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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

3,395,949,000

% of World Population

42.4 %

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Photo People Group Country ▼ Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous Est. Workers
Needed *
Nair Sri Lanka 4,200 Tamil Hinduism ● 0.51 % ● 1
Nadar (Hindu traditions) Sri Lanka 26,000 Tamil Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Rajput (Muslim traditions) Sri Lanka 1,500 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Mukkuvan (Hindu traditions) Sri Lanka 1,100 Tamil Hinduism ● 2.78 % ● 1
Jat (Muslim traditions) Sri Lanka 1,800 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Memon Sri Lanka 2,100 Gujarati Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Mappila Sri Lanka 11,000 Malayalam Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Divehi Sri Lanka 2,000 Maldivian Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Mahishya Sri Lanka 600 Bengali Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Lohar (Hindu traditions) Sri Lanka 900 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Kuravan (Hindu traditions) Sri Lanka 4,100 Tamil Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Javanese Sri Lanka 8,800 Javanese Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Ilavan Sri Lanka 71,000 Tamil Hinduism ☀ 0.09 % ● 1
Hakki Pikki Sri Lanka 1,200 Telugu Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Dhobi (Hindu traditions) Sri Lanka 11,000 Tamil Hinduism ● 1.22 % ● 1
Chakkiliyan (Hindu traditions) Sri Lanka 28,000 Tamil Hinduism ● 0.12 % ● 1
Brahmin unspecified Sri Lanka 4,400 Tamil Hinduism ● 0.22 % ● 1
Bohra Sri Lanka 2,000 Gujarati Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Bharathar (Hindu traditions) Sri Lanka 400 Tamil Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Bania unspecified Sri Lanka 9,700 Tamil Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Banjara (Hindu traditions) Sri Lanka 800 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Arain (Muslim traditions) Sri Lanka 600 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Ansari Sri Lanka 1,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yadav (Hindu traditions) Sri Lanka 7,500 Tamil Hinduism ● 0.85 % ● 1
Adi Andhra Sri Lanka 800 Telugu Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Totals:  7,398 People Groups   3,395,949,000             71,298
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