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Criteria

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

7,398

% of World's
People Groups

42.5 %

Population

3,275,114,000

% 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 *
Mussulman Tat Azerbaijan 25,000 Tat, Muslim Islam ● 1.30 % 1.20 % ● 1
Sinhalese Qatar 57,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 3.00 % 1.20 % 1
Sinhalese United States 11,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 4.00 % 1.20 % 1
Yao, Muslim Tanzania 632,000 Yao Islam ● 2.00 % 1.20 % ● 13
Daur China 200,000 Daur Ethnic Religions ● 1.50 % 1.20 % ● 4
Mongol, Khalka Korea, South 36,000 Mongolian, Halh Buddhism ● 1.72 % 1.20 % 1
Mongol, Khalka Russia 3,000 Mongolian, Halh Buddhism ● 2.00 % 1.20 % ● 1
Mongol, Khalka United States 16,000 Mongolian, Halh Buddhism ● 2.00 % 1.20 % 1
Haruku Indonesia 28,000 Haruku Islam ● 4.00 % 1.21 % ● 1
Kucong Vietnam 8,000 Kucong Buddhism ● 2.00 % 1.24 % ● 1
Doupo China 800 Language unknown Ethnic Religions ● 1.30 % 1.24 % ● 1
Chukchi Russia 16,000 Chukchi Ethnic Religions ● 4.00 % 1.25 % ● 1
Han Chinese, Cantonese China, Macau 519,000 Chinese, Yue Ethnic Religions ● 1.60 % 1.26 % ● 10
Pancana Indonesia 7,700 Pancana Islam ● 1.40 % 1.27 % ● 1
Geji Nigeria 8,400 Language unknown Islam ● 3.00 % 1.28 % ● 1
Banna Ethiopia 45,000 Hamer-Banna Ethnic Religions ● 3.00 % 1.30 % ● 1
Hamar Ethiopia 78,000 Hamer-Banna Ethnic Religions ● 1.50 % 1.30 % ● 2
Arbore Ethiopia 11,000 Arbore Ethnic Religions ● 1.30 % 1.30 % ● 1
Oromo, Borana Ethiopia 1,429,000 Oromo, Borana-Arsi-Guji Ethnic Religions ● 4.00 % 1.30 % ● 29
Oromo, Jima Ethiopia 3,737,000 Oromo, West Central Islam ● 2.00 % 1.30 % ● 75
Fulani, Adamawa Cameroon 2,630,000 Fulfulde, Adamawa Islam ● 1.40 % 1.30 % ● 53
Han Chinese, Cantonese Myanmar (Burma) 75,000 Chinese, Yue Buddhism ● 2.00 % 1.30 % 1
Maninka, Eastern Sierra Leone 167,000 Maninkakan, Eastern Islam ● 3.00 % 1.30 % ● 3
Giziga, South Cameroon 140,000 Giziga Ethnic Religions ● 5.00 % 1.30 % ● 3
Fulani, Wodaabe Niger 93,000 Fulfulde, Central-Eastern Niger Islam ● 1.50 % 1.30 % ● 2
Totals:  7,398 People Groups   3,275,114,000             68,979
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