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Criteria

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

7,417

% of World's
People Groups

42.6 %

Population

3,369,881,000

% 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 *
Alawite Syria 1,594,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ☀ 0.02 % 0.02 % ● 32
Azerbaijani, Azeri Turk Syria 45,000 Azerbaijani, South Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Arab, North Iraqi Syria 442,000 Arabic, North Mesopotamian Spoken Islam ● 0.70 % 0.20 % 9
Yazidi Syria 13,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Turkmen, Middle-Eastern Syria 360,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 7
Thai Taiwan 65,000 Thai Buddhism ● 1.00 % 0.30 % 1
Han Chinese, Hakka Taiwan 4,313,000 Chinese, Hakka Ethnic Religions ● 2.10 % 0.42 % ● 86
Hui Taiwan 57,000 Chinese, Mandarin Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Japanese Taiwan 14,000 Japanese Buddhism ● 1.50 % 0.50 % 1
Malay Taiwan 21,000 Malay Islam ● 0.50 % 0.30 % 1
Saaroa Taiwan 300 Bunun Other / Small ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Mongol, Khalka Taiwan 1,100 Mongolian, Halh Buddhism ● 2.00 % 0.00 % 1
Jew, Chinese Taiwan 100 Chinese, Mandarin Ethnic Religions ● 1.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Bashkir Tajikistan 8,800 Bashkort Islam ● 3.00 % 1.00 % 1
Romani, Domari Tajikistan 3,200 Russian Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Hazara Tajikistan 1,700 Hazaragi Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Kazakh Tajikistan 800 Kazakh Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Kyrgyz Tajikistan 73,000 Kyrgyz Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Lak Tajikistan 2,200 Lak Islam ● 1.00 % 0.80 % 1
Uzbek, Northern Tajikistan 1,171,000 Uzbek, Northern Islam ● 0.14 % 0.13 % 23
Pashtun Tajikistan 5,000 Pashto, Northern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Parsee Tajikistan 2,800 Dari, Zoroastrian Other / Small ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Parya Tajikistan 4,700 Parya Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Pashtun, Southern Tajikistan 35,000 Pashto, Southern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Persian Tajikistan 600 Persian, Iranian Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Totals:  7,417 People Groups   3,369,881,000             70,796
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