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Criteria

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

7,419

% of World's
People Groups

42.5 %

Population

3,275,303,000

% 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 *
Adi Dravida India 8,634,000 Tamil Hinduism ☀ 0.09 % ● 173
Mappila India 8,794,000 Malayalam Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 176
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
Baloch Pakistan 9,099,000 Balochi, Southern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 182
Jat (Sikh traditions) India 9,140,000 Punjabi, Eastern Other / Small ☀ 0.02 % ● 183
Java Banyumasan Indonesia 9,235,000 Javanese Islam ● 2.50 % 0.20 % ● 185
Lohar (Hindu traditions) India 9,535,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.01 % ● 191
Mahar (Hindu traditions) India 9,583,000 Marathi Buddhism ● 0.13 % ● 192
Tujia China 9,824,000 Chinese, Mandarin Ethnic Religions ● 1.10 % 1.00 % ● 196
Pashtun, Southern Afghanistan 9,881,000 Pashto, Southern Islam ☀ 0.02 % 0.02 % ● 198
Mahishya India 9,961,000 Bengali Hinduism ● 0.36 % ● 199
Mali (Hindu traditions) India 9,993,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.01 % ● 200
Ansari India 10,658,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % ● 213
Arab, Saudi - Hijazi Saudi Arabia 10,801,000 Arabic, Hijazi Spoken Islam ● 0.30 % 0.12 % ● 216
Afghan, Tajik Afghanistan 10,831,000 Dari Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % ● 217
Arab, Tunisian Tunisia 10,917,000 Arabic, Tunisian Spoken Islam ● 0.22 % 0.00 % ● 218
Pashtun, Pathan India 11,530,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % ● 231
Arain (Muslim traditions) Pakistan 11,534,000 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 231
Uyghur China 11,921,000 Uyghur Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % ● 238
Nai (Hindu traditions) India 11,960,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 239
Dhobi (Hindu traditions) India 12,019,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.02 % ● 240
Kazakh Kazakhstan 12,199,000 Kazakh Islam ● 0.10 % 0.07 % ● 244
Somali Somalia 12,430,000 Somali Islam ● 0.30 % 0.01 % ● 249
Totals:  7,419 People Groups   3,275,303,000             69,207
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