Ukraine

Country: Ukraine

Number of People Groups

People Groups Unreached

28 (35.9%)

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

43,395,000

Population in Unreached

457,000 (1.1%)

Largest Religion

Christianity (73.0%)

% Christian Adherent

73.0%

% Evangelical

3.62%

Evangelical Annual Growth Rate

3.1%

(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	1,500	308,000		Abkhaz	Non-Religious	2 ●	20.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Adyghe	600	694,000		Adyghe	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Albanian	3,000	5,191,000		Albanian, Gheg	Islam	2 ●	15.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Americans, U.S.	600	193,022,000		English	Christianity	5 ●	82.00 %	28.90 %	-1 -
Arab, Uzbeki	5,900	23,000		Arabic, Uzbeki Spoken	Islam	2 ●	10.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Armenian	89,000	6,267,000		Armenian, Western	Christianity	4 ●	94.00 %	8.70 %	-1 -
Assyrian	2,800	859,000		Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	Christianity	3 ●	87.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Avar	1,300	840,000		Avar	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Azerbaijani	40,000	10,022,000		Azerbaijani, North	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Bashkir	3,800	1,711,000		Bashkort	Islam	1 ●	3.00 %	0.50 %	1
Belarusian	246,000	9,394,000		Belarusian	Christianity	3 ●	71.00 %	1.40 %	-1 -
Bulgarian	183,000	6,831,000		Bulgarian	Christianity	3 ●	80.00 %	1.90 %	-1 -
Chechen	2,600	1,728,000		Chechen	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Chuvash	9,500	1,510,000		Chuvash	Christianity	2 ●	35.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Czech	5,300	10,928,000		Czech	Non-Religious	2 ●	26.00 %	0.70 %	-1 -
Dargin	1,400	459,000		Dargwa	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Deaf	217,000	48,207,000	●	Ukrainian Sign Language	Christianity	3 ●	79.01 %	-1	-1 -
Eskimo, Siberian	100	5,100		Yupik, Saint Lawrence Island	Ethnic Religions	2 ●	16.00 %	0.80 %	-1 -
Estonian	2,600	1,084,000		Estonian, Standard	Non-Religious	4 ●	45.00 %	4.90 %	-1 -
Finnish	700	5,676,000		Finnish	Christianity	5 ●	84.00 %	12.10 %	-1 -
Gagauzi Turk	29,000	176,000		Gagauz	Christianity	3 ●	75.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Georgian	31,000	3,511,000		Georgian	Christianity	3 ●	76.00 %	1.70 %	-1 -
German	30,000	66,484,000		German, Standard	Christianity	4 ●	64.00 %	2.10 %	-1 -
Gilyak, Nivkh	500	5,200		Gilyak	Ethnic Religions	2 ●	6.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Greek	82,000	10,219,000		Urum	Christianity	3 ●	90.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Han Chinese, Mandarin	2,000	885,310,000		Chinese, Mandarin	Non-Religious	4 ●	8.00 %	5.70 %	-1 -
Hungarian	140,000	11,491,000		Hungarian	Christianity	4 ●	88.00 %	2.80 %	-1 -
Izhor, Ingrian	800	1,100	●	Ukrainian	Christianity	3 ●	74.00 %	0.80 %	-1 -
Jew, Eastern Yiddish-speaking	48,000	650,000		Yiddish, Eastern	Ethnic Religions	4 ●	4.70 %	4.00 %	-1 -
Jew, Karaite	1,200	1,800	●	Karaim	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Karelian	1,400	76,000		Karelian	Christianity	3 ●	69.00 %	1.50 %	-1 -
Kazakh	4,900	15,879,000		Kazakh	Islam	1 ●	0.20 %	0.04 %	1
Komi-Permyat	1,000	99,000		Komi-Permyak	Christianity	2 ●	40.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Komi-Zyrian	1,000	235,000		Komi-Zyrian	Ethnic Religions	2 ●	33.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Korean	11,000	81,089,000		Korean	Non-Religious	5 ●	31.00 %	16.80 %	-1 -
Kumyk	600	517,000		Kumyk	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Kurd, Kurmanji	1,900	15,960,000		Kurdish, Northern	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Kyrgyz	1,000	5,770,000		Kyrgyz	Islam	1 ●	5.00 %	0.70 %	1
Lak	900	177,000		Lak	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Latvian	4,500	1,433,000		Latvian, Standard	Christianity	4 ●	60.00 %	7.00 %	-1 -
Lezgin	3,900	665,000		Lezgi	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Lithuanian	6,400	2,794,000		Lithuanian	Christianity	3 ●	85.00 %	1.10 %	-1 -
Moldavian	231,000	3,865,000		Romanian	Christianity	4 ●	73.00 %	3.70 %	-1 -
Mordvinian	8,300	106,000		Erzya	Christianity	3 ●	61.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Orochi	900	1,500		Oroch	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Orok	900	1,200	●	Orok	Ethnic Religions	1 ●	4.00 %	0.50 %	1
Ossetic	4,300	577,000		Ossetic	Christianity	4 ●	46.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Pashtun, Southern	900	10,284,000		Pashto, Southern	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Polish	129,000	41,120,000		Polish	Christianity	3 ●	90.00 %	0.30 %	-1 -
Romani, Balkan	599,000	1,237,000		Romani, Balkan	Christianity	3 ●	70.00 %	0.90 %	-1 -
Romani, Baltic	1,800	30,000		Romani, Baltic	Christianity	4 ●	65.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Romani, Carpathian	42,000	215,000	●	Romani, Carpathian	Christianity	3 ●	80.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Romani, Vlax	8,800	1,141,000	●	Romani, Vlax	Christianity	4 ●	70.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Romanian	135,000	20,458,000		Romanian	Christianity	4 ●	97.00 %	5.40 %	-1 -
Russian	7,441,000	133,961,000		Russian	Christianity	4 ●	67.00 %	2.43 %	-1 -
Ruthenian	497,000	560,000	●	Rusyn	Christianity	4 ●	85.00 %	3.70 %	-1 -
Saami, Kildin	100	500		Saami, Kildin	Christianity	4 ●	65.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Serb	600	9,935,000		Serbian	Christianity	3 ●	80.00 %	0.60 %	-1 -
Slovak	5,700	5,163,000		Slovak	Christianity	3 ●	93.00 %	1.20 %	-1 -
South Asian, general	8,900	12,253,000		Hindi	Hinduism	4 ●	4.00 %	2.50 %	-1 -
Spaniard	900	29,049,000		Spanish	Christianity	3 ●	77.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Tabasaran	900	154,000		Tabasaran	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Tajik	3,800	10,313,000		Tajik	Islam	1 ●	1.00 %	0.10 %	1
Tatar	65,000	6,437,000	●	Tatar	Islam	1 ●	1.50 %	0.20 %	1
Tatar, Crimean	291,000	610,000	●	Crimean Tatar	Islam	1 ●	0.12 %	0.10 %	6
Tatar, Judeo-Crimean	1,700	1,700	●	Ukrainian	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Thai	3,800	23,586,000		Thai	Buddhism	1 ●	2.00 %	1.00 %	1
Turk	3,500	63,836,000		Turkish	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Turk, Meskhetian	3,500	281,000		Ukrainian	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Turkmen	3,300	8,019,000		Turkmen	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Udin	500	9,800		Udi	Christianity	3 ●	86.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Udmurt	4,200	581,000		Udmurt	Christianity	3 ●	55.00 %	0.10 %	-1 -
Ukrainian	32,661,000	36,919,000	●	Ukrainian	Christianity	4 ●	75.00 %	4.05 %	-1 -
Uzbek, Northern	11,000	31,403,000		Uzbek, Northern	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Vepsian	300	8,800		Veps	Christianity	3 ●	65.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Vietnamese	3,400	85,714,000		Vietnamese	Buddhism	2 ●	9.00 %	1.80 %	-1 -
Yazidi	2,000	737,000		Kurdish, Northern	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Yukaghir, Chuvan	200	2,200		Ukrainian	Ethnic Religions	1 ●	5.00 %	0.00 %	1
Totals: 78	43,395,000					28 ●	72.97 %	3.62 %	33
Unclassified / Other Individuals	72,000
UN Country Population (2021)	43,467,000

Other minor groups: 23

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
Abaza	1 ●	100	Abaza	Islam
Aghul	1 ●	-1 Unknown	Aghul	Islam
Austrian, Bavarian	2 ●	100	Bavarian	Christianity
Balkar	1 ●	200	Karachay-Balkar	Islam
British	4 ●	100	English	Christianity
Buriat	3 ●	400	Buriat, Russia	Buddhism
Croat	2 ●	100	Croatian	Christianity
Cuban	2 ●	200	Spanish	Christianity
Dungan	1 ●	100	Dungan	Islam
Even, Lamut	1 ●	-1 Unknown	Even	Ethnic Religions
French	2 ●	200	French	Christianity
Ingush, Galgai	1 ●	400	Ingush	Islam
Italian	2 ●	400	Italian	Christianity
Kabardian	1 ●	400	Kabardian	Islam
Kalmyk-Oirat	1 ●	300	Kalmyk-Oirat	Buddhism
Karachai	1 ●	200	Karachay-Balkar	Islam
Nogai	1 ●	400	Nogai	Islam
Persian	1 ●	400	Persian, Iranian	Islam
Swedish	2 ●	200	Swedish	Christianity
Talysh, Talish	1 ●	100	Talysh	Islam
Tatar, Khakass, Yenisei	3 ●	200	Khakas	Ethnic Religions
Uyghur	1 ●	200	Uyghur	Islam
Yakut	3 ●	300	Yakut	Ethnic Religions
Totals: 23

For more information see the Joshua Project Small Group Policy

* 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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Province ▲	Estimated Population
Cherkasy	1,241,000
Chernihiv	1,101,000
Chernivtsi	816,000
Crimea	1,799,000
Dnipropetrovs'k	3,156,000
Donets'k	4,282,000
Ivano-Frankivs'k	1,247,000
Kharkiv	2,577,000
Kherson	1,039,000
Khmel'nyts'kyy	1,266,000
Kiev	1,617,000
Kiev City	2,309,000
Kirovohrad	1,002,000
L'viv	2,324,000
Luhans'k	2,252,000
Mykolayiv	1,119,000
Odessa	2,184,000
Poltava	1,442,000
Rivne	1,037,000
Sevastopol'	335,000
Sumy	1,150,000
Ternopil'	1,010,000
Transcarpathia	1,114,000
Vinnytsya	1,567,000
Volyn	938,000
Zaporizhzhya	1,706,000
Zhytomyr	1,229,000
Provinces: 27	42,859,000
UN Country Population	43,467,000

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Class ▲	Population	% Popl	% Hindu	% Muslim	% Christian	% Buddhist	% Sikh	% Other
Forward Caste (FC)	290,516,000	669.5 %	97.3 %	0.0 %	1.1 %	0.1 %	0.0 %	1.5 %
Other Backward Classes (OBC)	773,424,000	1,782.3 %	70.6 %	24.5 %	1.7 %	0.1 %	2.3 %	0.8 %
Scheduled Caste (SC)	207,728,000	478.7 %	93.5 %	0.0 %	0.5 %	3.4 %	2.6 %	0.0 %
Scheduled Tribe (ST)	115,635,000	266.5 %	81.9 %	1.5 %	9.2 %	0.8 %	0.0 %	6.7 %
	43,395,000

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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
Arabic, Uzbeki Spoken	auz	1	0	0 Unspecified	-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
Avar	ava	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	1
Azerbaijani, North	azj	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Bashkort	bak	1	1	4 New Testament	1	1	1	-1	-1
Belarusian	bel	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Bulgarian	bul	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Chechen	che	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Chinese, Mandarin	cmn	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Chuvash	chv	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	-1	-1
Crimean Tatar	crh	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Czech	ces	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Dargwa	dar	1	1	3 Bible Portions	-1	1	1	-1	-1
English	eng	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Erzya	myv	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	-1	-1
Estonian, Standard	ekk	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	-1	1	1	1
Finnish	fin	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Gagauz	gag	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	-1	-1
Georgian	kat	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
German, Standard	deu	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Gilyak	niv	1	0	0 Unspecified	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Hindi	hin	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Hungarian	hun	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Karaim	kdr	1	1	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Karelian	krl	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	-1	-1
Kazakh	kaz	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Komi-Permyak	koi	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Komi-Zyrian	kpv	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	-1	-1
Korean	kor	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Kumyk	kum	1	1	4 New Testament	1	1	1	1	1
Kurdish, Northern	kmr	2	2	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Kyrgyz	kir	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Lak	lbe	1	1	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	1	-1	-1
Latvian, Standard	lvs	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Lezgi	lez	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Lithuanian	lit	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Oroch	oac	1	1	0 Unspecified	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Orok	oaa	1	1	0 Unspecified	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Ossetic	oss	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Pashto, Southern	pbt	1	1	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Polish	pol	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Romani, Balkan	rmn	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	-1	1	1	-1
Romani, Baltic	rml	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	-1	1	-1
Romani, Carpathian	rmc	1	0	4 New Testament	1	1	1	1	-1
Romani, Vlax	rmy	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Romanian	ron	2	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Russian	rus	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Rusyn	rue	1	0	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	-1	1	-1
Saami, Kildin	sjd	1	0	3 Bible Portions	-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
Spanish	spa	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Tabasaran	tab	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	-1
Tajik	tgk	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Tatar	tat	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Thai	tha	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Turkish	tur	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Turkmen	tuk	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Udi	udi	1	0	0 Unspecified	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Udmurt	udm	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	-1	-1
Ukrainian	ukr	5	3	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Ukrainian Sign Language	ukl	1	0	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	1	-1	-1
Urum	uum	1	0	1 Translation Needed	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Uzbek, Northern	uzn	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Veps	vep	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Vietnamese	vie	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	1
Yiddish, Eastern	ydd	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	1	1	1
Yupik, Saint Lawrence Island	ess	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	-1	1	-1
Totals:	72	78	28		38	51	60	52	29

MAJOR RELIGIONS ▲	Percent
Buddhism	0.0 %
Christianity (Evangelical 3.6 %)	73.0 %
Ethnic Religions	0.1 %
Hinduism	0.0 %
Islam	2.1 %
Non-Religious	24.8 %
Other / Small Religions	0.0 %
Unknown	0.0 %

CHRISTIAN SEGMENTS ▲	Percent
Anglican	0.0 %
Independent	2.5 %
Orthodox	79.8 %
Other Christian	1.6 %
Protestant	4.4 %
Roman Catholic	11.1 %

Notes:

Major Religions: Religion percentages are derived from summing Joshua Project's data for all people groups who live in each country. The number of individuals who practice each religion, by people group, are summed. This number is divided by the country's total population to derive the religion's percentage.

Christianity Segments: Christian segment percentages are derived from summing Joshua Project's data for all the people groups who live in each country. The number of individuals who practice each segment of Christianity, by people group, are summed. This number is divided by the country's total number of Christians to derive the Christian segment's percentage.

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Ukraine Statistics
People Groups	78
Unreached People Groups	28 (35.9%)
Population	43,395,000
Population Annual Growth Rate	-0.5%
Population in Unreached	457,000 (1.1%)
Primary Religion	Christianity
Percent Christian Adherent	73.0%
Percent Evangelical	3.6%
Evangelical Annual Growth Rate	3.1%
Pioneer Workers Needed *	33
Country Progress Level	4 ●
Urbanization	69%
Continent	Europe
Region	Europe, Eastern and Eurasia
10/40 Window	No
Country Code	UP
Official Language(s)	Ukrainian \| Russian
Literacy Rate	99%
Estimated Illiterate Population	434,000
Persecution Ranking	Not ranked

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