Why India?
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NUMBER
OF PEOPLE GROUPS
POPULATION
PEOPLE GROUPS
Green = evangelical
Christians,
Red = people in unreached
peopleOFgroups.
BY STATUS OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY
BY STATUS OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY
Falkland Islands
732
5,332
558
33,113,790
1,675,714,889
2,122,611,853
There is an urgent need for harvest laborers to come
to India from other countries! Why?
27
1,000
877,231,912
1,914
819,131,345
1,222
2,000
563,365,304
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
Did you Know ...
440,454,962
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New
Zealand
500,000,000
1,000,000,000 1,500,000,000 2,000,000,000 2,500,000,000
As of November 1, 2009, there were 11,587 people groups in the world.
As of November 1, 2009, the population of the world was 6,878,250,303.
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.
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.
1) India has less than 50 million evangelicals (4% of population),
mostly in the far northeastern and southernmost states. Indias central 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).
Many ask: Shouldnt Indias Christians reach India?
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.
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
40% (or 2,217) of the
worlds 6,921 remaining
unreached people groups
live in India.
Antarctica
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.
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1.3 Billion
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350 Million
Percent of Total Population
The Worlds Continents Compared to India
India needs far more cross-cultural workers than
the Indian churches can realistically provide.
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 receives only 6%
of the worlds full-time
Christian workers.
