What's new?
Missions statistics
10/40 Window
21st century world
Apple picker parable
Data sources
Gospel ready countries
Literature languages
Nazarene missions
One village
THUMB -- the unreached
"What if?" scenario
Want more out of life?
Searching for God's will?
An African martyr's statement on commitment
Mission trip fund
raising
10 ways to ruin a short-term mission trip
Youth in Mission
Nazarene Missions International resource pages
Linking to me
How many unreached countries are there? Where are missions resources going?
Global population1 6,986,951,000 Births per minute 266 Deaths per minute 108 Population of unreached people groups (billions) 2.842 Five largest countries (populations in millions)1 China 1,346 India 1,241 USA 312 Indonesia 238 Brazil 197 Major Religions3 Christians 2.3 billion Muslims 1.6 billion Hindus 952 million Nonreligious 658 million Buddhists 468 million Chinese folk-religionists 458 million Ethnoreligionists 269 million Major traditional branches of Christianity3 Roman Catholics 1.2 billion Protestants 426 million Independents 378 million Orthodox 271 million Anglicans 88 million Christians by continent3 Africa 475 million Asia 354 million Europe 559 million Latin America 543 million Northern America 231 million Oceania 24 million ABCs of Global Missions World A Unreached people — 24% of the world's population; receives one-half of 1% of dollars given to Christian missions World B Evangelized non-Christians — 43% of the world's population; receives 5% of dollars given to Christian missions World C Professing Christians — 33% of the world's population; receives 94.5% of dollars given to Christian missions Evangelization by Worlds A, B, and C By individuals World C 1,999,564,000 World B 2,426,110,000 World A 1,629,375,000 By countries World C countries 141 Population 1,694,733,000 World B countries 59 Population 3,755,012,000 World A "unreached" countries 38 Population 605,304,000 Global Christian finance (in U.S. dollars)5 Est. personal income of church members $15.5 trillion Giving to Christian causes, $280 billion Ecclesiastical crime (embezzlement and other) $16 billion Income of global foreign missions $16 billion Christian workers National workers (all denominations) 12 million3 Number of women in full-time ministry worldwide 4.4 million6 Foreign missionaries 443,0006 Scripture distribution (all sources) Bibles per year 100 million7 Languages with at least a portion of Scripture 2,2386 Christian evangelism Evangelism hours per year 162 billion3 Disciple-opportunities per capita per year 1663 Statistical data sources:
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