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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

3,367,673,000

% 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 *
South Asian, general Switzerland 76,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 5.00 % 1.50 % 2
South Asian, general United Kingdom 3,042,000 Hindi Hinduism ● 3.00 % 1.50 % 61
Yazidi United States 4,100 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ● 2.40 % 1.50 % 1
Arem Laos 800 Arem Ethnic Religions ● 1.60 % 1.52 % ● 1
Korean Korea, North 25,492,000 Korean Non-Religious ● 1.60 % 1.56 % ● 510
Jinuo, Buyuan China 1,600 Jinuo, Buyuan Ethnic Religions ● 2.00 % 1.59 % ● 1
Bambara Canada 3,600 Bamanankan Islam ● 4.00 % 1.60 % 1
Kogi Colombia 20,000 Kogi Ethnic Religions ● 1.60 % 1.60 % ● 1
Hausa Niger 13,100,000 Hausa Islam ● 2.00 % 1.60 % ● 262
Japanese Australia 60,000 Japanese Buddhism ● 5.00 % 1.60 % 1
Jew, English-speaking United States 4,573,000 English Ethnic Religions ● 2.70 % 1.60 % ● 91
Jotoni Burkina Faso 1,700 Jowulu Ethnic Religions ● 3.00 % 1.60 % 1
Khmer Laos 7,600 Khmer Buddhism ● 3.00 % 1.60 % 1
Khmer, Cambodian United States 260,000 Khmer Buddhism ● 3.00 % 1.60 % 5
Persian Belgium 13,000 Persian, Iranian Islam ● 2.00 % 1.60 % 1
Persian Iran 39,721,000 Persian, Iranian Islam ● 1.80 % 1.60 % ● 794
Hmong Bua China 68,000 Miao, Chuanqiandian Cluster Ethnic Religions ● 1.60 % 1.60 % ● 1
Azerbaijani, Azeri Turk Iran 17,427,000 Azerbaijani, South Islam ● 1.80 % 1.60 % ● 349
Lele Guinea 54,000 Lele Islam ● 5.00 % 1.62 % ● 1
Samadu, Eastern China 800 Chinese, Mandarin Ethnic Religions ● 2.00 % 1.63 % ● 1
Lua Thailand 7,200 Language unknown Ethnic Religions ● 4.00 % 1.67 % ● 1
Mazanderani, Tabri Iran 2,550,000 Mazandarani Islam ● 1.67 % 1.67 % ● 51
Thai Thailand 23,214,000 Thai Buddhism ● 2.00 % 1.70 % ● 464
Dzakhchin, Zahchin Mongolia 39,000 Mongolian, Halh Buddhism ● 2.00 % 1.70 % ● 1
Khmer United Kingdom 11,000 Khmer Buddhism ● 3.20 % 1.70 % 1
Totals:  7,425 People Groups   3,367,673,000             70,754
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