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Progress Scale: 3 - Superficially reached● What is the Progress Scale?

Criteria

Evangelicals <= 2%
Professing Christians > 50%

Progress Level

Progress Gauge

People Groups

1,789

% of World's
People Groups

10.4 %

Population

547,902,000

% of World Population

6.8 %

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= Frontier Unreached Peoples)
Photo	People Group	Country	Population	Primary Language	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherents	% Evangelical	Indigenous
	Ambattan Christian	India	5,100	Tamil	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	●
	Arasar Christian	India	65,000	Malayalam	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	●
	Chackaravar Christian	India	5,500	Tamil	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	●
	Chavalakkaran Christian	India	4,500	Malayalam	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	●
	Ilavan Christian	Sri Lanka	11,000	Tamil	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	●
	Ilavan Christian	India	133,000	Tamil	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	●
	Kavathi Christian	India	4,600	Tamil	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	●
	Keralamuthali Christian	India	3,600	Malayalam	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	●
	Mbuk	Cameroon	600	Mbuk	Christianity	3 ●	55.00 %	-1	●
	Valmiki (Christian traditions)	India	119,000	Hindi	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	●
	Valmiki (Christian traditions)	Pakistan	2,089,000	Punjabi, Western	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	●
	Valmiki Chuhra (Christian traditions)	India	20,000	Punjabi, Eastern	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	●
	Beele	Nigeria	2,100	Buli (Nigeria)	Christianity	3 ●	60.00 %	-1	●
	Valmiki (Balmiki) Mehtar	India	1,200	Gujarati	Christianity	3 ●	100.00 %	-1	●
	Totals: 1,789 People Groups		547,902,000

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The Joshua Project Progress Scale is an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group, people cluster, country or language. The Progress Scale is derived from people group values for percent Evangelical and percent Christian Adherent.

Level	Description	Criteria
1	Unreached - Few evangelicals and few who identify as Christians. Little, if any, history of Christianity.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians <= 5%
2	Minimally reached - Few evangelicals, but significant number who identify as Christians.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 5% and <= 50%
3	Superficially reached - Few evangelicals, but many who identify as Christians. In great need of spiritual renewal and commitment to biblical faith.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 50%
4	Partially reached - Evangelicals have a modest presence.	Evangelicals > 2% and <= 10%
5	Significantly reached - Evangelicals have a significant presence.	Evangelicals > 10%

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