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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 %

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Photo People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous Est. Workers
Needed *
Yazidi Germany 51,000 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yazidi Russia 26,000 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yazidi Sweden 4,500 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yazidi Syria 14,000 Arabic, Levantine Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yazidi Türkiye (Turkey) 2,800 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yazidi Ukraine 1,800 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yerong China 400 Yerong Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yevanic Israel Unknown Hebrew Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yidghal Pakistan 9,500 Yadgha Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yizi China 2,900 Chinese, Mandarin Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yongchun China 17,000 Chinese, Mandarin Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yonzhi China 4,200 Tibetan, Amdo Buddhism ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yoruk Bulgaria 900 Balkan Gagauz Turkish Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yoruk North Macedonia 4,000 Balkan Gagauz Turkish Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yoruk Türkiye (Turkey) 475,000 Balkan Gagauz Turkish Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 10
Youmai China 2,700 Iu Mien Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Younuo China 22,000 Bunu, Younuo Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yudi, Tripolita'it Israel 42,000 Arabic, Judeo-Tripolitanian Ethnic Religions ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Za, Charumba China 800 Zakhring Buddhism ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Zaghawa Chad 183,000 Zaghawa Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 4
Zaghawa Libya 9,400 Zaghawa Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Zaghawa Sudan 133,000 Zaghawa Islam ☀︎ 0.05 % 0.05 % ● 3
Zaghawa, Arabized Sudan 169,000 Arabic, Sudanese Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 3
Zamral (Hindu traditions) India 7,800 Hindi Hinduism ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Zarekari India 1,500 Gujarati Islam ☀︎ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Totals:  7,186 People Groups   3,424,947,000             71,685
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