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Criteria

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

7,403

% of World's
People Groups

42.5 %

Population

3,274,637,000

% of World Population

41.8 %

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Photo People Group ▲ Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous Est. Workers
Needed *
Akeu Laos 3,200 Akeu Ethnic Religions ● 0.72 % 0.72 % 1
Akha China 262,000 Akha Ethnic Religions ● 0.35 % 0.31 % 5
Akha Laos 117,000 Akha Ethnic Religions ● 3.00 % 2.00 % ● 2
Akha Vietnam 23,000 Akha Ethnic Religions ● 5.00 % 0.30 % 1
Akhvakh Russia 6,800 Akhvakh Islam ☀ 0.03 % 0.03 % ● 1
Akkin Russia 104,000 Chechen Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % ● 2
Akto Turkmen China 2,900 Uyghur Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Alaba Ethiopia 390,000 Alaba-K'abeena Islam ● 2.60 % 1.40 % ● 8
Alagwa Tanzania 58,000 Alagwa Islam ☀ 0.02 % 0.02 % ● 1
Alak Laos 26,000 Alak Ethnic Religions ● 1.10 % 1.06 % ● 1
Alambadi Kurichchan India 43,000 Kurichiya Hinduism ● 4.62 % ● 1
Alas Indonesia 92,000 Batak Alas-Kluet Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.00 % ● 2
Alavan India 7,800 Tamil Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Alawite Israel 2,100 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Alawite Lebanon 160,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 3
Alawite Syria 1,317,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ☀ 0.02 % 0.02 % ● 26
Alawite Turkey 559,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ☀ 0.03 % 0.01 % ● 11
Albanian Denmark 1,400 Albanian, Gheg Islam ● 5.00 % 1.00 % 1
Albanian Kosovo 1,678,000 Albanian, Gheg Islam ● 2.00 % 0.20 % ● 34
Albanian Netherlands 600 Albanian, Gheg Islam ● 2.00 % 1.00 % 1
Albanian Sweden 5,100 Albanian, Gheg Islam ● 3.00 % 0.30 % 1
Albanian, Macedonian North Macedonia 521,000 Albanian, Gheg Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 10
Aleut, Eastern Russia 500 Aleut Non-Religious ● 1.00 % 0.60 % ● 1
Algerian, Arabic-speaking Algeria 30,135,000 Arabic, Algerian Spoken Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % ● 603
Algerian, Arabic-speaking Belgium 53,000 Arabic, Algerian Spoken Islam ● 1.00 % 0.50 % 1
Totals:  7,403 People Groups   3,274,637,000             68,974
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