Prioritizing missions to the least-reached peoples
Han Chinese, Xiang
Han Chinese, Xiang
in China
Turk
Turk
in Türkiye (Turkey)
Global Dashboard An overview of the people groups of the world
People Groups by Country: 17,353
Unreached Groups: 7,248
% Unreached Groups: 41.8%
Population: 8.19 Billion
Popl in Unreached: 3.56 Billion
% Popl in Unreached: 43.5%
People Groups by Progress Scale
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Explore unreached peoples Unreached groups lack enough followers of Christ and resources to evangelize their own people

How Many People Groups? Explore various ways to count people groups
17,353  --or--  10,373


For example, are the Bambara one people group or 12 people groups?
 How many unreached groups?
7,248  --or--  4,476

Could the way people groups are counted impact outreach?

People Group Perspectives View people group data by ethnicity, place, religion, language and progress
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Affinity Blocs (16)▼
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People Groups Across Countries (10,373)▼
People Groups In Countries (17,353)
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Frontier Peoples Explore Frontier Unreached Peoples - few, if any, Christ-followers and no gospel movement
Frontier Peoples relationship to all people groups All People Groups Unreached Peoples Frontier Peoples Largest Frontier Peoples

The largest Frontier Peoples may represent the most strategic missions objective today.
Frontier Peoples Booklets Prayer guides for frontier unreached peoples without a movement
31 Largest
31 Largest Frontier Peoples prayer guide
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Children's Prayer
31 Largest Frontier Peoples childrens prayer guide
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Joshua Project 2024 user survey

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