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WORLD-WIDE POPULATION
WORLD-WIDE POPULATION
GLOBAL (UPDATED FEB 2024)
GLOBAL (UPDATED FEB 2024)
8.12 billion
Median age - total: 30 years
Life expectancy - total population: 67 years
TOP TEN MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES
TOP TEN MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES
India 1.43 billion
China 1.42 billion
United States 341 Million
Indonesia 279 Million
Pakistan 243 Million
Nigeria 227 Million
Brazil 217 Million
Bangladesh 173 Million
Russia 144 Million
Mexico 129 Million
*Turkey 85 Million
LITERACY - TOTAL POPULATION: 87%
LITERACY - TOTAL POPULATION: 87%
SOURCES
Global Stats, https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ , accessed Nov 2021
Literacy, CIA World Fact book Nov 2021
PEOPLE GROUPS
WORLDWIDE
WORLDWIDE
Total People Groups: 17,281
UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS
UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS
Less than 2% Evangelical Christian.
Total Unreached People Groups: 7,246
Total Population of UPGs: 3.39 billion people
Total Percentage of world: UPG’s make up 41.8% of world population
UNEVANGELIZED PEOPLES
UNEVANGELIZED PEOPLES
Greater than 2% Evangelical Christian but still great numbers of unsaved.
Total Unevangelized People Groups: 2,906
Total Population: 799.7 million
Total Percentage of world: the unevangelized make up 9.9% of world population
REACHED PEOPLES
REACHED PEOPLES
Greater than 2% Evangelical Christian or majority Christian Population
Total Reached People Groups: 7,129
Total Population: 3.8 billion
Total Percentage of world: the reached population makes up 46.9% of world population
SOURCES
Joshua Project: https://www.joshuaproject.net/people_groups/statistics , Accessed Nov 2024
Another great overview from IMB, People Groups Info
THE 10/40 WINDOW
WHAT IS THE 10/40 WINDOW?
WHAT IS THE 10/40 WINDOW?
Most (96.6%) of the world's unreached people are located geographically in what some scholars call The 10/40 Window from West Africa across Asia between 10 degrees latitude north of the equator to 40 degrees north.
Total Population in 10/40: 5.33 billion people
Total People Groups in 10/40: 8,731 people groups
Total UPG’s in 10/40: 6,013 Unreached People Groups totaling 3.28 billion people.
60% of unreached people groups live in countries closed to missionaries from North America.
Over 1,000 unreached people groups are NOT in the 10/40 Window, these total over 82 million individuals.
SOURCES:
Nov 2021, joshuaproject.net
MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS
WORLD RELIGIONS AND THEIR PEOPLE GROUPS
WORLD RELIGIONS AND THEIR PEOPLE GROUPS
ISLAM
ISLAM
1.98 Billion worldwide
4,031 Total People Groups
3,462 UPG’s
24.8% of the world population
BUDDHISM
BUDDHISM
505,432,000 individuals
666 People Groups
511 UPGs
6.3% of world population
CHRISTIAN
CHRISTIAN
2.5 Billion worldwide (all Catholic, Protestant)
7,146 Total People Groups
31.2% of the world population
ANIMISM
ANIMISM
738 Million worldwide
2,625 People Groups
923 UPGs
9.2% of the world population
HINDUISM
HINDUISM
1.2 Billion worldwide
2,395 People Groups
2,203 UPG’s
15.1% of the world population
CHINA
CHINA
1.8 billion individuals
545 people groups
441 Unreached People Groups
17.7% of the world population
SOURCES
Joshua Project: https://www.joshuaproject.net/people_groups/statistics , Accessed Nov 2024
CHRISTIANS OF THE WORLD
ALL CHRISTIANS
ALL CHRISTIANS
Christians number 2.632 Billion worldwide (all Catholic, Protestant, etc.,) within 7,129 total people groups compromising 32% of the world population.
This may surprise many, but Christianity is growing around the world and is growing faster than the rate of population. From 2020 to the mid-point of 2024, the world’s population is expected to grow from almost 6.15 billion people to more than 8.11 billion, a 0.87% growth trend. The number of Christians worldwide is expected to climb from more than 2.52 billion to 2.63 billion, a 1.08% growth. (Lifeway Research)
PROTESTANTS & EVANGELICALS
PROTESTANTS & EVANGELICALS
Protestants total 625 million worldwide and Evangelical Christians total 413 million.
In 2020 there were 550 churches for every one unreached people group. (Lifeway Research)
There are 57,000 Evangelical Christians for every one unreached people group.
SOURCES
LANGUAGES
TOTAL LANGUAGES:
TOTAL LANGUAGES:
There are estimated 7,394 Languages worldwide.
THREE LARGEST LANGUAGES:
THREE LARGEST LANGUAGES:
Mandarin Chinese 12.44%, Spanish 4.85%, English 4.83%, (first language speakers)
BIBLE TRANSLATION:
BIBLE TRANSLATION:
736 languages have the Full Bible, 5.6 billion people, 80% of the world
1,658 languages have the New Testament, 824 million, 11% of the world
3,658 languages have some portion of Scripture, 7.23 billion people, 97.4% of the world
LANGUAGES WITH SCRIPTURE NEED:
LANGUAGES WITH SCRIPTURE NEED:
6,661 languages do not have the Full Bible, 1.5 billion people
3,736 languages have no Bible portions, (1,100 of these language translations are not needed for various reasons)
3,283 languages have current Bible Translation work happening, for 1.15 billion people, 15% of the world.
SOURCES:
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Feb 2024
MONEY AND MISSIONS
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Americans have recently spent more money buying Halloween costumes for their pets than the amount given to reach the unreached.
— Claude Hickman
HOW ARE MINISTRY DONATIONS USED:
HOW ARE MINISTRY DONATIONS USED:
82% goes to Home ministries of local churches (mostly Christian nations): $1 trillion [2]
12% goes to Home Evangelism in same Christian nations: $156 billion [2]
Only 6% of this “tithe” goes to general Missions: $78 billion
WHAT MISSIONS MONEY IS USED TO REACH THE UNREACHED?
WHAT MISSIONS MONEY IS USED TO REACH THE UNREACHED?
Only 1.7% of “Missions Giving” goes to work among Unreached Peoples Estimated $1.32 billion (1.7% of the $78b for general “missions”) [3]
For every $100,000 that Christians make, they give $1.83 to the unreached.
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If you were in a ballroom with a fifty foot ceiling and the ceiling represented what Christians earned, you could stand two dollar bills, end to end, 12” from the floor to represent what Christians tithe. But to see how little is used for the unreached you would have to stack both bills and lay them flat. (roughly 1/2 mm).
— Claude Hickman
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS
If we sent mission teams of ten people to each of the 7,246 unreached people groups with an annual salary of $70,000 a year. Christians worldwide could provide all of the funds needed to reach all peoples with only 0.007% of their income ($5b). The Global Church has roughly 14,000 times the financial resources and 36,000 times the manpower needed to finish the Great Commission.
If every Christian gave $1.93 cents to frontier missions we could easily support 72,000 new missionaries.
If every Christian gave just 1% of their income to frontier mission, we could support another 10 million missionaries.
SOURCES:
[1] Gordon Conwell, 2024 Download "Status of Global Christianity
*also: International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 39, No. 1, also World Christian Database, 2015,*Barrett and Johnson. 2001. World Christian Trends, pg 656,
[2] Todd M. Johnson & Gina A. Zurlo, eds. World Christian Database. Leiden/Boston: Brill, accessed July 2017.
*see also: Todd Johnson, Global Atlas of Christianity, pg 296,
[3]. World Christian Trends Table. David B. Barrett and Todd M. Johnson. World Christian Trends Table 20-3, lines 23-26,44, Pasadena, Calif: William Carey Library, 2001 *Experts and authors above have determined this trend holds true today as of 2022.
QUOTES:
Just a few years ago we spent more in America on Halloween Costumes.
MISSIONARIES AND WORKERS
ALL MISSIONARIES
ALL MISSIONARIES
All Missionaries in the World (Catholic, Protestant, etc.): 445,000 foreign missionaries [1]
Missionaries in the Reached World : 343,000 foreign missionaries (77%) [estimated]
Missionaries in the Unevangelized : 86,000 foreign missionaries (19%) [estimated]
Missionaries in the Unreached : estimated 15,000 foreign missionaries (3.4%) [2]
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“ROUGHLY THIRTY-TIMES AS MANY MISSIONARIES GO TO REACHED PEOPLE GROUPS TO WORK WITH CHRISTIANS, AS GO TO UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS. FAR LESS GO TO THE FRONTIER PEOPLE GROUPS, WHERE THERE ARE AS YET NO BELIEVERS. - R.W. LEWIS [3]
“ROUGHLY THIRTY-TIMES AS MANY MISSIONARIES GO TO REACHED PEOPLE GROUPS TO WORK WITH CHRISTIANS, AS GO TO UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS. FAR LESS GO TO THE FRONTIER PEOPLE GROUPS, WHERE THERE ARE AS YET NO BELIEVERS. - R.W. LEWIS [3]
CHRISTIAN WORKERS
CHRISTIAN WORKERS
Full time Christian Nationals Workers: 13.5 million workers [1]
MORE MISSIONS OBSERVATIONS
MORE MISSIONS OBSERVATIONS
Only 1 of every 174,463 Christians goes as a missionary to the Unreached.
Only 1 of every 41,707 Protestant Christians goes as a missionary to the Unreached.
There are 57,053 Evangelical Christians for every one unreached people group.
Young people have traditionally led the way in going and there are roughly 21 million university students (2014).
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Reaching the world with the gospel is not a resource problem, it is a mobilization problem.
— Claude Hickman, The Traveling Team
SOURCES
[1] Center for Study of Global Christianity, Gordon Conwell 2024 Status update, See also World Christian Database, 2015,*Barrett and Johnson. 2001. World Christian Trends, pg 656
[2] *15,000 is the latest number for 2024, See also Todd M. Johnson and Gina A. Zurlo, eds., World Christian Database(Leiden/Boston: Brill, accessed January 2022
[3] 2018, [R.W. Lewis Quote] International Journal of Frontier Mission, Clarifying the Remaining Frontier Mission Task, by R. W. Lewis, issue 35:4 Winter 2018, p164
See also Atlas of Global Christianity 2009. And 2001, Deployment of Missionaries
*Courtesy credit and thanks to the Traveling Team ministry for putting together these statistics.
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