Ethnic Religions people group listing

Religion: Ethnic Religions What is Primary Religion?

Population of Adherents

745,947,000

% of World Population

9.1 %

People Groups

2,695

Unreached Groups

958 (35.5 %)

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Progress Scale: ☀︎●●●●● (
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= Frontier Unreached Peoples)
Photo	People Group	Country	Population	Primary Language	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Scripture Status	Est. Workers Needed *
	Lakonde	Brazil	-1 Unknown	Portuguese	Ethnic Religions	2 ●	20.00 %	-1	5 Complete Bible	-1 -
	Oraon, Kurux	Bangladesh	112,000	Kurux	Ethnic Religions	2 ●	15.40 %	-1	5 Complete Bible	-1 -
	Lingayat	India	3,926,000	Kannada	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.01 %	-1	5 Complete Bible	79
	Deaf	China, Hong Kong	15,000	Hong Kong Sign Language	Ethnic Religions	2 ●	12.41 %	-1	2 Translation Started	-1 -
	Deaf	Israel	19,000	Israeli Sign Language	Ethnic Religions	1 ●	2.04 %	-1	3 Bible Portions	1
	Deaf	Liberia	57,000	Language unknown	Ethnic Religions	2 ●	41.43 %	-1	0 Unspecified	-1 -
	Deaf	China, Macau	3,600	Hong Kong Sign Language	Ethnic Religions	2 ●	5.35 %	-1	2 Translation Started	-1 -
	Deaf	Taiwan	46,000	Taiwan Sign Language	Ethnic Religions	2 ●	5.82 %	-1	1 Translation Needed	-1 -
	Akuntsu	Brazil	-1 Unknown	Language unknown	Ethnic Religions	2 ●	20.00 %	-1	0 Unspecified	-1 -
	Ainu (Japan)	Russia	300	Ainu (Japan)	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	4 New Testament	1
	Ami	China	2,000	Amis	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	5 Complete Bible	1
	Ampanang	Indonesia	41,000	Ampanang	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	0 Unspecified	1
	Arbil, Lishanid Noshan	Israel	3,800	Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	0 Unspecified	1
	Arem	Vietnam	100	Arem	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	0 Unspecified	1
	Baheng, Lipeng	China	6,600	Pa-Hng	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	0 Unspecified	1
	Basa-Gurmana	Nigeria	5,700	Basa-Gurmana	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	2 Translation Started	1
	Embera-Baudo	Colombia	6,900	Embera-Baudo	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	2 Translation Started	1
	Berawan, West	Malaysia	1,300	Berawan, West	Ethnic Religions	1 ●	3.00 %	0.00 %	3 Bible Portions	1
	Pala	Laos	6,200	Akha	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	5 Complete Bible	1
	Biao Mien, Shikou	China	13,000	Biao-Jiao Mien	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	0 Unspecified	1
	Jewish Tat, Mountain Jewish	Azerbaijan	15,000	Judeo-Tat	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	3 Bible Portions	1
	Jewish Tat, Mountain Jewish	Canada	2,200	Judeo-Tat	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	3 Bible Portions	1
	Jewish Tat, Mountain Jewish	Israel	80,000	Judeo-Tat	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	3 Bible Portions	2
	Jewish Tat, Mountain Jewish	Russia	500	Judeo-Tat	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	3 Bible Portions	1
	Jewish Tat, Mountain Jewish	United States	10,000	Judeo-Tat	Ethnic Religions	0 ☀︎	0.00 %	0.00 %	3 Bible Portions	1
Totals:	2,695 Peoples		745,947,000			958 ●				3,480

* An estimate of the number of pioneer workers needed for initial church planting among unreached people groups by country. Estimates are calculated only for unreached people groups and are based on ratio of 1 worker-unit (single person or married couple) per 50,000 living in an unreached people group by country, or for example one team of four worker-units per 200,000 people. Some workers may already be onsite. Many more workers are needed beyond this initial estimate.

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Prayer Cards

Level	Description	Criteria
0.3	Unreached Frontier - Less than 1 in 1,000 (0.1%) identify as Christians in any way	Evangelicals <=0.1% Professing Christians <=0.1%
0.7	Unreached not Frontier - Few evangelicals and little, if any, history of Christianity.	Evangelicals >0.1% and <=2% Professing Christians >0.1% and <=5%
1	Unreached (All) - 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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