Frontier Peoples: 31 Largest Overview

People Groups

31
Prayer Guide

Population

904,714,000

% of Unreached
People Groups

0.4 %

% of Unreached Population

28.1 %

% 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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Countries		 Population ▲ Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherent 		Est. Workers
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Ansari India Listing 10,555,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 211
Afghan, Tajik Afghanistan Listing 10,585,000 Dari Islam ☀ 0.01 % 212
Arain (Muslim traditions) Pakistan Listing 11,313,000 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 226
Pashtun, Pathan India Listing 11,419,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 228
Nai (Hindu traditions) India Listing 11,845,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 237
Uyghur China Listing 11,881,000 Uyghur Islam ☀ 0.01 % 238
Dhobi (Hindu traditions) India Listing 11,904,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.02 % 238
Arab, Northern Yemeni Yemen Listing 12,990,000 Arabic, Sanaani Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 260
Shaikh Pakistan Listing 13,327,000 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 267
Hui China Listing 13,870,000 Chinese, Mandarin Islam ☀ 0.01 % 277
Kapu India Listing 15,310,000 Telugu Hinduism ☀ 0.02 % 306
Kumhar (Hindu traditions) India Listing 15,602,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.01 % 312
Fulani, Nigerian Nigeria Listing 16,384,000 Fulfulde, Nigerian Islam ☀ 0.08 % 328
Rajput (Muslim traditions) Pakistan Listing 16,680,000 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 334
Kunbi (Hindu traditions) India Listing 18,202,000 Gujarati Hinduism ☀ 0.05 % 364
Teli (Hindu traditions) India Listing 18,686,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.02 % 374
Kurmi (Hindu traditions) India Listing 18,883,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.01 % 378
Jat (Hindu traditions) India Listing 19,103,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.03 % 382
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 29,120,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 582
Algerian, Arabic-speaking Algeria Listing 29,618,000 Arabic, Algerian Spoken Islam ☀ 0.01 % 592
Pashtun Pakistan Listing 30,315,000 Pashto, Northern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 606
Mahratta India Listing 30,768,000 Marathi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 615
Jat (Muslim traditions) Pakistan Listing 32,942,000 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 659
Rajput (Hindu traditions) India Listing 45,306,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.02 % 906
Yadav (Hindu traditions) India Listing 58,320,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.01 % 1166
Brahmin India Listing 58,787,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 1176
Turk Turkey Listing 59,258,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.01 % 1185
Shaikh India Listing 85,376,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 1708
Shaikh Bangladesh Listing 135,226,000 Bengali Islam ☀ 0.00 % 2705
Totals: 31 Peoples     904,714,000         18,095
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