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Criteria

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

People Groups

7,386

% of World's
People Groups

42.3 %

Population

3,399,669,000

% of World Population

42.5 %

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Photo People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical ▲		 Indigenous Est. Workers
Needed *
Deaf Djibouti 11,000 Language unknown Islam ● 1.75 % ● 1
Deaf Gambia 28,000 Language unknown Islam ● 4.48 % ● 1
Deaf Guinea 142,000 Guinean Sign Language Islam ● 4.47 % ● 3
Deaf Iran 446,000 Iranian Sign Language Islam ● 0.51 % ● 9
Deaf Israel 18,000 Israeli Sign Language Ethnic Religions ● 2.04 % ● 1
Deaf Iraq 341,000 Language unknown Islam ● 1.59 % ● 7
Deaf Japan 247,000 Japanese Sign Language Buddhism ● 1.54 % ● 5
Deaf Jordan 57,000 Jordanian Sign Language Islam ● 2.24 % ● 1
Deaf Korea, North 262,000 Language unknown Non-Religious ● 1.48 % ● 5
Deaf Laos 76,000 Laos Sign Language Buddhism ● 3.38 % ● 2
Deaf Libya 34,000 Libyan Sign Language Islam ● 2.64 % ● 1
Deaf Mayotte 3,400 Language unknown Islam ● 1.64 % ● 1
Deaf Mongolia 17,000 Mongolian Sign Language Buddhism ● 1.72 % ● 1
Deaf Mali 233,000 Tebul Sign Language Islam ● 2.64 % ● 5
Deaf Morocco 284,000 Moroccan Sign Language Islam ☀ 0.09 % ● 6
Deaf Mauritania 49,000 Language unknown Islam ● 0.25 % ● 1
Deaf Oman 23,000 Language unknown Islam ● 2.76 % ● 1
Deaf Maldives 2,500 Language unknown Islam ● 0.17 % ● 1
Deaf Niger 272,000 Language unknown Islam ● 0.33 % ● 5
Deaf Nepal 231,000 Nepalese Sign Language Hinduism ● 2.85 % ● 5
Deaf Pakistan 1,798,000 Pakistan Sign Language Islam ● 2.45 % ● 36
Deaf Somalia 181,000 Language unknown Islam ● 0.33 % ● 4
Deaf Sudan 481,000 Language unknown Islam ● 5.00 % ● 10
Deaf Thailand 359,000 Thai Sign Language Buddhism ● 1.10 % ● 7
Deaf Tajikistan 82,000 Language unknown Islam ● 1.04 % ● 2
Totals:  7,386 People Groups   3,399,669,000             71,359
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