Wikipedia:Good article statistics

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Wikipedia:Good articles was initiated on 11 October 2005, with the current nominations system instituted on 10 March 2006. This table gives a monthly overview of article count, and compares it to that for featured articles. Monthly increases are not the same as new listings, since articles may be removed from both the good articles list and featured article status. Also, good articles that become featured articles are removed from the good articles list. Article counts are those stated on the good articles list and featured article list at 0:00 UTC on the listed date. There may be (relatively) small inaccuracies in these data. If the date and monthly increase columns are in bold, this indicates that a GA backlog drive took place during the preceding month.

When comparing the good articles statistics page and the featured articles statistics page, it may appear that the two tables are a month off. They are not; this has to do with how they are set up. The good articles statistics page gives a snapshot at the beginning of every month, while the featured articles statistics page gives a snapshot at the end of every month.

The number of good articles has been rising as a proportion of the total number of articles, while the proportion of articles featured has been relatively stable since 2006. To interpret these figures, note that the total number of articles on Wikipedia rose exponentially for some time, but since about August 2006, article growth rates have stopped increasing, and now (in 2015) article growth is approximately linear rather than exponential. The proportion of GAs is still increasing, and the proportion of FAs remained approximately constant for several years.

Table of statistics

Date	Articles (1000s)	Good articles				Featured articles
Date	Articles (1000s)	Total	Monthly increase	% of articles	Are 1 in ... articles	Total	Monthly increase	% of articles	Are 1 in ... articles
1 August 2024	6860	40,037	199	0.584	172	6548	23	0.0955	1048
1 July 2024	6844	39,838	131	0.582	172	6525	21	0.0953	1049
1 June 2024	6830	39,707	132	0.581	173	6504	26	0.0952	1050
1 May 2024	6819	39,575	139	0.580	173	6478	12	0.0950	1050
1 April 2024	6806	39,436	367	0.578	173	6466	19	0.0950	1050
1 March 2024	6791	39,069	95	0.575	174	6447	15	0.0949	1053
1 February 2024	6777	38,974	104	0.575	174	6432	18	0.0949	1054
1 January 2024	6764	38,870	83	0.575	174	6414	4	0.0948	1055
1 December 2023	6750	38,787	80	0.575	174	6410	21	0.0950	1053
1 November 2023	6737	38,717	123	0.575	174	6389	28	0.0948	1055
1 October 2023	6722	38,594	74	0.574	175	6361	28	0.0946	1057
1 September 2023	6707	38,520	503	0.576	174	6333	31	0.0944	1060
1 August 2023	6691	38,017	118	0.568	177	6302	18	0.0942	1062
1 July 2023	6677	37,899	89	0.568	177	6284	6	0.0941	1063
1 June 2023	6663	37,810	120	0.567	177	6278	23	0.0942	1062
1 May 2023	6650	37,690	82	0.567	177	6255	12	0.0941	1063
1 April 2023	6638	37,608	105	0.567	177	6243	19	0.0940	1064
1 March 2023	6625	37,503	-164^[a]	0.566	177	6224	20	0.0939	1065
1 February 2023	6611	37,664	168	0.570	176	6204	20	0.0938	1066
1 January 2023	6595	37,496	122	0.568	177	6184	9	0.0938	1066
1 December 2022	6582	37,374	105	0.568	177	6175	8	0.0938	1066
1 November 2022	6569	37,269	106	0.567	177	6167	21	0.0939	1065
1 October 2022	6557	37,163	209	0.567	177	6146	12	0.0937	1067
1 September 2022	6546^[b]	36,954	210	0.565	177	6134	14	0.0937	1067
1 August 2022	6556	36,744	88	0.560	179	6120	6	0.0933	1072
1 July 2022	6526	36,656	280	0.562	178	6114	9	0.0937	1067
1 June 2022	6507	36,376	98	0.559	179	6105	14	0.0938	1066
1 May 2022	6492	36,278	102	0.559	180	6091	15	0.0938	1066
1 April 2022	6477	36,176	140	0.559	180	6076	5	0.0938	1066
1 March 2022	6460	36,036	113	0.558	180	6071	18	0.0940	1064
1 February 2022	6447	35,923	475	0.557	180	6053	7	0.0939	1065
1 January 2022	6431	35,448	97	0.551	182	6046	4	0.0940	1062
1 December 2021	6416	35,351	72	0.551	182	6042	13	0.0942	1062
1 November 2021	6403	35,279	141	0.551	182	6029	27	0.0942	1062
1 October 2021	6386	35,138	330	0.550	182	6002	25	0.0940	1064
1 September 2021	6368	34,809	89	0.547	183	5977	27	0.0939	1065
1 August 2021	6348	34,720	440	0.547	183	5950	19	0.0937	1067
1 July 2021	6328	34,280	170	0.542	185	5931	4	0.0937	1067
1 June 2021	6308	34,110	156	0.544	184	5927	10	0.0940	1064
1 May 2021	6290	33,954	155	0.540	186	5917	0	0.0941	1063
1 April 2021	6280	33,799	471	0.538	186	5917	4	0.0942	1061
1 March 2021	6261	33,328	147	0.532	188	5913	4	0.0944	1059
1 February 2021	6240	33,181	168	0.532	188	5909	10	0.0947	1056
1 January 2021	6220	33,013	128	0.531	189	5899	8	0.0949	1054
1 December 2020	6200	32,885	104	0.530	189	5891	15	0.0950	1053
1 November 2020	6183	32,781	351	0.530	189	5876	21	0.0950	1053
1 October 2020	6166	32,430	120	0.526	191	5855	19	0.0949	1054
1 September 2020	6151	32,310	165	0.525	191	5836	14	0.0949	1054
1 August 2020	6132	32,145	146	0.524	191	5822	21	0.0949	1054
1 July 2020	6112	31,999	164	0.523	192	5801	22	0.0949	1054
1 June 2020	6090	31,835	370	0.523	192	5779	23	0.0949	1055
1 May 2020	6069	31,465	615	0.519	193	5756	14	0.0948	1055
1 April 2020	6047	30,850	180	0.510	196	5742	20	0.0950	1053
1 March 2020	6024	30,670	126	0.509	197	5722	9	0.0950	1053
1 February 2020	6007	30,544	110	0.508	197	5713	18	0.0951	1052
1 January 2020	5989	30,434	94	0.508	197	5695	15	0.0951	1052
1 December 2019	5976	30,340	61	0.508	197	5680	23	0.0950	1053
1 November 2019	5963	30,279	80	0.508	197	5657	18	0.0949	1054
1 October 2019	5940	30,199	288	0.508	197	5639	18	0.0949	1054
1 September 2019	5921	29,911	146	0.505	198	5,621	30	0.0949	1054
1 August 2019	5903	29,765	77	0.504	199	5591	24	0.0947	1056
1 July 2019	5878	29,688	93	0.505	198	5567	24	0.0947	1056
1 June 2019	5870	29,595	112	0.504	199	5543	22	0.0944	1059
1 May 2019	5847	29,483	106	0.504	199	5521	18	0.0944	1059
1 April 2019	5830	29,377	99	0.504	199	5503	34	0.0944	1059
1 March 2019	5812	29,278	94	0.504	199	5469	18	0.0941	1063
1 February 2019	5793	29,184	173	0.504	199	5451	22	0.0941	1063
1 January 2019	5774	29,011	99	0.502	200	5429	15	0.0940	1064
1 December 2018	5761	28,912	114	0.502	200	5414	17	0.0940	1064
1 November 2018	5744	28,798	146	0.501	200	5397	10	0.0940	1064
1 October 2018	5726	28,652	107	0.500	200	5387	12	0.0941	1063
1 September 2018	5709	28,545	233	0.500	200	5375	11	0.0941	1063
1 August 2018	5690	28,312	230	0.498	201	5364	20	0.0943	1061
1 July 2018	5674	28,082	172	0.495	203	5344	14	0.0942	1062
1 June 2018	5659	27,910	238	0.493	203	5330	25	0.0942	1062
1 May 2018	5631	27,672	132	0.491	204	5305	22	0.0942	1062
1 April 2018	5602	27,540	204	0.492	204	5283	17	0.0943	1060
1 March 2018	5580	27,363	206	0.490	204	5266	18	0.0944	1059
1 February 2018	5562	27,157	223	0.488	205	5,248	25	0.0944	1059
1 January 2018	5542	26,934	142	0.486	206	5223	26	0.0942	1062
1 December 2017	5524	26,792	121	0.485	207	5197	19	0.0941	1063
1 November 2017	5504	26,671	104	0.485	207	5178	31	0.0941	1063
1 October 2017	5486	26,567	94	0.484	207	5147	28	0.0938	1066
1 September 2017	5469	26,473	121	0.484	207	5119	25	0.0936	1068
1 August 2017	5452	26,352	102	0.483	207	5094	31	0.0934	1080
1 July 2017	5438	26,250	140	0.483	207	5063	28	0.0931	1080
1 June 2017	5416	26,110	116	0.482	208	5035	23	0.0930	1080
1 May 2017	5396	25,994	116	0.482	208	5012	28	0.0929	1080
1 April 2017	5374	25,878	167	0.482	208	4984	34	0.0927	1080
1 March 2017	5347	25,711	145	0.481	208	4950	24	0.0926	1080
1 February 2017	5327	25,566	179	0.480	209	4926	29	0.0925	1081
1 January 2017	5321	25,387	142	0.477	210	4897	15	0.0920	1087
1 December 2016	5297	25,245	138	0.477	210	4882	16	0.0922	1085
1 November 2016	5275	25,107	128	0.476	210	4866	23	0.0922	1084
1 October 2016	5253	24,979	81	0.476	211	4843	27	0.0922	1090
1 September 2016	5229	24,898	219	0.476	210	4816	17	0.0921	1090
1 August 2016	5206	24,679	110	0.474	211	4799	14	0.0922	1090
1 July 2016	5185	24,569	275	0.472	212	4785	14	0.0924	1090
1 June 2016	5164	24,294	185	0.470	213	4771	20	0.0924	1090
1 May 2016	5139	24,109	297	0.469	214	4751	14	0.0924	1090
1 April 2016	5118	23,812	287	0.465	215	4737	21	0.0926	1080
1 March 2016	5093	23,525	117	0.462	217	4716	15	0.0926	1080
1 February 2016	5069	23,408	183	0.462	217	4701	18	0.0927	1080
1 January 2016	5045	23,225	92	0.460	218	4683	14	0.0928	1080
1 December 2015	5021	23,133	100	0.461	218	4669	16	0.0930	1080
1 November 2015	4999	23,033	198	0.461	218	4653	36	0.0931	1080
1 October 2015	4977	22,835	145	0.459	218	4617	27	0.0928	1080
1 September 2015	4957	22,690	205	0.458	219	4590	25	0.0926	1090
1 August 2015	4933	22,485	223	0.456	220	4565	19	0.0925	1090
1 July 2015	4905	22,262	195	0.454	221	4546	14	0.0927	1080
1 June 2015	4882	22,067	123	0.452	222	4532	21	0.0928	1078
1 May 2015	4861	21,944	184	0.451	222	4511	17	0.0928	1080
1 April 2015	4850^[c]	21,760	126	0.449	219	4494	20	0.0927	1080
1 March 2015	4731	21,634	196	0.457	219	4474	23	0.0946	1060
1 February 2015	4708	21,438	307	0.455	223	4451	20	0.0945	1060
1 January 2015	4682	21,131	177	0.451	222	4431	9	0.0946	1060
1 December 2014	4661	20,954	169	0.449	223	4422	22	0.0949	1060
1 November 2014	4636	20,785	201	0.448	224	4402	18	0.0950	1060
1 October 2014	4613	20,584	112	0.446	225	4380	23	0.0949	1060
1 September 2014	4594	20,472	143	0.446	225	4357	33	0.0948	1060
1 August 2014	4571	20,329	160	0.445	225	4324	25	0.0946	1060
1 July 2014	4546	20,169	149	0.446	226	4299	29	0.0946	1060
1 June 2014	4526	20,020	95	0.442	226	4270	35	0.0943	1060
1 May 2014	4504	19,925	176	0.442	226	4235	26	0.0940	1064
1 April 2014	4483	19,749	217	0.441	227	4209	28	0.0939	1065
1 March 2014	4462	19,532	234	0.438	229	4181	15	0.0937	1068
1 February 2014	4438	19,297	252	0.435	230	4166	32	0.0939	1066
1 January 2014	4413	19,045	219	0.432	232	4134	18	0.0937	1067
1 December 2013	4390	18,826	116	0.429	234	4116	31	0.0938	1067
1 November 2013	4365	18,710	192	0.429	234	4085	31	0.0936	1070
1 October 2013	4339	18,518	164	0.427	235	4054	33	0.0934	1071
1 September 2013	4318	18,354	212	0.425	236	4021	41	0.0931	1080
1 August 2013	4294	18,142	257	0.422	237	3980	37	0.0927	1080
1 July 2013	4270	17,885	260	0.419	239	3943	34	0.0923	1084
1 June 2013	4246	17,625	212	0.415	241	3909	43	0.0921	1086
1 May 2013	4223	17,410	243	0.412	243	3866	24	0.0915	1093
1 April 2013	4199	17,167	252	0.409	245	3842	37	0.0915	1093
1 March 2013	4175	16,915	184	0.405	245	3805	11	0.0911	1098
1 February 2013	4156	16,731	318	0.403	248	3793	21	0.0913	1096
1 January 2013	4135	16,413	215	0.397	252	3772	22	0.0912	1096
1 December 2012	4109	16,198	166	0.394	254	3750	35	0.0912	1096
1 November 2012	4090	16,032	179	0.392	255	3715	33	0.0908	1101
1 October 2012	4065	15,853	153	0.389	257	3682	35	0.0906	1104
1 September 2012	4042	15,700	157	0.388	257	3647	34	0.0902	1108
1 August 2012	4020	15,543	400	0.387	258	3613	28	0.0899	1110
1 July 2012	3988	15,143	512	0.380	263	3585	25	0.0899	1112
1 June 2012	3960	14,631	269	0.369	271	3560	20	0.0899	1112
1 May 2012	3938	14,362	158	0.365	274	3540	19	0.0899	1112
1 April 2012	3910	14,204	132	0.363	275	3521	33	0.0900	1110
1 March 2012	3886	14,072	134	0.362	276	3488	28	0.0897	1114
1 February 2012	3860	13,938	214	0.361	277	3460	24	0.0896	1116
1 January 2012	3835	13,724	463	0.358	280	3436	19	0.0896	1116
1 December 2011	3812	13,261	148	0.348	287	3417	8	0.0896	1116
1 November 2011	3784	13,113	229	0.347	289	3409	22	0.0909	1110
1 October 2011	3755	12,884	175	0.343	291	3387	15	0.0902	1109
1 September 2011	3725	12,709	267	0.341	293	3372	28	0.0905	1105
1 August 2011	3697	12,442	205	0.337	297	3344	31	0.0905	1105
1 July 2011	3671	12,237	194	0.333	300	3313	27	0.0902	1108
1 June 2011	3648	12,043	181	0.330	303	3286	35	0.0900	1110
1 May 2011	3626	11,862	214	0.327	306	3251	29	0.0897	1115
1 April 2011	3600	11,648	499	0.324	309	3222	30	0.0895	1117
1 March 2011	3571	11,149	226	0.312	320	3192	26	0.0894	1119
1 February 2011	3544	10,923	275	0.308	324	3166	38	0.0893	1119
1 January 2011	3517	10,648	201	0.303	330	3128	27	0.0889	1124
1 December 2010	3490	10,447	213	0.299	334	3101	22	0.0889	1125
1 November 2010	3458	10,234	333	0.296	338	3079	20	0.0890	1123
1 October 2010	3430	9901	206	0.289	346	3059	40	0.0892	1121
1 September 2010	3399	9695	200	0.285	350	3019	46	0.0888	1126
1 August 2010	3367	9495	179	0.282	356	2973	43	0.0883	1133
1 July 2010	3338	9316	120	0.279	358	2930	32	0.0878	1139
1 June 2010	3309	9196	163	0.278	360	2898	31	0.0876	1142
1 May 2010	3277	9032	631	0.276	363	2867	31	0.0875	1143
1 April 2010	3238	8402	190	0.260	385	2836	25	0.0876	1141
1 March 2010	3208	8212	159	0.256	391	2811	42	0.0876	1141
1 February 2010	3179	8053	201	0.253	395	2769	39	0.0871	1148
1 January 2010	3145	7852	145	0.250	401	2730	22	0.0868	1152
1 December 2009	3111	7707	150	0.248	404	2708	33	0.0870	1149
1 November 2009	3081	7557	145	0.245	408	2675	43	0.0868	1152
1 October 2009	3048	7412	166	0.243	411	2632	34	0.0864	1157
1 September 2009	3021	7246	142	0.240	417	2598	18	0.0860	1163
1 August 2009	2976	7104	131	0.239	419	2580	20	0.0867	1153
1 July 2009	2928	6973	27	0.238	420	2560	34	0.0874	1144
1 June 2009	2899	6946	171	0.240	417	2526	30	0.0871	1148
1 May 2009	2863	6775	192	0.237	423	2496	18	0.0872	1147
1 April 2009	2820	6583	220	0.234	426	2478	37	0.0879	1138
1 March 2009	2767	6363	383	0.230	435	2441	35	0.0882	1134
1 February 2009	2721	5980	279	0.220	455	2406	41	0.0884	1131
1 January 2009	2679	5701	167	0.213	470	2365	45	0.0882	1133
1 December 2008	2642	5534	183	0.210	477	2320	25	0.0878	1139
1 November 2008	2608	5351	271	0.205	487	2295	40	0.0880	1136
1 October 2008	2568	5080	234	0.198	506	2255	41	0.0878	1139
1 September 2008	2539	4846	227	0.191	524	2214	51	0.0872	1146
1 August 2008	2484	4619	205	0.186	538	2163	48	0.0871	1148
1 July 2008	2435	4414	170	0.181	552	2115	45	0.0869	1151
1 June 2008	2396	4244	200	0.177	565	2070	38	0.0864	1157
1 May 2008	2355	4044	215	0.172	582	2032	51	0.0863	1159
1 April 2008	2313	3829	200	0.166	603	1981	60	0.0856	1167
1 March 2008	2261	3629	143	0.161	622	1921	59	0.0850	1174
1 February 2008	2203	3486	201	0.158	632	1862	73	0.0845	1183
1 January 2008	2153	3285	151	0.153	655	1789	55	0.0831	1203
1 December 2007	2109	3134	117	0.149	673	1734	69	0.0822	1216
1 November 2007	2071	3017	133	0.146	686	1665	32	0.0803	1244
1 October 2007	2029	2884	64	0.142	704	1633	61	0.0805	1242
1 September 2007	1985	2820	121	0.142	702	1572	48	0.0792	1260
1 August 2007	1925	2699	233	0.140	713	1524	53	0.0791	1263
1 July 2007	1858	2466	183	0.133	753	1471	64	0.0792	1263
1 June 2007	1811	2283	114	0.126	794	1407	33	0.0777	1287
1 May 2007	1762	2169	140	0.123	813	1374	36	0.0780	1282
1 April 2007	1715	2029	159	0.118	845	1338	71	0.0780	1282
1 March 2007	1662	1870	90	0.113	914	1267	34	0.0761	1315
1 February 2007	1611	1780	157	0.105	905	1233	28	0.0765	1307
1 January 2007	1559	1623	65	0.104	960	1205	30	0.0778	1286
1 December 2006	1511	1558	34	0.103	970	1175	35	0.0773	1293
1 November 2006	1483	1524	64	0.103	974	1140	23	0.0768	1301
1 October 2006	1412	1460	65	0.103	967	1117	23	0.0791	1264
1 September 2006	1363	1395	78	0.102	977	1094	29	0.0803	1246
1 August 2006	1290	1317	118	0.102	980	1065	37	0.0825	1212
1 July 2006	1227	1199	146	0.0977	1023	1028	38	0.0838	1194
1 June 2006	1166	1053	74	0.0903	1107	990	31	0.0849	1178
1 May 2006	1108	979	112	0.0884	1132	959	29	0.0866	1155
1 April 2006	1054	867	70	0.0823	1216	930	25	0.0882	1133
1 March 2006	999	797	152	0.0798	1253	905	26	0.0906	1104
1 February 2006	947	645	130	0.0681	1468	879	30	0.0928	1077
1 January 2006	894	515	316	0.0576	1736	849	28	0.0950	1053
1 December 2005	848	199	87	0.0235	4261	821	29	0.0968	1033
1 November 2005	799	112	112	0.0140	7134	792	33	0.0991	1009

^ The article count decreased in February 2023 due to WP:DCGAR.
^ The article count decreased from 6,572,974 on 21 August 2022 to 6,543,164 on 22 August 2022, due to fixing a bug in the counter that had inflated the counts since May 2022.
^ The unusually large increase in the number of articles in March 2015 was caused by a maintenance script running for the first time on 29 March. The purpose of the maintenance script was to correct the automatically updated count, which was missing roughly 95,000 articles. Since the maintenance script will run on the 29th of each month from now on, the reported count should stay much closer to the true count.

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Total number of GAs and FAs

Number of GAs and FAs as % of articles

Net monthly increase in number of GAs and FAs

Total number of articles on English Wikipedia (thousand)

Table of statistics

Graphs

See also