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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 *
South Asian, general Yemen 323,000 Hindi Islam ● 1.00 % 0.05 % 6
Turk Venezuela 28,000 Turkish Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Somali Yemen 457,000 Somali Islam ☀ 0.05 % 0.03 % 9
Hani Vietnam 26,000 Hani Ethnic Religions ● 0.50 % 0.06 % 1
Indonesian Vietnam 4,400 Indonesian Islam ● 2.00 % 0.10 % 1
Japanese Vietnam 9,600 Japanese Buddhism ● 1.50 % 0.50 % 1
Ngai Vietnam 1,700 Language unknown Ethnic Religions ● 3.00 % 0.80 % 1
Arab, Iraqi Yemen 39,000 Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken Islam ● 2.00 % 0.20 % 1
Arab, Omani Yemen 154,000 Arabic, Omani Spoken Islam ☀ 0.10 % 0.08 % 3
Arab, Palestinian Yemen 32,000 Arabic, South Levantine Spoken Islam ● 2.00 % 0.10 % 1
Arab, Sudanese Yemen 387,000 Arabic, Sudanese Spoken Islam ● 0.50 % 0.40 % 8
Zhuang, Yang Vietnam Unknown Zhuang, Yang Ethnic Religions ● 0.20 % 0.14 % 0
Zhuang, Yongnan Vietnam 13,000 Zhuang, Yongnan Ethnic Religions ● 0.20 % 0.16 % 1
Zhuang, Zuojiang Vietnam 427,000 Zhuang, Zuojiang Ethnic Religions ● 0.20 % 0.14 % 9
Adyghe West Bank / Gaza 4,700 Adyghe Islam ● 0.30 % 0.00 % 1
Arab, Syrian West Bank / Gaza 15,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ● 5.00 % 0.10 % 1
Romani, Domari West Bank / Gaza 3,600 Domari Islam ● 2.00 % 1.00 % 1
Moroccan, Arabic-speaking Western Sahara 8,800 Arabic, Moroccan Spoken Islam ● 0.18 % 0.03 % 1
Jew, Yemeni Yemen 300 Arabic, Judeo-Yemeni Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Malay Yemen 44,000 Malay Islam ● 1.00 % 0.50 % 1
Persian Yemen 22,000 Persian, Iranian Islam ● 0.50 % 0.20 % 1
Gujarati Zambia 44,000 Gujarati Hinduism ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Jew, English-speaking Zambia 3,500 English Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Swahili Zambia 47,000 Swahili Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Totals:  7,399 People Groups   3,278,489,000             69,041
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