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

Saudi Arabia has 57 distinct people groups, most of them Saudi Arabs (Najdi, Hijazi, and Gulf) along with communities of foreign workers from Asia. Of these 57 groups, 43 (75.4%) are still considered unreached with the gospel, representing 90.4% of the country's entire population. Saudi Arabs themselves, the majority people and devoted to Islam, remain among the least reached groups in the world.

In the country i

3.7%Christians

0.5%evangelicals

By population i

90.4%unreached

0.7%significantly reached

31.2M Unreached 90.4%
2M Minimally reached 5.9%
85K Superficially reached 0.2%
980K Partially reached 2.8%
226K Significantly reached 0.7%

By people groups i

57people groups

43unreached · 75.4%

43 Unreached 75.4%
4 Minimally reached 7%
3 Superficially reached 5.3%
5 Partially reached 8.8%
2 Significantly reached 3.5%

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.
Swahili Frontier	1.2M	Swahili	0.9%	1.8%
Bedouin Arab Frontier	2.8M	Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic	< 0.1%	0.1%
Hindi	2.8M	Hindi	0.7%	2%
Southern Baloch Frontier	1.8M	Southern Balochi	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Western Punjabi Frontier	998K	Western Punjabi	0%	< 0.1%
Punjabi	2.1M	Eastern Punjabi	0.3%	1%
Pashtun Frontier	34.2M	Central Pashto	0%	0%
Ruainga	2.3M	Rohingya	0.1%	0.1%
Urdu Frontier	2.9M	Urdu	0%	< 0.1%
Muslim Lebanese Arab	5.4M	Levantine Arabic	0.7%	17.3%
Muslim Jat Frontier	33.1M	Saraiki	0%	0%
Bahraini Arab	706K	Baharna Arabic	0.9%	3.4%
Moroccan Arab Frontier	31.5M	Moroccan Arabic	0.1%	0.1%
Mahra Frontier	282K	Mehri	< 0.1%	0.1%
Hui Frontier	13.9M	Mandarin Chinese	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Faifi Frontier	45K	Faifi	0%	0%
Moor Frontier	296K	Hassaniyya	0.1%	0.2%
Northern Yemeni Arab Frontier	20M	Sanaani Arabic	0%	0%
Palestinian Arab	11.5M	Levantine Arabic	1%	3.6%
Uyghur Frontier	12.3M	Uyghur	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Sudanese Arab Frontier	21.8M	Sudanese Arabic	0.1%	0.4%
Burmese	32.9M	Burmese	0.1%	0.4%
Yemeni Arab Frontier	9.6M	Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic	0%	< 0.1%
Eastern Circassian Kabardian Frontier	1.2M	Kabardian	< 0.1%	0.1%
Arabic-Speaking Algerian Frontier	38.2M	Algerian Arabic	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Somali Frontier	28.9M	Somali	0.1%	0.2%
Tihami Arab Frontier	3.3M	Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic	0%	0%
Najdi Arabs Frontier	13M	Najdi Arabic	0.1%	0.1%
Qatari Arab	7.6M	Gulf Arabic	0.2%	0.9%
Central Thai	22.4M	Thai	0.9%	1.6%
Bengali-speaking South Asian	5.5M	Bengali	0.2%	0.8%
Egyptian Arab	73.6M	Egyptian Arabic	0.5%	1.4%
Tunisian Arab	11.9M	Tunisian Arabic	0%	0.2%
Malay Frontier	18.9M	Malay	0.1%	0.1%
Sindhi Frontier	529K	Sindhi	< 0.1%	0.4%
Syrian Arab	23.5M	Levantine Arabic	0.3%	8.5%
Omani Arab Frontier	3.1M	Omani Arabic	< 0.1%	0.1%
Saudi Hijazi Arab Frontier	10.6M	Hijazi Arabic	0.1%	0.1%
Turk Frontier	66.8M	Turkish	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Shahari Jibbali Frontier	88K	Shehri	0%	0%
Tigrayans and Tigrinyas	10.5M	Tigrinya	0.9%	95.8%
Sinhalese	715K	Sinhala	1.3%	3.6%
Telugu-Speaking South Asian	1.7M	Telugu	1.8%	5.4%
Deaf Frontier	27.5M	Pakistan Sign Language	1.8%	3.7%
Generic Nepali	1.7M	Nepali	1.6%	2%
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%
Italian	37.4M	Italian	1.3%	86.2%
Hindu Tamil	3.6M	Tamil	3.4%	6.7%
Mandarin Han Chinese	925.1M	Mandarin Chinese	8.3%	9.9%
British	55M	English	8.9%	60.4%
Javanese	19.1M	Javanese	9.3%	18.9%
Indonesian	15.1M	Indonesian	11.2%	16.7%
Korean	80.3M	Korean	12.3%	22.1%
Filipino tagalo	40.4M	Tagalog	14.7%	97.8%
US Americans	202.4M	English	32.9%	81%

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