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Criteria

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

7,403

% of World's
People Groups

42.5 %

Population

3,274,637,000

% 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 *
Sonar (Hindu traditions) India 7,772,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 155
Madiga (Hindu traditions) India 7,787,000 Telugu Hinduism ● 0.12 % ● 156
Kayastha (Hindu traditions) India 7,808,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.03 % ● 156
Pasi (Hindu traditions) India 7,818,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.08 % ● 156
Sayyid India 7,866,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 157
Koiri (Hindu traditions) India 8,156,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % ● 163
Kahar (Hindu traditions) India 8,162,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % ● 163
Shaikh Qureshi India 8,187,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 164
Koli of Gujarat India 8,310,000 Gujarati Hinduism ● 0.54 % ● 166
Adi Dravida India 8,598,000 Tamil Hinduism ☀ 0.09 % ● 172
Mappila India 8,761,000 Malayalam Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 175
Azerbaijani Azerbaijan 8,810,000 Azerbaijani, North Islam ● 0.40 % 0.22 % ● 176
Arab, North Iraqi Iraq 8,977,000 Arabic, North Mesopotamian Spoken Islam ● 0.70 % 0.20 % ● 180
Kurd, Kurmanji Turkey 9,035,000 Kurdish, Northern Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.00 % ● 181
Jat (Sikh traditions) India 9,102,000 Punjabi, Eastern Other / Small ☀ 0.02 % ● 182
Java Banyumasan Indonesia 9,235,000 Javanese Islam ● 2.50 % 0.20 % ● 185
Lohar (Hindu traditions) India 9,539,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.01 % ● 191
Mahar (Hindu traditions) India 9,548,000 Marathi Buddhism ● 0.13 % ● 191
Tujia China 9,824,000 Chinese, Mandarin Ethnic Religions ● 1.10 % 1.00 % ● 196
Arain (Muslim traditions) Pakistan 9,830,000 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 197
Pashtun, Southern Afghanistan 9,881,000 Pashto, Southern Islam ☀ 0.02 % 0.02 % ● 198
Mahishya India 9,931,000 Bengali Hinduism ● 0.36 % ● 199
Mali (Hindu traditions) India 10,050,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.01 % ● 201
Shaikh Pakistan 10,559,000 Sindhi Islam ☀ 0.00 % ● 211
Ansari India 10,700,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % ● 214
Totals:  7,403 People Groups   3,274,637,000             68,974
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