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Eritrea

Unreached peoples of Eritrea

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

Eritrea is home to nine main ethnic groups, divided between the mostly Christian highlands and the mostly Muslim lowlands and coast. Several of these lowland peoples, such as the Tigre, Saho, Afar, Kunama, Nara, Bilen, Hedareb and Rashaida, still have little access to the gospel in their own language and culture, adding to a set of unreached or least-reached peoples in the country.

In the country i
47%Christians
1.7%evangelicals
By population i
45%unreached
0%significantly reached
  • 45% Unreached (1.6M)
  • 4.4% Minimally reached (155K)
  • 3.3% Superficially reached (116K)
  • 47.3% Partially reached (1.7M)
  • 0% Significantly reached (0)
By people groups i
15people groups
10unreached · 66.7%
  • 66.7% Unreached (10)
  • 13.3% Minimally reached (2)
  • 6.7% Superficially reached (1)
  • 13.3% Partially reached (2)
  • 0% Significantly reached (0)

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

Source: Joshua Project. Estimates, may vary.

Unreached people groups · 15
People Population Language Evang. Chr.
Yemeni Arab Frontier 9.6M Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic 0% < 0.1%
Saho Irob 207K Saho 0.3% 30%
Eritrean Tigre Frontier 953K Tigre 0.1% 0.1%
Dahalik Frontier 3K Dahalik 0% 0%
Afar 3M Afar < 0.1% 0.7%
Palestinian Arab 11.5M Levantine Arabic 1% 3.6%
Beja Beni Amer Frontier 754K Tigre 0% 0%
Beja Hadendoa Frontier 933K Bedawiyet 0% 0%
Rashaida Frontier 196K Sudanese Arabic 0% 0%
Sudanese Arab Frontier 21.8M Sudanese Arabic 0.1% 0.4%

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