Frontier Peoples: All Overview

People Groups

5,046

Population

1,939,743,000

% of Unreached
People Groups

68.1 %

% 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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Arab Sri Lanka Listing 5,100 Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab Comoros Listing 900 Comorian, Maore Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab Pakistan Listing 5,500 Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Bedouin Jordan Listing 1,381,000 Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.01 % 28
Arab, Cyrenaican Libya Listing 1,457,000 Arabic, Libyan Spoken Islam ☀ 0.10 % 29
Arab, Hadrami Eritrea Listing 50,000 Arabic, Hadrami Spoken Islam ☀ 0.01 % 1
Arab, Hadrami Kenya Listing 13,000 Arabic, Hadrami Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Hadrami Yemen Listing 1,905,000 Arabic, Hadrami Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 38
Arab, Libyan United Arab Emirates Listing 46,000 Arabic, Libyan Spoken Islam ☀ 0.10 % 1
Arab, Libyan Belgium Listing 4,600 Arabic, Libyan Spoken Islam ☀ 0.10 % 1
Arab, Libyan Libya Listing 1,590,000 Arabic, Libyan Spoken Islam ☀ 0.10 % 32
Arab, Northern Yemeni Saudi Arabia Listing 273,000 Arabic, Sanaani Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 5
Arab, Northern Yemeni Yemen Listing 12,990,000 Arabic, Sanaani Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 260
Arab, Omani United Arab Emirates Listing 303,000 Arabic, Omani Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 6
Arab, Omani Kuwait Listing 21,000 Arabic, Omani Spoken Islam ☀ 0.10 % 1
Arab, Omani Tanzania Listing 197,000 Swahili Islam ☀ 0.00 % 4
Arab, Omani Yemen Listing 151,000 Arabic, Omani Spoken Islam ☀ 0.10 % 3
Arab, Saharan Mali Listing 50,000 Hassaniyya Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Saudi - Hijazi United Arab Emirates Listing 385,000 Arabic, Hijazi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 8
Arab, Saudi - Hijazi Qatar Listing 27,000 Arabic, Hijazi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Saudi - Hijazi United States Listing 5,900 Arabic, Hijazi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Saudi - Najdi Iraq Listing 1,710,000 Arabic, Najdi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 34
Arab, Saudi - Najdi Jordan Listing 103,000 Arabic, Najdi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.01 % 2
Arab, Saudi - Najdi Kuwait Listing 255,000 Arabic, Najdi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 5
Arab, Saudi - Najdi Oman Listing 43,000 Arabic, Najdi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Saudi - Najdi Netherlands Listing 600 Arabic, Najdi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Saudi - Najdi Syria Listing 1,320,000 Arabic, Najdi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 26
Arab, Saudi - Najdi United States Listing 5,900 Arabic, Najdi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Tajiki Tajikistan Listing 1,400 Arabic, Tajiki Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Tihami Saudi Arabia Listing 195,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 4
Arab, Tihami Yemen Listing 4,447,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 89
Arab, Tunisian Canada Listing 10,000 Arabic, Tunisian Spoken Islam ☀ 0.10 % 1
Arab, Tunisian Denmark Listing 900 Arabic, Tunisian Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Tunisian Sweden Listing 4,100 Arabic, Tunisian Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Turku Chad Listing 38,000 Arabic, Sudanese Creole Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Turku Cameroon Listing 14,000 Arabic, Sudanese Creole Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Turku Central African Republic Listing 4,800 Arabic, Sudanese Creole Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Uzbeki Russia Listing 9,800 Arabic, Uzbeki Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Uzbeki Tajikistan Listing 5,000 Arabic, Uzbeki Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Yemeni United Arab Emirates Listing 57,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Yemeni Djibouti Listing 73,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.09 % 1
Arab, Yemeni Egypt Listing 179,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.08 % 4
Arab, Yemeni Eritrea Listing 36,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.05 % 1
Arab, Yemeni Ethiopia Listing 5,700 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Yemeni Kenya Listing 36,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Yemeni Kuwait Listing 14,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.06 % 1
Arab, Yemeni Libya Listing 128,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 3
Arab, Yemeni Madagascar Listing 56,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1
Arab, Yemeni Oman Listing 17,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.06 % 1
Arab, Yemeni Saudi Arabia Listing 195,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.10 % 4
Totals: 5,046 Peoples     1,939,743,000         41,504
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