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Criteria

Evangelicals <= 2%
Professing Christians <= 5%
Progress Level
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People Groups

7,282

% of World's
People Groups

42.1 %

Population

3,434,833,000

% of World Population

42.5 %

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Photo People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous Est. Workers
Needed *
Eurasian Japan 122,000 Japanese Buddhism ● 5.00 % 1.50 % ● 2
Burakumin Japan 860,000 Japanese Buddhism ● 0.50 % 0.20 % ● 17
Thai Japan 9,600 Thai Buddhism ● 1.00 % 0.50 % 1
Japanese Japan 117,205,000 Japanese Buddhism ● 1.20 % 0.30 % ● 2,344
Jewish, English-speaking Japan 1,900 English Ethnic Religions ● 3.00 % 2.00 % 1
Kikai Japan 12,000 Kikai Buddhism ● 3.00 % 0.72 % ● 1
Kunigami Japan 4,800 Kunigami Buddhism ● 2.00 % 1.00 % ● 1
Malay Japan 9,600 Malay Islam ● 0.60 % 0.20 % 1
Miyako, Ryukyuan Japan 64,000 Miyako Buddhism ● 3.00 % 0.51 % ● 1
Amami-Oshima, Northern Japan 9,500 Amami-Oshima, Northern Buddhism ● 1.00 % 0.45 % ● 1
Oki-No-Erabu Japan 3,100 Oki-No-Erabu Buddhism ● 3.00 % 0.50 % ● 1
Persian Japan 49,000 Persian, Iranian Islam ● 0.50 % 0.20 % 1
Punjabi Japan 68,000 Punjabi, Eastern Islam ● 1.50 % 0.00 % 1
Amami-Oshima, Southern Japan 1,700 Amami-Oshima, Southern Buddhism ● 3.00 % 0.50 % ● 1
Toku-No-Shima Japan 4,900 Toku-No-Shima Buddhism ● 2.00 % 0.55 % ● 1
Uyghur Japan 1,000 Uyghur Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yaeyama Japan 45,000 Yaeyama Buddhism ● 3.00 % 0.38 % ● 1
Yonaguni Japan 800 Yonaguni Buddhism ● 1.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yoron Japan 900 Yoron Buddhism ● 1.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Turk Japan 4,800 Turkish Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Judeo-Japanese Japan 49,000 Japanese Ethnic Religions ● 1.00 % 0.80 % ● 1
Mongol, Khalka Japan 4,400 Mongolian, Halh Ethnic Religions ● 1.00 % 0.50 % 1
Deaf Japan 245,000 Japanese Sign Language Buddhism ● 1.54 % ● 5
Jewish, English-speaking Jamaica 500 English Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Algerian, Arabic-speaking Italy 21,000 Arabic, Algerian Islam ● 2.00 % 1.10 % 1
Totals:  7,282 People Groups   3,434,833,000             71,911
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