Frontier Peoples | Joshua Project

Frontier Peoples: 31 Largest Overview

People Groups

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Population

907,871,000

% of Unreached
People Groups

0.4 %

% of Unreached Population

28.2 %

% of World's
People Groups

0.2 %

% of World Population

11.7 %

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 *
	Afghan, Tajik	Afghanistan	Listing	10,485,000	Dari	Islam	☀	0.01 %	210
	Ansari	India	Listing	10,567,000	Urdu	Islam	☀	0.00 %	211
	Pashtun, Pathan	India	Listing	11,429,000	Urdu	Islam	☀	0.00 %	229
	Arain (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	Listing	11,495,000	Punjabi, Western	Islam	☀	0.00 %	230
	Nai (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	11,797,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.00 %	236
	Uyghur	China	Listing	11,881,000	Uyghur	Islam	☀	0.01 %	238
	Dhobi (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	11,892,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.02 %	238
	Arab, Northern Yemeni	Yemen	Listing	12,990,000	Arabic, Sanaani Spoken	Islam	☀	0.00 %	260
	Shaikh	Pakistan	Listing	13,677,000	Punjabi, Western	Islam	☀	0.00 %	274
	Hui	China	Listing	13,870,000	Chinese, Mandarin	Islam	☀	0.01 %	277
	Kapu	India	Listing	15,183,000	Telugu	Hinduism	☀	0.02 %	304
	Kumhar (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	15,519,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.01 %	310
	Fulani, Nigerian	Nigeria	Listing	16,384,000	Fulfulde, Nigerian	Islam	☀	0.08 %	328
	Rajput (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	Listing	17,451,000	Punjabi, Western	Islam	☀	0.00 %	349
	Kunbi (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	18,128,000	Gujarati	Hinduism	☀	0.05 %	363
	Teli (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	18,717,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.01 %	374
	Kurmi (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	18,869,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.01 %	377
	Jat (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	19,127,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.03 %	383
	Moroccan, Arabic-speaking	Morocco	Listing	23,940,000	Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	Islam	☀	0.09 %	479
	Uzbek, Northern	Uzbekistan	Listing	27,199,000	Uzbek, Northern	Islam	☀	0.02 %	544
	Bania	India	Listing	29,039,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.00 %	581
	Pashtun	Pakistan	Listing	29,252,000	Pashto, Northern	Islam	☀	0.00 %	585
	Algerian, Arabic-speaking	Algeria	Listing	29,618,000	Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	☀	0.01 %	592
	Mahratta	India	Listing	30,726,000	Marathi	Hinduism	☀	0.00 %	615
	Jat (Muslim traditions)	Pakistan	Listing	35,733,000	Punjabi, Western	Islam	☀	0.00 %	715
	Rajput (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	45,518,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.02 %	910
	Yadav (Hindu traditions)	India	Listing	58,585,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.01 %	1172
	Brahmin	India	Listing	58,887,000	Hindi	Hinduism	☀	0.00 %	1178
	Turk	Turkey	Listing	59,258,000	Turkish	Islam	☀	0.01 %	1185
	Shaikh	India	Listing	85,428,000	Urdu	Islam	☀	0.00 %	1709
	Shaikh	Bangladesh	Listing	135,227,000	Bengali	Islam	☀	0.00 %	2705
Totals:	31 Peoples			907,871,000					18,161

* 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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