23/11/2023
There are about 17,400 people groups (tribes, ethnic groups) in the world. Out of the 17,400, about 7,400 (42%) people groups are considered unreached (few, if any, Christ followers). 4 out of 10 people on earth live in an unreached people group. Globally, 87% of Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims have relatively little or no contact with Christians. Less than 1 in 10 missionaries work among unreached people groups.
There are about 7,100 languages in the world spoken by about 16,230 people groups.
3,495 languages are with some Scripture portions available, accounting for 7.04 billion speakers. 717 languages with a complete Bible (5.75 billion people), and 1,582 languages with a complete New Testament (830 million people).
828 languages have work in progress (67.6 million people), 1,892 languages need translation (145 million people), 1,119 languages are not vital enough to plan translation work (2.8 million people), 44 language communities served by Scripture in another language (4.6 million people)
1.51 billion people, speaking 6,661 languages, do not have a full Bible in their first language. 145 million people, speaking 1,892 languages, still need translation work to begin:
Africa – 558 languages, 16 million people
Americas – 119 languages, 2.4 million people
Asia – 751 languages, 124 million people
Europe – 59 languages, 2.3 million people
Pacific – 405 languages, 0.43 million people
2,217 languages in 147 countries with active translation or preparatory work begun – 1.1 billion people.
There are about 671 million Tribal/Ethnic Religious people including Chinese Religion in the world.
Only about 8% of missionaries work among tribal peoples
There are about 1.1 billion Hindus in the world.
About 2% of missionaries work and labor among the Hindus targeting them with the gospel.
About 979 million people are Non-Religious/Atheist in the world.
Only about 4% missionaries work among and target the Non-religious/atheists with the gospel.
About 1.7 billion people in the world are Muslim.
About 6% of missionaries work among Muslims with the gospel.
About 488 million people in the world are Buddhist.
About 3% of missionaries work among Buddhists