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Criteria

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

7,250

% of World's
People Groups

41.9 %

Population

3,396,085,000

% 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 *
Chinese, general Turkmenistan 3,200 Chinese, Mandarin Buddhism ● 3.30 % 2.00 % 1
Ahom India 2,076,000 Assamese Hinduism ● 3.30 % ● 42
Pankhu, Panko Bangladesh 5,800 Pangkhua Buddhism ● 3.31 % ● 1
Sauria Paharia Bangladesh 8,300 Sylheti Hinduism ● 3.33 % ● 1
Devipujak Vaghri (Hindu traditions) Pakistan 42,000 Sindhi Hinduism ● 3.34 % ● 1
Mahali India 97,000 Bengali Hinduism ● 3.35 % ● 2
Kagate India 2,100 Syuba Buddhism ● 3.35 % ● 1
Deaf Laos 76,000 Laos Sign Language Buddhism ● 3.38 % ● 2
Arab, Bahraini Bahrain 770,000 Arabic, Baharna Spoken Islam ● 3.40 % 0.90 % ● 15
Lao Vietnam 18,000 Lao Buddhism ● 3.40 % 0.03 % 1
Miao, Changshu China 21,000 Miao, Chuanqiandian Cluster Ethnic Religions ● 3.40 % 1.90 % ● 1
Wolane Ethiopia 129,000 Wolane Islam ● 3.40 % 0.10 % ● 3
Kuki Chin Asho Bangladesh 1,800 Chin, Asho Buddhism ● 3.40 % ● 1
Tharu unspecified Nepal 1,774,000 Tharu, Dangaura Hinduism ● 3.41 % ● 35
Bederia Sudan 1,082,000 Arabic, Sudanese Spoken Islam ● 3.50 % 0.90 % ● 22
Nyangatom South Sudan 11,000 Nyangatom Ethnic Religions ● 3.50 % 2.00 % ● 1
Lao Australia 12,000 Lao Buddhism ● 3.50 % 1.90 % 1
Lao Laos 3,565,000 Lao Buddhism ● 3.50 % 2.00 % ● 71
Persian Kuwait 55,000 Persian, Iranian Islam ● 3.50 % 0.20 % 1
Ghao-Xong, Eastern China 136,000 Miao, Eastern Xiangxi Ethnic Religions ● 3.50 % 0.97 % ● 3
Tibetan, Shangri La China 103,000 Tibetan, Khams Buddhism ● 3.50 % 0.10 % ● 2
Kui Cambodia 35,000 Kuay Buddhism ● 3.50 % 0.53 % ● 1
Pidayne Danno Sri Lanka 9,100 Sinhala Buddhism ● 3.51 % ● 1
Arasar India 20,000 Malayalam Hinduism ● 3.56 % ● 1
Rongkup Nepal 4,700 Lepcha Buddhism ● 3.56 % ● 1
Totals:  7,250 People Groups   3,396,085,000             71,146
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