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Criteria

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

7,423

% of World's
People Groups

42.6 %

Population

3,367,456,000

% 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 *
Yazidi Turkey 2,800 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yazidi Ukraine 1,800 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yazidi United States 4,100 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ● 2.40 % 1.50 % 1
Yazeed Sudan 504,000 Arabic, Sudanese Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 10
Yashkun Pakistan 2,000 Balti Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yao Malawi 2,474,000 Yao Islam ● 1.00 % 0.50 % ● 49
Yao Mozambique 330,000 Yao Islam ● 1.40 % 1.00 % ● 7
Yao Tanzania 775,000 Yao Islam ● 2.00 % 1.20 % ● 15
Yao Zambia 5,400 Yao Islam ● 3.00 % 1.00 % 1
Yanghuang China 16,000 T'en Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yaminahua Peru 900 Yaminahua Ethnic Religions ● 2.00 % 1.70 % ● 1
Yalunka, Dialonke Senegal 15,000 Yalunka Islam ● 0.15 % 0.05 % ● 1
Yalunka Guinea 125,000 Yalunka Islam ● 0.30 % 0.17 % ● 3
Yalunka Mali 18,000 Yalunka Islam ● 0.20 % 0.10 % ● 1
Yakut China 2,900 Yakut Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yakut Russia 483,000 Yakut Ethnic Religions ● 3.00 % 0.10 % ● 10
Yakthumba, Limbu Bhutan 1,700 Nepali Other / Small ● 3.75 % 1
Yakthumba, Limbu Nepal 444,000 Limbu Other / Small ● 2.69 % ● 9
Yakkha Nepal 28,000 Yakkha Other / Small ● 0.72 % ● 1
Yakan Malaysia 1,200 Yakan Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yakan Philippines 200,000 Yakan Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % ● 4
Yagua Colombia 1,000 Yagua Ethnic Religions ● 5.00 % 2.00 % ● 1
Yagnob Tajikistan 30,000 Tajik Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yaeyama Japan 45,000 Yaeyama Buddhism ● 3.00 % 0.38 % ● 1
Yadav Sadgope Bangladesh 111,000 Bengali Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 2
Totals:  7,423 People Groups   3,367,456,000             70,749
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