Unreached peoples of Ukraine

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

Ukraine has 56 different ethnic groups, according to Joshua Project. Most of the population belongs to the Ukrainian people itself, historically linked to the Orthodox Christian tradition, but the country is also home to minorities such as Russians, Crimean Tatars (of Muslim tradition), Romani (Gypsy people), Hungarians and other smaller groups. Sixteen of these peoples are considered unreached, most of them small Muslim communities or other non-Christian traditions, living on the margins of the country's majority Christian identity.

In the country i

79%Christians

5.7%evangelicals

By population i

1.2%unreached

0%significantly reached

1.2% Unreached (450K)
0% Minimally reached (18K)
2.7% Superficially reached (1M)
96.1% Partially reached (37M)
0% Significantly reached (10K)

By people groups i

56people groups

16unreached · 28.6%

28.6% Unreached (16)
12.5% Minimally reached (7)
30.4% Superficially reached (17)
26.8% Partially reached (15)
1.8% Significantly reached (1)

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

Source: Joshua Project. Estimates, may vary.

Unreached people groups · 56

People	Population	Language	Evang.	Chr.
Ossetian Frontier	649K	Ossetic	0.1%	7.7%
Karaite Jew Frontier	2K	Karaim	0%	0%
North Azeri	10.4M	North Azerbaijani	0.2%	0.5%
Chuvan	2K	Russian	0.8%	31.3%
Orochi Frontier	1K	Oroch	0.2%	1.6%
Orok	1K	Orok	0.5%	3.8%
Tabasaran Frontier	153K	Tabasaran	0%	0%
Krymchak Frontier	2K	Ukrainian	0%	0%
Tatar	5.7M	Tatar	0.4%	2.6%
Northern Uzbek Frontier	34.5M	Northern Uzbek	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Kazakh	18M	Kazakh	0.2%	0.4%
Uzbek Arab Frontier	34K	Uzbeki Arabic	0.2%	2%
Meskhetian Turk Frontier	200K	Russian	0%	0%
Abkhaz Frontier	173K	Abkhaz	0.1%	2.8%
Gilyak Nivkh	4K	Gilyak	0.4%	5.1%
Lak Frontier	189K	Lak	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Lezgin Frontier	707K	Lezgi	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Crimean Tatars	637K	Crimean Tatar	< 0.1%	0.1%
Polish	42.9M	Polish	0.3%	90%
Greek	10M	Greek	0.3%	94.4%
Udins	13K	Udi	0.4%	96.6%
Izhorians	2K	Russian	0.8%	71.9%
Vepsian	5K	Veps	0.8%	65%
Siberian Eskimo	5K	St. Lawrence Island Yupik	1.6%	12.7%
South Asian	10.8M	Hindi	1.2%	4.3%
Chuvash	1.1M	Chuvash	1.5%	50%
Romani Carpathian	212K	Carpathian Romani	1%	85%
Deaf Frontier	27.5M	Pakistan Sign Language	1.8%	3.7%
Komi-Zyrian	149K	Komi-Zyrian	1.1%	32%
Balkan Romani	946K	Balkan Romani	1.9%	59.4%
Komi-Permyak	58K	Komi-Permyak	1.2%	43%
Arab	2M	Swahili	1.9%	14.4%
Slovak	5.1M	Slovak	1.4%	93.8%
Assyrian	672K	Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	1.4%	91.6%
Lithuanian	2.9M	Lithuanian	1.4%	85.7%
Mordvinian	109K	Erzya	1.4%	61.8%
Georgian	3.2M	Georgian	1.5%	86.2%
Russian	134.2M	Russian	1.5%	64.9%
Moldovan	2.5M	Romanian	1.6%	73.7%
Belarusian	8.6M	Belarusian	1.8%	69.6%
Gagauz	214K	Gagauz	1.8%	87.6%
Udmurt	401K	Udmurt	2%	58%
Baltic Roma	29K	Baltic Romani	2%	62.4%
Bulgarian	6.7M	Bulgarian	2.1%	91.5%
Kildin Sami	500	Russian	2.2%	68.8%
German	66.7M	Standard German	2.5%	64.3%
Eastern Yiddish-speaking Jew Frontier	170K	Eastern Yiddish	3.5%	4.2%
Hungarians	11.5M	Hungarian	3.1%	88.2%
Ruthenian	80K	Rusyn	3.1%	87.4%
Ukrainian	33.8M	Ukrainian	4%	75.1%
Vlax Roma Frontier	1.2M	Vlax Romani	6%	71.3%
Karelian	45K	Karelian	5.1%	63.9%
Romanian	20.8M	Romanian	6.3%	95.1%
Armenian	6M	Armenian	9.3%	94.6%
Latvian	1.4M	Standard Latvian	10.1%	56.9%
Korean	80.3M	Korean	12.3%	22.1%

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