Wikipedia:Wikipedia articles per population

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	${\frac {Articles}{Mln.speakers}}$
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	8,022	30,000	267,400
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
Slovene	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

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