Challenging Mission Facts

  • Of the 16,565 people groups by country, 7,107 are still considered unreached.
  • 9,458 people groups by country are not considered unreached, totaling 4,037,748,000 individuals, or about 58% of the world’s population.
  • Of the 16,565 total people groups, 7,107 are identified as unreached usingJoshua Project criteria, totaling 2,887,152,000 individuals. Of these 7,107 groups, 6,074 are in 10/40 Window countries. That means 85% of all unreached people groups are in the 10/40 Window.
  • 1,033 of the unreached groups are NOT in the 10/40 Window, totaling 79,387,000 individuals. These groups are relatively accessible to the Gospel.
  • Of the 7,107 Unreached people groups, about 3,509 (49%) 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 3,598 unreached groups, about 1,385 are under 50,000 in population. That leaves 2,213 Unreached 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.