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Criteria

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

7,402

% of World's
People Groups

42.5 %

Population

3,274,459,000

% 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 *
Mru Bangladesh 69,000 Mru Buddhism ● 3.94 % ● 1
Abkhaz Syria 5,100 Abkhaz Islam ● 4.00 % 1.00 % 1
Kotoko, Afade Cameroon 7,600 Afade Islam ● 4.00 % 0.60 % ● 1
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken United States 20,000 Arabic, Gulf Spoken Islam ● 4.00 % 2.00 % 1
Asu Nigeria 9,800 Asu Islam ● 4.00 % 0.01 % ● 1
Ayamaru, Brat Indonesia 33,000 Mai Brat Ethnic Religions ● 4.00 % 1.80 % ● 1
Bajau Bukit, Papar Malaysia 2,000 Malay Islam ● 4.00 % 2.00 % ● 1
Bambara Canada 3,500 Bamanankan Islam ● 4.00 % 1.60 % 1
Bambara Mali 6,206,000 Bamanankan Islam ● 4.00 % 1.10 % ● 124
Bambara Niger 52,000 Bamanankan Islam ● 4.00 % 1.80 % 1
Bambara Burkina Faso 6,900 Bamanankan Islam ● 4.00 % 1.80 % 1
Temne-Banta Sierra Leone 72,000 Themne Islam ● 4.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Banyun Gambia 5,000 Bainouk-Gunyaamolo Islam ● 4.00 % 0.20 % 1
Barke, Burkanawa Nigeria 22,000 Mburku Ethnic Religions ● 4.00 % 0.75 % ● 1
Bashkir Belarus 1,200 Bashkort Islam ● 4.00 % 0.50 % 1
Bashkir Russia 1,616,000 Bashkort Islam ● 4.00 % 1.10 % ● 32
Bashkir Uzbekistan 48,000 Bashkort Islam ● 4.00 % 0.50 % 1
South Asian, Bengali-speaking Italy 93,000 Bengali Islam ● 4.00 % 0.20 % 2
South Asian, Bengali-speaking Mauritius 7,200 Bengali Islam ● 4.00 % 0.00 % 1
Bondoukou Kulango Côte d'Ivoire 147,000 Kulango, Bondoukou Ethnic Religions ● 4.00 % 0.50 % ● 3
Kulango, Bouna Côte d'Ivoire 271,000 Kulango, Bouna Ethnic Religions ● 4.00 % 0.80 % ● 5
Bukat Indonesia 800 Bukat Ethnic Religions ● 4.00 % 0.60 % ● 1
Bulango, Bulanga-Uki Indonesia 24,000 Bolango Islam ● 4.00 % 1.00 % ● 1
Busoa Indonesia 3,100 Busoa Islam ● 4.00 % 1.50 % ● 1
Chukchi Russia 16,000 Chukchi Ethnic Religions ● 4.00 % 1.25 % ● 1
Totals:  7,402 People Groups   3,274,459,000             68,966
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