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What "unreached" means
A people group is unreached when there is no indigenous community of believers large enough to evangelise the rest of the group without outside help — commonly measured as under 2% evangelical. Frontier groups are the least reached of all: fewer than 1 in 1,000 follow Jesus and there is no known movement to Christ.
"Unreached" is a statement about access, not about the worth of a people or the sincerity of anyone's faith.
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The largest unreached peoples
| People | Population | Status | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shaikh | 250 million | Frontier | South Asia |
| Bengali Muslim | 150 million | Frontier | South Asia |
| Japanese | 123 million | Unreached | East Asia |
| Turk | 60 million | Frontier | Middle East / Europe |
| Persian | 50 million | Frontier | Middle East |
| Sundanese | 40 million | Frontier | Southeast Asia |
| Somali | 25 million | Frontier | East Africa / Horn |
| Central Thai | 25 million | Frontier | Southeast Asia |
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What is a frontier people group?
An unreached people group with virtually no Christian presence — fewer than 1 in 1,000 follow Jesus — and no known movement to Christ.