Frontier Peoples: All Overview

People Groups

5,045

Population

1,940,296,000

% of Unreached
People Groups

68.0 %

% of Unreached Population

60.1 %

% of World's
People Groups

28.9 %

% of World Population

25.0 %

Frontier Peoples are unreached groups most needing pioneer church planting. Frontier Peoples are less than or equal to 0.1% Christian and an approximation of groups without a known self-sustaining gospel movement.

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Countries		 Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherent 		Est. Workers
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A Che China Listing 43,000 Ache Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 1
A'ou China Listing 2,800 Chinese, Mandarin Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 1
Abai Sungai Malaysia Listing 1,500 Abai Sungai Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Abaza Russia Listing 45,000 Abaza Islam ☀ 0.10 % 1
Abaza, Arabized Egypt Listing 14,000 Arabic, Egyptian Spoken Islam ☀ 0.10 % 1
Abdul Bangladesh Listing 27,000 Bengali Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Abdul India Listing 35,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Abdul Nepal Listing 1,200 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Abkhaz Turkey Listing 164,000 Abkhaz Islam ☀ 0.00 % 3
Abu Sharib Chad Listing 83,000 Mararit Islam ☀ 0.01 % 2
Acehnese Malaysia Listing 85,000 Malay Islam ☀ 0.00 % 2
Adap Bhutan Listing 300 Dzongkha Buddhism ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adaviar India Listing 200 Tamil Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adi Bhutan Listing 2,700 Adi Unknown ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adi China Listing 1,300 Adi Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adi Andhra Sri Lanka Listing 800 Telugu Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adi Dravida India Listing 8,551,000 Tamil Hinduism ☀ 0.09 % 171
Adi Ramo China Listing 200 Adi Buddhism ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adibasi Janajati Nepal Listing 1,100 Nepali Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adiya India Listing 800 Kannada Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adu China Listing 8,300 Chinese, Mandarin Non-Religious ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adyghe Bulgaria Listing 500 Adyghe Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adyghe Egypt Listing 14,000 Adyghe Islam ☀ 0.10 % 1
Adyghe Germany Listing 2,100 Adyghe Islam ☀ 0.07 % 1
Adyghe Israel Listing 3,300 Adyghe Islam ☀ 0.05 % 1
Adyghe Iraq Listing 40,000 Adyghe Islam ☀ 0.02 % 1
Adyghe Jordan Listing 93,000 Adyghe Islam ☀ 0.02 % 2
Adyghe Serbia Listing 2,600 Adyghe Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adyghe Turkey Listing 350,000 Adyghe Islam ☀ 0.00 % 7
Adyghe Ukraine Listing 600 Adyghe Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adyghe United States Listing 9,100 Adyghe Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Adyghe, West Circassian Russia Listing 142,000 Adyghe Islam ☀ 0.08 % 3
Afar Djibouti Listing 291,000 Afar Islam ☀ 0.03 % 6
Afghan Pawinda Pakistan Listing 1,800 Pashto, Central Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Afghan, Tajik Afghanistan Listing 10,585,000 Dari Islam ☀ 0.01 % 212
Afghan, Tajik Iran Listing 400,000 Dari Islam ☀ 0.01 % 8
Afghan, Tajik Kazakhstan Listing 800 Dari Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Afghani, general Australia Listing 26,000 Dari Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Afghani, general Austria Listing 37,000 Pashto, Southern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Afghani, general Denmark Listing 12,000 Pashto, Southern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Afghani, general New Zealand Listing 3,600 Pashto, Southern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Afitti, Ditti Sudan Listing 5,000 Afitti Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Afshari Afghanistan Listing 15,000 Azerbaijani, South Islam ☀ 0.04 % 1
Afshari Iran Listing 378,000 Azerbaijani, South Islam ☀ 0.00 % 8
Agamudaiyan Mukkulattar India Listing 2,000 Tamil Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 1
Agani India Listing 500 Kodava Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 1
Agariya (Muslim traditions) India Listing 15,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Agariya (Muslim traditions) Pakistan Listing 1,300 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Agaru India Listing 1,600 Telugu Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 1
Ager (Hindu traditions) India Listing 14,000 Kannada Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 1
Totals: 5,045 Peoples     1,940,296,000         41,513
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