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Criteria

Evangelicals <= 2%
Professing Christians <= 5%
Progress Level
Progress Gauge

People Groups

7,397

% of World's
People Groups

42.4 %

Population

3,395,989,000

% 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 *
Bambara Burkina Faso 7,500 Bamanankan Islam ● 4.00 % 1.80 % 1
Bullom, Northern Bullom Sierra Leone 8,600 Bullom So Islam ● 5.00 % 1.80 % ● 1
Iquito, Amacacore Peru 600 Iquitu Ethnic Religions ● 1.90 % 1.80 % ● 1
Nepali, general Malaysia 249,000 Nepali Hinduism ● 2.00 % 1.80 % 5
Persian Malaysia 44,000 Persian, Iranian Islam ● 3.00 % 1.80 % 1
Jewish, Russian Israel 714,000 Russian Ethnic Religions ● 2.00 % 1.80 % 14
Jewish, Russian Russia 83,000 Russian Ethnic Religions ● 2.00 % 1.80 % ● 2
Ta Oi, Upper Laos 51,000 Ta'oih, Upper Ethnic Religions ● 2.00 % 1.80 % ● 1
Hmong Shua, Sinicized China 353,000 Sinicized Miao Ethnic Religions ● 2.50 % 1.80 % ● 7
Mal Laos 38,000 Mal Ethnic Religions ● 2.00 % 1.80 % ● 1
Han Chinese, Mandarin China, Macau 40,000 Chinese, Mandarin Non-Religious ● 2.40 % 1.82 % ● 1
Moronene Indonesia 49,000 Moronene Islam ● 1.90 % 1.82 % ● 1
Arab, Palestinian / Israeli Israel 1,553,000 Arabic, Levantine Islam ● 2.60 % 1.85 % ● 31
Bambara Mauritania 24,000 Bamanankan Islam ● 2.50 % 1.86 % 1
Khmer Vietnam 1,340,000 Khmer Buddhism ● 3.00 % 1.87 % 27
Dusun, Kadazan Brunei 10,000 Kadazan Dusun Islam ● 2.50 % 1.90 % ● 1
Kariya Nigeria 4,800 Kariya Islam ● 4.10 % 1.90 % ● 1
Khmer Cambodia 14,235,000 Khmer Buddhism ● 3.20 % 1.90 % ● 285
Hadzabi Tanzania 1,400 Hadza Ethnic Religions ● 5.00 % 1.90 % ● 1
Lao New Zealand 1,600 Lao Buddhism ● 4.00 % 1.90 % 1
Lao Australia 12,000 Lao Buddhism ● 3.50 % 1.90 % 1
Sila Vietnam 900 Sila Ethnic Religions ● 3.00 % 1.90 % ● 1
Miao, Changshu China 21,000 Miao, Chuanqiandian Cluster Ethnic Religions ● 3.40 % 1.90 % ● 1
Chara Ethiopia 24,000 Chara Ethnic Religions ● 3.00 % 1.90 % ● 1
Kantosi Ghana 4,000 Kantosi Islam ● 2.00 % 1.92 % ● 1
Totals:  7,397 People Groups   3,395,989,000             71,299
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