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Criteria

Evangelicals <= 2%
Professing Christians <= 5%
Progress Level
Progress Gauge

People Groups

7,186

% of World's
People Groups

41.6 %

Population

3,424,947,000

% of World Population

42.4 %

Map Notes
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Progress Scale: ☀︎●●●●●   (
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 = Frontier Unreached Peoples)
Photo People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous Est. Workers
Needed *
Deaf West Bank / Gaza 41,000 Language unknown Islam ● 1.61 % ● 1
Bedouin, Arosien Western Sahara 7,700 Hassaniyya Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Berber, Izarguien Western Sahara 35,000 Hassaniyya Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Moor Western Sahara 53,000 Hassaniyya Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Arab, Moroccan Western Sahara 8,600 Arabic, Moroccan Islam ● 0.18 % 0.03 % 1
Regeibat Western Sahara 77,000 Hassaniyya Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 2
Sahrawi Western Sahara 194,000 Hassaniyya Islam ☀︎ 0.04 % 0.00 % ● 4
Tajakant Western Sahara 5,900 Hassaniyya Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Berber, Tekna Western Sahara 118,000 Hassaniyya Islam ☀︎ 0.04 % 0.00 % 2
Imragen Western Sahara 24,000 Hassaniyya Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Deaf Western Sahara 6,000 Language unknown Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken Yemen 18,000 Arabic, Gulf Islam ● 0.60 % 0.20 % 1
Arab, Omani Yemen 178,000 Arabic, Omani Islam ☀︎ 0.10 % 0.08 % 4
Muhamasheen, Akhdam Yemen 1,133,000 Arabic, Ta'izzi-Adeni Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 23
Arab, Egyptian Yemen 18,000 Arabic, Egyptian Islam ● 2.00 % 1.00 % 1
Arab, Hadrami Yemen 5,100,000 Arabic, Hadrami Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 102
Hobyot Yemen 400 Hobyot Islam ● 0.20 % 0.00 % ● 1
Arab, Iraqi Yemen 45,000 Arabic, Mesopotamian Islam ● 2.00 % 0.20 % 1
Mahra Yemen 106,000 Mehri Islam ☀︎ 0.10 % 0.05 % ● 2
Malay Yemen 51,000 Malay Islam ● 1.00 % 0.50 % 1
Arab, Palestinian Yemen 37,000 Arabic, Levantine Islam ● 2.00 % 0.10 % 1
Persian Yemen 25,000 Persian, Iranian Islam ● 0.50 % 0.20 % 1
Arab, Northern Yemeni Yemen 16,600,000 Arabic, Sanaani Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 332
Socotran Yemen 130,000 Soqotri Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 3
Somali Yemen 471,000 Somali Islam ☀︎ 0.05 % 0.03 % 9
Totals:  7,186 People Groups   3,424,947,000             71,685
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