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Criteria

Evangelicals <= 2%
Professing Christians > 5% and <= 50%
Progress Level
Progress Gauge

People Groups

1,123

% of World's
People Groups

6.4 %

Population

249,478,000

% of World Population

3.1 %

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Photo ▲ People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous
Deaf Benin 134,000 American Sign Language Christianity ● 39.89 % ●
Deaf Brunei 2,200 Language unknown Islam ● 11.39 % ●
Deaf Chad 177,000 Chadian Sign Language Islam ● 38.46 % ●
Deaf Sri Lanka 109,000 Sri Lankan Sign Language Buddhism ● 8.38 % ●
Deaf China 7,129,000 Chinese Sign Language Non-Religious ● 7.92 % ●
Deaf China, Hong Kong 15,000 Hong Kong Sign Language Ethnic Religions ● 12.41 % ●
Deaf Indonesia 2,066,000 Indonesian Sign Language Islam ● 15.85 % ●
Deaf India 10,629,000 Indian Sign Language Hinduism ● 5.84 % ●
Deaf Côte d'Ivoire 282,000 Language unknown Islam ● 33.64 % ●
Deaf Kyrgyzstan 50,000 Russian Sign Language Islam ● 5.27 % ●
Deaf Korea, South 104,000 Korean Sign Language Non-Religious ● 30.95 % ●
Deaf Kuwait 8,500 Language unknown Islam ● 13.79 % ●
Deaf Kosovo 12,000 Albanian Sign Language Islam ● 7.00 % ●
Deaf Kazakhstan 97,000 Language unknown Islam ● 12.15 % ●
Deaf Lebanon 27,000 Language unknown Islam ● 31.97 % ●
Deaf Liberia 53,000 American Sign Language Ethnic Religions ● 41.43 % ●
Deaf China, Macau 3,500 Hong Kong Sign Language Ethnic Religions ● 5.35 % ●
Deaf Mauritius 6,500 Mauritian Sign Language Hinduism ● 32.71 % ●
Deaf Malaysia 170,000 Malaysian Sign Language Islam ● 9.43 % ●
Deaf Mozambique 329,000 Mozambican Sign Language Christianity ● 46.48 % ●
Deaf Netherlands 35,000 Sign Language of the Netherlands Non-Religious ● 46.55 % ●
Deaf Suriname 3,100 Language unknown Christianity ● 49.57 % ●
Deaf Guinea-Bissau 21,000 Language unknown Islam ● 10.90 % ●
Deaf Qatar 5,400 Language unknown Islam ● 5.91 % ●
Deaf Saudi Arabia 182,000 Saudi Arabian Sign Language Islam ● 5.43 % ●
Totals:  1,123 People Groups   249,478,000            
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