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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

249,483,000

% of World Population

3.1 %

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Photo People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical ▼		 Indigenous
Panna Sri Lanka 33,000 Tamil Hinduism ● 16.38 % ●
Pannikki Sri Lanka 250,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 6.62 % ●
Paraiyar Sri Lanka 72,000 Tamil Hinduism ● 15.03 % ●
Porowakara Sri Lanka 61,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 5.08 % ●
Radava Sri Lanka 374,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 7.36 % ●
Rajaka Sri Lanka 154,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 7.03 % ●
Salagama Sri Lanka 320,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 12.16 % ●
Sinhalese Sri Lanka 189,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 6.81 % ●
Sri Lankan Tamil Sri Lanka 9,600 Tamil Hinduism ● 37.72 % ●
Tattar Sri Lanka 6,000 Tamil Hinduism ● 12.06 % ●
Thacher Sri Lanka 3,200 Tamil Hinduism ● 9.83 % ●
Thanakavar Sri Lanka 2,500 Tamil Hinduism ● 9.53 % ●
Thimilar Sri Lanka 22,000 Tamil Hinduism ● 15.42 % ●
Vannar Sri Lanka 17,000 Tamil Hinduism ● 14.49 % ●
Vanniyar Sri Lanka 103,000 Tamil Hinduism ● 15.46 % ●
Vellalar Sri Lanka 1,205,000 Tamil Hinduism ● 14.80 % ●
Vettar Sri Lanka 3,100 Tamil Hinduism ● 8.86 % ●
Wahumpura Sri Lanka 8,422,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 7.01 % ●
Gauda, tribe India 127,000 Konkani Hinduism ● 42.89 % ●
Kunbi, tribe India 5,300 Konkani Hinduism ● 30.54 % ●
Lodha (Hindu traditions, tribal) India 153,000 Bengali Hinduism ● 11.07 % ●
Laleng (Patra) Bangladesh 8,500 Language unknown Hinduism ● 11.19 % ●
Ndwewe Tanzania 32,000 Ndwewe Christianity ● 48.00 % ●
Totals:  1,123 People Groups   249,483,000            
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