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Criteria

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

7,425

% of World's
People Groups

42.6 %

Population

3,367,259,000

% 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 *
Nenets, Yurak Samoyed Russia 45,000 Nenets Ethnic Religions ● 4.00 % 0.67 % ● 1
Negedbeher, Weyto Ethiopia 2,200 Amharic Islam ● 4.40 % 0.67 % ● 1
Poussang Laos 2,800 Phunoi Ethnic Religions ● 0.69 % 0.69 % ● 1
South Asian, general United Arab Emirates 3,758,000 Hindi Hinduism ● 4.00 % 0.70 % 75
Arab, Iraqi Algeria 4,800 Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken Islam ● 0.70 % 0.70 % 1
Arab, Moroccan Andorra 600 Arabic, Moroccan Spoken Islam ● 1.00 % 0.70 % 1
Beja, Bedawi Sudan 2,428,000 Bedawiyet Islam ● 0.80 % 0.70 % ● 49
Boor Chad 300 Boor Islam ● 1.00 % 0.70 % ● 1
Burmese Korea, South 23,000 Burmese Buddhism ● 1.00 % 0.70 % 1
Kurd, Kurmanji Australia 4,600 Kurdish, Northern Islam ● 1.00 % 0.70 % 1
Kyrgyz Russia 105,000 Kyrgyz Islam ● 5.00 % 0.70 % 2
Kyrgyz Türkiye 27,000 Kyrgyz Islam ● 5.00 % 0.70 % 1
Kyrgyz Turkmenistan 1,500 Kyrgyz Islam ● 5.00 % 0.70 % 1
Kyrgyz Ukraine 900 Kyrgyz Islam ● 5.00 % 0.70 % 1
Ndengereko Tanzania 93,000 Ndengereko Islam ● 2.00 % 0.70 % ● 2
Nepali, general Myanmar (Burma) 293,000 Nepali Hinduism ● 1.00 % 0.70 % 6
Nepali, general New Zealand 2,900 Nepali Hinduism ● 1.00 % 0.70 % 1
Sino-Burmese Myanmar (Burma) 16,000 Burmese Buddhism ● 1.00 % 0.70 % ● 1
Selkup, Ostyak Samoyed Russia 3,700 Selkup Ethnic Religions ● 5.00 % 0.70 % ● 1
Asheninka, Pajonal Peru 15,000 Asheninka, Pajonal Ethnic Religions ● 0.74 % 0.70 % ● 1
Persian Australia 62,000 Persian, Iranian Islam ● 0.80 % 0.70 % 1
Swahili United Kingdom 15,000 Swahili Islam ● 2.00 % 0.70 % 1
Turkana Ethiopia 57,000 Turkana Ethnic Religions ● 3.00 % 0.70 % 1
Ulchi Russia 2,800 Ulch Ethnic Religions ● 4.00 % 0.70 % ● 1
Umm Heitan Sudan 30,000 Koalib Islam ● 2.00 % 0.70 % ● 1
Totals:  7,425 People Groups   3,367,259,000             70,747
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