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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 September 2006. Note, that column "Number of speakers" means Total number, including Second language speakers.

Language Wiki Articles Total number

of speakers

Ido io 13,777 2 500 5,510,800
Interlingua ia 3,237 1 500 2,158,000
Cornish kw 1,179 3 500 336,857
Aragonese an 6,022 30,000 200,733
Norman nrm 1,337 20 000 66,850
Scottish Gaelic gd 3,610 60 000 60,167
Northern Sami se 1,031 20 000 51,550
Icelandic is 12,286 300 000 38,531
Irish Gaelic ga 3,663 100 000 36,630
Luxembourgish lb 10,693 300 000 35,643
Norwegian (Nynorsk) nn 16,789 500 000 33,578
Esperanto eo 57,621 2 000 000 28,811
Faroese fo 1,985 80 000 24,813
Basque eu 13,358 580 000 23,031
Estonian et 22,827 1 100 000 20,752
Swedish sv 182,131 9 000 000 20,237
Breton br 8,548 500 000 17,096
Kashubian csb 840 50 000 16,800
Norwegian (Bokmål) no 74,137 5 000 000 14,827
Slovenian sl 32,165 2 200 000 14,620
Walloon wa 7,734 600 000 12,890
Finnish fi 77,328 6 000 000 12,888
Welsh cy 7,628 600 000 12,713
Corsican co 4,742 400 000 11,855
Dutch nl 225,577 23 000 000 9,808
Asturian ast 5,249 550 000 9,544
Slovak sk 56,331 6 000 000 9,389
Danish da 48,387 5 300 000 9,130
Ladino lad 960 110 000 8,727
Hebrew he 58,557 7 000 000 8,365
Lithuanian lt 30,084 4 000 000 7,521
West Frisian fy 2,831 400 000 7,078
Voro fiu-vro 490 70 000 7,000
Polish pl 291,113 46 000 000 6,329
Bosnian bs 10,905 2 000 000 5,453
Galician gl 17,585 3 500 000 5,024
Croatian hr 21,258 5 000 000 4,252
Catalan ca 47,460 12 000 000 3,955
Macedonian mk 7,772 2 000 000 3,886
German de 462,135 124 000 000 3,727
Czech cs 43,800 12 000 000 3,650
Latvian lv 5,003 1 500 000 3,335
Serbian sr 35,548 11 000 000 3,232
Ossetian os 1,601 500 000 3,202
Maori mi 480 150 000 3,200
Sanskrit sa 633 200 000 3,165
Romansh rm 210 70 000 3,000
Italian it 193,630 70 000 000 2,766
French fr 357,333 130 000 000 2,749
Hungarian hu 39,166 14 500 000 2,701
Pennsylvania German pdc 804 300 000 2,680
Georgian ka 10,440 4 100 000 2,546
Bulgarian bg 29,652 12 000 000 2,471
Chuvash cv 4,250 2 000 000 2,125
Friulian fur 1,272 600 000 2,120
Japanese ja 254,974 127 000 000 2,008
Occitan oc 3,683 1 900 000 1,938
Albanian sq 10,440 6 000 000 1,740
Venetian vec 3,624 2 200 000 1,647
Neapolitan nap 12,204 7 500 000 1,627
Limburgian li 2,392 1 600 000 1,495
English en 1,370,696 1 000 000 000 1,371
Romanian ro 37,904 28 000 000 1,354
Greek el 13,537 12 000 000 1,128
Scots sco 1,608 1 500 000 1,072
Afrikaans af 5,615 6 000 000 936
Maltese mt 537 600 000 895
Portuguese pt 177,933 213 000 000 835
Yiddish yi 2,283 3 000 000 761
Ukrainian uk 28,666 41 000 000 699
Belarusian be 4,809 7 000 000 687
Haitian ht 5,004 7 800 000 642
Divehi dv 180 300 000 600
Sicilian scn 5,747 10 000 000 575
Kapampangan pam 1,292 2 300 000 562
Waray-Waray war 1,505 3 000 000 502
Malay ms 14,652 30 000 000 488
Tatar tt 3,828 8 000 000 479
Russian ru 104,731 255 000 000 411
Udmurt udm 225 550 000 409
Turkish tr 78959 80 000 000 392
Korean ko 26,809 71 000 000 378
Spanish es 150,212 420 000 000 358
Armenian hy 2,479 7 000 000 354
Low Saxon nds 2,882 10 000 000 288
Thai th 14,164 50 000 000 283
Alemannic als 2,605 10 000 000 261
Ilokano ilo 1,822 7 000 000 260
Kurdish ku 5,355 20 000 000 179
Indonesian id 31,583 200 000 000 158
Nahuatl nah 223 1 500 000 149
Vietnamese vi 10,444 80 000 000 131
Persian fa 14,100 110 000 000 128
Bashkir ba 123 1 000 000 123
Azeri az 3,597 30 000 000 120
Kannada kn 3,708 40 000 000 93
Chinese zh 87,575 1 080 000 000 81
Kashmiri ks 341 4 600 000 74
Telugu te 5,854 80 000 000 73
Tok Pisin tpi 279 4 000 000 70
Sardinian sc 173 2 500 000 69
Sundanese su 1,717 27 000 000 64
Banyumasan map-bms 926 15 000 000 62
Marathi mr 5,269 90 000 000 59
Tamil ta 4,209 74 000 000 57
Arabic ar 21,185 323 000 000 66
Mongolian mn 314 5 700 000 55
Tagalog tl 4,423 87 000 000 51
Cebuano ceb 1,318 28 000 000 47
Swahili sw 1,797 40 000 000 45
Bengali bn 8,947 207 000 000 43
Min Nan zh-min-nan 1,899 46 000 000 41
Malagasy mg 203 6 000 000 34
Uzbek uz 5,265 18 500 000 28
Malayalam ml 936 35 700 000 26
Hindi hi 7,665 330 000 000 25
Urdu ur 2,536 104 000 000 24
Lingala ln 217 10 000 000 22
Javanese jv 2,155 100 000 000 22
Amharic am 463 27 000 000 17
Cantonese zh-yue 979 66 000 000 15
Pashto ps 687 50 000 000 14
Sinhalese si 126 15 000 000 8
Gujarati gu 212 46 000 000 5
Punjabi pa 51 88 000 000 .6