Country: Russia

Number of People Groups

184

People Groups Unreached

117 (63.6%)

Progress Level

Progress Gauge

Total
Population

143,727,000

Population in Unreached

17,582,000 (12.2%)

Largest Religion

% Christian Adherent

57.33%

% Evangelical

1.41%

Evangelical Annual Growth Rate

2.3%
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
 Kalmyk-Oirat, Western Mongol 179,000 523,000 Kalmyk-Oirat Buddhism 0.16 % 0.16 % 4
 Kamchadal 1,500 1,500 Russian Ethnic Religions 4.00 % 0.90 % 1
 Karachay 226,000 250,000 Karachay-Balkar Islam ☀︎ 0.02 % 0.02 % 5
 Karaite 200 1,600 Russian Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
 Karakalpak 800 935,000 Karakalpak Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
 Karata 6,700 6,700 Karata Islam ☀︎ 0.01 % 0.01 % 1
 Karelian, Norgorod 32,000 46,000 Karelian Christianity 60.00 % 5.00 % -
 Kazakh 590,000 16,898,000 Kazakh Islam 0.10 % 0.01 % 12
 Kerek Unknown Unknown Russian Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
 Ket, Yenisei Ostyak 1,100 1,100 Ket Ethnic Religions 4.00 % 2.40 % -
 Khanty, Ostyak 31,000 31,000 Khanty Ethnic Religions 4.00 % 0.90 % 1
 Khvarshi 5,000 5,000 Khvarshi Islam ☀︎ 0.02 % 0.02 % 1
 Kist 700 11,000 Chechen Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
 Komi-Permyat 56,000 59,000 Komi-Permyak Christianity 43.00 % 1.20 % -
 Komi-Yazva 4,200 4,300 Komi-Zyrian Ethnic Religions 40.00 % 1.00 % -
 Komi-Zyrian 148,000 150,000 Komi-Zyrian Non-Religious 32.00 % 1.10 % -
 Korean 88,000 81,945,000 Korean Christianity 31.00 % 17.00 % -
 Koryak, Nymylan 7,500 7,500 Koryak Ethnic Religions 5.00 % 0.88 % 1
 Kubachi 7,000 7,000 Kubachi Islam ☀︎ 0.07 % 0.07 % 1
 Kumandin 2,400 2,400 Altai, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
 Kumyk 564,000 569,000 Kumyk Islam ☀︎ 0.01 % 0.01 % 11
 Kurd, Kurmanji 25,000 14,881,000 Kurdish, Northern Islam 3.00 % 1.00 % 1
 Kyrgyz 137,000 5,982,000 Kyrgyz Islam 5.00 % 0.70 % 3
 Lak 173,000 188,000 Lak Islam ☀︎ 0.03 % 0.03 % 3
 Latvian, Lett 8,500 1,425,000 Latvian, Standard Christianity 60.00 % 7.00 % -
  Totals:  184 143,727,000         117 57.33 % 1.41 % 413 
  Unclassified / Other Individuals 230,000                
  UN Country Population (2024) 143,957,000                

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Province Estimated
Population
Adygey 442,000
Altay 2,433,000
Amur 834,000
Arkhangel'sk 1,192,000
Astrakhan' 1,015,000
Bashkortostan 4,094,000
Belgorod 1,541,000
Bryansk 1,285,000
Buryat 977,000
Chechnya 1,276,000
Chelyabinsk 3,495,000
Chukot 51,000
Chuvash 1,259,000
City of St. Petersburg 5,018,000
Dagestan 2,926,000
Gorno-Altay 207,000
Ingush 415,000
Irkutsk 2,442,000
Ivanovo 1,068,000
Kabardin-Balkar 865,000
Kaliningrad 947,000
Kalmyk 291,000
Kaluga 1,016,000
Kamchatka 324,000
Karachay-Cherkess 481,000
Karelia 647,000
Kemerovo 2,778,000
Khabarovsk 1,351,000
Khakass 535,000
Khanty-Mansiy 1,540,000
Kirov 1,348,000
Komi 906,000
Kostroma 672,000
Krasnodar 5,255,000
Krasnoyarsk 2,843,000
Kurgan 916,000
Kursk 1,133,000
Leningrad 1,726,000
Lipetsk 1,180,000
Maga Buryatdan 22,000
Mariy-El 700,000
Mordovia 839,000
Moscow City 11,565,000
Moskva 7,133,000
Murmansk 799,000
Nenets 42,000
Nizhegorod 3,329,000
North Ossetia 717,000
Novgorod 637,000
Novosibirsk 2,680,000
Omsk 1,989,000
Orel 791,000
Orenburg 2,044,000
Penza 1,393,000
Perm' 2,649,000
Primor'ye 1,966,000
Pskov 677,000
Rostov 4,301,000
Ryazan' 1,160,000
Sakha 964,000
Sakhalin 501,000
Samara 3,233,000
Saratov 2,535,000
Smolensk 991,000
Stavropol' 2,801,000
Sverdlovsk 4,321,000
Tambov 1,098,000
Tatarstan 3,806,000
Tomsk 1,053,000
Tula 1,562,000
Tuva 310,000
Tver' 1,360,000
Tyumen' 1,348,000
Udmurt 1,529,000
Ul'yanovsk 1,300,000
Vladimir 1,452,000
Volgograd 2,624,000
Vologda 1,208,000
Voronezh 2,347,000
Yamal-Nenets 526,000
Yaroslavl' 1,279,000
Yevrey 178,000
Zabaykal'ye 1,113,000
Provinces:  83 143,596,000
UN Country Population 143,957,000
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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
Abaza abq 1 1 Bible Portions
Abkhaz abk 1 0 New Testament
Adyghe ady 2 2 New Testament
Aghul agx 1 1 Bible Portions
Ainu (Japan) ain 1 1 New Testament
Akhvakh akv 1 1 Unspecified
Aleut ale 1 1 Bible Portions
Altai, Northern atv 3 3 Unspecified
Altai, Southern alt 3 2 New Testament
Andi ani 1 1 Bible Portions
Arabic, Uzbeki auz 1 1 Unspecified
Archi aqc 1 1 Translation Started
Armenian hye 1 0 Complete Bible
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic aii 1 0 Complete Bible
Avar ava 4 4 New Testament
Azerbaijani, North azj 1 1 Complete Bible
Bagvalal kva 1 1 Translation Started
Bashkort bak 1 1 Complete Bible
Belarusian bel 1 0 Complete Bible
Bezhta kap 1 1 Unspecified
Botlikh bph 1 1 Translation Started
Bulgarian bul 1 0 Complete Bible
Buriat, Russia bxr 1 1 Complete Bible
Chamalal cji 1 1 Unspecified
Chechen che 3 3 Complete Bible
Chukchi ckt 1 1 Unspecified
Chuvash chv 1 0 Complete Bible
Crimean Tatar crh 1 1 Complete Bible
Czech ces 1 0 Complete Bible
Dargwa dar 4 4 Bible Portions
Dido ddo 1 1 Bible Portions
Dolgan dlg 1 1 Bible Portions
Dungan dng 1 1 Bible Portions
English eng 2 0 Complete Bible
Erzya myv 1 0 New Testament
Estonian, Standard ekk 1 0 Complete Bible
Even eve 1 1 Bible Portions
Evenki evn 1 1 Unspecified
Finnish fin 1 0 Complete Bible
French fra 1 0 Complete Bible
Gagauz gag 1 0 New Testament
Georgian kat 1 0 Complete Bible
German, Standard deu 1 0 Complete Bible
Ghodoberi gdo 1 1 Unspecified
Gilyak niv 1 1 Bible Portions
Greek ell 1 0 Complete Bible
Hindi hin 1 1 Complete Bible
Hinukh gin 1 1 Unspecified
Hungarian hun 1 0 Complete Bible
Hunzib huz 1 1 Translation Started
Ingush inh 1 1 Bible Portions
Italian ita 1 0 Complete Bible
Japanese jpn 1 1 Complete Bible
Kabardian kbd 2 2 New Testament
Kaitag xdq 1 1 Unspecified
Kalmyk-Oirat xal 1 1 New Testament
Karachay-Balkar krc 2 2 New Testament
Karakalpak kaa 1 1 Complete Bible
Karata kpt 1 1 Unspecified
Karelian krl 1 0 New Testament
Kazakh kaz 1 1 Complete Bible
Ket ket 1 0 Bible Portions
Khakas kjh 1 1 Unspecified
Khanty kca 1 1 Bible Portions
Khvarshi khv 1 1 Translation Started
Komi-Permyak koi 1 0 New Testament
Komi-Zyrian kpv 2 0 Complete Bible
Korean kor 1 0 Complete Bible
Koryak kpy 1 1 Unspecified
Kubachi ugh 1 1 Unspecified
Kumyk kum 1 1 New Testament
Kurdish, Northern kmr 2 2 Complete Bible
Kyrgyz kir 1 1 Complete Bible
Lak lbe 1 1 Bible Portions
Latvian, Standard lvs 1 0 Complete Bible
Lezgi lez 1 1 New Testament
Lithuanian lit 1 0 Complete Bible
Livvi-Karelian olo 1 0 New Testament
Ludian lud 1 0 Unspecified
Mansi (Russian Federation) mns 1 1 Bible Portions
Mari, Hill mrj 1 0 New Testament
Mari, Meadow mhr 2 0 New Testament
Mingrelian xmf 1 0 Bible Portions
Moksha mdf 1 0 New Testament
Mongolian, Halh khk 1 1 Complete Bible
Nanai gld 1 1 Bible Portions
Nenets yrk 1 1 Unspecified
Nogai nog 1 1 New Testament
Norwegian nor 1 0 Complete Bible
Ossetic oss 2 1 Complete Bible
Pashto, Northern pbu 1 1 Complete Bible
Persian, Iranian pes 1 1 Complete Bible
Polish pol 1 0 Complete Bible
Portuguese por 1 0 Complete Bible
Romani, Vlax rmy 1 0 Complete Bible
Romanian ron 2 0 Complete Bible
Russian rus 26 18 Complete Bible
Russian Sign Language rsl 1 0 Bible Portions
Rutul rut 1 1 Unspecified
Saami, Skolt sms 1 0 Bible Portions
Selkup sel 1 1 Unspecified
Serbian srp 1 0 Complete Bible
Shor cjs 1 0 Bible Portions
Siberian Tatar sty 3 3 Bible Portions
Spanish spa 2 0 Complete Bible
Swedish swe 1 0 Complete Bible
Tabasaran tab 1 1 New Testament
Tajik tgk 2 1 Complete Bible
Talysh tly 1 1 New Testament
Tat, Muslim ttt 1 1 New Testament
Tatar tat 4 2 Complete Bible
Tindi tin 1 1 Translation Started
Tsakhur tkr 1 1 Bible Portions
Turkish tur 2 1 Complete Bible
Turkmen tuk 1 1 Complete Bible
Tuvan tyv 3 3 Complete Bible
Udi udi 1 0 Unspecified
Udmurt udm 2 0 Complete Bible
Ukrainian ukr 1 0 Complete Bible
Ulch ulc 1 1 Unspecified
Uyghur uig 1 1 Complete Bible
Uzbek, Northern uzn 1 1 Complete Bible
Veps vep 1 0 New Testament
Vietnamese vie 1 0 Complete Bible
Yakut sah 1 1 New Testament
Yiddish, Eastern ydd 1 1 Complete Bible
Yupik, Saint Lawrence Island ess 1 1 New Testament
Totals: 127 184 117   84 89 81 66 43
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Russia Statistics
People Groups 184
Unreached People Groups 117  (63.6%)
Population 143,727,000
Population Annual Growth Rate 0.0%
Population in Unreached 17,582,000  (12.2%)
Primary Religion Christianity
Percent Christian Adherent 57.3%
Percent Evangelical 1.4%
Evangelical Annual Growth Rate 2.3%
Pioneer Workers Needed * 413
Country Progress Level 3
Urbanization 74%
Continent Asia
Region Europe, Eastern and Eurasia
10/40 Window No
Country Code RS
Official Language(s) Russian
Literacy Rate 100%
Estimated Illiterate Population 0
Persecution Ranking Not ranked
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