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 population 6,055,049,000 Urban dwellers 2,881,079,000 Rural dwellers 3,173,970,000 Five largest countries (populations in millions) China 1,281 India 1,050 USA 287 Indonesia 217 Brazil 174 Major Religionists Christians 1,999,564,000 Muslims 1,188,243,000 Nonreligious 768,159,000 Hindus 811,336,000 Buddhists 359,982,000 Christians by membership Roman Catholics 1,057,328,000 Independents 385,745,000 Protestants 342,002,000 Orthodox 215,129,000 Anglicans 79,650,000 Marginal Christians 26,060,000 Christians by continent Africa 335,116,000 Asia 307,288,000 Europe 536,832,000 Latin America 475,659,000 Northern America 212,167,000 Oceania 21,375,000 ABCs of Global Missions World A Unreached people -- 24% of the world's population -- receive 1/2 of 1% of dollars given to Christian missions World B Unevangelized World -- 43% of the world's population -- receives 5% of dollars given to Christian missions World C Christian World -- 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 Christian finance (in U.S. dollars) Personal income of church members $15,198 billion Giving to Christian causes, $ 270 billion Churches' income, $ 108 billion Parachurch and institutional income $162 billion Ecclesiastical crime $16 billion Income of global foreign missions $15 billion Christian workers Nationals (all denominations) 5,104,000 Foreign missionaries 420,000 Scripture distribution (all sources) Bibles per year 53,700,000 New Testaments per year 120,700,000 Scripture portions per year 4,600 million Christian evangelism Evangelism hours per year 165 billion Hearer hours per year 938 billion Disciple-opportunities per capita per year 155 Statistical data sources: World Christian News, issue 24; Population Reference Bureau, Data Sheet 2002
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