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Criteria

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

7,386

% of World's
People Groups

42.3 %

Population

3,399,669,000

% of World Population

42.5 %

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Photo People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale ▲		 % Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous Est. Workers
Needed *
Yakkha Nepal 28,000 Yakkha Other / Small ● 0.72 % ● 1
Yakthumba, Limbu Bhutan 1,700 Nepali Other / Small ● 3.75 % 1
Yakthumba, Limbu Nepal 449,000 Limbu Other / Small ● 2.69 % ● 9
Yakut Russia 483,000 Yakut Ethnic Religions ● 3.00 % 0.10 % ● 10
Yalunka Guinea 128,000 Yalunka Islam ● 0.30 % 0.17 % ● 3
Yalunka Mali 19,000 Yalunka Islam ● 0.20 % 0.10 % ● 1
Yalunka, Dialonke Senegal 15,000 Yalunka Islam ● 0.15 % 0.05 % ● 1
Yamannu Sri Lanka 80,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 3.68 % ● 2
Yaminahua Peru 900 Yaminahua Ethnic Religions ● 2.00 % 1.70 % ● 1
Yao Malawi 2,538,000 Yao Islam ● 1.00 % 0.50 % ● 51
Yao Mozambique 339,000 Yao Islam ● 1.40 % 1.00 % ● 7
Yao Tanzania 797,000 Yao Islam ● 2.00 % 1.20 % ● 16
Yao Zambia 5,600 Yao Islam ● 3.00 % 1.00 % 1
Yaroame Brazil 500 Yaroame Ethnic Religions ● 4.00 % 2.00 % ● 1
Yazidi Iraq 634,000 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ● 0.14 % 0.14 % ● 13
Yazidi United States 4,200 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ● 2.40 % 1.50 % 1
Yehlmo Nepal 12,000 Hyolmo Buddhism ● 0.99 % ● 1
Yenadi India 797,000 Telugu Hinduism ● 0.81 % ● 16
Yerava India 37,000 Ravula Hinduism ● 0.21 % ● 1
Yerukula India 638,000 Yerukula Hinduism ● 1.76 % ● 13
Yiche China 25,000 Hani Ethnic Religions ● 0.70 % 0.51 % ● 1
Yonaguni Japan 800 Yonaguni Buddhism ● 1.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yong Thailand 14,000 Yong Buddhism ● 0.20 % 0.20 % ● 1
Yora, Manu Park Panoan Peru 200 Yora Ethnic Religions ● 1.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yoron Japan 900 Yoron Buddhism ● 1.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Totals:  7,386 People Groups   3,399,669,000             71,359
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