Green = evangelical Christians, Red = people in unreached people groups.

1) India has less than 50 million evangelicals (4% of population), mostly in the far northeastern and southernmost states. Indias cen-tral and northern states where the bulk of Indias population reside, has very little Christian presence. By comparison, Africa has 360 million evangelicals (35% of the population) and North and South America have 440 million evangelicals (49% of the population).

There is an urgent need for harvest laborers to come to India from other countries! Why?

2) Indias evangelicals only speak a few of the 1,500 languages needed to effectively communicate the Gospel in India. We must encourage cross-cultural outreach by the Indian church, but India needs far more cross-cultural workers than the Indian churches can realistically provide. Prejudice both toward and by Indian Christian communities presents a significant challenge to the task. Only 10% of the languages of India have any scriptures and Indian believers, who control the Bible societies, struggle with accepting the validity of translations in neighboring languages.

Many ask: Shouldnt Indias Christians reach India?

The Harvest is truly plentious but the laborers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Matthew 9:37

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Rwanda

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Dominican Republic

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Cyprus

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Socotra

Galapagos Islands

Crete

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Puerto Rico

Brunei

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Mauritius

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Guam

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Dominica

Bahrain

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Mayotte

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Antigua and Barbuda

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GLOBAL STATUS OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY

POPULATION OF PEOPLE GROUPSBY STATUS OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY

As of November 1, 2009, the population of the world was 6,878,250,303.The Status of Evangelical Christianity has been determined for 6,531,624,055 people living outside of the USA and Canada.

The status of 346,626,248 people is under review.

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33,113,790

1,675,714,889

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440,454,962

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877,231,912

NUMBER OF PEOPLE GROUPSBY STATUS OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY

As of November 1, 2009, there were 11,587 people groups in the world.The Status of Evangelical Christianity has been determined for 10,762 people groups outside of the USA and Canada.

The status of 825 groups is under review.

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STATUS OFEVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY

0 No evangelical Christians or churches. No access to evangelical print, audio, visual or human resources.

1 Less than 2 percent evangelical. Some evangelical resources available. No active church planting within past two years.

2 Less than 2 percent evangelical. Initial or concentrated church planting within past two years.

3 Less than 2 percent evangelical. Dispersed church planting within past two years.

4 Greater than or equal to 2 percent evangelical, but less than 5 percent evangelical.

5 Greater than or equal to 5 percent evangelical, but less than 10 percent evangelical.

6 Greater than or equal to 10 percent evangelical.

Each dot represents a populated place. Light gray areas are uninhabited.

DEFINITIONSPeople group people with a common language and sense of ethnic identity.

Evangelical Christian a person who believes that Jesus Christ is the sole source of salvation through faith in Him, has personal faith and conversion with regeneration by the Holy Spirit, recognizes the inspired Word of God as the only basis for faith and Christian living, and is committed to biblical preaching and evangelism that brings others to faith in Jesus Christ.

All global statuses calculated by Global Research Department, IMB, November 2009. World Plate Carre Projection.

For additional information, visit IMB Global Research atIMB.ORG/GLOBALRESEARCH or contact the Global Research

Information Center at GRIC@IMB.ORG.

To order additional maps or download, contact the IMB atIMBRESOURCES.ORG or call (800) 999-3113.

Monthly updates of Status of Evangelical Christianity information areavailable for download from PEOPLEGROUPS.ORG.

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40% (or 2,217) of the worlds 6,921 remaining unreached people groups live in India. In the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) there are 1.59 billion people in unreached groups. 30% are Muslim (530 million).

Indias population of 1.3 billion people is more than North and South America combined (900 million) and more than Africa and the Middle East combined (1.26 billion).

India holds one fifth of the worlds population and 40% of the worlds poorest people (70% of which are Muslim).

8 Indian States have more impoverished people than 26 of Africas poorest countries combined. Totaling more than 410 million people.

Did you Know ...

Why India?

3) India receives only 6% of the worlds full-time Christian workers, including 8,000 foreign missionaries (7 missionaries per million) most of which work with the Indian Christian population. By comparison, Latin America (with less than half the population of India) receives over 100,000 foreign missionaries, or 172 missionaries per million people---25 times as many missionaries per person as India! Africa receives over 90,000 missionaries, or more than 90 missionaries per million people (13 times as many). (These statistics are from the Atlas of Global Christianity by Todd Johnson & Operation

World by Jason Mandryk. Photography by C. Haywood)

India needs far more cross-cultural workers than the Indian churches can realistically provide.

India receives only 6% of the worlds full-time Christian workers.

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