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Criteria

Evangelicals <= 2%
Professing Christians <= 5%
Progress Level
Progress Gauge

People Groups

7,398

% of World's
People Groups

42.5 %

Population

3,275,114,000

% 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 *
Gurani, Hawrami Iran 215,000 Gurani Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 4
Gourma Nigeria 41,000 Gourmanchema Ethnic Religions ● 5.00 % 0.40 % 1
Arab, Hadrami Kenya 13,000 Arabic, Hadrami Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Han Chinese, Mandarin Bangladesh 6,900 Chinese, Mandarin Buddhism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Han Chinese, Mandarin Myanmar (Burma) 986,000 Chinese, Mandarin Buddhism ● 2.00 % 1.40 % 20
Han Chinese, Hakka Thailand 79,000 Chinese, Hakka Buddhism ● 5.00 % 2.00 % 2
Han Chinese, Teochew Cambodia 185,000 Chinese, Min Nan Ethnic Religions ● 1.40 % 0.40 % 4
Han Chinese, Cantonese Myanmar (Burma) 75,000 Chinese, Yue Buddhism ● 2.00 % 1.30 % 1
Han Chinese, Cantonese Cambodia 23,000 Chinese, Yue Ethnic Religions ● 1.00 % 0.40 % 1
Han Chinese, Hainanese Cambodia 14,000 Chinese, Min Nan Ethnic Religions ● 1.00 % 0.40 % 1
Han Chinese, Hakka Myanmar (Burma) 22,000 Chinese, Hakka Buddhism ● 3.00 % 1.40 % 1
Han Chinese, Hakka Canada 5,900 Chinese, Hakka Ethnic Religions ● 2.10 % 2.00 % 1
Han Chinese, Hakka Cambodia 600 Chinese, Hakka Ethnic Religions ● 1.20 % 0.55 % 1
Han Chinese, Cantonese Thailand 40,000 Chinese, Yue Buddhism ● 5.00 % 2.00 % 1
Hani Laos 800 Hani Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Hani Vietnam 26,000 Hani Ethnic Religions ● 0.50 % 0.01 % 1
Hausa Algeria 12,000 Hausa Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Hausa Benin 1,114,000 Hausa Islam ● 0.10 % 0.05 % 22
Hausa Chad 316,000 Hausa Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % 6
Hausa Congo, Republic of the 12,000 Hausa Islam ☀ 0.09 % 0.04 % 1
Hausa Cameroon 402,000 Hausa Islam ● 0.10 % 0.08 % 8
Hausa Central African Republic 35,000 Hausa Islam ☀ 0.08 % 0.06 % 1
Hausa Equatorial Guinea 29,000 Hausa Islam ☀ 0.10 % 0.03 % 1
Hausa Gambia 12,000 Hausa Islam ● 0.50 % 0.20 % 1
Hausa Gabon 16,000 Hausa Islam ● 0.50 % 0.10 % 1
Totals:  7,398 People Groups   3,275,114,000             68,979
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