Germany people groups, languages and religions

Country: Germany

Number of People Groups

People Groups Unreached

27 (28.7%)

Progress Level

The Joshua Project Progress Scale is an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group, people cluster, country or language. The Progress Scale is derived from people group values for percent Evangelical and percent Christian Adherent.

Level	Description	Criteria
1	Unreached - Few evangelicals and few who identify as Christians. Little, if any, history of Christianity.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians <= 5%
2	Minimally reached - Few evangelicals, but significant number who identify as Christians.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 5% and <= 50%
3	Superficially reached - Few evangelicals, but many who identify as Christians. In great need of spiritual renewal and commitment to biblical faith.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 50%
4	Partially reached - Evangelicals have a modest presence.	Evangelicals > 2% and <= 10%
5	Significantly reached - Evangelicals have a significant presence.	Evangelicals > 10%

Total
Population

83,102,000

Population in Unreached

5,090,000 (6.1%)

Largest Religion

Christianity (62.2%)

% Christian Adherent

62.18%

% Evangelical

2.12%

Evangelical Annual Growth Rate

0.9%

(Global Rate = 2.6%)

Map Notes

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= Frontier peoples
People Group ▲	Population this Country	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Language	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Abkhaz	5,100	302,000		Abkhaz	Christianity	3 ●	72.00 %	1.50 %	-1 -
Adyghe	2,100	684,000		Adyghe	Islam	0 ☀	0.07 %	0.05 %	1
Afghani, general	295,000	919,000		Dari	Islam	0 ☀	0.04 %	0.03 %	6
Albanian	230,000	5,064,000		Albanian, Gheg	Islam	2 ●	30.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Algerian, Arabic-speaking	79,000	36,748,000		Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	1 ●	0.30 %	0.20 %	2
Americans, U.S.	181,000	196,885,000		English	Christianity	5 ●	80.00 %	28.90 %	-1 -
Amhara, Ethiopian	5,800	26,438,000		Amharic	Christianity	4 ●	85.00 %	4.00 %	-1 -
Arab, Egyptian	46,000	76,698,000		Arabic, Egyptian Spoken	Islam	4 ●	15.00 %	6.00 %	-1 -
Arab, Iraqi	308,000	18,639,000		Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken	Islam	1 ●	1.00 %	0.30 %	6
Arab, Moroccan	237,000	29,810,000		Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	Islam	1 ●	0.50 %	0.05 %	5
Arab, Syrian	837,000	19,465,000		Arabic, Levantine	Islam	2 ●	6.00 %	0.10 %	-1 -
Arab, Tunisian	94,000	11,936,000		Arabic, Tunisian Spoken	Islam	1 ●	0.20 %	0.05 %	2
Armenian	41,000	5,679,000		Armenian, Western	Christianity	4 ●	94.00 %	8.70 %	-1 -
Assyrian	800	934,000		Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	Christianity	3 ●	95.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Austrian, Bavarian	5,957,000	14,419,000		Bavarian	Christianity	3 ●	83.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Azerbaijani	15,000	9,048,000		Azerbaijani, North	Islam	1 ●	0.80 %	0.40 %	1
Basque	33,000	2,359,000		Basque	Christianity	3 ●	94.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Belarusian	5,400	9,095,000		Belarusian	Christianity	3 ●	71.00 %	1.30 %	-1 -
Berber, Shawiya	1,500	2,695,000		Tachawit	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Black African, general	247,000	1,137,000		Swahili	Christianity	4 ●	60.00 %	6.00 %	-1 -
Bosniak	435,000	3,116,000		Bosnian	Islam	1 ●	0.40 %	0.10 %	9
British	106,000	53,969,000		English	Christianity	4 ●	60.00 %	8.80 %	-1 -
Bulgarian	310,000	6,757,000		Bulgarian	Christianity	3 ●	80.00 %	1.90 %	-1 -
Cape Verdean	3,100	819,000		Kabuverdianu	Christianity	4 ●	97.78 %	7.50 %	-1 -
Catalonian	49,000	4,334,000		Catalan	Christianity	3 ●	75.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Chaldean	3,000	130,000		Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	Christianity	3 ●	90.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Chechen	12,000	1,952,000		Chechen	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Chinese, general	188,000	15,879,000		German, Standard	Non-Religious	4 ●	8.00 %	5.70 %	-1 -
Croat	314,000	5,248,000		Croatian	Christianity	3 ●	92.00 %	0.40 %	-1 -
Czech	33,000	10,667,000		Czech	Non-Religious	2 ●	26.00 %	0.70 %	-1 -
Danish	22,000	5,276,000		Danish	Christianity	4 ●	85.00 %	3.50 %	-1 -
Deaf	167,000	49,661,000	●	German Sign Language	Christianity	3 ●	64.25 %	-1	-1 -
Dutch	192,000	13,830,000		Dutch	Non-Religious	4 ●	47.00 %	4.30 %	-1 -
Estonian	82,000	1,120,000		Estonian, Standard	Non-Religious	4 ●	45.00 %	4.90 %	-1 -
Filipino, Tagalog	39,000	40,521,000		Tagalog	Christianity	5 ●	92.00 %	12.30 %	-1 -
French	191,000	50,459,000		French	Christianity	3 ●	61.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Frisian, Eastern	2,000	2,000	●	Saxon, East Frisian Low	Christianity	3 ●	72.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Frisian, Northern	59,000	60,000	●	Frisian, Northern	Christianity	3 ●	65.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Galician	41,000	3,277,000		Galician	Christianity	3 ●	96.00 %	0.30 %	-1 -
Georgian	25,000	3,106,000		Georgian	Christianity	3 ●	90.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
German	60,703,000	67,100,000	●	German, Standard	Christianity	4 ●	64.00 %	2.40 %	-1 -
German Swiss	34,000	4,922,000		German, Swiss	Christianity	4 ●	76.00 %	4.40 %	-1 -
Greek	350,000	10,478,000		Greek	Christianity	3 ●	91.00 %	0.40 %	-1 -
Hungarian	160,000	12,208,000		Hungarian	Christianity	4 ●	88.00 %	2.80 %	-1 -
Indonesian	19,000	10,135,000		Indonesian	Islam	5 ●	15.00 %	11.00 %	-1 -
Italian	867,000	37,702,000		Italian	Christianity	3 ●	82.00 %	1.10 %	-1 -
Japanese	36,000	119,869,000		Japanese	Buddhism	1 ●	1.50 %	0.50 %	1
Javanese	2,500	18,521,000		Javanese	Islam	4 ●	16.00 %	6.00 %	-1 -
Jewish, German	118,000	144,000	●	German, Standard	Ethnic Religions	1 ●	0.50 %	0.10 %	2
Kabardian	14,000	1,982,000		Kabardian	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Kazakh	17,000	16,737,000		Kazakh	Islam	0 ☀	0.10 %	0.02 %	1
Khmer	13,000	16,122,000		Khmer	Buddhism	1 ●	4.00 %	2.00 %	1
Korean	16,000	81,888,000		Korean	Non-Religious	5 ●	31.00 %	16.80 %	-1 -
Kurd, Kurmanji	224,000	16,339,000		Kurdish, Northern	Islam	1 ●	0.20 %	0.05 %	4
Latvian	9,200	1,399,000		Latvian, Standard	Christianity	4 ●	60.00 %	7.00 %	-1 -
Laz, Lazuri	1,000	108,000		Laz	Islam	1 ●	4.00 %	2.00 %	1
Lithuanian	41,000	2,796,000		Lithuanian	Christianity	3 ●	85.00 %	1.10 %	-1 -
Luxembourger	15,000	418,000		Luxembourgish	Christianity	3 ●	82.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Macedonian	70,000	1,955,000		Macedonian	Christianity	3 ●	66.00 %	0.20 %	-1 -
Mennonite	91,000	489,000	●	Plautdietsch	Christianity	4 ●	98.00 %	4.00 %	-1 -
Mongol, Khalka	1,500	2,551,000		Mongolian, Halh	Ethnic Religions	1 ●	2.00 %	1.40 %	1
Norwegian	6,700	4,759,000		Norwegian	Christianity	4 ●	88.00 %	8.00 %	-1 -
Pashtun, Northern	39,000	40,328,000		Pashto, Northern	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Persian	235,000	46,297,000		Persian, Iranian	Islam	4 ●	4.00 %	4.00 %	-1 -
Polish	1,986,000	45,420,000		Polish	Christianity	3 ●	90.00 %	0.30 %	-1 -
Portuguese	133,000	22,749,000		Portuguese	Christianity	4 ●	94.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Romani, Balkan	2,100	910,000		Romani, Balkan	Christianity	3 ●	65.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Romani, German	66,000	66,000	●	German, Standard	Christianity	3 ●	65.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Romani, Sinte	81,000	222,000		Romani, Sinte	Christianity	3 ●	65.00 %	1.50 %	-1 -
Romani, Vlax	5,100	1,159,000		Romani, Vlax	Christianity	3 ●	65.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Romanian	1,011,000	21,659,000		Romanian	Christianity	4 ●	97.00 %	5.40 %	-1 -
Russian	1,378,000	135,461,000		Russian	Christianity	3 ●	67.00 %	1.20 %	-1 -
Saterfriesen	2,100	2,100	●	Saterfriesisch	Christianity	3 ●	80.00 %	1.50 %	-1 -
Serb	327,000	8,544,000		Serbian	Christianity	3 ●	80.00 %	0.60 %	-1 -
Slovak	57,000	5,355,000		Slovak	Christianity	3 ●	92.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Slovene	82,000	1,972,000		Slovene	Christianity	3 ●	54.00 %	0.10 %	-1 -
Sorb, Lower Lusatian	7,300	12,000	●	German, Standard	Christianity	3 ●	70.00 %	1.50 %	-1 -
Sorb, Wend	18,000	18,000	●	German, Standard	Christianity	3 ●	80.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
South Asian, general	194,000	12,146,000		Hindi	Hinduism	1 ●	3.00 %	0.20 %	4
Spaniard	208,000	29,952,000		Spanish	Christianity	3 ●	77.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Swedish	24,000	9,425,000		Swedish	Christianity	3 ●	52.00 %	0.40 %	-1 -
Syrian Aramaic, Turoyo	20,000	180,000		Turoyo	Christianity	3 ●	95.00 %	0.90 %	-1 -
Tajik	25,000	10,774,000		Tajik	Islam	1 ●	0.30 %	0.10 %	1
Tamil (Hindu traditions)	34,000	2,857,000		Tamil	Hinduism	4 ●	6.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Thai	21,000	24,237,000		Thai	Buddhism	1 ●	0.40 %	0.20 %	1
Tigray, Tigrinya	25,000	9,808,000		Tigrigna	Christianity	4 ●	90.00 %	10.00 %	-1 -
Turk	2,804,000	67,115,000		Turkish	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	56
Ukrainian	312,000	31,481,000		Ukrainian	Christianity	4 ●	79.00 %	3.80 %	-1 -
Urdu	23,000	2,146,000		Urdu	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Uyghur	700	12,315,000		Uyghur	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Vietnamese	187,000	86,363,000		Vietnamese	Buddhism	2 ●	9.00 %	1.80 %	-1 -
Yazidi	51,000	781,000		Kurdish, Northern	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Yeniche	16,000	18,000	●	Yeniche	Christianity	3 ●	60.00 %	1.40 %	-1 -
Zaza-Alevi	30,000	264,000		Zazaki, Northern	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Totals: 94	83,102,000					27 ●	62.18 %	2.12 %	113
Unclassified / Other Individuals	193,000
UN Country Population (2023)	83,295,000

Other minor groups: 1

Germany

Very small groups reported, but outside the Joshua Project Small Group Policy. Some may not be viable and/or have incorrect Progress Scale values, population, language and religion information. The groups listed below are not included in overall Joshua Project people group counts. If you have information about these groups, please contact us.

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People Group ▲	Progress Scale	Population	Primary Language	Primary Religion
Burmese	1 ●	500	Burmese	Buddhism
Totals: 1

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* An estimate of the number of pioneer workers needed for initial church planting among unreached people groups by country. Estimates are calculated only for unreached people groups and are based on ratio of 1 worker-unit (single person or married couple) per 50,000 living in an unreached people group by country, or for example one team of four worker-units per 200,000 people. Some workers may already be onsite. Many more workers are needed beyond this initial estimate.

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State ▲	Estimated Population
Baden-Württemberg	11,105,000
Bayern	13,119,000
Berlin	3,657,000
Brandenburg	2,520,000
Bremen	685,000
Hamburg	1,847,000
Hessen	6,647,000
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	1,615,000
Niedersachsen	8,008,000
Nordrhein-Westfalen	17,990,000
Rheinland-Pfalz	4,098,000
Saarland	994,000
Sachsen	4,091,000
Sachsen-Anhalt	2,215,000
Schleswig-Holstein	2,906,000
Thüringen	2,150,000
States: 16	83,647,000
UN Country Population	83,295,000

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Language ▲	Code	# Peoples w/ this Primary Language	# Unreached w/ this Primary Language	Scripture Status	NT Text Online	NT Audio Online	Jesus Film Online	Audio Recordings Online	Gospel Tract Online
Abkhaz	abk	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	-1	1	-1	-1
Adyghe	ady	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	1
Albanian, Gheg	aln	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	1
Amharic	amh	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Arabic, Algerian Spoken	arq	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	1
Arabic, Egyptian Spoken	arz	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Arabic, Levantine	apc	1	0	3 Bible Portions	-1	1	-1	1	1
Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken	acm	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	1
Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	ary	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	1
Arabic, Tunisian Spoken	aeb	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	-1	1	1	1
Armenian, Western	hyw	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	aii	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Azerbaijani, North	azj	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Basque	eus	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Bavarian	bar	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	-1	1	-1
Belarusian	bel	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Bosnian	bos	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	1	1	1
Bulgarian	bul	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Catalan	cat	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	cld	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	-1
Chechen	che	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Croatian	hrv	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Czech	ces	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Danish	dan	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Dari	prs	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Dutch	nld	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
English	eng	2	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Estonian, Standard	ekk	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	1	-1	1
French	fra	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Frisian, Northern	frr	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Galician	glg	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Georgian	kat	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
German Sign Language	gsg	1	0	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
German, Standard	deu	6	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
German, Swiss	gsw	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	-1	-1	1	-1
Greek	ell	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Hindi	hin	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Hungarian	hun	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Indonesian	ind	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Italian	ita	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Japanese	jpn	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Javanese	jav	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Kabardian	kbd	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	-1
Kabuverdianu	kea	1	0	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Kazakh	kaz	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Khmer	khm	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Korean	kor	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Kurdish, Northern	kmr	2	2	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Latvian, Standard	lvs	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Laz	lzz	1	1	3 Bible Portions	-1	1	-1	1	-1
Lithuanian	lit	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Luxembourgish	ltz	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	1	-1	1	-1
Macedonian	mkd	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Mongolian, Halh	khk	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Norwegian	nor	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	-1	1
Pashto, Northern	pbu	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Persian, Iranian	pes	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Plautdietsch	pdt	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Polish	pol	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Portuguese	por	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Romani, Balkan	rmn	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Romani, Sinte	rmo	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Romani, Vlax	rmy	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Romanian	ron	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Russian	rus	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Saterfriesisch	stq	1	0	0 Unspecified	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Saxon, East Frisian Low	frs	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Serbian	srp	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Slovak	slk	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Slovene	slv	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Spanish	spa	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Swahili	swh	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Swedish	swe	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Tachawit	shy	1	1	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Tagalog	tgl	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Tajik	tgk	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Tamil	tam	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Thai	tha	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Tigrigna	tir	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Turkish	tur	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Turoyo	tru	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Ukrainian	ukr	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Urdu	urd	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Uyghur	uig	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Vietnamese	vie	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Yeniche	yec	1	0	1 Translation Needed	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Zazaki, Northern	kiu	1	1	3 Bible Portions	-1	1	1	1	-1
Totals:	87	94	27		0	71	77	79	60

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Germany Statistics
People Groups	94
Unreached People Groups	27 (28.7%)
Population	83,102,000
Population Annual Growth Rate	-0.1%
Population in Unreached	5,090,000 (6.1%)
Primary Religion	Christianity
Percent Christian Adherent	62.2%
Percent Evangelical	2.1%
Evangelical Annual Growth Rate	0.9%
Pioneer Workers Needed *	113
Country Progress Level	4 ●
Urbanization	77%
Continent	Europe
Region	Europe, Western
10/40 Window	No
Country Code	GM
Official Language(s)	German, Standard
Literacy Rate	99%
Estimated Illiterate Population	831,000
Persecution Ranking	Not ranked

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