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Frontier Peoples: 500,000 and above Overview

A Frontier People Group (FPG) is an Unreached People Group (UPG) with virtually no followers of Jesus and no known movements, still needing pioneer cross-cultural workers. Joshua Project approximates FPGs as 0.1% or fewer Christian Adherents and no confirmed, sustained movements to Jesus.

People Groups

500

Population

1,762,017,000

% of Unreached
People Groups

6.9 %

% of Unreached Population

51.9 %

% of World's
People Groups

2.9 %

% of World Population

22.0 %

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