Of Nigeria’s 529 people groups, 118 do not have Bible portions, the Jesus film, or gospel recordings available in their primary language, or 1,700,000 individuals. |
Of the 8,270 groups whose populations are under 10,000, the total number of individuals is less than 22,000,000. |
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 (802), followed by Indonesia with 374. |
Russia has 68 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 (2,776), followed by Central Asia (832). The South Pacific has the fewest at 45. |
South Asia has the most people groups (3,060), 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 (3,185) as any other region of the world. |
Southeast Asia has 624 languages (18,000,000 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 Brahman 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 (583, unreached population 494,000,000), then the Bengali (365, unreached population 344,000,000). |
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 Brahman of India, population 57,346,000. |
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 10,700,000 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 9,200,000 people. |
The largest Muslim people group is the Shaikh of Bangladesh, population 135,000,000. |
The largest people cluster is the Chinese (1,322,000,000), followed by the Hindi (496,000,000), and the Bengali (344,000,000). |
The Mandarin Chinese have a combined population of over 834,000,000 (all countries of residence). |
The median population of all people groups for which Joshua Project has population values is 10,564. The mean population is 438,218. |
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 218,000,000 (Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nepal). |
The Nai of India have 70 alternate names, and the Badhai also have 70 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 (297,000,000), followed by Brazil (201,000,000). |
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 159,000 in total, practice Zoroastrianism. |
There are 1,177 Christian majority people groups over 100,000 in size. |
There are 1,310 primarily Christian groups in the 10/40 Window, the largest being the Yoruba of Nigeria (31,000,000). |
There are 107 Buddhist majority people groups over 100,000 in size. |
There are 644 Hindu majority people groups over 100,000 in size. |
There are 877 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 (135,000,000). |
There are some 458,000 villages in India with no known Christian presence. |