Denmark people groups, languages and religions

Country: Denmark

Number of People Groups

People Groups Unreached

24 (27.9%)

Progress Level

The Joshua Project Progress Scale is an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group, people cluster, country or language. The Progress Scale is derived from people group values for percent Evangelical and percent Christian Adherent.

Level	Description	Criteria
1	Unreached - Few evangelicals and few who identify as Christians. Little, if any, history of Christianity.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians <= 5%
2	Minimally reached - Few evangelicals, but significant number who identify as Christians.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 5% and <= 50%
3	Superficially reached - Few evangelicals, but many who identify as Christians. In great need of spiritual renewal and commitment to biblical faith.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 50%
4	Partially reached - Evangelicals have a modest presence.	Evangelicals > 2% and <= 10%
5	Significantly reached - Evangelicals have a significant presence.	Evangelicals > 10%

Total
Population

5,836,000

Population in Unreached

298,000 (5.1%)

Largest Religion

Christianity (81.5%)

% Christian Adherent

81.51%

% Evangelical

3.62%

Evangelical Annual Growth Rate

0.2%

(Global Rate = 2.6%)

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= Frontier peoples
People Group ▲	Population this Country	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Language	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Afghani, general	20,000	919,000		Dari	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Akan	1,900	5,921,000		Akan	Christianity	5 ●	74.00 %	29.00 %	-1 -
Albanian	1,400	5,064,000		Albanian, Gheg	Islam	1 ●	5.00 %	1.00 %	1
Algerian, Arabic-speaking	900	36,748,000		Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	1 ●	2.00 %	2.00 %	1
Americans, U.S.	12,000	196,885,000		English	Christianity	5 ●	75.00 %	28.90 %	-1 -
Amhara, Ethiopian	2,100	26,438,000		Amharic	Christianity	3 ●	86.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Anglo-Australian	3,000	18,622,000		English	Christianity	5 ●	71.00 %	16.00 %	-1 -
Anglo-Canadian	3,600	17,003,000		English	Christianity	5 ●	82.00 %	11.00 %	-1 -
Anglo-New Zealander	800	3,586,000		English	Christianity	5 ●	55.00 %	22.00 %	-1 -
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken	1,400	7,157,000		Arabic, Gulf Spoken	Islam	4 ●	6.00 %	4.00 %	-1 -
Arab, Egyptian	1,700	76,698,000		Arabic, Egyptian Spoken	Islam	4 ●	15.00 %	4.00 %	-1 -
Arab, Iraqi	35,000	18,639,000		Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken	Islam	1 ●	1.00 %	0.20 %	1
Arab, Jordanian	1,200	4,931,000		Arabic, Levantine	Islam	1 ●	3.00 %	0.30 %	1
Arab, Lebanese	31,000	6,330,000		Arabic, Levantine	Islam	2 ●	34.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Arab, Moroccan	6,000	29,810,000		Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	Islam	1 ●	0.60 %	0.30 %	1
Arab, Palestinian	21,000	11,442,000		Arabic, Levantine	Islam	2 ●	20.00 %	0.10 %	-1 -
Arab, Sudanese	700	18,763,000		Arabic, Sudanese Spoken	Islam	2 ●	10.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Arab, Syrian	45,000	19,465,000		Arabic, Levantine	Islam	2 ●	6.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Arab, Tunisian	900	11,936,000		Arabic, Tunisian Spoken	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Argentinian, White	1,200	36,355,000		Spanish	Christianity	5 ●	96.00 %	12.00 %	-1 -
Armenian	700	5,679,000		Armenian, Western	Christianity	4 ●	94.00 %	8.70 %	-1 -
Austrian, Bavarian	1,800	14,419,000		Bavarian	Christianity	3 ●	85.00 %	0.30 %	-1 -
Belarusian	700	9,095,000		Belarusian	Christianity	3 ●	70.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Bosniak	17,000	3,116,000		Bosnian	Islam	1 ●	0.40 %	0.10 %	1
Brazilian, White	7,000	102,539,000		Portuguese	Christianity	5 ●	90.00 %	29.00 %	-1 -
British	18,000	53,969,000		English	Christianity	4 ●	60.00 %	8.80 %	-1 -
Bulgarian	10,000	6,757,000		Bulgarian	Christianity	3 ●	80.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Burmese	1,900	31,960,000		Burmese	Buddhism	1 ●	2.00 %	2.00 %	1
Chilean	1,600	17,860,000		Spanish	Christianity	5 ●	90.00 %	18.00 %	-1 -
Chinese, general	13,000	15,879,000		Chinese, Mandarin	Non-Religious	4 ●	9.00 %	5.70 %	-1 -
Colombian, White	3,400	9,838,000		Spanish	Christianity	4 ●	94.00 %	6.00 %	-1 -
Croat	2,400	5,248,000		Croatian	Christianity	3 ●	92.00 %	0.40 %	-1 -
Czech	1,700	10,667,000		Czech	Non-Religious	4 ●	26.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Danish	5,030,000	5,276,000	●	Danish	Christianity	4 ●	88.00 %	3.60 %	-1 -
Danish Traveller	3,500	3,500	●	Danish	Christianity	3 ●	90.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Deaf	12,000	49,661,000	●	Danish Sign Language	Christianity	3 ●	85.29 %	-1	-1 -
Drukpa, Dzongkha	700	233,000		Dzongkha	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Dutch	7,000	13,830,000		Dutch	Non-Religious	4 ●	46.00 %	4.30 %	-1 -
Ecuadorian, White	600	1,777,000		Spanish	Christianity	4 ●	95.00 %	9.00 %	-1 -
Eskimo, Greenlander	7,600	53,000		Greenlandic	Christianity	4 ●	96.00 %	4.70 %	-1 -
Estonian	1,400	1,120,000		Estonian, Standard	Non-Religious	4 ●	40.00 %	6.00 %	-1 -
Faroe Islander	21,000	71,000	●	Faroese	Christianity	5 ●	91.00 %	28.80 %	-1 -
Filipino, Tagalog	11,000	40,521,000		Tagalog	Christianity	5 ●	95.00 %	12.30 %	-1 -
Finnish	3,700	5,688,000		Finnish	Christianity	5 ●	84.00 %	12.10 %	-1 -
Flemish	2,000	5,733,000		West Flemish	Christianity	3 ●	70.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
French	6,900	50,459,000		French	Christianity	3 ●	61.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
German	38,000	67,100,000		German, Standard	Christianity	4 ●	64.00 %	2.10 %	-1 -
German Swiss	2,600	4,922,000		German, Swiss	Christianity	4 ●	78.00 %	4.00 %	-1 -
Greek	3,400	10,478,000		Greek	Christianity	3 ●	95.00 %	0.25 %	-1 -
Hungarian, Magyar	5,500	12,208,000		Hungarian	Christianity	4 ●	85.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Icelander	3,000	420,000		Icelandic	Christianity	4 ●	91.00 %	3.80 %	-1 -
Irish	1,600	8,464,000		English	Christianity	3 ●	95.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Italian	9,200	37,702,000		Italian	Christianity	3 ●	82.00 %	1.10 %	-1 -
Iu Mien	8,300	1,680,000		Iu Mien	Ethnic Religions	1 ●	0.70 %	0.60 %	1
Japanese	1,800	119,869,000		Japanese	Buddhism	1 ●	3.00 %	0.50 %	1
Jewish, Danish	6,500	6,500	●	Danish	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Korean	1,200	81,888,000		Korean	Non-Religious	5 ●	28.00 %	16.00 %	-1 -
Kurd, Kurmanji	21,000	16,339,000		Kurdish, Northern	Islam	1 ●	0.50 %	0.40 %	1
Latvian	5,200	1,399,000		Latvian, Standard	Christianity	4 ●	54.00 %	8.00 %	-1 -
Lithuanian	13,000	2,796,000		Lithuanian	Christianity	3 ●	85.00 %	1.10 %	-1 -
Macedonian	3,700	1,955,000		Macedonian	Christianity	3 ●	66.00 %	0.20 %	-1 -
Malay	800	18,383,000		Malay	Islam	1 ●	1.00 %	1.00 %	1
Mexican	1,200	103,754,000		Spanish	Christianity	4 ●	96.00 %	10.00 %	-1 -
Norwegian	16,000	4,759,000		Norwegian	Christianity	4 ●	91.00 %	8.40 %	-1 -
Pashtun, Northern	12,000	40,328,000		Pashto, Northern	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Persian	17,000	46,297,000		Persian, Iranian	Islam	1 ●	2.00 %	0.20 %	1
Peruvian	1,100	26,208,000		Spanish	Christianity	5 ●	95.00 %	14.00 %	-1 -
Polish	42,000	45,420,000		Polish	Christianity	3 ●	90.00 %	0.30 %	-1 -
Portuguese	1,700	22,749,000		Portuguese	Christianity	4 ●	96.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Romani, Kalo Finnish	10,000	26,000		Romani, Kalo Finnish	Christianity	5 ●	65.00 %	12.00 %	-1 -
Romanian	31,000	21,659,000		Romanian	Christianity	4 ●	97.00 %	5.40 %	-1 -
Russian	6,500	135,461,000		Russian	Christianity	3 ●	67.00 %	1.20 %	-1 -
Serb	1,700	8,544,000		Serbian	Christianity	3 ●	80.00 %	0.60 %	-1 -
Sinhalese	7,100	400,000		Sinhala	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Slovak	3,000	5,355,000		Slovak	Christianity	3 ●	92.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Somali	11,000	26,240,000		Somali	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
South Asian, general	64,000	12,146,000		Urdu	Islam	1 ●	3.00 %	0.50 %	1
Spaniard	6,200	29,952,000		Spanish	Christianity	3 ●	77.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Swahili	1,100	1,183,000		Swahili	Islam	1 ●	1.00 %	1.00 %	1
Swedish	15,000	9,425,000		Swedish	Christianity	4 ●	65.00 %	6.90 %	-1 -
Thai	12,000	24,237,000		Thai	Buddhism	1 ●	2.00 %	0.30 %	1
Turk	34,000	67,115,000		Turkish	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Ukrainian	12,000	31,481,000		Ukrainian	Christianity	4 ●	79.00 %	3.80 %	-1 -
Urdu	15,000	2,146,000		Urdu	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Venezuelan	700	26,336,000		Spanish	Christianity	5 ●	85.00 %	12.00 %	-1 -
Vietnamese	9,800	86,363,000		Vietnamese	Buddhism	2 ●	10.00 %	1.80 %	-1 -
Totals: 86	5,836,000					24 ●	81.51 %	3.62 %	24
Unclassified / Other Individuals	75,000
UN Country Population (2023)	5,911,000

Other minor groups: 17

Denmark

Very small groups reported, but outside the Joshua Project Small Group Policy. Some may not be viable and/or have incorrect Progress Scale values, population, language and religion information. The groups listed below are not included in overall Joshua Project people group counts. If you have information about these groups, please contact us.

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People Group ▲	Progress Scale	Population	Primary Language	Primary Religion
Albanian, Tosk	3 ●	300	Albanian, Tosk	Islam
Arab, Gulf	1 ●	300	Arabic, Gulf Spoken	Islam
Arab, Libyan	1 ●	200	Arabic, Libyan Spoken	Islam
Arab, Northern Yemeni	1 ●	200	Arabic, Sanaani Spoken	Islam
Arab, Saudi - Najdi	1 ●	300	Arabic, Najdi Spoken	Islam
Azerbaijani, North	1 ●	300	Azerbaijani, North	Islam
Bolivian, Mestizo	5 ●	400	Spanish	Christianity
Creoles, Mauritian	5 ●	100	Morisyen	Christianity
Cuban, White	4 ●	500	Spanish	Christianity
Hutu, Rwandese	5 ●	400	Rwanda	Christianity
Kazakh	1 ●	200	Kazakh	Islam
Khmer, Central	4 ●	200	Khmer, Central	Buddhism
Luxemburger	4 ●	500	Luxembourgeois	Christianity
Moldavian	4 ●	400	Romanian	Christianity
Slovene	2 ●	300	Slovene	Christianity
Tigrai, Tigrinya	4 ●	400	Tigrigna	Christianity
Uzbek, Northern	1 ●	300	Uzbek, Northern	Islam
Totals: 17

For more information see the Joshua Project Small Group Policy

* An estimate of the number of pioneer workers needed for initial church planting among unreached people groups by country. Estimates are calculated only for unreached people groups and are based on ratio of 1 worker-unit (single person or married couple) per 50,000 living in an unreached people group by country, or for example one team of four worker-units per 200,000 people. Some workers may already be onsite. Many more workers are needed beyond this initial estimate.

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Province ▲	Estimated Population
Hovedstaden	1,807,000
Midtjylland	1,284,000
Nordjylland	576,000
Sjælland	816,000
Syddanmark	1,193,000
Provinces: 5	5,676,000
UN Country Population	5,911,000

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Language ▲	Code	# Peoples w/ this Primary Language	# Unreached w/ this Primary Language	Scripture Status	NT Text Online	NT Audio Online	Jesus Film Online	Audio Recordings Online	Gospel Tract Online
Akan	aka	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Albanian, Gheg	aln	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	1
Amharic	amh	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Arabic, Algerian Spoken	arq	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	1
Arabic, Egyptian Spoken	arz	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Arabic, Gulf Spoken	afb	1	0	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	1	1	1
Arabic, Levantine	apc	4	1	3 Bible Portions	-1	1	-1	1	1
Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken	acm	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	1
Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	ary	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	1
Arabic, Sudanese Spoken	apd	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	1
Arabic, Tunisian Spoken	aeb	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	-1	1	1	1
Armenian, Western	hyw	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Bavarian	bar	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	-1	1	-1
Belarusian	bel	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Bosnian	bos	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	1	1	1
Bulgarian	bul	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Burmese	mya	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Chinese, Mandarin	cmn	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Croatian	hrv	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Czech	ces	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Danish	dan	3	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Danish Sign Language	dsl	1	0	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Dari	prs	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Dutch	nld	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Dzongkha	dzo	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
English	eng	6	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Estonian, Standard	ekk	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	1	-1	1
Faroese	fao	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	-1	1
Finnish	fin	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
French	fra	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
German, Standard	deu	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
German, Swiss	gsw	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	-1	-1	1	-1
Greek	ell	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Greenlandic	kal	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Hungarian	hun	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Icelandic	isl	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Italian	ita	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Iu Mien	ium	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Japanese	jpn	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Korean	kor	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Kurdish, Northern	kmr	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Latvian, Standard	lvs	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Lithuanian	lit	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Macedonian	mkd	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Malay	zlm	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Norwegian	nor	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	-1	1
Pashto, Northern	pbu	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Persian, Iranian	pes	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Polish	pol	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Portuguese	por	2	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Romani, Kalo Finnish	rmf	1	0	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Romanian	ron	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Russian	rus	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Serbian	srp	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Sinhala	sin	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Slovak	slk	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Somali	som	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Spanish	spa	8	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Swahili	swh	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Swedish	swe	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Tagalog	tgl	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Thai	tha	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Turkish	tur	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Ukrainian	ukr	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Urdu	urd	2	2	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
Vietnamese	vie	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	1
West Flemish	vls	1	0	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	-1	1	-1
Totals:	67	86	24		0	57	61	62	55

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Denmark Statistics
People Groups	86
Unreached People Groups	24 (27.9%)
Population	5,836,000
Population Annual Growth Rate	0.4%
Population in Unreached	298,000 (5.1%)
Primary Religion	Christianity
Percent Christian Adherent	81.5%
Percent Evangelical	3.6%
Evangelical Annual Growth Rate	0.2%
Pioneer Workers Needed *	24
Country Progress Level	4 ●
Urbanization	88%
Continent	Europe
Region	Europe, Western
10/40 Window	No
Country Code	DA
Official Language(s)	Danish
Literacy Rate	99%
Estimated Illiterate Population	58,000
Persecution Ranking	Not ranked

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