General Statistics

World Wide

Unreached People Groups

The "10/40 Window"

Major World Religions/Blocs

Christians of the World

Languages

Internationals in the USA

Money and Missions

Missionaries and Workers

 

World Wide

World Population: 6.83 Billion (joshuaproject.net)

  • 6,928,198,253 - as of July 2011 according to the CIA World Factbook, accessed December 14, 2011 at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html
  • Median age - total: 28.4 years
  • Life expectancy - total population: 67.07 years

Hey TTT, what is “7 Billion”?

  • Seven billion seconds ago was 1789 - the year George Washington was inaugurated as the first U.S. president.
  • If you took 7 billion steps along the Earth's equator -- at 2 feet per step -- you could walk around the world at least 106 times.
  • Seven billion ants would weigh at least 23 tons (46,297 pounds).
  • When you are between 31 and 32 years old, you will have lived for 1 billion seconds. To reach 7 billion seconds, you would have to live to be 220 years old!
  • The Earth measures 24,900 miles around the middle. To travel 7 billion miles, you would have to circle the globe nearly 300,000 times.

Top ten most populous countries (in millions, July 2011, CIA world factbook)

  • China 1,336.72
  • India 1,189.17
  • United States 313.23
  • Indonesia 245.61
  • Brazil 203.43
  • Pakistan 187.34
  • Bangladesh 158.57
  • Nigeria 155.22
  • Russia 138.74
  • Japan 126.48

Internet Users: 2.1 Billion (2010 estimate)
 

Unreached People Groups

Total People Groups: 16,750
Total Unreached People Groups: 6,921
Total Population of UPGs: 2.84 billion people
Total Percentage of world: UPG’s make up 40.6% of world population

Peoples-by-Country Individuals

All People Groups
16,750 6.83 billion
Unreached People Groups
6,921 2.84 billion
% Unreached Peoples
41.3 % 41.5 %
10/40 Window Total
8,717 4.50 billion
10/40 Window Unreached
5,874 2.76 billion
10/40 Window % Unreached
67.4 % 61.2 %


Unevangelized Peoples:

(Greater than 2% evangelical Christian but still great numbers of unsaved)
Total Population: 915,000,000
Total People Groups: 3,306
Total Percentage of world: the unevangelized make up 13.1% of world population


Reached Peoples:

(Majority Christian population)
Total Population: 3.1 billion
Total People Groups: 6,532
Total Percentage of world: the reached population makes up 44.3% of world population

The “10/40 Window”

Most of the unreached people groups are located geographically in what some scholars call "The 10/40 Window" from West Africa across Asia between 10 degrees latitude north of the equator to 40 degrees north.

Total Population in 10/40:           4.5 billion people
Total People Groups in 10/40:    8,717 people groups
Total UPG’s in 10/40:                 5,874 Unreached People Groups totaling 2.75 billion people.
                                                    41.58% of all individuals

60% of unreached people groups live in countries closed to missionaries from North America.

1,047 of the unreached people groups are NOT in the 10/40 Window, these total 82,406,000 individuals.
(joshuaproject.net)

Major World Religions/Blocs

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Animism:     206 Million (Operation World 2011)
                      2,800 People Groups
                      1,004 UPGs
                      2.9% of the world population
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Hinduism:    1.028 Billion worldwide (joshuaproject.net)
                      2,595 People Groups
                      2,314 UPG’s
                      14.7% of the world population
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China:         1,291,622,000 individuals (joshuaproject.net)
                     519 people groups
                     428 Unreached People Groups
                     18.6% of the world population
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Islam:          1.537 Billion worldwide (joshuaproject.net)
                     3,431 Total People Groups
                     2,854 UPG’s
                     22% of the world population
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Buddhism:  621,789,000 individuals (joshuaproject.net)
                     581 People Groups
                     449 UPGs
                     8.9% of world population
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Christian:   2 Billion worldwide (all Catholic, Protestant, etc. joshuaproject.net)
                    6,876 Total People Groups
                    7 UPG’s
                    28.6% of the world population
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Christians of the World

Christian:      2 Billion worldwide (all Catholic, Protestant, etc. joshuaproject.net)
                      6,876 Total People Groups
                      7 UPG’s
                      28.6% of the world population

Evangelicals:

Of the approximate 2 billion Christians in the world today, 648 million (11% of the world's population) are Evangelicals or Bible believing Christians. Evangelicals have grown from only 3 million in AD 1500, to 648 million worldwide, with 54% being Non-Whites.

In the Christian world, 4.19 million full-time Christian workers (95%) work within the Christian world. Frontier Harvest Ministries

There are 900 churches for every one unreached people group. (USCWM, Mission Frontiers, 2001)

There are 95,000 Evangelical Christians for every one unreached people group.

Languages

Total Languages: 6,909 Languages

Largest languages (top 3) - Mandarin Chinese 12.44%, Spanish 4.85%, English 4.83%, (first language speakers)

About 4,400 languages are without Scripture portions available, with some 634,000,000 speakers. Translation projects are in progress in an estimated 1,600 languages that currently are without adequate Scriptures. There are about 2,500 languages needing Bible translation work to begin. (joshuaproject.net)

Of the world's approximately 6,900 languages, 4,765 have at least one of the following: Bible portions, the Jesus Film, Christian radio, or Gospel recordings. Total speakers of these languages is 6.2 billion which represents over 95% of the world's population. 2,135 languages have none of these resources available, with about 195,000,000 speakers.

RESOURCE: http://www.operationworld.org/region/world/owtext.html

Internationals in the USA

Total International students in the US: 723,277

62% of internationals are from 10/40 Window countries.

Total Number of Students from 10/40 Window Countries studying in US: 451,568 from 68 Countries.

Top 10 countries:
1.China
2. India
3. South Korea
4. Canada
5. Taiwan
6. Saudi Arabia
7. Japan
8. Vietnam
9. Mexico
10. Turkey

Hey TTT, Why reach out to internationals?

80% of those students will return to their countries having never been invited to an American home.

40% of the world's 220 Heads of State once studied in the US.

Only 10% of international students are reached by ministries while in the United States.

RESOURCES
Internationals Students, origins:
http://www.iie.org/Research-and-Publications/Open-Doors/Data/International-Students/All-Places-of-Origin/2009-11

Open Doors 2011 Fast Facts:
http://www.iie.org/Research-and-Publications/Open-Doors/~/media/Files/Corporate/Open-Doors/Fast-Facts/Fast-Facts-2011.ashx

Money and Missions

Annual Income of All Church Members: $30.5 trillion

Annual income of Evangelical Christians is approximately $6.72 trillion

Given to any Christian causes: $545 billion, (1.8% of our income)

*That’s also how much we spend in America on Christmas.

Given to Missions: $31 billion, (0.1%). That’s only 5.7% of the money given to Christian causes of any kind.

*That’s also how much we spend in America on dieting programs.

Money that goes toward the Reached world: $26,970,000,000 (that means 87% of the money given to “Missions” goes to areas with “reached” status or access to the gospel already)

Money that goes toward Unreached Peoples: $310 million, (that’s only 1% of what is given to “Missions.”)

*That’s also how much Americans in 2011 spent on Halloween costumes (for their pets).

The $310 million (going toward UPG’s) is only .001% of the $30.5 trillion Income of Christians. (for every $100,000 that Christians make, they give $1 to the unreached.)

HYPOTHETICAL OBSERVATIONS:

Evangelical Christians could provide all of the funds needed to plant a church in each of the 6,900 unreached people groups with only 0.03% of their income.

The Church has roughly 3,000 times the financial resources and 9,000 times the manpower needed to finish the Great Commission.

If every evangelical gave 10% of their income to missions we could easily support 2 million new missionaries.

Hey TTT, what is “1 in 100,000”?

In terms of odds, those are the same chances you have of dying from a bee sting or from lighting. However, your dollar is just slightly more likely to make it to the unreached than the chances are of you being injured as an adult by a pogo stick.

Missionaries and Workers

*Gordon Conwell, 2001

All Missionaries in the World: (Catholic, Protestant, etc.) 419,500 foreign missionaries
All Missionaries in the Reached World: 316,500 foreign missionaries, (75.4%)
All Missionaries in the Unevangelized World: 103,000 foreign missionaries, (24.6%)
All Missionaries in the Unreached World: 10,200 foreign missionaries, (2.4%)

Full time Christian Workers in the World: 5.5 million workers
All Christian workers in the Reached World: 4.19 million local workers, (75.9%)
All Christian workers in the Unevangelized World: 1.3 million local workers, (23.7%)
All Christian workers in the Unreached World: 20,500 local workers, (0.37%)

MORE TTT OBSERVATIONS

The number of current UPG missionaries compared to the total 2 billion Christians in the world equals the same probability of being in a plane accident (.0005%).

The ratio of UPG workers the total unreached world is: 1 missionary for every 278,431 people

There are 95,000 Evangelical Christians for every one unreached people group.

There are roughly 15 million university students (2003).

Hey TTT, Is God to blame for not “Calling” People to Missions?

If everyone is obeying God’s “calling” to be a missionary wherever they are then God is calling 99.9995% of people to work among the 44.3% of the world population that already has the gospel, and calling virtually no one (.0005%) to relocate among the other 53.7% of the world population that are not Christian. You have a better chance of being in a plane crash than being one of the 2 billion Christians in the world that are UPG missionaries.

In light of God’s word, this seems unfathomable and appears almost complete disobedience on the part of the Church worldwide to go make disciples of all the nations. Financially we are hoarding 99.99% of our income to ourselves and what little is given is mostly directed toward reached people groups.

The current status quo is to do virtually nothing to reach the UPG’s of the world. The percentages of man-power and money focused on UPG’s are almost undetectable they are so small. The amount of resources that fall off the Christian table for unreached peoples is more comparable (I Googled it…) with the number of skin cells you lose over a month’s time: something hardly worth calling a sacrifice of the body.

 

"Must you go to China? How much nicer it would be to stay here and serve the Lord at home!" She made it plain at last that she would not go to China.

J. Hudson Taylor's new ex-girlfriend

You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

Steve Hawthorne

I have seen, at different times, the smoke of a thousand villages villages whose people are without Christ, without God, and without hope in the world.

Robert Moffat

The command has been to "go," but we have stayed in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.

Robert Savage

While vast continents are shrouded in darkness... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of the foreign mission field.

Ion Keith-Falconer

I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done for China... I don't know who it was... It must have been a man... a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing... and God looked down... and saw Gladys Aylward... And God said "Well, she's willing."

Gladys Aylward

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

J. Hudson Taylor

The man... looking at him with a smile that only half concealed his contempt, inquired, "Now Mr. Morrison do you really expect that you will make an impression on the idolatry of the Chinese Empire?" "No sir," said Morrison, "but I expect that God will."

Robert Morrison

Here am I. Send me.

Isaiah

And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.

Nate Saint

Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians.

Leonard Ravenhill

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

C.T. Studd

Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.

said to a young William Carey

Oh, that I had a thousand lives, and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved mortals.

Robert Moffat

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

John Stott

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

K.P. Yohannan

I have but one passion it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.

Count Zinzindorf

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies.

J. Hudson Taylor

He must increase, but I must decrease.

John the Baptist

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

C.T. Studd

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

William Cameron Townsend

Prepare for the worst, expect the best, and take what comes.

Robert E. Speer

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a "field full of wheat and tares."

Amy Carmichael

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth.

James O. Fraser

It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.

David Bryant

If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

Frederick Franson

What are we here for, to have a good time with Christians or to save sinners?

Malla Moe

I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.

Robert Murray Mc'Cheyne

It's amazing what can be accomplished if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

Clarence W. Jones

Two distinguishing marks of the early church were: 1) Poverty 2) Power.

T.J. Bach

Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.

David Livingstone

From my many years' experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.

Lottie Moon

All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.

William Carey

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

C.T. Studd

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

The more obstacles you have, the more opportunities there are for God to do something.

Clarence W. Jones

Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God.

William Carey

God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.

Andrew A. Bonar

All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!

Jonathan Goforth

I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.

Samuel Zwemer

The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

E. Stanley Jones

This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Jesus

All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.

Keith Green

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

Oswald Chambers

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

A.W. Tozer

I have said that there is nothing in the world or the Church, except it's disobedience, to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.

Robert Speer

I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.

Alexander Duff

Today Christians spend more money on dog food than missions.

Leonard Ravenhill

It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home.

J. Hudson Taylor

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

Oswald J. Smith

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

David Bryant

And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man's foundation.

Paul

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

K.P. Yohannan

If every Christian is already considered a missionary, then all can stay put where they are, and nobody needs to get up and go anywhere to preach the gospel. But if our only concern is to witness where we are, how will people in unevangelized areas ever hear the gospel? The present uneven distribution of Christians and opportunities to hear the gospel of Christ will continue on unchanged.

C. Gordon Olson

I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!

George Miley

God provides the men and women needed for each generation.

Mildred Cable

Oh dear, I couldn't say that my church is alive and I wouldn't want to call it dead. I guess it's just walking in its sleep!

Church member

When he landed in 1848 there were no Christians here; when he left in 1872 there were no heathen.

said of John Geddie

I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

William Burns

At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals of the Redeemer's love, I had a foretaste of the joy of glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss, till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus himself.

John G. Paton

Save others, snatching them out of the fire.

Jude

The evangelization of the world in this generation.

Student Volunteer Movement Motto

Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring.

Jesus

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

John Piper

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.

John Stott

Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.

David Bryant

Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

Francis Xavier

Christ for the students of the world, and the students of the world for Christ.

Luther Wishard

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.

George Verwer

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

C.T. Studd

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

J. Hudson Taylor

God has huge plans for the world today! He is not content to merely establish a handful of struggling churches among each tongue, tribe and nation. Even now He is preparing and empowering His Church to carry the seeds of revival to the uttermost ends of the earth.

David Smithers

The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.

Mike Stachura

Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.'

C.H. Spurgeon.

There is something wonderfully misleading, full of hallucination and delusion in this business of missionary calls. With many of us it is not a missionary call at all that we are looking for; it is a shove. There are a great many of us who would never hear a call if it came.

Robert Speer

I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God; first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.

J. Hudson Taylor

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

David Brainerd

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

Helen Keller

'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world.

William Booth

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

Charles H. Spurgeon

The world is my parish.

John Wesley

Why doesn't your God speak my language?

Guatemalan Indian to Cam Townsend, founder Wycliffe Bible Translators

I am willing to go anywhere, at anytime, to do anything for Jesus.

Luther Wishard

The 3.5 billion unreached people on earth would form a single file line that would stretch around the equator 25 times! Can you picture 25 lines of Christless people, trampling endlessly toward hell? Let that vision stay with you day and night.

Larry Stockstill

God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him, He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.

Oswald Chambers

A little prayer, little power; no prayer, no power.

A Chinese Christian motto

When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door.

Clarence Jones

I will open Africa to the gospel or die trying.

Rowland Bingham

None but women can reach Muslim Women... So we have a solemn duty in this matter that we cannot shift. The blood of souls is on our skirts, and God will demand them at our hands.

Missionary wife from the Middle East

The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.

Oswald J. Smith

As long as there are millions destitute of the word of God and the knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote my time and energy to those who have both.

J.L. Ewen

If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.

Charles Spurgeon

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

Andrew Murray

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse.

Jim Elliot

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph.

Samuel Zwemer

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