Frontier Peoples: 100,000 and above Overview

People Groups

1,098

Population

1,869,722,000

% of Unreached
People Groups

14.8 %

% of Unreached Population

57.8 %

% of World's
People Groups

6.3 %

% of World Population

24.1 %

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
Needed *
Tamil (Muslim traditions) India Listing 3,186,000 Tamil Islam ☀ 0.00 % 64
Tanaoli Pakistan Listing 731,000 Hindko, Northern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 15
Tanti (Hindu traditions) India Listing 4,826,000 Bengali Hinduism ☀ 0.01 % 97
Tarkhan (Hindu traditions) India Listing 870,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.01 % 17
Tarkhan (Muslim traditions) Pakistan Listing 3,039,000 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 61
Tarkhan (Sikh traditions) India Listing 1,045,000 Punjabi, Eastern Other / Small ☀ 0.00 % 21
Tatar, Crimean Turkey Listing 110,000 Crimean Tatar Islam ☀ 0.05 % 2
Tatar, Crimean Uzbekistan Listing 177,000 Crimean Tatar Islam ☀ 0.00 % 4
Tati, Southern Iran Listing 186,000 Alviri-Vidari Islam ☀ 0.00 % 4
Tausug, Sulu Malaysia Listing 219,000 Tausug Islam ☀ 0.01 % 4
Tawaif (Muslim traditions) India Listing 112,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 2
Teli (Hindu traditions) Bangladesh Listing 145,000 Bengali Hinduism ☀ 0.01 % 3
Teli (Hindu traditions) India Listing 18,686,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.02 % 374
Teli (Muslim traditions) India Listing 1,694,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 34
Teli (Muslim traditions) Pakistan Listing 2,882,000 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 58
Teli Gangauta (Hindu traditions) India Listing 560,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 11
Teli Sribastab India Listing 293,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 6
Thai Islam Thailand Listing 1,328,000 Thai, Southern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 27
Thakkar India Listing 583,000 Marathi Hinduism ☀ 0.03 % 12
Thandan (Hindu traditions) India Listing 231,000 Malayalam Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 5
Thathera (Hindu traditions) India Listing 320,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 6
Thori (Hindu traditions) India Listing 942,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 19
Tibetan Gtsang China Listing 766,000 Tibetan, Central Buddhism ☀ 0.02 % 15
Tibetan, Central China Listing 949,000 Tibetan, Central Buddhism ☀ 0.04 % 19
Tigre, Eritrean Eritrea Listing 716,000 Tigre Islam ☀ 0.09 % 14
Tili India Listing 1,064,000 Bengali Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 21
Tu China Listing 262,000 Tu Buddhism ☀ 0.01 % 5
Tuareg, Algerian Algeria Listing 136,000 Arabic, Algerian Saharan Spoken Islam ☀ 0.01 % 3
Tuareg, Tamajaq Mali Listing 446,000 Tamajaq, Tawallammat Islam ☀ 0.00 % 9
Tuareg, Tamajaq Niger Listing 1,075,000 Tamajaq, Tawallammat Islam ☀ 0.09 % 22
Tuareg, Tamasheq Mali Listing 456,000 Tamasheq Islam ☀ 0.00 % 9
Tuareg, Tamasheq Mauritania Listing 127,000 Tamasheq Islam ☀ 0.04 % 3
Tuareg, Tamasheq Burkina Faso Listing 171,000 Tamasheq Islam ☀ 0.08 % 3
Tungur Sudan Listing 239,000 Arabic, Sudanese Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 5
Turaiha India Listing 362,000 Bhojpuri Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 7
Turk France Listing 221,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 4
Turk Germany Listing 1,566,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 31
Turk Turkey Listing 59,258,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.01 % 1185
Turk Uzbekistan Listing 144,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 3
Turk, Meskhetian Azerbaijan Listing 101,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 2
Turkmen Afghanistan Listing 2,171,000 Turkmen Islam ☀ 0.00 % 43
Turkmen Pakistan Listing 161,000 Turkmen Islam ☀ 0.00 % 3
Turkmen Turkmenistan Listing 4,577,000 Turkmen Islam ☀ 0.05 % 92
Turkmen Uzbekistan Listing 149,000 Turkmen Islam ☀ 0.05 % 3
Turkmen, Middle-Eastern Iraq Listing 2,372,000 Azerbaijani, South Islam ☀ 0.00 % 47
Turkmen, Middle-Eastern Syria Listing 285,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 6
Ulema (Muslim traditions) Pakistan Listing 271,000 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 5
Urdu Canada Listing 207,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 4
Urdu Qatar Listing 177,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.01 % 4
Urdu Saudi Arabia Listing 764,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 15
Totals: 1,098 Peoples     1,869,722,000         37,379
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