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Criteria

Evangelicals <= 2%
Professing Christians > 5% and <= 50%
Progress Level
Progress Gauge

People Groups

1,121

% of World's
People Groups

6.4 %

Population

250,042,000

% of World Population

3.2 %

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Photo ▲ People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous
Ngizim, Ngizmawa Nigeria 176,000 Ngizim Islam ● 7.00 % 0.63 % ●
Nyika, Tanzania Tanzania 41,000 Nyika, Tanzania Islam ● 10.00 % 0.20 % ●
Omotik, Ndorobo Kenya 200 Omotik Ethnic Religions ● 6.00 % 1.00 % ●
Opo South Sudan 6,500 Opo Ethnic Religions ● 10.00 % 2.00 %
Oraon India 5,310,000 Kurux Hinduism ● 26.46 % ●
Oraon, Kurux Bangladesh 109,000 Kurux Ethnic Religions ● 15.40 % ●
Oromo, Borana Kenya 284,000 Oromo, Borana-Arsi-Guji Islam ● 8.00 % 2.00 %
Oromo, Tulema / Selale Egypt 3,200 Oromo, West Central Islam ● 25.00 % 0.90 %
Ossette Azerbaijan 4,200 Ossetic Christianity ● 40.00 % 0.43 %
Ossette Belarus 800 Ossetic Christianity ● 40.00 % 1.00 %
Ossette Kazakhstan 1,600 Ossetic Christianity ● 45.00 % 1.00 %
Ossette Syria 68,000 Ossetic Islam ● 30.00 % 0.10 %
Ossette Turkey 42,000 Ossetic Islam ● 6.00 % 0.30 %
Ossette Turkmenistan 4,100 Ossetic Christianity ● 40.00 % 1.00 %
Ossette Uzbekistan 8,100 Ossetic Christianity ● 40.00 % 1.00 %
Pa-O Thailand 900 Pa'o Buddhism ● 25.00 % 1.00 % ●
Palyu China 16,000 Bolyu Ethnic Religions ● 6.30 % 0.50 % ●
Panan Sri Lanka 5,100 Tamil Hinduism ● 11.96 % ●
Parakana Brazil 1,000 Parakana Ethnic Religions ● 20.00 % 2.00 % ●
Pulayan Sri Lanka 4,700 Tamil Hinduism ● 11.79 % ●
Punan Bah-Biau Malaysia 1,300 Punan Bah-Biau Ethnic Religions ● 16.00 % 2.00 % ●
Punjabi Fiji 9,300 Punjabi, Eastern Hinduism ● 6.00 % 0.50 %
Punjabi Reunion 3,800 Punjabi, Eastern Hinduism ● 10.00 % 0.50 %
Puoc Thailand 3,700 Puoc Ethnic Religions ● 15.00 % 1.00 %
Puroik India 5,200 Puroik Unknown ● 45.18 % ●
Totals:  1,121 People Groups   250,042,000            
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