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Criteria

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

7,151

% of World's
People Groups

41.8 %

Population

3,188,270,000

% of World Population

41.6 %

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Photo People Group Country Population ▼ Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous Est. Workers
Needed *
Somali Somalia 10,859,000 Somali Islam ● 0.30 % 0.01 % ● 217
Ansari India 10,711,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % ● 214
Arab, Tunisian Tunisia 10,697,000 Arabic, Tunisian Spoken Islam ● 0.22 % 0.00 % ● 214
Afghan, Tajik Afghanistan 10,246,000 Dari Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % ● 205
Mahishya India 9,986,000 Bengali Hinduism ● 0.35 % ● 200
Mali (Hindu traditions) India 9,962,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % ● 199
Tujia China 9,753,000 Chinese, Mandarin Ethnic Religions ● 1.10 % 1.00 % ● 195
Mahar (Hindu traditions) India 9,712,000 Marathi Hinduism ● 0.13 % ● 194
Lohar (Hindu traditions) India 9,490,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.01 % ● 190
Jat (Sikh traditions) India 9,444,000 Punjabi, Eastern Other / Small ☀ 0.02 % ● 189
Pashtun, Southern Afghanistan 9,338,000 Pashto, Southern Islam ☀ 0.02 % 0.02 % ● 187
Mappila India 9,246,000 Malayalam Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 185
Java Banyumasan Indonesia 9,043,000 Javanese Islam ● 2.50 % 0.20 % ● 181
Azerbaijani Azerbaijan 8,839,000 Azerbaijani, North Islam ● 0.40 % 0.22 % ● 177
Kurd, Kurmanji Turkey 8,814,000 Kurdish, Northern Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.00 % ● 176
Adi Dravida India 8,696,000 Tamil Hinduism ☀ 0.08 % ● 174
Arab, North Iraqi Iraq 8,470,000 Arabic, North Mesopotamian Spoken Islam ● 0.70 % 0.20 % ● 169
Koli India 8,387,000 Gujarati Hinduism ● 0.54 % ● 168
Koiri (Hindu traditions) India 8,272,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % ● 165
Kahar (Hindu traditions) India 8,205,000 Hindi Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % ● 164
Baloch Pakistan 8,202,000 Balochi, Southern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 164
Shaikh Qureshi India 8,175,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 163
Sayyid Pakistan 8,149,000 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 163
Sayyid India 7,935,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 159
Madiga (Hindu traditions) India 7,873,000 Telugu Hinduism ● 0.12 % ● 157
Totals:  7,151 People Groups   3,188,270,000             67,401
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