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Criteria

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

People Groups

7,414

% of World's
People Groups

42.5 %

Population

3,343,532,000

% of World Population

42.3 %

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Photo People Group ▲ Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous Est. Workers
Needed *
Arab Tanzania 278,000 Swahili Islam ● 5.00 % 0.60 % 6
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken United States 20,000 Arabic, Gulf Spoken Islam ● 4.00 % 2.00 % 1
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken Yemen 16,000 Arabic, Gulf Spoken Islam ● 0.60 % 0.20 % 1
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken Canada 79,000 Arabic, Gulf Spoken Islam ● 1.90 % 0.80 % 2
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken Egypt 1,758,000 Arabic, Gulf Spoken Islam ● 1.10 % 0.00 % 35
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken Iran 284,000 Arabic, Gulf Spoken Islam ● 1.20 % 0.10 % 6
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken Iraq 82,000 Arabic, Gulf Spoken Islam ● 0.90 % 0.10 % 2
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken Kuwait 1,380,000 Arabic, Gulf Spoken Islam ● 2.00 % 0.53 % ● 28
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken Oman 853,000 Arabic, Gulf Spoken Islam ● 0.35 % 0.30 % 17
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken Qatar 584,000 Arabic, Gulf Spoken Islam ● 0.50 % 0.08 % ● 12
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken Saudi Arabia 1,023,000 Arabic, Gulf Spoken Islam ● 0.20 % 0.10 % ● 20
Arab, Bahraini Bahrain 924,000 Arabic, Baharna Spoken Islam ● 3.40 % 0.90 % ● 18
Arab, Bahraini Oman 19,000 Arabic, Baharna Spoken Islam ● 3.00 % 1.00 % 1
Arab, Bedouin Jordan 1,395,000 Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % ● 28
Arab, Bedouin Saudi Arabia 1,360,000 Arabic, Najdi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.09 % 0.08 % ● 27
Arab, Cyrenaican Libya 1,493,000 Arabic, Libyan Spoken Islam ☀ 0.10 % 0.03 % ● 30
Arab, Dhofari Oman 136,000 Arabic, Dhofari Spoken Islam ● 0.45 % 0.40 % ● 3
Arab, Egyptian Yemen 16,000 Arabic, Egyptian Spoken Islam ● 2.00 % 1.00 % 1
Arab, Emirati United Arab Emirates 1,164,000 Arabic, Gulf Spoken Islam ● 0.40 % 0.30 % ● 23
Arab, general Australia 71,000 Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken Islam ● 0.50 % 0.30 % 1
Arab, general Hungary 5,100 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ● 4.00 % 0.50 % 1
Arab, general Indonesia 286,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ● 4.00 % 0.10 % ● 6
Arab, general Italy 1,235,000 Arabic, Libyan Spoken Islam ● 0.30 % 0.06 % 25
Arab, Hadrami Kenya 13,000 Arabic, Hadrami Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Arab, Hadrami Yemen 1,990,000 Arabic, Hadrami Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 40
Totals:  7,414 People Groups   3,343,532,000             70,266
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