Wikidata:Human

Q5 is a class in Wikidata. There is some documentation at Talk:Q5.

As of 2018-04-18 there are 4,241,506 items that are instances of Q5 in Wikidata. It is the class that has the highest quantity of direct instances.

Count

SELECT (COUNT(?item) AS ?count)
WHERE {
	?item wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q5  .
}

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• 2018-04-18 : 4,241,506
• 2018-06-18 : 4,324,675
• 2018-07-17 : 4,380,228
• 2018-08-18 : 4,473,429

SELECT (COUNT(?item) AS ?count)
WHERE {
 ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5 ;
 wdt:P213 []
}

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• 2018-08-18 : 917,815

WikiProjects

• Wikidata:WikiProject Q5 inside Category:Society WikiProjects
• Wikidata:WikiProject Genealogy inside Category:Cultural WikiProjects
• Wikidata:WikiProject Women inside Category:Society WikiProjects
• Wikidata:WikiProject Parenthood inside Category:Society WikiProjects, including a list for kinships

Database reports and SPARQL query examples

• Wikidata:SPARQL query service/queries/examples/human
• Wikidata:Database reports/Humans with missing claims
• Wikidata:List of properties/Wikidata property for an identifier/authority control/human

Properties

As of 2018-04-18 there are 986 external ID systems (properties linking to Wikidata property for authority control for people (Q19595382) [1]).

Statistics for items that are instances of human

This section offers some Wikidata:Statistics for the class Q5.

Note: people whose birth date is only precise to a century may be categorized in a wrong time bracket. See talk page for more information.

People by birth date

French Wikipedia	Chinese Wikipedia
50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 1700 1750 1750 1800 1800 1850 1850 1900 1900 1950 1950 2000   male   female	10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 1701 1750 1751 1800 1801 1850 1851 1900 1901 1950 1951 2000   male   female
Period People % Male Female neither %female 0-1700 30,090 7.9% 27,416 2673 1 8.9% 1700-1750 7,930 2.1% 7499 431 0 5.4% 1750-1800 15,376 4.1% 14,612 763 1 5.0% 1800-1850 23,398 6.2% 22,099 1,297 2 5.5% 1850-1900 45,116 11.9% 40,967 4,149 0 9.2% 1900-1950 100,500 26.5% 86,846 13,640 14 13.6% 1950-2000 155,344 41.0% 120,522 34,802 20 22.4% 2000-3000 1,076 0.3% 756 320 0 29.7% not given 58512 13.4% 49187 9095 230 15.6% Total 437342 100.0% 369904 67170 268 15.4%	Period People % Male Female neither %female 0-1700 8,212 12.1% 7,160 712 340 9.0% 1701-1750 829 1.2% 742 60 27 7.5% 1751-1800 1,347 2.0% 1,231 80 36 6.1% 1801-1850 2,538 3.7% 2,324 144 70 5.8% 1851-1900 6,131 9.0% 5,229 424 478 7.5% 1901-1950 15,525 22.8% 12,157 1,643 1,725 11.9% 1951-2000 33,358 49.0% 22,401 8,839 2,118 28.3% 2001-3000 84 0.1% 29 47 8 61.8% not given 69356 50.5% 32006 7014 30336 18.0% Total 137380 31.4% 83279 18963 35138 18.5%

Living people by nationality

• Nationality of living people birth date, not death date, born after 1910)

Note that items with fewer sitelinks are less likely to have a nationality, that probably leads to underestimating "local" people (ie zhwiki items without country of citizenship (P27) are more likely to be about Chinese people).

French Wikipedia	Chinese Wikipedia
10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 US PRC Taiwan UK France Germany Russia India	1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 US PRC Taiwan UK France Germany Russia India
item id num pop per million all 2 200823 7,300 27.5 US 30 31370 321 97.7 China 148 1130 1358 0.8 ROC 865 102 23 4.4 UK 145 8681 65 133.6 France 142 37728 67 563.1 Germany 183 7577 81 93.5 Russia 159 3382 144 23.5 India 668 734 1211 0.6 none 23621	item id num pop per million all 2 41358 7,300 5.7 US 30 6,926 321 21.6 China 148 2252 1358 1.7 ROC 865 315 23 13.7 UK 145 1834 65 28.2 France 142 956 67 14.3 Germany 183 972 81 12.0 Russia 159 422 144 2.9 India 668 229 1211 0.2 none 10822

Occupation by period

occupations/0-1699 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 enwiki frwiki dewiki zhwiki   politician   artist   athlete	dewiki enwiki frwiki zhwiki wikidata politician 2845 3505 1766 638 5203 artist 4672 6753 4754 466 9702 athlete 29 49 27 7 72 Module:Statistical data/by project/occupations/0-1699, 2015-06-15
occupations/1700-1749 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 enwiki frwiki dewiki zhwiki   politician   artist   athlete	dewiki enwiki frwiki zhwiki wikidata politician 1002 1550 1128 106 2771 artist 1476 1915 1261 103 3319 athlete 17 68 13 7 71 Module:Statistical data/by project/occupations/1700-1749, 2015-06
occupations/1750-1799 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 enwiki frwiki dewiki zhwiki   politician   artist   athlete	dewiki enwiki frwiki zhwiki wikidata politician 4719 6459 4843 342 12232 artist 2209 2976 1832 140 5401 athlete 41 330 44 1 342 Module:Statistical data/by project/occupations/1750-1799, 2015-06-15
occupations/1800-1849 2,500 5,000 7,500 10,000 12,500 15,000 enwiki frwiki dewiki zhwiki   politician   artist   athlete	dewiki enwiki frwiki zhwiki wikidata politician 10203 14823 6642 465 25678 artist 5197 6508 4028 305 13151 athlete 200 1414 171 11 1477 Module:Statistical data/by project/occupations/1800-1849, 2015-06-15
occupations/1850-1899 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 enwiki frwiki dewiki zhwiki   politician   artist   athlete	dewiki enwiki frwiki zhwiki wikidata politician 15945 19964 7934 1019 37040 artist 13338 17514 10318 703 34457 athlete 3163 20436 3528 145 22444 Module:Statistical data/by project/occupations/1850-1899, 2015-06-15
occupations/1900-1949 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 enwiki frwiki dewiki zhwiki   politician   artist   athlete	dewiki enwiki frwiki zhwiki wikidata politician 24249 34869 12608 2619 63489 artist 39172 55101 27128 2791 96821 athlete 17793 55363 16367 1492 71740 Module:Statistical data/by project/occupations/1900-1949, 2015-06-15
occupations/1950-1999 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 enwiki frwiki dewiki zhwiki   politician   artist   athlete	dewiki enwiki frwiki zhwiki wikidata politician 14637 28139 9045 1647 46147 artist 45614 80908 35345 9871 138356 athlete 73467 212245 72008 15787 266624 Module:Statistical data/by project/occupations/1950-1999, 2015-06-15
occupations/2000-2049 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 enwiki frwiki dewiki zhwiki   politician   artist   athlete	dewiki enwiki frwiki zhwiki wikidata politician 304 157 45 9 313 artist 2717 1265 546 84 3262 athlete 613 150 58 8 669 Module:Statistical data/by project/occupations/2000-2049, 2015-06-15

Links

• Maximilian Klein, Piotr Konieczny, "Gender Gap Through Time and Space: A Journey Through Wikipedia Biographies and the "WIGI" Index"

See also

• Wikidata:Statistics