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Criteria

Evangelicals <= 2%
Professing Christians <= 5%
Progress Level
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People Groups

7,399

% of World's
People Groups

42.4 %

Population

3,278,489,000

% of World Population

41.8 %

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Photo People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous ▲ Est. Workers
Needed *
Kerinci Bahrain 27,000 Kerinci Islam ● 2.00 % 1.00 % 1
Kurd, Kurmanji Bahrain 60,000 Kurdish, Northern Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % 1
Turk Austria 118,000 Turkish Islam ● 0.10 % 0.06 % 2
Chechen Azerbaijan 5,300 Chechen Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Dargin Azerbaijan 1,200 Dargwa Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Turk Bahrain 1,800 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Persian Bahrain 226,000 Persian, Iranian Islam ● 1.00 % 0.80 % 5
Urdu Bahrain 78,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % 2
Kazakh Azerbaijan 2,300 Kazakh Islam ☀ 0.09 % 0.00 % 1
Lak Azerbaijan 1,600 Lak Islam ● 0.80 % 0.80 % 1
Rutul Azerbaijan 18,000 Rutul Islam ● 0.24 % 0.24 % 1
Tatar Azerbaijan 28,000 Tatar Islam ● 1.50 % 0.00 % 1
Turk, Meskhetian Azerbaijan 102,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 2
Uzbek, Southern Azerbaijan 2,000 Uzbek, Southern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Burmese Bangladesh 318,000 Burmese Buddhism ● 1.62 % 6
Rai Bhutan 3,800 Assamese Other / Small ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Rajbansi (Hindu traditions) Bhutan 9,800 Rangpuri Hinduism ● 1.81 % 1
Rajput (Hindu traditions) Bhutan 1,500 Bengali Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Rongkup Bhutan 3,000 Lepcha Buddhism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Santal (Sawntal) Bhutan 5,300 Santhali Hinduism ● 2.59 % 1
Sarki Bhutan 1,600 Nepali Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Shaikh Bhutan 9,200 Bengali Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Sherdukpen Bhutan 200 Sherdukpen Buddhism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Sherpa Bhutan 9,900 Sherpa Buddhism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Sutradhar (Hindu traditions) Bhutan 700 Bengali Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Totals:  7,399 People Groups   3,278,489,000             69,041
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