Unreached peoples of France
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
France brings together dozens of people groups, from the majority French to many immigrant communities from North Africa, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. Several of these groups have very little access to the gospel, and the secularization of the French majority makes the field even more challenging. The country is, at the same time, a historic center of Christianity and one of the greatest mission challenges in Europe.
In the country i
61.1%Christians
2%evangelicals
By population i
6.9%unreached
0.6%significantly reached
- 6.9% Unreached (4.6M)
- 1.3% Minimally reached (879K)
- 87.6% Superficially reached (58.2M)
- 3.6% Partially reached (2.4M)
- 0.6% Significantly reached (415K)
By people groups i
121people groups
44unreached · 36.4%
- 36.4% Unreached (44)
- 7.4% Minimally reached (9)
- 27.3% Superficially reached (33)
- 21.5% Partially reached (26)
- 7.4% Significantly reached (9)
Source of people group data: Joshua Project (joshuaproject.net). Estimates, may vary.
Source: Joshua Project. Estimates, may vary.
Unreached people groups · 121
| People | Population | Language | Evang. | Chr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imazighen Berber Frontier | 4.9M | Central Atlas Tamazight | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Sahrawi Frontier | 533K | Hassaniyya | 0% | < 0.1% |
| Jordanian Arab | 4.9M | Levantine Arabic | 0.3% | 3.6% |
| Moroccan Arab Frontier | 31.5M | Moroccan Arabic | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| French Jew Frontier | 352K | French | < 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Chechen Frontier | 2M | Chechen | 0% | 0% |
| Syrian Arab | 23.5M | Levantine Arabic | 0.3% | 8.5% |
| Southern Shilha | 3.7M | Tachelhit | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Moroccan Jew Frontier | 189K | French | 0% | 0% |
| Bengali-speaking South Asian | 5.5M | Bengali | 0.2% | 0.8% |
| Japanese | 119.7M | Japanese | 0.5% | 1.6% |
| Turk Frontier | 66.8M | Turkish | < 0.1% | < 0.1% |
| Tibetan Frontier | 1.1M | Central Tibetan | < 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Comorians Frontier | 100K | Maore Comorian | 0% | 0% |
| Western Punjabi Frontier | 998K | Western Punjabi | 0% | < 0.1% |
| Afghan | 1.3M | Dari | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Soninke Frontier | 3.4M | Soninke | < 0.1% | 0.3% |
| Sudanese Arab Frontier | 21.8M | Sudanese Arabic | 0.1% | 0.4% |
| Moor Frontier | 296K | Hassaniyya | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| Western Maninka | 2.5M | Western Maninkakan | 0.2% | 1.6% |
| Western Cham Frontier | 342K | Western Cham | < 0.1% | < 0.1% |
| Jew | 244K | Levantine Arabic | 0.3% | 0.7% |
| Arabic-Speaking Algerian Frontier | 38.2M | Algerian Arabic | < 0.1% | < 0.1% |
| Manjaco | 522K | Mandjak | 0.5% | 5.6% |
| Wolof Frontier | 7.1M | Wolof | < 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Tehrani Persian Jew Frontier | 189K | Iranian Persian | 0% | 0% |
| Kabyle Berber | 7.6M | Kabyle | 0.4% | 0.6% |
| Tamajaq Tuareg Frontier | 1.8M | Tawallammat Tamajaq | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Litvish Jew Frontier | 795K | Hebrew | 0% | 0% |
| Somali Frontier | 28.9M | Somali | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| Mozabite Berber Frontier | 208K | Tumzabt | 0% | 0% |
| Sokoto Fulani Frontier | 867K | Central-Eastern Niger Fulfulde | 0% | 0.1% |
| Hasidic Jew Frontier | 1.1M | Hebrew | 0% | 0% |
| Central Thai | 22.4M | Thai | 0.9% | 1.6% |
| Muslim Lebanese Arab | 5.4M | Levantine Arabic | 0.7% | 17.3% |
| Czech | 10.5M | Czech | 0.7% | 26% |
| Shawiya Berber Frontier | 2.8M | Tachawit | 0% | 0% |
| Pashtun Frontier | 34.2M | Central Pashto | 0% | 0% |
| Iraqi Arab | 22.4M | Mesopotamian Arabic | 0.2% | 1.2% |
| Tunisian Arab | 11.9M | Tunisian Arabic | 0% | 0.2% |
| Rifi Berber Frontier | 1.9M | Tarifit | < 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Egyptian Arab | 73.6M | Egyptian Arabic | 0.5% | 1.4% |
| Kurmanji Kurd Frontier | 16.5M | Northern Kurdish | < 0.1% | 0.1% |
| 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% |
| Croat | 5M | Croatian | 0.3% | 93.5% |
| Franco-Provençal | 145K | Arpitan | 0.5% | 69.8% |
| Corsican | 176K | Corsican | 0.5% | 84.8% |
| Serb | 7.9M | Serbian | 0.5% | 81.1% |
| Catalan | 4.4M | Catalan | 0.6% | 82.6% |
| Alsatian | 1.7M | Swiss German | 0.6% | 65% |
| Gascon | 472K | Gascon Aranese | 0.7% | 60.4% |
| Provençal | 3.1M | French | 0.7% | 70.4% |
| Ligurian | 508K | Ligurian | 0.7% | 83.9% |
| Basque | 2.4M | Basque | 0.8% | 84% |
| Tigrayans and Tigrinyas | 10.5M | Tigrinya | 0.9% | 95.8% |
| Malagasy | 86K | Merina Malagasy | 1% | 69% |
| Deaf Frontier | 27.5M | Pakistan Sign Language | 1.8% | 3.7% |
| Balkan Romani | 946K | Balkan Romani | 1.9% | 59.4% |
| French Roma | 173K | French | 1% | 60% |
| Bambara | 8M | Bamanankan | 1.1% | 4% |
| Central Khmer | 17.6M | Khmer | 1.3% | 3.1% |
| Vietnamese | 89.7M | Vietnamese | 1.5% | 9.9% |
| Lao | 4.1M | Lao | 1.9% | 3.5% |
| Shaozhou Han Chinese | 672K | Unidentified language | 1.1% | 1.3% |
| South Asian | 10.8M | Hindi | 1.2% | 4.3% |
| Limousin | 12K | Gascon Aranese | 1% | 75% |
| Persian | 48.4M | Iranian Persian | 1.5% | 1.8% |
| French | 52M | French | 1.1% | 66.7% |
| Ethiopian Amhara | 29.3M | Amharic | 1.2% | 96.6% |
| Languedocians | 2.6M | French | 1.2% | 65% |
| Auvergnat | 1.5M | French | 1.2% | 65% |
| 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% |
| Assyrian | 672K | Assyrian Neo-Aramaic | 1.4% | 91.6% |
| Russian | 134.2M | Russian | 1.5% | 64.9% |
| Sinte Roma | 223K | Sinte Romani | 2.1% | 67.9% |
| German | 66.7M | Standard German | 2.5% | 64.3% |
| Portuguese | 17.8M | Portuguese | 2.9% | 94.6% |
| Hindu Tamil | 3.6M | Tamil | 3.4% | 6.7% |
| Southern Senoufo | 2.2M | Senufo Cebaara | 3% | 6% |
| Hungarians | 11.5M | Hungarian | 3.1% | 88.2% |
| Franco-Swiss | 1.8M | French | 3.4% | 79.7% |
| Danish | 5.4M | Danish | 3.6% | 87.9% |
| Chinese | 15.5M | Mandarin Chinese | 4.5% | 8.5% |
| Ukrainian | 33.8M | Ukrainian | 4% | 75.1% |
| Dutch | 14.4M | Dutch | 4.4% | 48% |
| Hmong Njua | 797K | Hmong Njua | 5.5% | 15.8% |
| Vlax Roma Frontier | 1.2M | Vlax Romani | 6% | 71.3% |
| Swiss German | 4.8M | Swiss German | 5.1% | 78.1% |
| Eurasian | 1.8M | Japanese | 6.5% | 37.6% |
| Wenzhou Han Chinese | 20K | Wu Chinese | 6% | 7% |
| Swedish | 9.3M | Swedish | 6.1% | 57.1% |
| Romanian | 20.8M | Romanian | 6.3% | 95.1% |
| Cantonese | 80.1M | Yue Chinese | 7.6% | 9.7% |
| Cape Verdean | 791K | Kabuverdianu | 8% | 96.8% |
| British | 55M | English | 8.9% | 60.4% |
| Caló Romani | 937K | Calo | 9% | 93.7% |
| Armenian | 6M | Armenian | 9.3% | 94.6% |
| Wu Han Chinese | 81M | Wu Chinese | 10% | 13.4% |
| Anglo-Canadian | 18.3M | English | 10.4% | 80.1% |
| Mestizo Colombian | 37.2M | Spanish | 10.7% | 96.2% |
| Hmong Daw | 2.2M | Hmong Daw | 11.8% | 32.7% |
| Indonesian | 15.1M | Indonesian | 11.2% | 16.7% |
| Korean | 80.3M | Korean | 12.3% | 22.1% |
| White Argentinian | 36.5M | Spanish | 12.4% | 96.9% |
| Venezuelans | 26.8M | Spanish | 12.8% | 85% |
| Tagalog Filipino | 40.4M | Tagalog | 14.7% | 97.8% |
| Mossi | 14.7M | Moore | 17.7% | 31.5% |
| Saint Lucian | 368K | Lesser Antillean French Creole | 17.3% | 95.4% |
| Fon | 2.6M | Fon | 17.7% | 64.7% |
| Peruvian | 26.6M | Spanish | 18.2% | 96% |
| Brazilians abroad | 1.1M | Portuguese | 18.8% | 91.8% |
| Kituba Monokutuba | 2.3M | Kituba (Congo) | 20.5% | 95.2% |
| Chilean | 18.1M | Spanish | 22.8% | 89% |
| Rwandan Hutu | 14.3M | Kinyarwanda | 27.2% | 90.2% |
| US Americans | 202.4M | English | 32.9% | 81% |
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