1,366 people groups in the 10/40 Window have neither Scripture portions or the Jesus film available in their primary language, comprising 251,000,000 individuals. |
1,985 people groups reside in more than one country, summing to 6,033,000,000 individuals. |
10 of Sudan's 164 people groups have Christianity as their primary religion, and 131 have Islam as their primary religion. |
2,058,000,000 individuals live in people groups (4,841) with very few, if any, believers. |
2,597 people groups totaling 199,000,000 individuals have neither Scripture, the Jesus film, or Christian recordings available in their primary language. |
2,643 people groups in the world do not have Scripture portions or audio recordings available in their primary language, comprising 209,000,000 individuals. |
2,679 people groups in South Asia are least-reached, totaling 1,600,000,000 individuals. |
3/4 of the 25,000,000 Sikhs in India live in the state of Punjab. Nearly 3/4 of the 9,300,000 Buddhists in India live in the state of Maharashtra. |
337 of the 550 people groups in China do not have even Bible portions available in their primary language. |
35 of the 77 people groups in Afghanistan do not have even Bible portions available in their primary language. |
543 of Indonesia's 778 people groups do not have even Bible portions available in their primary language. The largest of these is the Betawi, 5,417,000. |
755 people groups in Central Asia are least-reached, totaling 447,000,000 individuals. |
9,414 people groups have the Jesus Film in their primary language, totaling 6,669,000,000 individuals. |
9,786 people groups have the New Testament available in their primary language, totaling 6,439,000,000 individuals. |
All but five small groups of Sri Lanka's 43 people groups have at least Bible portions available in their primary language. |
Census data indicates there are some 25,000,000 Sikhs in India, and 6,600,000 Jains. |
Central Asia has only 1,231,000 evangelicals, followed by the Middle East and North Africa (4,478,000) and Eastern Europe and Eurasia (10,263,000). |
China has the largest number of individuals whose primary language does not have Bible portions (195,000,000 individuals). |
East and Southern Africa is the least urbanized (31%) region of the world. (World Factbook 2011) |
Evangelicals are growing at an annual rate of 2.6%, compared to Islam at 1.9% and Hinduism at 1.2% (Operation World 2010) |
Five countries have more than 500 people groups, with India exceeding 2100. |
France has 32 Muslim people groups, the largest of which is the Algerians, with 1,278,000 people. |
Hindi is spoken as the primary language by 530 people groups, with English spoken by 500 and Bengali spoken by 375. |
If the India state of Uttar Pradesh were a country, it would be the 5th most populous in the world. (Operation World 2010). |
In 2011, 52% of the world's population was urban (World Factbook). |
India has 1,943 least-reached groups, followed by China (456), and Pakistan (384). |
India has the largest number of groups whose primary religion is Islam (354), followed by Pakistan with 308 and Indonesia with 242. |
Indonesia has the greatest population of Muslim groups (224,000,000), followed by Pakistan (190,000,000) and India (163,000,000). |
Indonesia has the most people groups (543) whose primary language does not have Bible portions, totaling nearly 40,000,000 individuals. |
Iran is the country with the fastest growing Evangelical population at 19.6% annual growth. (Operation World 2010). |
Nearly one third (2.2 billion individuals) of the earth's population reside in only 250 Least-Reached people groups. |
Nigeria has 357 people groups (20,000,000 individuals) whose primary language does not have Bible portions available. |
North America and the Caribbean have the most Evangelicals (100,500,000), followed by East and Southern Africa (100,100,000). (Operation World 2010) |
Northeast Asia has 156 languages (37,400,000 speakers) without scripture, Jesus film, Gospel recordings, or God's Story video. |
Northeast Asia has the highest number of individuals practicing Animism (68,500,000), followed by East and Southern Africa (47,000,000). (Operation World 2010) |
Of India's 2,160 people groups, 1,286 have populations over 10,000, the largest being a Muslim group, the Shaikh at 80,000,000. |
Of Iran's 95 people groups, all but nine are least-reached, and eight of these nine are expatriate groups. |
Of Nigeria's 538 people groups, 118 do not have Bible portions, the Jesus film, or gospel recordings available in their primary language, or 1,600,000 individuals. |
Of the 7,800 groups whose populations are under 10,000, the total number of individuals is less than 23,000,000. |
Only 60 people groups comprise 50% of the world's population. |
Papua New Guinea has the largest number of groups whose primary religion is Christianity (805), followed by Indonesia with 378. |
Russia has 64 Muslim people groups, the largest of which is the Tatars, with 5,250,000 people. |
Some 65-70% of the world's population live in religiously restrictive countries. |
South Asia has the most least-reached people groups (2,600), followed by Central Asia (755). The South Pacific has the fewest at 43. |
South Asia has the most people groups (2,880), followed by West and Central Africa (2,230), and the Middle East / North Africa has the least (590). |
South Asia including Pakistan has nearly four times as many unreached people groups (2,980) as any other region of the world. |
Southeast Asia has 600 languages (13,600,000 speakers) without scripture, Jesus film, Gospel recordings, or God's Story video. |
The 17th Edition of the Ethnologue indicates there are 7,105 languages in the world, including 906 which are dying. |
The four largest Least-Reached people groups are the Shaikh of Bangladesh, Japanese of Japan, the Shaikh of India, and the Yadav of India. |
The global annual growth rate of Christianity in general is 1.2%, but the growth rate of Evangelicals is 2.6% (Operation World 2010) |
The Gond of India speak 106 languages, and the Rajput speak 100. |
The Hindi people cluster has the greatest number of unreached groups (522, unreached population 499,000,000), then the Bengali (382, unreached population 350,000,000). |
The largest group without even Scripture portions in their primary language is the Jin Chinese of China, population 62,000,000. |
The largest Hindu group is the Hindu Yadav of India, population 60,600,000. |
The largest Least-Reached group in Central Asia without Scripture, Jesus film, or audio recordings is the Zaza-Dimli of Turkey, with 1,155,000 people. |
The largest Least-Reached group in Northeast Asia without Scripture, Jesus film, or audio recordings is the Guibian Zhuang of China, with 1,077,000 people. |
The largest Least-Reached group in Southeast Asia without Scripture, Jesus film, or audio recordings is the Kedah Malay of Malaysia, with 3,100,000 people. |
The largest Least-Reached group in the Middle East / North Africa without Scripture, Jesus film, or audio recordings are the Hijazi Arabs of Saudi Arabia, with 9,400,000 people. |
The largest Muslim people group is the Shaikh of Bangladesh, population 137,000,000. |
The largest people cluster is the Chinese (1,328,000,000), followed by the Hindi (500,000,000), and the Bengali (350,000,000). |
The Mandarin Chinese have a combined population of over 860,000,000 (all countries of residence). |
The median population of all people groups for which Joshua Project has population values is 11,740. The mean population is 457,160. |
The Mumbai district of Maharashtra state in India has over 10,000,000 residents, more than many countries of the world. |
The Muslim Shaikh have a combined population of over 229,000,000 (Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nepal). |
The Nai of India have 90 alternate names, and the Kalal have 85 alternate names. |
The top 10 countries with the largest Christian populations include all of the "BRIC" countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). (Operation World 2010) |
The United States has the largest population of groups whose primary religion is Christianity (299,000,000), followed by Brazil (203,000,000). |
The United States, China, Brazil and Nigeria have the greatest number of evangelicals according to Operation World 2010. Kenya has the highest percent evangelicals at 48.9%. |
The unreached Parsee, found in 12 countries with over 160,000 in total, practice Zoroastrianism. |
There are 1,186 Christian majority people groups over 100,000 in size. |
There are 108 Buddhist majority people groups over 100,000 in size. |
There are 644 Hindu majority people groups over 100,000 in size. |
There are 784 primarily Christian groups in the 10/40 Window, the largest being the Tagalog of the Philippines (29,600,000). |
There are 883 Muslim majority people groups over 100,000 in size. |
There are seven Least-Reached people groups each over 50,000,000 in population, the largest being the Shaikh of Bangladesh (136,500,000). |
There are some 458,000 villages in India with no known Christian presence. |