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Criteria

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

7,398

% of World's
People Groups

42.4 %

Population

3,274,207,000

% 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 *
Romani, Balkan Turkey 74,000 Romani, Balkan Islam ● 4.50 % 0.50 % 1
Shikaki Turkey 26,000 Kurdish, Northern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Arab, Syrian Turkey 592,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ● 5.00 % 0.40 % 12
Tatar Turkey 29,000 Tatar Islam ● 0.50 % 0.00 % 1
Turkmen Turkey 1,600 Turkmen Islam ● 1.50 % 0.00 % 1
Urdu Turkey 25,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Uyghur Turkey 25,000 Uyghur Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Uzbek, Southern Turkey 4,200 Uzbek, Southern Islam ● 0.50 % 0.10 % 1
Yoruk Turkey 467,000 Balkan Gagauz Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 9
Turk Turkey 59,753,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.00 % ● 1,195
Kurd, Turkish-speaking Turkey 6,354,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.00 % ● 127
Alawite Turkey 559,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ☀ 0.03 % 0.01 % ● 11
Azerbaijani, Azeri Turk Turkey 595,000 Azerbaijani, South Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 12
Hemshin Turkey 23,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Deaf Turkey 425,000 Turkish Sign Language Islam ● 0.21 % ● 9
Jew, Spanish Turkey 13,000 Ladino Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Gajal, Gadzhal Turkey 18,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Jew, Turkish Turkey 1,500 Turkish Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Arab, North Iraqi Turkey 573,000 Arabic, North Mesopotamian Spoken Islam ● 0.50 % 0.10 % 11
Yazidi Turkey 2,800 Kurdish, Northern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Turk, Meskhetian Turkey 23,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Avar Turkmenistan 900 Avar Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Azerbaijani Turkmenistan 51,000 Azerbaijani, North Islam ● 0.50 % 0.20 % 1
Bashkir Turkmenistan 8,100 Bashkort Islam ● 3.00 % 1.00 % 1
South Asian, Bengali-speaking Turkmenistan 700 Bengali Hinduism ● 5.00 % 0.00 % 1
Totals:  7,398 People Groups   3,274,207,000             68,953
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