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Criteria

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

7,186

% of World's
People Groups

41.6 %

Population

3,424,947,000

% of World Population

42.4 %

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Photo People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous Est. Workers
Needed *
Lingayat India 3,867,000 Kannada Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.01 % ● 77
Gaaliin Sudan 3,945,000 Arabic, Sudanese Islam ● 4.10 % 0.80 % ● 79
Kumhar (Muslim traditions) Pakistan 4,022,000 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 80
Bairagi (Hindu traditions) India 4,056,000 Bengali Hinduism ☀︎ 0.00 % ● 81
Acehnese Indonesia 4,057,000 Aceh Islam ● 0.12 % 0.01 % ● 81
Kapu Reddi India 4,059,000 Telugu Hinduism ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 81
Moor Mauritania 4,061,000 Hassaniyya Islam ● 0.10 % 0.10 % ● 81
Vaddar (Hindu traditions) India 4,097,000 Telugu Hinduism ☀︎ 0.06 % 0.03 % ● 82
Oromo, Jima Ethiopia 4,112,000 Oromo, West Central Islam ● 2.00 % 1.30 % ● 82
Pashtun, Southeast Afghanistan 4,120,000 Pashto, Southern Islam ☀︎ 0.01 % 0.01 % ● 82
Balinese Indonesia 4,234,000 Bali (Indonesia) Hinduism ● 1.26 % 0.15 % ● 85
Naikda India 4,288,000 Kannada Hinduism ☀︎ 0.08 % ● 86
Kurd, Southern Iran 4,310,000 Kurdish, Southern Islam ● 0.14 % 0.14 % ● 86
Han Chinese, Hakka Taiwan 4,323,000 Chinese, Hakka Ethnic Religions ● 2.10 % 0.42 % ● 86
Namassej (Hindu traditions) India 4,371,000 Bengali Hinduism ● 0.48 % ● 87
Banjar Indonesia 4,452,000 Banjar Islam ☀︎ 0.09 % 0.04 % ● 89
Megh (Hindu traditions) India 4,454,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀︎ 0.02 % ● 89
Boya India 4,518,000 Telugu Hinduism ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 90
Arora (Hindu traditions) India 4,532,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀︎ 0.00 % ● 91
Pashtun, Northern Afghanistan 4,539,000 Pashto, Northern Islam ☀︎ 0.01 % 0.01 % ● 91
Tai Man, Shan Myanmar (Burma) 4,569,000 Shan Buddhism ● 0.90 % 0.82 % ● 91
Jewish, English-speaking United States 4,620,000 English Ethnic Religions ● 2.70 % 1.60 % ● 92
Kuruba India 4,689,000 Kannada Hinduism ● 1.04 % ● 94
Tatar Russia 4,698,000 Tatar Islam ● 3.00 % 0.49 % ● 94
Arab, Jordanian Jordan 4,737,000 Arabic, Levantine Islam ● 2.50 % 0.30 % ● 95
Totals:  7,186 People Groups   3,424,947,000             71,685
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