Wikipedia:Featured article statistics

This page is dedicated to gathering statistics about featured articles,  featured article candidates, and related content-review statistics. There are currently  featured articles, and the current percentage of Wikipedia articles that are featured articles is %.

Note: Some of the numbers linked to by the historical version do not match the numbers on this page. In such cases, the numbers on this page are correct.

By month
Growth of featured and reviewed articles by month:


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By year
Growth of featured articles by year. The totals below reflect the total number of FA promotions and demotions from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2020.


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A Gross total refers to the number of article promotions from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2020 (including duplicates) minus the number of article demotions from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2020.

B Net total refers to the number of unique articles promoted from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2020 (deleting duplicates) minus the number of unique articles demoted from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2020  (also deleting duplicates). Duplicates refers to articles that have been promoted, demoted, and then promoted again. These articles should only count once for being promoted and do not count as demoted articles, since they are currently FAs. As of 31 December 2020, there were [64 such articles].

C Adjusted total refers to the number of unique articles promoted from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2020 (6,913) plus the 259 existing FAs at the beginning of January 2004 minus the number of unique articles demoted from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2020  (1,262). This number should be equal to the number of FAs on 31 December 2020 (5,899), but is slightly higher (5,910).