Frontier Peoples | Joshua Project

Frontier Peoples: 100,000 and above Overview

People Groups

1,088

Population

1,805,530,000

% of Unreached
People Groups

14.8 %

% of Unreached Population

56.6 %

% of World's
People Groups

6.3 %

% of World Population

23.5 %

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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Photo	People Group ▲	Country	All Countries	Population	Primary Language	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	Est. Workers Needed *
	Teli (Hindu traditions)	Bangladesh	Listing	144,000	Bengali	Hinduism	☀	0.01 %	3
	Teli (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	18,532,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.01 %	371
	Teli (Muslim traditions)	India	Listing	1,678,000	Urdu	Islam	☀	0.00 %	34
	Teli (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	Listing	2,845,000	Punjabi, Western	Islam	☀	0.00 %	57
	Teli Gangauta (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	554,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.00 %	11
	Teli Sribastab	India	Listing	291,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.00 %	6
	Thai Islam	Thailand	Listing	3,896,000	Thai	Islam	☀	0.00 %	78
	Thakkar	India	Listing	578,000	Marathi	Hinduism	☀	0.03 %	12
	Thandan (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	229,000	Malayalam	Hinduism	☀	0.00 %	5
	Thathera (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	318,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.00 %	6
	Thori (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	935,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.00 %	19
	Tibetan Gtsang	China	Listing	763,000	Tibetan, Central	Buddhism	☀	0.02 %	15
	Tibetan, Central	China	Listing	945,000	Tibetan, Central	Buddhism	☀	0.04 %	19
	Tigre, Eritrean	Eritrea	Listing	706,000	Tigre	Islam	☀	0.09 %	14
	Tili	India	Listing	1,054,000	Bengali	Hinduism	☀	0.00 %	21
	Tu	China	Listing	261,000	Tu	Buddhism	☀	0.01 %	5
	Tuareg, Algerian	Algeria	Listing	149,000	Arabic, Algerian Saharan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.01 %	3
	Tuareg, Arabized	Niger	Listing	480,000	Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	10
	Tuareg, Tamajaq	Mali	Listing	415,000	Tamajaq, Tawallammat	Islam	☀	0.00 %	8
	Tuareg, Tamajaq	Niger	Listing	1,035,000	Tamajaq, Tawallammat	Islam	☀	0.01 %	21
	Tuareg, Tamasheq	Mali	Listing	442,000	Tamasheq	Islam	☀	0.00 %	9
	Tuareg, Tamasheq	Mauritania	Listing	123,000	Tamasheq	Islam	☀	0.04 %	2
	Tuareg, Tamasheq	Burkina Faso	Listing	167,000	Tamasheq	Islam	☀	0.08 %	3
	Tungur	Sudan	Listing	234,000	Arabic, Sudanese Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	5
	Turaiha	India	Listing	358,000	Bhojpuri	Hinduism	☀	0.00 %	7
	Turk	Turkey	Listing	57,235,000	Turkish	Islam	☀	0.01 %	1145
	Turk	Uzbekistan	Listing	142,000	Turkish	Islam	☀	0.00 %	3
	Turk	France	Listing	221,000	Turkish	Islam	☀	0.00 %	4
	Turk	Germany	Listing	1,561,000	Turkish	Islam	☀	0.00 %	31
	Turk, Meskhetian	Azerbaijan	Listing	100,000	Turkish	Islam	☀	0.00 %	2
	Turkmen	Afghanistan	Listing	2,122,000	Turkmen	Islam	☀	0.00 %	42
	Turkmen	Pakistan	Listing	153,000	Turkmen	Islam	☀	0.00 %	3
	Turkmen	Turkmenistan	Listing	4,510,000	Turkmen	Islam	☀	0.05 %	90
	Turkmen	Uzbekistan	Listing	195,000	Turkmen	Islam	☀	0.05 %	4
	Turkmen, Middle-Eastern	Iraq	Listing	2,319,000	Azerbaijani, South	Islam	☀	0.00 %	46
	Turkmen, Middle-Eastern	Syria	Listing	278,000	Turkish	Islam	☀	0.00 %	6
	Ulema (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	Listing	262,000	Punjabi, Western	Islam	☀	0.00 %	5
	Urdu	Canada	Listing	206,000	Urdu	Islam	☀	0.00 %	4
	Urdu	Qatar	Listing	173,000	Urdu	Islam	☀	0.01 %	3
	Urdu	Saudi Arabia	Listing	757,000	Urdu	Islam	☀	0.00 %	15
	Urdu	United States	Listing	300,000	Urdu	Islam	☀	0.00 %	6
	Uyghur	China	Listing	11,835,000	Uyghur	Islam	☀	0.01 %	237
	Uyghur	Kazakhstan	Listing	333,000	Uyghur	Islam	☀	0.01 %	7
	Uzbek	Pakistan	Listing	263,000	Uzbek, Northern	Islam	☀	0.00 %	5
	Uzbek, Northern	Kazakhstan	Listing	522,000	Uzbek, Northern	Islam	☀	0.00 %	10
	Uzbek, Northern	Tajikistan	Listing	1,097,000	Uzbek, Northern	Islam	☀	0.00 %	22
	Uzbek, Northern	Uzbekistan	Listing	27,365,000	Uzbek, Northern	Islam	☀	0.02 %	547
	Uzbek, Southern	Afghanistan	Listing	4,259,000	Uzbek, Southern	Islam	☀	0.01 %	85
	Vaddar (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	3,559,000	Telugu	Hinduism	☀	0.06 %	71
	Vaddar (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	Listing	116,000	Punjabi, Western	Islam	☀	0.00 %	2
Totals:	1,088 Peoples			1,805,530,000					36,083

* 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 for every 50,000 individuals living in an unreached people group by country. Some workers may already be onsite. Many more workers are needed beyond this initial estimate.

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