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Criteria

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

People Groups

1,172

% of World's
People Groups

6.7 %

Population

277,250,000

% of World Population

3.6 %

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Photo People Group Country Population ▼ Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous
Wayuu, Guajiro Venezuela 364,000 Wayuu Ethnic Religions ● 30.00 % 1.50 % ●
Radava Sri Lanka 361,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 7.36 % ●
South Asian, general United States 350,000 Hindi Hinduism ● 10.00 % 1.00 %
Dagara Burkina Faso 347,000 Dagara, Northern Ethnic Religions ● 25.00 % 1.50 % ●
Magar India 346,000 Nepali Hinduism ● 5.20 % ●
Lolo Mozambique 346,000 Lolo Ethnic Religions ● 35.00 % 1.00 % ●
Vezo Madagascar 344,000 Malagasy, Sakalava Ethnic Religions ● 35.00 % 1.80 % ●
Jola-Fonyi Senegal 340,000 Jola-Fonyi Islam ● 22.00 % 0.01 % ●
Mano, Mah Liberia 335,000 Maan Ethnic Religions ● 8.00 % 2.00 % ●
Hannali Sri Lanka 331,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 6.85 % ●
Malayali United Arab Emirates 326,000 Malayalam Hinduism ● 15.00 % 2.00 %
Vietnamese France 325,000 Vietnamese Buddhism ● 9.00 % 1.80 %
Kono Sierra Leone 319,000 Kono Ethnic Religions ● 12.00 % 1.00 % ●
Kurumfe, Fulse Burkina Faso 318,000 Koromfe Ethnic Religions ● 13.00 % 1.00 % ●
Mafa Cameroon 312,000 Mafa Islam ● 7.00 % 2.00 % ●
Deaf Mozambique 312,000 Mozambican Sign Language Christianity ● 46.48 % ●
Salagama Sri Lanka 309,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 12.16 % ●
Czech United States 300,000 Czech Non-Religious ● 26.00 % 0.70 %
Mandaya Philippines 271,000 Mandaya Ethnic Religions ● 9.00 % 2.00 % ●
Han Chinese, Min Dong Malaysia 268,000 Chinese, Min Dong Ethnic Religions ● 6.00 % 2.00 %
Arab, Lebanese Saudi Arabia 265,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ● 31.00 % 0.50 %
Deaf Côte d'Ivoire 264,000 Language unknown Islam ● 33.64 % ●
Arab, Syrian France 260,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Islam ● 6.00 % 0.10 %
Serer-Safen, Safi Senegal 256,000 Saafi-Saafi Islam ● 20.00 % 0.02 % ●
Pannikki Sri Lanka 241,000 Sinhala Buddhism ● 6.62 % ●
Totals:  1,172 People Groups   277,250,000            
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