Mauritius

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.

Overview

Mauritius has 12 catalogued ethnic groups, five of which are considered unreached people groups, nearly 90,000 people in total. They are mostly communities of Indian origin tied to Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, such as Hindi, Panjabi, Telugu and Bengali speakers, along with a small Marathi-speaking Jewish community. These groups preserve the language and faith brought by ancestors who came from India as indentured workers in the nineteenth century, and still have little or no contact with a church within their own culture. Most of the population, who speak Creole, already have access to the gospel, but the boundary between ethno-religious communities still limits the passage of faith from one group to another.

In the country i
32,7%Christians
9,9%evangelicals
By population i
7,2%unreached
79,8%significantly reached
  • 88K Unreached 7,2%
  • 0 Minimally reached 0%
  • 4K Superficially reached 0,3%
  • 155K Partially reached 12,7%
  • 976K Significantly reached 79,8%
By people groups i
12people groups
5unreached · 41,7%
  • 5 Unreached 41,7%
  • 0 Minimally reached 0%
  • 2 Superficially reached 16,7%
  • 4 Partially reached 33,3%
  • 1 Significantly reached 8,3%

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

Source: Joshua Project. Estimates, may vary.

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