5,300,000 12,418
Lithuanian lt 49,212 4,000,000 12,303
West Frisian fy 4,900 400,000 12,250
Slovak sk 72,712 6,000,000 12,119
Tongan to 1,208 105,000 11,505
Ladino lad 1,146 110,000 10,418
Bosnian bs 19,508 2,000,000 9,754
Polish pl 404,301 46,000,000 8,789
Hebrew he 60,190 7,000,000 8,599
Galician gl 25,763 3,500,000 7,361
Latvian lv 9,999 1,500,000 6,666
Croatian hr 33,117 5,000,000 6,623
Czech cs 72,266 12,000,000 6,022
Romansh rm 404 70,000 5,771
Catalan ca 68,474 12,000,000 5,706
Lombard lmo 51,389 9,130,000 5,629
Divehi dv 1,621 300,000 5,403
Macedonian mk 10,795 2,000,000 5,398
Occitan oc 9,556 1,900,000 5,029
German de 611,953 124,000,000 4,935
Pennsylvania German pdc 1,435 300,000 4,783
Italian it 323,138 70,000,000 4,616
Hungarian hu 65,121 14,500,000 4,491
Maori mi 652 150,000 4,347
Piedmontese pms 8,594 2,000,000 4,297
Serbian sr 46,963 11,000,000 4,269
French fr 528,192 130,000,000 4,063
Georgian ka 15,867 4,100,000 3,870
Friulian fur 2,212 600,000 3,687
Ossetian os 1,822 500,000 3,644
Bulgarian bg 42,123 12,000,000 3,510
Japanese ja 392,559 127,000,000 3,091
Chuvash cv 5,946 2,000,000 2,973
Albanian sq 16,898 6,000,000 2,816
Maltese mt 1,511 600,000 2,518
Romanian ro 69,378 28,000,000 2,478
Venetian vec 5,101 2,200,000 2,319
Greek el 25,429 12,000,000 2,119
Limburgian li 3,276 1,600,000 2,048
English en 1,889,458 1,000,000,000 1,889
Tajik tg 8,044 4,380,000 1,837
Neapolitan nap 12,516 7,500,000 1,669
Ukrainian uk 65,746 41,000,000 1,604
Pangasinan pag 2,344 1,500,000 1,563
Kapampangan pam 3,431 2,300,000 1,492
Yiddish yi 4,218 3,000,000 1,406
Afrikaans af 7,925 6,000,000 1,321
Scots sco 1,974 1,500,000 1,316
Portuguese pt 273,649 213,000,000 1,285
Nahuatl nah 1,853 1,500,000 1,235
Cebuano ceb 33,306 28,000,000 1,190
Turkish tr 85,997 80,000,000 1,075
Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa) be-x-old 7,356 7,000,000 1,051
Sicilian scn 10,216 10,000,000 1,022
Low Saxon nds 10,211 10,000,000 1,021
Haitian ht 7,055 7,800,000 904
Belarusian be 5,448 7,000,000 778
Russian ru 189,448 255,000,000 743
Malay ms 21,897 30,000,000 730
Waray-Waray war 2,158 3,000,000 719
Zazaki diq 1,530 2,500,000 612
Spanish es 255,082 420,000,000 607
Korean ko 39,344 71,000,000 554
Thai th 25,089 50,000,000 502
Tatar tt 3,941 8,000,000 493
Kurdish ku 9,644 20,000,000 482
Armenian hy 3,319 7,000,000 474
Udmurt udm 243 550,000 442
Telugu te 33,269 80,000,000 416
Sundanese su 11,045 27,000,000 409
Indonesian id 63,523 200,000,000 318
Ilokano ilo 2,193 7,000,000 313
Alemannic als 3,114 10,000,000 311
Uzbek uz 5,585 18,500,000 302
Quechua qu 2,842 10,400,000 273
Vietnamese vi 21,011 80,000,000 263
Azeri az 7,549 30,000,000 252
Persian fa 22,953 110,000,000 209
Banyumasan map-bms 3,015 15,000,000 201
Yoruba yo 3,850 21,000,000 183
Bashkir ba 175 1,000,000 175
Tamil ta 11,049 74,000,000 149
Swahili sw 5,399 40,000,000 135
Chinese zh 136,432 1,080,000,000 126
Kannada kn 4,726 40,000,000 118
Marathi mr 10,372 90,000,000 115
Amharic am 2,947 27,000,000 109
Arabic ar 34,346 323,000,000 106
Javanese jv 10,231 100,000,000 102
Mongolian mn 583 5,700,000 102
Sardinian sc 251 2,500,000 100
Malayalam ml 3,235 35,700,000 91
Bengali bn 16,049 207,000,000 78
Kashmiri ks 352 4,600,000 77
Tok Pisin tpi 304 4,000,000 76
Lingala ln 737 10,000,000 74
Tagalog tl 6,221 87,000,000 72
Cantonese zh-yue 4,337 66,000,000 66
Urdu ur 6,061 104,000,000 58
Min Nan zh-min-nan 2,641 46,000,000 57
Malagasy mg 231 6,000,000 39
Hindi hi 12,371 330,000,000 37
Nepali ne 1,461 40,000,000 37
Pashto ps 999 50,000,000 20
Sinhalese si 194 15,000,000 13
Gujarati gu 342 46,000,000 7
Punjabi pa 233 88,000,000 3