Unreached people groups
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.
Jordan has 20 people groups, and all of them are classified as unreached or with very limited access to the gospel. The overwhelming majority of the population, about 93%, belongs to people groups with no effective access to the gospel. Sunni Jordanian Arabs form the largest group, but there are also communities of Palestinians, Circassians, Armenians, Bedouins, and Syrian and Iraqi refugees, each with distinct spiritual and social dynamics. With only 0.3% evangelicals and 2.2% Christians overall, Jordan is one of the countries with the smallest proportional Christian presence in the world, making it one of the greatest priorities of the missionary heart.
- 10.7M Unreached 93%
- 712K Minimally reached 6.2%
- 0 Superficially reached 0%
- 75K Partially reached 0.7%
- 10K Significantly reached 0.1%
- 20 Unreached 76.9%
- 1 Minimally reached 3.8%
- 0 Superficially reached 0%
- 4 Partially reached 15.4%
- 1 Significantly reached 3.8%
Source of people group data: Joshua Project (joshuaproject.net). Estimates, may vary.
Source: Joshua Project. Estimates, may vary.
| People | Population | Language | Evang. | Chr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kurmanji Kurd Frontier | 16.5M | Northern Kurdish | < 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Muslim Bengali | 133.4M | Bengali | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Syrian Arab | 23.5M | Levantine Arabic | 0.3% | 8.5% |
| Egyptian Arab | 73.6M | Egyptian Arabic | 0.5% | 1.4% |
| Central Kurd Frontier | 3.8M | Central Kurdish | < 0.1% | < 0.1% |
| Palestinian Arab | 11.5M | Levantine Arabic | 1% | 3.6% |
| Northern Iraqi Arab | 12.1M | North Mesopotamian Arabic | 0.2% | 0.7% |
| Chechen Frontier | 2M | Chechen | 0% | 0% |
| Middle Eastern Turkmen Frontier | 4.9M | South Azerbaijani | 0% | 0% |
| Eastern Circassian Kabardian Frontier | 1.2M | Kabardian | < 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Domari Roma Frontier | 1.9M | Iranian Persian | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Najdi Arabs Frontier | 13M | Najdi Arabic | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Saudi Hijazi Arab Frontier | 10.6M | Hijazi Arabic | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Bedouin Arab Frontier | 2.8M | Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic | < 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Sudanese Arab Frontier | 21.8M | Sudanese Arabic | 0.1% | 0.4% |
| Jordanian Arab | 4.9M | Levantine Arabic | 0.3% | 3.6% |
| Druze | 1.2M | Levantine Arabic | 0.3% | 0.3% |
| Libyan Arab Frontier | 2.8M | Libyan Arabic | 0.1% | 0.8% |
| Adyghe Frontier | 458K | Adyghe | < 0.1% | < 0.1% |
| Generic Nepali | 1.7M | Nepali | 1.6% | 2% |
| Deaf Frontier | 27.5M | Pakistan Sign Language | 1.8% | 3.7% |
| Turkish Azeri | 18.6M | South Azerbaijani | 1.6% | 1.8% |
| Mandarin Han Chinese | 925.1M | Mandarin Chinese | 8.3% | 9.9% |
| British | 55M | English | 8.9% | 60.4% |
| Armenian | 6M | Armenian | 9.3% | 94.6% |
| Filipino tagalo | 40.4M | Tagalog | 14.7% | 97.8% |
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