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Criteria

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

1,177

% of World's
People Groups

6.7 %

Population

278,899,000

% of World Population

3.6 %

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Photo ▲ People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous
Deaf Côte d'Ivoire 264,000 Language unknown Islam ● 33.64 % ●
Deaf United Arab Emirates 20,000 Language unknown Islam ● 8.55 % ●
Deaf Albania 14,000 Albanian Sign Language Islam ● 30.47 % ●
Deaf Bahrain 3,400 Language unknown Islam ● 9.81 % ●
Deaf Bosnia-Herzegovina 16,000 Language unknown Islam ● 40.98 % ●
Deaf Benin 121,000 American Sign Language Christianity ● 39.89 % ●
Deaf Brunei 2,200 Language unknown Islam ● 11.39 % ●
Deaf Chad 164,000 Chadian Sign Language Islam ● 38.46 % ●
Deaf Sri Lanka 107,000 Sri Lankan Sign Language Buddhism ● 8.38 % ●
Deaf Egypt 767,000 Egyptian Sign Language Islam ● 12.83 % ●
Deaf Estonia 2,700 Estonian Sign Language Non-Religious ● 45.30 % ●
Deaf Eritrea 26,000 Language unknown Islam ● 47.31 % ●
Deaf Kyrgyzstan 49,000 Russian Sign Language Islam ● 5.27 % ●
Deaf Korea, South 103,000 Korean Sign Language Non-Religious ● 30.95 % ●
Deaf Kosovo 14,000 Albanian Sign Language Islam ● 7.00 % ●
Deaf Kazakhstan 94,000 Language unknown Islam ● 12.15 % ●
Deaf Lebanon 34,000 Language unknown Islam ● 31.97 % ●
Deaf China, Macau 3,200 Hong Kong Sign Language Ethnic Religions ● 5.35 % ●
Deaf Mauritius 6,400 Mauritian Sign Language Hinduism ● 32.71 % ●
Deaf Netherlands 34,000 Sign Language of the Netherlands Non-Religious ● 46.55 % ●
Deaf Suriname 2,900 Language unknown Christianity ● 49.57 % ●
Deaf Guinea-Bissau 20,000 Language unknown Islam ● 10.90 % ●
Deaf Qatar 5,800 Language unknown Islam ● 5.91 % ●
Deaf Saudi Arabia 174,000 Saudi Arabian Sign Language Islam ● 5.43 % ●
Deaf Senegal 167,000 Language unknown Islam ● 6.42 % ●
Totals:  1,177 People Groups   278,899,000            
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