1,896 people groups in the 10/40 Window have neither Scripture portions or the Jesus film available in their primary language, comprising 222,000,000 individuals. |
3,678 people groups in South Asia are least-reached, totaling 1,705,000,000 individuals. |
381 people groups in Central Asia are least-reached, totaling 279,000,000 individuals. |
South Asia has the most people groups (4,100), followed by West and Central Africa (2,222), and Central Asia has the least (550). |
The median population of all people groups for which Joshua Project has population values is 11,850. The mean population is 441,025. |
The largest people cluster is the Chinese (1,367,512,000), followed by the Hispanic (353,236,000). |
Nearly 1/4 of the world's population resides in Frontier people groups, those groups with no more than one Christian per 1,000 individuals. These groups require pioneering missionary effort. |
Only 60 people groups comprise 50% of the world's population. |
Of Nigeria's 539 people groups, 102 do not have Bible portions, the Jesus film, or gospel recordings available in their primary language, or 1,715,000 individuals. |
Central Asia has only 1,542,000 evangelicals, followed by North Africa and Middle East (5,132,000) and Eastern Europe and Eurasia (6,423,000). |
Census data (2011) indicates there are some 20,833,000 Sikhs in India, and 4,452,000 Jains. |
Northeast Asia has the highest number of individuals practicing Animism (68,500,000), followed by East and Southern Africa (47,000,000). (Operation World 2010) |
3/4 of the 20,833,000 Sikhs in India live in the state of Punjab. Nearly 3/4 of the 9,123,000 Buddhists in India live in the state of Maharashtra. |
The unreached Parsee, found in 12 countries with over 157,000 in total, practice Zoroastrianism. |
Six countries have more than 500 people groups, with India exceeding 2700. |
There are 1,392 primarily Christian groups in the 10/40 Window, the largest being the Yoruba of Nigeria (34,362,000). |
The largest Muslim people group is the Shaikh of Bangladesh, population 134,000,000. |
The largest Hindu group is the Brahmin of India, population 58,000,000. |
The largest group without even Scripture portions in their primary language is the Jin Chinese of China, population 64,000,000. |
25 of the 72 people groups in Afghanistan do not have even Bible portions available in their primary language. |
It has been estimated there are 460,000 villages (out of a total of 650,000 villages) in India with no known Christian presence. |
South Asia has the most least-reached people groups (3,678), followed by Southeast Asia (709). Australia and Pacific has the fewest at 67. |
Hindi is spoken as the primary language by 673 people groups, with English spoken by 540 and Bengali spoken by 420. |
11,877 people groups have at least the New Testament available in their primary language, totaling 6,948,000,000 individuals. |
3,190,000,000 individuals live in people groups (7,408) with very few, if any, believers. |
The 23rd Edition of the Ethnologue indicates there are 7,117 living languages in the world, with roughly 40% in danger of not surviving. 23 languages account for more than half the world's population. |
2,145 people groups totaling 164,000,000 individuals have neither Scripture, the Jesus film, or Christian recordings available in their primary language. |
North America and the Caribbean have the most Evangelicals (100,500,000), followed by East and Southern Africa (100,100,000). (Operation World 2010) |
There are 942 Muslim majority people groups over 100,000 in size. |
There are 750 Hindu majority people groups over 100,000 in size. |
There are 134 Buddhist majority people groups over 100,000 in size. |
There are 1,264 Christian majority people groups over 100,000 in size. |
The Muslim Shaikh have a combined population of over 233,000,000 (Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nepal). |
The Mandarin Chinese have a combined population of over 879,000,000 (all countries of residence). |
The Brahmin of India speak 91 languages, and the Rajput speak 87. |
Evangelicals are growing at an annual rate of 2.6%, compared to Islam at 1.9% and Hinduism at 1.2% (Operation World 2010) |
The global annual growth rate of Christianity in general is 1.2%, but the growth rate of Evangelicals is 2.6% (Operation World 2010) |
The Nai of India have 93 alternate names, and the Kalal have 86 alternate names. |
Some 65-70% of the world's population live in religiously restrictive countries. |
2,130 people groups reside in more than one country, summing to 6,433,132,000 individuals. |
11,421 people groups have the Jesus Film in their primary language, totaling 7,136,000,000 individuals. |
Indonesia has the most people groups (472) whose primary language does not have Bible portions, totaling 15,726,000 individuals. |
China has the largest number of individuals whose primary language does not have Bible portions (110,005,000 individuals). |
Nigeria has 283 people groups (7,802,000 individuals) whose primary language does not have Bible portions available. |
India has 2,445 least-reached groups, followed by Pakistan (501), and China (445). |
Of India's 2,718 people groups, 1,606 have populations over 10,000, the largest being a Muslim group, the Shaikh at 84,587,000. |
Papua New Guinea has the largest number of groups whose primary religion is Christianity (802), followed by Indonesia with 375. |
India has the largest number of groups whose primary religion is Islam (425), followed by Pakistan with 421 and Indonesia with 254. |
The United States has the largest population of groups whose primary religion is Christianity (307,000,000), followed by Brazil (209,000,000). |
All but four small groups of Sri Lanka's 174 people groups have at least Bible portions available in their primary language. |
472 of Indonesia's 789 people groups do not have even Bible portions available in their primary language. The largest of these is the Palembang, 3,391,000. |
Of Iran's 94 people groups, all but 10 are least-reached, and all of these 10 are expatriate groups. |
10 of Sudan's 162 people groups have Christianity as their primary religion, and 130 have Islam as their primary religion. |
The United States, China, Brazil and Nigeria have the greatest number of evangelicals according to Operation World 2010. Kenya has the highest percent evangelicals at 48.9%. |
Nearly one third (2.4 billion individuals) of the earth's population reside in only 250 Least-Reached people groups. |
There are six Least-Reached people groups each over 50,000,000 in population, the largest being the Shaikh of Bangladesh (134,000,000). |
The four largest Least-Reached people groups are the Shaikh of Bangladesh, Japanese of Japan, the Shaikh of India, and the Brahmin of India. |
The largest Least-Reached group in Central Asia without Scripture, Jesus film, or audio recordings is the Aimaq of Afghanistan, with 1,558,000 people. |
The largest Least-Reached group in the Middle East / North Africa without Scripture, Jesus film, or audio recordings are the Omani Arabs of Oman, with 2,108,000 people. |
The largest Least-Reached group in Southeast Asia without Scripture, Jesus film, or audio recordings is the Brunei Malay, Kedayan of Malaysia, with 361,000 people. |
The largest Least-Reached group in Northeast Asia without Scripture, Jesus film, or audio recordings is the Guibian Zhuang of China, with 1,105,000 people. |
Russia has 70 Muslim people groups, the largest of which is the Tatars, with 5,413,000 people. |
France has 32 Muslim people groups, the largest of which is the Kabyle Berbers, with 713,000 people. |
The Mumbai district of Maharashtra state in India has over 10,000,000 residents, more than many countries of the world. |
South Asia has more than five times as many unreached people groups (3,678) as any other region of the world. |
East and Southern Africa is the least urbanized (31%) region of the world. (World Factbook 2011) |
11.4% of the world's population (878m individuals) resides in 31 large Frontier people groups. Frontier groups are those with no more than one Christian per 1,000 individuals, and require pioneering missionary work. |
More than 1050 church planting movements have been reported in the world today, 2020. |
If the India state of Uttar Pradesh were a country, it would be the 5th most populous in the world. (Operation World 2010). |
In 2018, 55% of the world's population was urban (United Nations). |
The top 10 countries with the largest Christian populations include all of the "BRIC" countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). (Operation World 2010) |
Iran is the country with the fastest growing Evangelical population at 19.6% annual growth. (Operation World 2010). |
Of the 8,200 groups whose populations are under 10,000, the total number of individuals is less than 24,000,000. |
253 of the 547 people groups in China do not have even Bible portions available in their primary language. |
Indonesia has the greatest population of Muslim groups (239,000,000), followed by Pakistan (213,000,000) and India (186,000,000). |
2,145 people groups in the world do not have Scripture portions or audio recordings available in their primary language, comprising 164,000,000 individuals. |