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Religion: Islam What is Primary Religion?

Population of Adherents

1,859,412,000

% of World Population

24.0 %

People Groups

3,762

Unreached Groups

3,222 (85.6 %)

Map Notes
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Photo People Group Country ▲ Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherent 		%
Evangelical 		Scripture
Status 		Est. Workers
Needed *
Bedouin, Levantine Syria 77,000 Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.00 % Bible Portions 2
Aramaic, West Syria 19,000 Western Neo-Aramaic Islam ● 40.00 % 0.10 % Unspecified -
Ossetic Syria 54,000 Ossetic Islam ● 30.00 % 0.10 % Complete Bible -
Arab, Palestinian Syria 18,000 Arabic, South Levantine Spoken Islam ● 3.00 % 0.50 % Bible Portions 1
Persian Syria 54,000 Persian, Iranian Islam ● 0.50 % 0.20 % Complete Bible 1
Arab, Syrian Syria 11,172,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ● 6.00 % 0.16 % Bible Portions -
Alawite Syria 1,261,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ☀ 0.02 % 0.02 % Bible Portions 25
Azerbaijani Syria 35,000 Azerbaijani, South Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 1
Deaf Syria 174,000 Language unknown Islam ● 6.34 % Unspecified -
Arab, North Iraqi Syria 350,000 Arabic, North Mesopotamian Spoken Islam ● 0.70 % 0.20 % New Testament 7
Turkmen, Middle-Eastern Syria 285,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 6
Hui Taiwan 57,000 Chinese, Mandarin Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 1
Malay Taiwan 21,000 Malay Islam ● 0.50 % 0.30 % Complete Bible 1
Indonesian Taiwan 256,000 Indonesian Islam ● 14.00 % 5.00 % Complete Bible -
Bashkir Tajikistan 8,400 Bashkort Islam ● 3.00 % 1.00 % New Testament 1
Romani, Domari Tajikistan 3,100 Russian Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 1
Hazara Tajikistan 1,700 Hazaragi Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Bible Portions 1
Kazakh Tajikistan 800 Kazakh Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 1
Kyrgyz Tajikistan 70,000 Kyrgyz Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 1
Lak Tajikistan 2,100 Lak Islam ● 1.00 % 0.80 % Bible Portions 1
Uzbek, Northern Tajikistan 1,123,000 Uzbek, Northern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 22
Pashtun Tajikistan 4,800 Pashto, Northern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 1
Parya Tajikistan 4,500 Parya Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Unspecified 1
Pashtun, Southern Tajikistan 33,000 Pashto, Southern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Bible Portions 1
Persian Tajikistan 600 Persian, Iranian Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 1
Totals: 3,762 Peoples   1,859,412,000     3,222 ●       33,463
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