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Criteria

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

7,414

% of World's
People Groups

42.5 %

Population

3,227,165,000

% of World Population

41.6 %

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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 Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Turk, Meskhetian Turkey 22,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Avar Turkmenistan 900 Avar Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Azerbaijani Turkmenistan 50,000 Azerbaijani, North Islam ● 0.50 % 0.20 % 1
Bashkir Turkmenistan 8,000 Bashkort Islam ● 3.00 % 1.00 % 1
South Asian, Bengali-speaking Turkmenistan 700 Bengali Hinduism ● 5.00 % 0.00 % 1
Brahui Turkmenistan 1,200 Brahui Islam ● 0.11 % 0.10 % 1
Chechen Turkmenistan 1,000 Chechen Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Tatar, Crimean Turkmenistan 1,700 Crimean Tatar Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Dargin Turkmenistan 3,000 Dargwa Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Karakalpak Turkmenistan 5,700 Karakalpak Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Kazakh Turkmenistan 29,000 Kazakh Islam ● 0.80 % 0.00 % 1
Kumyk Turkmenistan 600 Kumyk Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Kurd, Kurmanji Turkmenistan 50,000 Kurdish, Northern Islam ● 0.50 % 0.20 % 1
Kyrgyz Turkmenistan 1,400 Kyrgyz Islam ● 5.00 % 0.70 % 1
Lak Turkmenistan 4,500 Lak Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Lezgin Turkmenistan 18,000 Lezgi Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Uzbek, Northern Turkmenistan 422,000 Uzbek, Northern Islam ● 0.20 % 0.00 % 8
Pashtun, Northern Turkmenistan 10,000 Pashto, Northern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Persian Turkmenistan 16,000 Persian, Iranian Islam ● 0.50 % 0.20 % 1
Pashtun, Southern Turkmenistan 1,500 Pashto, Southern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Jew, Russian Turkmenistan 700 Russian Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Tabasaran Turkmenistan 600 Tabasaran Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Tajik Turkmenistan 10,000 Tajik Islam ● 1.00 % 0.10 % 1
Tatar Turkmenistan 82,000 Tatar Islam ● 0.75 % 0.10 % 2
Totals:  7,414 People Groups   3,227,165,000             68,298
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