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Six Billion Lost
About 10% of our world population is evangelical Christian. 25% of the world still has no access to the gospel. Our belief as Christ-followers is that these people are headed toward an eternity apart from God. God has not only given us the mission of reaching the world--and that includes Atlanta and our local communities--but He has equipped us with every tool necessary in His Word to accomplish it. "Look at the nations and watch--and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told." Habakkuk 1:5
The World Today
- Of the 16,562 people groups by country, 6,847 are still considered unreached.
- 9,715 people groups by country are not considered Least-Reached, totaling 3,952,798,000 individuals, or about 59% of the world's population.
- Of the 16,562 total people groups, 6,847 are identified as Least-Reached using Joshua Project criteria, totaling 2,772,136,000 individuals. Of these 6,847 groups, 5,902 are in 10/40 Window countries. That means 86% of all unreached people groups are in the 10/40 Window.
- 945 of the Least-Reached groups are not in the 10/40 Window, totaling 79,122,000 individuals. These groups are relatively accessible to the Good News of the Gospel.
- Of the 6,847 Least-Reached people groups, about 3,530 (52%) 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 3,317 least-reached groups, about 1,328 are under 50,000 in population. That leaves 1,989 Least-Reached 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.
> Great Comission Statistics from The Joshua Project
> Peoples Around the World from the International Mission Board
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