Frontier Peoples | Joshua Project

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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Photo	People Group	Country	All Countries	Population	Primary Language ▲	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	Est. Workers Needed *
	Abkhaz	Turkey	Listing	164,000	Abkhaz	Islam	☀	0.00 %	3
	Adyghe, West Circassian	Russia	Listing	142,000	Adyghe	Islam	☀	0.08 %	3
	Adyghe	Turkey	Listing	350,000	Adyghe	Islam	☀	0.00 %	7
	Afar	Djibouti	Listing	291,000	Afar	Islam	☀	0.03 %	6
	Deaf	Afghanistan	Listing	389,000	Afghan Sign Language	Islam	☀	0.05 %	8
	Aimaq	Afghanistan	Listing	1,595,000	Aimaq	Islam	☀	0.00 %	32
	Aimaq	Iran	Listing	235,000	Aimaq	Islam	☀	0.00 %	5
	Aimaq	Turkmenistan	Listing	249,000	Aimaq	Islam	☀	0.00 %	5
	Albanian, Macedonian	North Macedonia	Listing	521,000	Albanian, Gheg	Islam	☀	0.00 %	10
	Tati, Southern	Iran	Listing	186,000	Alviri-Vidari	Islam	☀	0.00 %	4
	Tuareg, Algerian	Algeria	Listing	136,000	Arabic, Algerian Saharan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.01 %	3
	Bedouin, Yahia	Morocco	Listing	113,000	Arabic, Algerian Saharan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.01 %	2
	Algerian, Arabic-speaking	Algeria	Listing	29,618,000	Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.01 %	592
	Algerian, Arabic-speaking	Egypt	Listing	1,840,000	Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.02 %	37
	Algerian, Arabic-speaking	Libya	Listing	295,000	Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.10 %	6
	Bedouin, Chaamba	Algeria	Listing	137,000	Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	3
	Bedouin, Sidi	Algeria	Listing	137,000	Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.01 %	3
	Bedouin, Suafa	Algeria	Listing	130,000	Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.01 %	3
	Bedouin, Tajakant	Algeria	Listing	1,770,000	Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	35
	Bedouin, Ziban	Algeria	Listing	274,000	Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	5
	Baggara, Shuwa Arab	Cameroon	Listing	190,000	Arabic, Chadian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.02 %	4
	Arab, Bedouin	Jordan	Listing	1,381,000	Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken	Islam	☀	0.01 %	28
	Bedouin, Eastern Bedawi	Egypt	Listing	1,166,000	Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	23
	Bedouin, Eastern Bedawi	Israel	Listing	124,000	Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	2
	Romani, Halebi	Egypt	Listing	373,000	Arabic, Egyptian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.05 %	7
	Nubian, Arabized	Egypt	Listing	543,000	Arabic, Egyptian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	11
	Bedouin, Gulf	United Arab Emirates	Listing	192,000	Arabic, Gulf Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	4
	Arab, Hadrami	Yemen	Listing	1,905,000	Arabic, Hadrami Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	38
	Arab, Saudi - Hijazi	United Arab Emirates	Listing	385,000	Arabic, Hijazi Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	8
	Bedouin, Fezzan	Libya	Listing	217,000	Arabic, Libyan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	4
	Arab, Cyrenaican	Libya	Listing	1,457,000	Arabic, Libyan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.10 %	29
	Arab, Libyan	Libya	Listing	1,590,000	Arabic, Libyan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.10 %	32
	Bedouin, Sanusi	Libya	Listing	631,000	Arabic, Libyan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	13
	Jebala	Morocco	Listing	1,265,000	Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.03 %	25
	Moroccan, Arabic-speaking	Egypt	Listing	1,799,000	Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.04 %	36
	Moroccan, Arabic-speaking	Libya	Listing	298,000	Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.09 %	6
	Moroccan, Arabic-speaking	Morocco	Listing	23,940,000	Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.09 %	479
	Moroccan, Arabic-speaking	Spain	Listing	780,000	Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.10 %	16
	Moroccan, Arabic-speaking	Sudan	Listing	266,000	Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	5
	Saharawi	Morocco	Listing	162,000	Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	3
	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	Syria	Listing	1,320,000	Arabic, Najdi Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	26
	Druze	Lebanon	Listing	299,000	Arabic, North Levantine Spoken	Other / Small	☀	0.05 %	6
	Alawite	Lebanon	Listing	161,000	Arabic, North Levantine Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	3
	Alawite	Syria	Listing	1,261,000	Arabic, North Levantine Spoken	Islam	☀	0.02 %	25
	Alawite	Turkey	Listing	554,000	Arabic, North Levantine Spoken	Islam	☀	0.03 %	11
	Arab, Omani	United Arab Emirates	Listing	303,000	Arabic, Omani Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	6
	Arab, Omani	Oman	Listing	2,164,000	Arabic, Omani Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	43
Totals:	1,098 Peoples			1,869,722,000					37,379

* 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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