Unreached peoples of Belgium

An overview of the country's people groups, focusing on those who still have little or no access to the gospel in their own language and culture.

Overview

Belgium is home to dozens of people groups, and some of them remain little or not at all reached by the gospel. Beyond the largely secularized Flemish and Walloons, there are large immigrant communities, mainly of Moroccan and Turkish origin, overwhelmingly Muslim and with very little contact with the gospel. Languages spoken by these communities still lack accessible Scriptures. The field here combines two challenges: rekindling faith among indifferent Europeans and bringing Christ to peoples who have migrated into Europe.

In the country i

62.6%Christians

1.2%evangelicals

By population i

8.2%unreached

0.7%significantly reached

8.2% Unreached (953K)
0.1% Minimally reached (13K)
86.3% Superficially reached (10M)
4.7% Partially reached (548K)
0.7% Significantly reached (80K)

By people groups i

57people groups

28unreached · 49.1%

49.1% Unreached (28)
1.8% Minimally reached (1)
28.1% Superficially reached (16)
12.3% Partially reached (7)
8.8% Significantly reached (5)

Source of people group data: Joshua Project (joshuaproject.net). Estimates, may vary.

Source: Joshua Project. Estimates, may vary.

Unreached people groups · 57

People	Population	Language	Evang.	Chr.
Fula Jalon Frontier	5.7M	Pular	0%	< 0.1%
Chechen Frontier	2M	Chechen	0%	0%
Southern Pashtun Frontier	9.6M	Southern Pashto	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Litvish Jew Frontier	795K	Hebrew	0%	0%
Western Punjabi Frontier	998K	Western Punjabi	0%	< 0.1%
Hasidic Jew Frontier	1.1M	Hebrew	0%	0%
Urdu Frontier	2.9M	Urdu	0%	< 0.1%
Muslim Bengali	133.4M	Bengali	0.2%	0.2%
Iraqi Arab	22.4M	Mesopotamian Arabic	0.2%	1.2%
Tajik Frontier	12.3M	Tajik	0.1%	0.1%
Tibetan Frontier	1.1M	Central Tibetan	< 0.1%	0.1%
Tunisian Arab	11.9M	Tunisian Arabic	0%	0.2%
Arabic-Speaking Algerian Frontier	38.2M	Algerian Arabic	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Japanese	119.7M	Japanese	0.5%	1.6%
Kurmanji Kurd Frontier	16.5M	Northern Kurdish	< 0.1%	0.1%
Kabyle Berber	7.6M	Kabyle	0.4%	0.6%
Moroccan Arab Frontier	31.5M	Moroccan Arabic	0.1%	0.1%
Syrian Arab	23.5M	Levantine Arabic	0.3%	8.5%
Shawiya Berber Frontier	2.8M	Tachawit	0%	0%
Moor Frontier	296K	Hassaniyya	0.1%	0.2%
Turk Frontier	66.8M	Turkish	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
French Jew Frontier	352K	French	< 0.1%	0.1%
Afghan	1.3M	Dari	0.1%	0.1%
Moroccan Jew Frontier	189K	French	0%	0%
Albanian	5.8M	Gheg Albanian	0.5%	24.3%
Macedonian	1.8M	Macedonian	0.2%	84.8%
Luxembourger	439K	Luxembourgish	0.3%	82.6%
Polish	42.9M	Polish	0.3%	90%
Greek	10M	Greek	0.3%	94.4%
Serb	7.9M	Serbian	0.5%	81.1%
Turoyo Syrian Aramean	188K	Turoyo	0.8%	93.3%
Persian	48.4M	Iranian Persian	1.5%	1.8%
Generic Nepali	1.7M	Nepali	1.6%	2%
South Asian	10.8M	Hindi	1.2%	4.3%
Deaf Frontier	27.5M	Pakistan Sign Language	1.8%	3.7%
French	52M	French	1.1%	66.7%
Walloon	3.7M	Walloon	1.3%	69.9%
Spaniard	30.1M	Spanish	1.3%	77.7%
Flemish	5.7M	West Flemish	1.3%	68.9%
Italian	37.4M	Italian	1.3%	86.2%
Slovak	5.1M	Slovak	1.4%	93.8%
Russian	134.2M	Russian	1.5%	64.9%
Bulgarian	6.7M	Bulgarian	2.1%	91.5%
German	66.7M	Standard German	2.5%	64.3%
Portuguese	17.8M	Portuguese	2.9%	94.6%
Chinese	15.5M	Mandarin Chinese	4.5%	8.5%
Dutch	14.4M	Dutch	4.4%	48%
Vlax Roma Frontier	1.2M	Vlax Romani	6%	71.3%
Europeans in general	261K	English	6.3%	67.3%
Romanian	20.8M	Romanian	6.3%	95.1%
British	55M	English	8.9%	60.4%
Armenian	6M	Armenian	9.3%	94.6%
Latin American, general	1.1M	Spanish	10.2%	93.7%
Brazilians abroad	1.1M	Portuguese	18.8%	91.8%
Lingala	5.7M	Lingala	23.3%	90.6%
Black African (general)	1.2M	Swahili	25%	74%
US Americans	202.4M	English	32.9%	81%

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