Joshua Project Data on the Unreached
Oct 29th, 2010 | By Stan | |
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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 | ||
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• 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. |
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Click the link below to get more information on Peoples, Languages, and Religions
Joshua Project – Great Commission Statistics about Peoples, Countries and Languages