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Population of Groups Speaking

13,099,000

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People Group ▲	Country	Country Population	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Afghan, Tajik	Afghanistan	10,831,000	11,237,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.01 %	0.01 %	217
Afghan, Tajik	Iran	405,000	11,237,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.01 %	0.01 %	8
Afghan, Tajik	Kazakhstan	800	11,237,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Afghani, general	Australia	27,000	727,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Afghani, general	Austria	44,000	727,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Afghani, general	Belgium	26,000	727,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Afghani, general	Canada	59,000	727,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Afghani, general	Denmark	20,000	727,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Afghani, general	Germany	297,000	727,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.04 %	0.03 %	6
Afghani, general	Netherlands	52,000	727,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Afghani, general	New Zealand	3,600	727,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Afghani, general	Switzerland	19,000	727,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Afghani, general	United Kingdom	79,000	727,000		Islam	1 ●	0.40 %	0.40 %	2
Afghani, general	United States	100,000	727,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	2
Darwazi, Badakhshani	Afghanistan	16,000	16,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Moghal	Afghanistan	2,300	2,900,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Nuristani, Malakhel	Afghanistan	3,300	3,300	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Pahlavani	Afghanistan	3,800	3,800	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Parsee	Afghanistan	2,400	153,000	●	Other / Small	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Qizilbash	Pakistan	4,300	310,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Qizilbash	Afghanistan	306,000	310,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	6
Tajik	Pakistan	781,000	10,080,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	16
Tangshuri	Afghanistan	16,000	16,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Totals: 23						23 ●			273

* 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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People Group ▲	Country	Population	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Afshari	Afghanistan	15,000	398,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.04 %	0.04 %	1
Aimaq	Pakistan	5,300	2,129,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Arab, Tajiki	Afghanistan	18,000	20,000		Islam	1 ●	0.20 %	0.20 %	1
Baloch	Pakistan	7,380,000	7,439,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	148
Baloch Dashti	Pakistan	51,000	51,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Baloch Mengal	Pakistan	221,000	221,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	4
Baloch Mohammad Shahi	Pakistan	17,000	17,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Baloch Mollazehi	Pakistan	1,600	1,600	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Baloch Mullazai	Pakistan	71,000	71,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Baloch Nohani	Pakistan	13,000	13,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Baloch Nothazai	Pakistan	10,000	10,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Baloch Rais	Pakistan	87,000	87,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	2
Baloch Rakhshani	Pakistan	394,000	394,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	8
Baloch Rind	Pakistan	1,131,000	1,131,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	23
Baloch Sadozai (Sardaar Zai Rind)	Pakistan	6,100	6,100	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Baloch Sangur	Pakistan	123,000	123,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	2
Baloch Yarahmadzai	Pakistan	3,200	3,200	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Barech	Pakistan	2,800	2,800	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Hazara	Pakistan	217,000	4,754,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	4
Hazara Jaghuri	Pakistan	27,000	27,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Irular	India	225,000	225,000	●	Hinduism	1 ●	0.31 %	-1	4
Nuristani, Narisati	Pakistan	36,000	184,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Parsee	Pakistan	6,400	153,000	●	Other / Small	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Pashayi	Pakistan	22,000	70,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Pashtun Bangash	Pakistan	311,000	371,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	6
Pashtun Dawesh Khel (Wazir)	Pakistan	119,000	119,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	2
Pashtun Khostwal	Pakistan	142,000	142,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	3
Pashtun Shinwari	Pakistan	109,000	109,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	2
Pashtun Tajik	Pakistan	18,000	18,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Pashtun Tirahi	Pakistan	23,000	23,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Persian	Pakistan	11,000	42,533,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Sayyid	Bangladesh	1,196,000	14,530,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	24
Sayyid	India	7,866,000	14,530,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	157
Shaikh	India	85,886,000	223,464,000	●	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	-1	1718
Turkmen	Pakistan	133,000	8,047,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	3
Uzbek	Pakistan	230,000	31,315,000		Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	5
Totals: 36						36 ●			2,134

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Item	Value
Status	Living
Ethnologue Code	prs
Written	Yes
Bible Translation	Complete Bible
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Language Alternate Names
Afghan Persian
Badakhshi
East Farsi
Eastern Farsi
Farsi
Madaglashti
Parsi
Persian
Tajik
Tajiki
Tangshew (Tangshuri)
Tangshuri

Dialects
Darwazi
Parsiwan
Tangshew
Tangshiui

Dialect Alternate Names
Tangshewi
Tangshuri
Tanshiui

Bible Translation	Year / Status
Bible Portions	1974
New Testament	1982-1985
Complete Bible	2008

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Format ▲	Resource
Audio Recordings	Audio Bible teaching (Global Recordings Network)
Audio Recordings	Father's Love Letter
Audio Recordings	Father's Love Letter
Audio Recordings	Online New Testament (Faith Comes By Hearing)
Audio Recordings	Story of Jesus audio (Jesus Film Project)
Audio Recordings	StoryRunners Oral Bible Stories
Film / Video	God's Love Story
Film / Video	God's Story Video
Film / Video	Indigitube.tv Video / Animation
Film / Video	Jesus Film: view in Dari
Film / Video	LUMO film of Gospels
Film / Video	Magdalena (Jesus Film Project)
Film / Video	Rivka (Jesus Film Project)
Film / Video	The Prophets' Story
Film / Video	The Savior 3 - Woman at the Well
Film / Video	The Savior 7 - Golgotha
General	Four Spiritual Laws
General	Gospel resources links (Scripture Earth)
Mobile App	Download audio Bible app as APK file from Faith Comes By Hearing
Mobile App	Download audio Bible app as APK file from Faith Comes By Hearing
Mobile App	Download audio Bible app from Google Play Store
Text / Printed Matter	Bible Gateway Scripture
Text / Printed Matter	Bible: Today's Dari Version
Text / Printed Matter	World Missionary Press Booklets

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%

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The data is sometimes not as precise as it appears. Values for %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical (which determine unreached status) are often informed estimates, some more accurate than others. We recommend against using %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical to calculate absolute numbers.
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