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Stories from the Field
"...today was first day of clinics & evangelism, BUT have met the Pastor P. who has discipled all the men, who in turn have started missions, then tiny churches. He is a humble, gentle man, sick with kidney disease, yet never stops. I told him 2 times that I had a gift for him. When I gave him the solar powered audio player with God’s Story, Jesus Film and New Testament on it in Spanish. The man cried. He wants to teach others to use it. He is so excited, "What I want! What I want!" He prayed long to the Lord thanking Him for this precious gift."
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Interesting People Group Facts Top
• The traditional way that missiologists identify people groups is by counting each group once per country of residence. There are 16,469 People-in-Country Groups, of which 6,859 are considered unreached. Joshua Project data also allows a view of people groups without reference to country boundaries where ethnicities are counted only once. There are 9,971 ethnic people groups (without reference to Countries) identified in the Joshua Project database with 4,270 considered unreached.
• There are 8,096 people groups (of the 16,469) with fewer than 10,000 individuals, in addition there are 709 for which no population has been reported (but the population is probably small). For all these small groups, the total number of individuals is less than 22,000,000 meaning that 53% of the 16,469 people groups contain only a tiny fraction of the world's population.
• Of the 16,469 total groups, Joshua Project has identified 6,859 as Least-Reached, totaling 2,673,007,000 individuals. Of these 6,859 groups, 5,400 are in 10/40 Window countries. That means 79% of the unreached / least-reached people groups are in the 10/40 Window.
• The largest least-reached group is the Japanese, with over 120,000,000 individuals.
• 3,326 groups are primarily Muslim, totaling nearly 1,300,000,000 individuals.
• 2,714 groups are primarily Hindu, totaling about 900,000,000 individuals.
• 573 groups are primarily Buddhist, totaling nearly 375,000,000 individuals.
• The Mandarin Chinese is the largest people group, being in 82 countries with a total of about 800,000,000 individuals, and with 783,000,000 of those in China.
• Jews are found in 126 countries, Arabs in 130 countries, and Chinese groups in 127 countries.
• India has the largest number of ethnic people groups with nearly 2,700 in the Joshua Project database. (The number of people groups in India varies greatly depending on the researcher and how the term "people group" is defined. Strictly linguistically there are about 330 - 350 "people groups" in India. Some suggest the 2,700 groups in the Joshua Project list should be sub-divided into groups by Indian state, producing a total of about 4,700). For further information, see the ethno-linguistic vs. ethnic discussion on the definitions page.
• Papua New Guinea is the runner-up in number of people groups, at 877. Interestingly, the largest group of these 877 is only 816,000 in population. The total population of the country is only 6,460,000, yet there are nearly 900 people groups. Indonesia (765) and Nigeria (505) follow Papua New Guinea.
• On the other end of the spectrum, South Korea only has seven people groups, with a country population of 48,400,000.
• There are 988 languages/dialects spoken in Papua New Guinea. There are only 37 languages/dialects spoken in Japan, which has a population over 25 times as large as Papua New Guinea. The diversity of Papua New Guinea and the homogeneity of Japan!
• In India, one people group (the Gond) speaks 96 languages. 1,729 groups (out of the total of 2,700) speak more than one language.
• Of the 16,469 people groups in the Joshua Project database, 19% speak more than one language ignoring dialects, and 27% if dialects are included.
• One people group in India (Nai), has 70 alternate names. 9,000 of the over 16,000 total peoples-by-country have more than one alternate people name
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