Country: Canada

Number of People Groups

297

People Groups Unreached *

63 (21.2%)

Progress Level

Progress Gauge

Total
Population

38,927,000

Population in Unreached

2,892,000 (7.4%)

Largest Religion

% Christian Adherent

71.00%

% Evangelical

7.67%

Evangelical Annual Growth Rate

0.8%
* For additional and possibly more up-to-date unreached people group diaspora info see: upgnorthamerica.com and peoplegroups.info
Map Notes

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Photo People Group Population
this Country
Global
Population
Indigenous Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale
% Christian
Adherent
% Evangelical Est. Workers
Needed
 Kurd, Kurmanji 7,500 14,881,000 Kurdish, Northern Islam ☀︎ 0.10 % 0.00 % 1
Kutenai 1,200 1,700 Kutenai Christianity 60.00 % 2.00 % -
Kwakiutl 8,200 8,600 Kwakwala Christianity 96.00 % 15.00 % -
 Kyrgyz 1,100 5,982,000 Kyrgyz Islam 0.20 % 0.15 % 1
 Lakota 2,700 58,000 Lakota Christianity 60.00 % 2.00 % -
 Lao 14,000 4,008,000 Lao Buddhism 5.00 % 3.00 % -
 Latin American, general 307,000 1,111,000 Spanish Christianity 91.70 % 15.00 % -
 Latvian 7,800 1,425,000 Latvian, Standard Christianity 99.00 % 10.00 % -
Lillooet 7,200 7,200 Lillooet Christianity 93.00 % 14.00 % -
 Lingala 3,600 5,194,000 Lingala Christianity 92.00 % 26.00 % -
 Lithuanian 11,000 2,756,000 Lithuanian Christianity 85.00 % 1.60 % -
 Macedonian 18,000 1,954,000 Macedonian Christianity 91.00 % 0.40 % -
 Malagasy 1,600 85,000 Malagasy, Merina Ethnic Religions 15.00 % 1.00 % -
 Malay 2,700 18,079,000 Malay Islam 0.11 % 0.10 % 1
 Malayali 20,000 1,618,000 Malayalam Hinduism 6.00 % 2.00 % -
 Maltese 13,000 674,000 Maltese Christianity 97.50 % 1.20 % -
 Maninka, Eastern 3,600 4,444,000 Maninkakan, Eastern Islam ☀︎ 0.10 % 0.10 % 1
 Mauritian 2,800 1,106,000 Morisyen Christianity 55.00 % 3.00 % -
 Maya, Yucatan 1,200 734,000 Maya, Yucatec Christianity 89.00 % 50.00 % -
 Mende 1,100 2,785,000 Mende (Sierra Leone) Islam 11.00 % 5.00 % -
 Mennonite 133,000 493,000 Plautdietsch Christianity 94.00 % 40.00 % -
 Mexican 48,000 104,506,000 Spanish Christianity 92.00 % 8.00 % -
 Micmac 18,000 26,000 Mi'kmaq Christianity 97.00 % 12.00 % -
Mohawk 31,000 39,000 Mohawk Christianity 96.00 % 12.00 % -
 Moldovan 4,100 2,832,000 Romanian Christianity 70.00 % 3.00 % -
  Totals:  297 38,927,000         63 71.00 % 7.67 % 94 
  Unclassified / Other Individuals 180,000                
  UN Country Population (2024) 39,107,000                

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Province Estimated
Population
Alberta 4,197,000
British Columbia 5,067,000
Manitoba 1,391,000
New Brunswick 865,000
Newfoundland and Labrador 593,000
Northwest Territories 47,000
Nova Scotia 1,062,000
Nunavut 37,000
Ontario 14,799,000
Prince Edward Island 161,000
Québec 9,100,000
Saskatchewan 1,190,000
Yukon 39,000
Provinces:  13 38,548,000
UN Country Population 39,107,000
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Language Code # Peoples
w/ this Primary
Language
# Unreached
w/ this Primary
Language
Scripture
Status
YouVersion
Bible
Resources
Faith Comes
By Hearing
Bible Resources
Jesus Film
Online
Global
Recordings
Resources
Gospel
Tract
Online
Afrikaans afr 1 0 Complete Bible
Akan aka 1 0 Complete Bible
Albanian, Gheg aln 1 0 New Testament
Albanian, Tosk als 1 0 Complete Bible
Algonquin alq 1 0 New Testament
American Sign Language ase 1 0 Complete Bible
Amharic amh 1 0 Complete Bible
Arabic, Algerian arq 1 1 New Testament
Arabic, Chadian shu 1 1 Complete Bible
Arabic, Egyptian arz 1 0 Complete Bible
Arabic, Gulf afb 1 1 Bible Portions
Arabic, Judeo-Moroccan aju 1 1 Unspecified
Arabic, Levantine apc 4 0 Bible Portions
Arabic, Libyan ayl 1 1 Unspecified
Arabic, Mesopotamian acm 1 0 Complete Bible
Arabic, Moroccan ary 1 1 New Testament
Arabic, Najdi ars 1 1 Bible Portions
Arabic, Sanaani ayn 1 1 Unspecified
Arabic, Sudanese apd 1 1 New Testament
Arabic, Tunisian aeb 1 1 New Testament
Armenian, Western hyw 1 0 Complete Bible
Assiniboine asb 1 0 Unspecified
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic aii 1 0 Complete Bible
Atikamekw atj 1 0 New Testament
Azerbaijani, South azb 1 1 Complete Bible
Babine bcr 1 0 Bible Portions
Bamanankan bam 1 1 Complete Bible
Baoule bci 1 0 Complete Bible
Basque eus 1 0 Complete Bible
Bavarian bar 1 0 Complete Bible
Beaver bea 1 0 Bible Portions
Belarusian bel 1 0 Complete Bible
Bemba bem 1 0 Complete Bible
Bengali ben 2 2 Complete Bible
Blackfoot bla 1 0 Bible Portions
Bosnian bos 1 1 Complete Bible
Brunei kxd 1 1 Translation Started
Bulgarian bul 1 0 Complete Bible
Burmese mya 1 1 Complete Bible
Carrier crx 1 0 New Testament
Carrier, Southern caf 1 0 New Testament
Cayuga cay 1 0 Unspecified
Cebuano ceb 1 0 Complete Bible
Chilcotin clc 1 0 Bible Portions
Chinese, Hakka hak 1 1 Complete Bible
Chinese, Mandarin cmn 1 0 Complete Bible
Chinese, Min Nan nan 1 0 Complete Bible
Chinese, Wu wuu 1 0 Complete Bible
Comox coo 1 0 Unspecified
Cree, Moose crm 1 0 New Testament
Cree, Northern East crl 1 0 New Testament
Cree, Plains crk 1 0 Complete Bible
Cree, Southern East crj 1 0 New Testament
Cree, Swampy csw 1 0 New Testament
Cree, Woods cwd 1 0 Translation Needed
Croatian hrv 1 0 Complete Bible
Czech ces 1 0 Complete Bible
Dakota dak 1 0 Complete Bible
Danish dan 1 0 Complete Bible
Dari prs 1 1 Complete Bible
Dene chp 1 0 New Testament
Dinka, Southeastern dks 1 0 New Testament
Dutch nld 1 0 Complete Bible
English eng 36 3 Complete Bible
Estonian, Standard ekk 1 0 Complete Bible
Ewe ewe 1 0 Complete Bible
Fijian fij 1 0 Complete Bible
Finnish fin 1 0 Complete Bible
Fon fon 1 0 Complete Bible
French fra 4 0 Complete Bible
Frisian fry 1 0 Complete Bible
Fulfulde, Borgu fue 1 1 Complete Bible
Ganda lug 1 0 Complete Bible
Georgian kat 1 0 Complete Bible
German, Pennsylvania pdc 1 0 Complete Bible
German, Standard deu 1 0 Complete Bible
German, Swiss gsw 1 0 New Testament
Gikuyu kik 1 0 Complete Bible
Gitxsan git 1 0 Bible Portions
Greek ell 2 0 Complete Bible
Grenadian English Creole gcl 1 0 Translation Started
Guarani, Paraguayan gug 1 0 Complete Bible
Gujarati guj 1 1 Complete Bible
Guyanese English Creole gyn 1 0 Bible Portions
Gwich'in gwi 1 0 Complete Bible
Haisla has 1 0 Unspecified
Haitian Creole hat 1 0 Complete Bible
Halkomelem hur 1 0 Unspecified
Hazaragi haz 1 1 Bible Portions
Hebrew heb 1 1 New Testament
Heiltsuk hei 1 0 Unspecified
Hiligaynon hil 1 0 Complete Bible
Hindi hin 2 1 Complete Bible
Hmong Daw mww 1 0 Complete Bible
Hungarian hun 1 0 Complete Bible
Hutterisch geh 1 0 New Testament
Icelandic isl 1 0 Complete Bible
Igbo ibo 1 0 Complete Bible
Ilocano ilo 1 0 Complete Bible
Indonesian ind 1 0 Complete Bible
Innu moe 1 0 New Testament
Inuinnaqtun ikt 1 0 Bible Portions
Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian ike 1 0 Complete Bible
Inupiatun, North Alaskan esi 1 0 New Testament
Irish gle 1 0 Complete Bible
Italian ita 1 0 Complete Bible
Jamaican English Creole jam 1 0 New Testament
Japanese jpn 1 1 Complete Bible
Judeo-Tat jdt 1 1 Bible Portions
Jula dyu 1 1 Complete Bible
Kabuverdianu kea 1 0 Bible Portions
Kabyle kab 1 1 Complete Bible
Kannada kan 1 1 Complete Bible
Kapampangan pam 1 0 Complete Bible
Kashubian csb 1 0 New Testament
Kaska kkz 1 0 Unspecified
Kazakh kaz 1 1 Complete Bible
Khmer khm 1 1 Complete Bible
Kinyarwanda kin 1 0 Complete Bible
Kituba (Democratic Republic of the Congo) ktu 1 0 Complete Bible
Konkani, Goan gom 1 0 Complete Bible
Korean kor 1 0 Complete Bible
Kpelle, Liberia xpe 1 0 Complete Bible
Kurdish, Northern kmr 1 1 Complete Bible
Kutenai kut 1 0 Unspecified
Kwakwala kwk 1 0 Bible Portions
Kyrgyz kir 1 1 Complete Bible
Lakota lkt 1 0 Bible Portions
Lao lao 1 0 Complete Bible
Latvian, Standard lvs 1 0 Complete Bible
Leeward Caribbean English Creole aig 2 0 Bible Portions
Lesser Antillean French Creole acf 1 0 New Testament
Lillooet lil 1 0 Unspecified
Lingala lin 1 0 Complete Bible
Lithuanian lit 1 0 Complete Bible
Maay ymm 1 1 Bible Portions
Macedonian mkd 1 0 Complete Bible
Malagasy, Merina plt 1 0 Complete Bible
Malay zlm 1 1 Complete Bible
Malayalam mal 1 0 Complete Bible
Malecite-Passamaquoddy pqm 1 0 Bible Portions
Maltese mlt 1 0 Complete Bible
Maninkakan, Eastern emk 1 1 New Testament
Maya, Yucatec yua 1 0 Complete Bible
Mende (Sierra Leone) men 1 0 Complete Bible
Mi'kmaq mic 1 0 New Testament
Michif crg 1 0 Unspecified
Mohawk moh 1 0 Complete Bible
Mongolian, Halh khk 1 1 Complete Bible
Moore mos 1 0 Complete Bible
Morisyen mfe 1 0 New Testament
Naskapi nsk 1 0 New Testament
Nepali npi 1 1 Complete Bible
Nisga'a ncg 1 0 Bible Portions
Norwegian nor 1 0 Complete Bible
Oji-Cree ojs 1 0 Bible Portions
Ojibwa, Central ojc 1 0 Unspecified
Ojibwa, Eastern ojg 1 0 Unspecified
Ojibwa, Northwestern ojb 1 0 New Testament
Ojibwa, Western ojw 1 0 Bible Portions
Okanagan oka 1 0 Unspecified
Oneida one 1 0 Bible Portions
Onondaga ono 1 0 Unspecified
Oromo, West Central gaz 1 0 Complete Bible
Ottawa otw 1 0 New Testament
Pashto, Northern pbu 1 1 Complete Bible
Persian, Iranian pes 1 0 Complete Bible
Plautdietsch pdt 1 0 Complete Bible
Polish pol 1 0 Complete Bible
Portuguese por 2 0 Complete Bible
Potawatomi pot 1 0 Bible Portions
Pular fuf 1 1 New Testament
Punjabi, Eastern pan 2 2 Complete Bible
Punjabi, Western pnb 1 1 New Testament
Romani, Sinte rmo 1 0 Complete Bible
Romani, Vlax rmy 1 0 Complete Bible
Romanian ron 2 0 Complete Bible
Rundi run 1 0 Complete Bible
Russian rus 2 1 Complete Bible
Scottish Gaelic gla 1 0 Complete Bible
Seneca see 1 0 Bible Portions
Serbian srp 3 0 Complete Bible
Seychelles French Creole crs 1 0 Complete Bible
Shona sna 1 0 Complete Bible
Shuswap shs 1 0 Unspecified
Sicilian scn 1 0 Bible Portions
Sinhala sin 1 1 Complete Bible
Slavey, North scs 1 0 Unspecified
Slavey, South xsl 1 0 New Testament
Slovak slk 1 0 Complete Bible
Slovene slv 1 0 Complete Bible
Somali som 1 1 Complete Bible
Soninke snk 1 1 Bible Portions
Spanish spa 19 0 Complete Bible
Stoney sto 1 0 Bible Portions
Sukuma suk 1 0 Complete Bible
Swahili swh 1 0 Complete Bible
Swedish swe 1 0 Complete Bible
Tagalog tgl 1 0 Complete Bible
Tahltan tht 1 0 Unspecified
Tajik tgk 1 1 Complete Bible
Tamazight, Central Atlas tzm 1 1 Bible Portions
Tamil tam 1 0 Complete Bible
Tanana, Upper tau 1 0 Bible Portions
Tatar tat 1 1 Complete Bible
Thai tha 1 1 Complete Bible
Thompson thp 1 0 Unspecified
Tibetan, Central bod 1 1 Complete Bible
Tigre tig 1 1 Complete Bible
Tigrigna tir 1 0 Complete Bible
Tlicho dgr 1 0 New Testament
Tlingit tli 1 0 Bible Portions
Tsimshian tsi 1 0 Bible Portions
Turkish tur 2 2 Complete Bible
Tutchone, Northern ttm 1 0 Unspecified
Tutchone, Southern tce 1 0 Unspecified
Ukrainian ukr 1 0 Complete Bible
Urdu urd 1 1 Complete Bible
Uyghur uig 1 1 Complete Bible
Uzbek, Northern uzn 1 1 Complete Bible
Vietnamese vie 1 0 Complete Bible
Vincentian English Creole svc 1 0 Bible Portions
Welsh cym 1 0 Complete Bible
West Flemish vls 1 0 Bible Portions
Wolof wol 1 1 New Testament
Yiddish, Eastern ydd 1 1 Complete Bible
Yoruba yor 1 0 Complete Bible
Totals: 227 297 63   162 147 158 196 102
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There are many agencies and churches looking for additional staff to help them in their mission and calling in Canada. Internet searches are probably the best way to find these organizations. The following are some example search topics you might try:

  • Church planting agencies in Canada
  • Christian ministry in Canada
  • Business as mission
  • Christian literature distribution
  • Evangelism agencies
  • Christian discipleship
  • Short term Christian missions
  • Long term Christian missions
  • Urban ministries
  • Christian media opportunities
  • Bible translation opportunities
  • Relief and development agencies
  • Clean water projects
  • Christian medical outreaches

Canada Statistics
People Groups 297
Unreached People Groups 63  (21.2%)
Population 38,927,000
Population Annual Growth Rate 0.9%
Population in Unreached 2,892,000  (7.4%)
Primary Religion Christianity
Percent Christian Adherent 71.0%
Percent Evangelical 7.7%
Evangelical Annual Growth Rate 0.8%
Pioneer Workers Needed * 94
Country Progress Level 4
Urbanization 81%
Continent North America
Region America, North and Caribbean
10/40 Window No
Country Code CA
Official Language(s) EnglishFrench
Literacy Rate 99%
Estimated Illiterate Population 389,000
Persecution Ranking Not ranked
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