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Joshua Project Data on the Unreached

Oct 29th, 2010 | By | | Print This Post Print This Post |

Joshua Project has provided some of the current facts about those unreached with the Gospel.

Global Statistics
Peoples-by-Country Individuals
Global Total 16,595 6.73 billion
Unreached / Least-Reached 6,864 2.77 billion
Unreached / Least-Reached 41.4 % 41.2 %
10/40 Window Total 8,810 4.43 billion
10/40 Window Least-Reached 5,903 2.69 billion
10/40 Window % Least-Reached 67.0 % 60.8 %
Count
Affinity Blocs 16
People Clusters 251
Peoples Groups (without reference to Countries) 9,877
Unreached Peoples Groups (without reference to Countries) 4,152
Countries 236
Languages 6,510
Challenging Mission Facts

• Of the 16,595 people groups by country, 6,864 are still considered unreached.

• 9,731 people groups by country are not considered Least-Reached, totaling 3,953,774,000 individuals, or about 59% of the world’s population.

• Of the 16,595 total people groups, 6,864 are identified as Least-Reached using Joshua Project criteria, totaling 2,771,999,000 individuals. Of these 6,864 groups, 5,903 are in 10/40 Window countries. That means 86% of all unreached people groups are in the 10/40 Window.

• 961 of the Least-Reached groups are NOT in the 10/40 Window, totaling 79,110,000 individuals. These groups are relatively accessible to the Good News of the Gospel.

• Of the 6,864 Least-Reached people groups, about 3,548 (52%) are small groups under 10,000 in population (or population unknown) and all these groups total less than 8,000,000 individuals. Of the remaining 3,316 least-reached groups, about 1,329 are under 50,000 in population. That leaves 1,987 Least-Reached groups 50,000 and over in population. A vibrant church in a large group may take the gospel to a number of smaller satellite people groups that have ethnic similarities.

Click the link below to get more information on Peoples, Languages, and Religions

Joshua Project – Great Commission Statistics about Peoples, Countries and Languages

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