Belgium people groups, languages and religions

Country: Belgium

Number of People Groups

People Groups Unreached

28 (29.8%)

Progress Level

The Joshua Project Progress Scale is an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group, people cluster, country or language. The Progress Scale is derived from people group values for percent Evangelical and percent Christian Adherent.

Level	Description	Criteria
1	Unreached - Few evangelicals and few who identify as Christians. Little, if any, history of Christianity.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians <= 5%
2	Minimally reached - Few evangelicals, but significant number who identify as Christians.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 5% and <= 50%
3	Superficially reached - Few evangelicals, but many who identify as Christians. In great need of spiritual renewal and commitment to biblical faith.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 50%
4	Partially reached - Evangelicals have a modest presence.	Evangelicals > 2% and <= 10%
5	Significantly reached - Evangelicals have a significant presence.	Evangelicals > 10%

Total
Population

11,589,000

Population in Unreached

908,000 (7.8%)

Largest Religion

Christianity (64.4%)

% Christian Adherent

64.38%

% Evangelical

1.49%

Evangelical Annual Growth Rate

2.5%

(Global Rate = 2.6%)

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= Frontier peoples
People Group ▲	Population this Country	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Language	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Afghani, general	26,000	727,000		Dari	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Albanian, general	13,000	672,000		Albanian, Tosk	Islam	2 ●	24.00 %	0.40 %	-1 -
Algerian, Arabic-speaking	53,000	35,855,000		Arabic, Algerian Spoken	Islam	1 ●	1.00 %	0.50 %	1
Americans, U.S.	14,000	193,448,000		English	Christianity	5 ●	87.00 %	30.00 %	-1 -
Amhara, Ethiopian	1,000	24,655,000		Amharic	Christianity	4 ●	82.00 %	4.00 %	-1 -
Anglo-Australian	800	18,356,000		English	Christianity	5 ●	70.00 %	15.00 %	-1 -
Anglo-Canadian	3,000	16,691,000		English	Christianity	4 ●	76.00 %	9.00 %	-1 -
Arab, Egyptian	1,500	70,222,000		Arabic, Egyptian Spoken	Islam	4 ●	7.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Arab, Iraqi	21,000	17,695,000		Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken	Islam	1 ●	2.00 %	0.30 %	1
Arab, Lebanese	2,500	7,268,000		Arabic, North Levantine Spoken	Islam	4 ●	35.00 %	4.00 %	-1 -
Arab, Libyan	4,600	2,699,000		Arabic, Libyan Spoken	Islam	0 ☀	0.10 %	0.07 %	1
Arab, Moroccan	342,000	29,309,000		Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	Islam	1 ●	0.11 %	0.07 %	7
Arab, Syrian	15,000	17,357,000		Arabic, North Levantine Spoken	Islam	1 ●	3.00 %	0.40 %	1
Arab, Tunisian	21,000	11,456,000		Arabic, Tunisian Spoken	Islam	1 ●	0.30 %	0.20 %	1
Armenian	10,000	6,276,000		Armenian, Western	Christianity	5 ●	90.00 %	12.00 %	-1 -
Austrian, Bavarian	2,700	14,499,000		Bavarian	Christianity	3 ●	85.00 %	0.30 %	-1 -
Azerbaijani	1,100	10,046,000		Azerbaijani, North	Islam	1 ●	1.00 %	0.50 %	1
Belarusian	1,700	9,403,000		Belarusian	Christianity	3 ●	68.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Berber, Kabyle	55,000	7,121,000		Amazigh	Islam	1 ●	2.00 %	1.50 %	1
Berber, Shawiya	42,000	2,645,000		Tachawit	Islam	0 ☀	0.10 %	0.07 %	1
Black African, general	120,000	1,127,000		French	Islam	4 ●	39.00 %	4.00 %	-1 -
Bosniak	2,500	3,176,000		Bosnian	Islam	1 ●	0.50 %	0.40 %	1
Brazilian, White	15,000	100,397,000		Portuguese	Christianity	5 ●	86.00 %	25.00 %	-1 -
British	26,000	54,227,000		English	Christianity	4 ●	72.00 %	6.00 %	-1 -
Bulgarian	47,000	6,969,000		Bulgarian	Christianity	4 ●	80.00 %	4.00 %	-1 -
Chechen	18,000	1,728,000		Chechen	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Chilean	1,100	17,484,000		Spanish	Christianity	5 ●	85.00 %	12.00 %	-1 -
Chinese, general	22,000	15,577,000		Chinese, Mandarin	Buddhism	4 ●	12.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Colombian, Mestizo	1,800	35,323,000		Spanish	Christianity	4 ●	95.00 %	7.00 %	-1 -
Congolese, general	24,000	4,652,000		Lingala	Christianity	5 ●	94.00 %	18.00 %	-1 -
Cuban	700	9,157,000		Spanish	Christianity	4 ●	56.00 %	5.00 %	-1 -
Czech	3,200	10,903,000		Czech	Non-Religious	2 ●	25.00 %	0.70 %	-1 -
Danish	3,100	5,189,000		Danish	Christianity	4 ●	85.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Deaf	23,000	48,207,000	●	French Belgian Sign Language	Christianity	3 ●	62.72 %	-1	-1 -
Dominican	800	9,002,000		Spanish	Christianity	4 ●	90.00 %	6.00 %	-1 -
Dutch	191,000	13,525,000		Dutch	Non-Religious	4 ●	47.00 %	4.00 %	-1 -
Ecuadorian, Mestizo	3,500	14,048,000		Spanish	Christianity	4 ●	94.00 %	5.00 %	-1 -
Estonian	900	1,131,000		Estonian, Standard	Non-Religious	4 ●	40.00 %	4.00 %	-1 -
European, general	49,000	247,000		English	Christianity	3 ●	65.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Filipino, Tagalog	3,500	38,856,000		Tagalog	Christianity	5 ●	98.00 %	12.00 %	-1 -
Finnish	3,200	5,677,000		Finnish	Christianity	5 ●	85.00 %	13.00 %	-1 -
Flemish	5,448,000	5,702,000	●	West Flemish	Christianity	3 ●	68.95 %	1.32 %	-1 -
French	218,000	50,807,000		French	Christianity	3 ●	76.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Fula Jalon	8,500	5,121,000		Pular	Islam	1 ●	1.00 %	0.50 %	1
Georgian	3,200	3,446,000		Georgian	Christianity	3 ●	85.00 %	1.20 %	-1 -
German	51,000	66,476,000		German, Standard	Christianity	3 ●	74.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
German Swiss	2,200	4,877,000		German, Swiss	Christianity	4 ●	75.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Greek	29,000	10,352,000		Greek	Christianity	3 ●	95.00 %	0.20 %	-1 -
Hungarian	4,700	11,718,000		Hungarian	Christianity	3 ●	85.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Hutu, Rundi	2,300	11,899,000		Rundi	Christianity	5 ●	90.00 %	15.00 %	-1 -
Hutu, Rwandese	4,900	12,517,000		Kinyarwanda	Christianity	5 ●	90.00 %	20.00 %	-1 -
Irish	4,000	8,324,000		English	Christianity	3 ●	95.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Italian	280,000	38,333,000		Italian	Christianity	3 ●	80.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Japanese	4,700	122,406,000		Japanese	Buddhism	1 ●	2.00 %	0.30 %	1
Jew, French	29,000	516,000		French	Ethnic Religions	1 ●	1.00 %	0.10 %	1
Kazakh	2,600	17,574,000		Kazakh	Islam	1 ●	0.50 %	0.30 %	1
Khmer	500	16,104,000		Khmer	Buddhism	2 ●	7.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Korean	800	81,132,000		Korean	Christianity	5 ●	35.00 %	15.00 %	-1 -
Kurd, Kurmanji	29,000	15,639,000		Kurdish, Northern	Islam	1 ●	0.11 %	0.07 %	1
Latin American, general	12,000	1,093,000		Spanish	Christianity	4 ●	90.00 %	10.00 %	-1 -
Latvian	1,200	1,437,000		Latvian, Standard	Christianity	4 ●	55.00 %	10.00 %	-1 -
Lithuanian	1,800	2,793,000		Lithuanian	Christianity	3 ●	80.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Luxembourger	4,600	408,000		Luxembourgish	Christianity	3 ●	95.00 %	0.05 %	-1 -
Macedonian	6,300	1,947,000		Macedonian	Christianity	3 ●	85.00 %	0.50 %	-1 -
Mauritian	700	1,100,000		Morisyen	Christianity	4 ●	51.00 %	8.00 %	-1 -
Mexican	1,000	105,210,000		Spanish	Christianity	4 ●	95.00 %	8.00 %	-1 -
Moldavian	1,400	3,810,000		Romanian	Christianity	4 ●	74.00 %	5.00 %	-1 -
Mongol, Khalka	800	2,470,000		Mongolian, Halh	Ethnic Religions	1 ●	4.00 %	2.00 %	1
Moor	1,500	4,617,000		Hassaniyya	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Mossi	800	12,799,000		Moore	Islam	5 ●	30.00 %	12.00 %	-1 -
Norwegian	1,400	4,750,000		Norwegian	Christianity	4 ●	95.00 %	6.00 %	-1 -
Persian	13,000	42,530,000		Persian, Iranian	Islam	1 ●	2.00 %	1.60 %	1
Peruvian	1,200	25,472,000		Spanish	Christianity	5 ●	95.00 %	12.00 %	-1 -
Polish	98,000	42,410,000		Polish	Christianity	3 ●	90.00 %	0.12 %	-1 -
Portuguese	55,000	19,412,000		Portuguese	Christianity	3 ●	94.00 %	0.60 %	-1 -
Romani, Vlax	16,000	1,135,000		Romani, Vlax	Christianity	5 ●	90.00 %	18.00 %	-1 -
Romanian	121,000	21,045,000		Romanian	Christianity	4 ●	90.00 %	5.00 %	-1 -
Russian	62,000	135,564,000		Russian	Christianity	3 ●	70.00 %	0.30 %	-1 -
Serb	6,200	9,910,000		Serbian	Christianity	3 ●	75.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Slovak	5,700	5,082,000		Slovak	Christianity	3 ●	90.00 %	1.00 %	-1 -
Somali	1,400	24,163,000		Somali	Islam	1 ●	1.00 %	1.00 %	1
South Asian, general	32,000	12,257,000		Urdu	Islam	1 ●	2.00 %	0.80 %	1
Spaniard	79,000	29,270,000		Spanish	Christianity	3 ●	75.00 %	0.15 %	-1 -
Swedish	4,600	9,034,000		Swedish	Christianity	4 ●	57.00 %	6.00 %	-1 -
Syrian Aramaic, Turoyo	2,000	178,000		Turoyo	Christianity	3 ●	90.00 %	2.00 %	-1 -
Tajik	5,100	10,203,000		Tajik	Islam	0 ☀	0.03 %	0.02 %	1
Thai	3,500	23,632,000		Thai	Buddhism	1 ●	1.00 %	0.50 %	1
Turk	162,000	65,256,000		Turkish	Islam	1 ●	0.10 %	0.07 %	3
Ukrainian	4,200	37,192,000		Ukrainian	Christianity	4 ●	75.00 %	3.00 %	-1 -
Urdu	9,600	2,121,000		Urdu	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Uzbek, Northern	1,700	31,352,000		Uzbek, Northern	Islam	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Vietnamese	1,300	85,916,000		Vietnamese	Buddhism	4 ●	17.00 %	10.00 %	-1 -
Walloon	3,556,000	3,630,000	●	Walloon	Christianity	3 ●	69.98 %	1.32 %	-1 -
Wolof	1,900	6,377,000		Wolof	Islam	1 ●	4.00 %	2.00 %	1
Totals: 94	11,589,000					28 ●	64.38 %	1.49 %	36
Unclassified / Other Individuals	43,000
UN Country Population (2021)	11,632,000

* An estimate of the number of pioneer workers needed for initial church planting among unreached people groups by country. Estimates are calculated only for unreached people groups and are based on ratio of 1 worker-unit (single person or married couple) per 50,000 living in an unreached people group by country, or for example one team of four worker-units per 200,000 people. Some workers may already be onsite. Many more workers are needed beyond this initial estimate.

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Province ▲	Estimated Population
Bruxelles	1,095,000
Vlaanderen	6,588,000
Wallonie	3,650,000
Provinces: 3	11,333,000
UN Country Population	11,632,000

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Class ▲	Population	% Popl	% Hindu	% Muslim	% Christian	% Buddhist	% Sikh	% Other
Forward Caste (FC)	282,458,000	2,437.3 %	97.2 %	0.0 %	1.2 %	0.1 %	0.0 %	1.4 %
Other Backward Classes (OBC)	778,555,000	6,718.1 %	70.6 %	24.5 %	1.8 %	0.1 %	2.3 %	0.8 %
Scheduled Caste (SC)	207,795,000	1,793.0 %	93.3 %	0.0 %	0.4 %	3.6 %	2.6 %	0.0 %
Scheduled Tribe (ST)	118,286,000	1,020.7 %	81.3 %	1.5 %	9.4 %	0.8 %	0.0 %	6.8 %
	11,589,000

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Language ▲	Code	# Peoples w/ this Primary Language	# Unreached w/ this Primary Language	Scripture Status	NT Text Online	NT Audio Online	Jesus Film Online	Audio Recordings Online	Gospel Tract Online
Albanian, Tosk	als	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Amazigh	kab	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Amharic	amh	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Arabic, Algerian Spoken	arq	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	-1
Arabic, Egyptian Spoken	arz	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	-1
Arabic, Libyan Spoken	ayl	1	1	0 Unspecified	-1	1	1	-1	-1
Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken	acm	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Arabic, Moroccan Spoken	ary	1	1	4 New Testament	1	1	1	1	-1
Arabic, North Levantine Spoken	apc	2	1	3 Bible Portions	-1	1	-1	1	-1
Arabic, Tunisian Spoken	aeb	1	1	4 New Testament	1	-1	1	1	-1
Armenian, Western	hyw	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Azerbaijani, North	azj	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Bavarian	bar	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	-1	1	-1
Belarusian	bel	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Bosnian	bos	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Bulgarian	bul	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Chechen	che	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Chinese, Mandarin	cmn	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Czech	ces	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Danish	dan	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Dari	prs	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Dutch	nld	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
English	eng	6	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Estonian, Standard	ekk	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	-1	1	-1	-1
Finnish	fin	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
French	fra	3	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
French Belgian Sign Language	sfb	1	0	1 Translation Needed	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
Georgian	kat	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
German, Standard	deu	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
German, Swiss	gsw	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	-1	-1	1	-1
Greek	ell	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Hassaniyya	mey	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	-1
Hungarian	hun	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Italian	ita	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Japanese	jpn	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Kazakh	kaz	1	1	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Khmer	khm	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Kinyarwanda	kin	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Korean	kor	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Kurdish, Northern	kmr	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Latvian, Standard	lvs	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Lingala	lin	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Lithuanian	lit	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Luxembourgish	ltz	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	1	-1	1	-1
Macedonian	mkd	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Mongolian, Halh	khk	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Moore	mos	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Morisyen	mfe	1	0	4 New Testament	1	1	1	1	-1
Norwegian	nor	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	-1	-1
Persian, Iranian	pes	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Polish	pol	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Portuguese	por	2	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Pular	fuf	1	1	4 New Testament	1	1	1	1	-1
Romani, Vlax	rmy	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Romanian	ron	2	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Rundi	run	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Russian	rus	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Serbian	srp	1	0	5 Complete Bible	-1	1	1	1	-1
Slovak	slk	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Somali	som	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Spanish	spa	9	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Swedish	swe	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Tachawit	shy	1	1	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Tagalog	tgl	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Tajik	tgk	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Thai	tha	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Turkish	tur	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Turoyo	tru	1	0	4 New Testament	-1	-1	1	1	-1
Ukrainian	ukr	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Urdu	urd	2	2	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Uzbek, Northern	uzn	1	1	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Vietnamese	vie	1	0	5 Complete Bible	1	1	1	1	-1
Walloon	wln	1	0	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1
West Flemish	vls	1	0	3 Bible Portions	-1	-1	-1	1	-1
Wolof	wol	1	1	4 New Testament	-1	1	1	1	-1
Totals:	75	94	28		52	64	68	70	0

MAJOR RELIGIONS ▲	Percent
Buddhism	0.2 %
Christianity (Evangelical 1.5 %)	64.4 %
Ethnic Religions	0.3 %
Hinduism	0.1 %
Islam	7.9 %
Non-Religious	27.0 %
Other / Small Religions	0.1 %
Unknown	0.1 %

CHRISTIAN SEGMENTS ▲	Percent
Anglican	0.1 %
Independent	0.3 %
Orthodox	1.0 %
Other Christian	10.0 %
Protestant	1.1 %
Roman Catholic	83.6 %

Notes:

Major Religions: Religion percentages are derived from summing Joshua Project's data for all people groups who live in each country. The number of individuals who practice each religion, by people group, are summed. This number is divided by the country's total population to derive the religion's percentage.

Christianity Segments: Christian segment percentages are derived from summing Joshua Project's data for all the people groups who live in each country. The number of individuals who practice each segment of Christianity, by people group, are summed. This number is divided by the country's total number of Christians to derive the Christian segment's percentage.

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Belgium Statistics
People Groups	94
Unreached People Groups	28 (29.8%)
Population	11,589,000
Population Annual Growth Rate	0.6%
Population in Unreached	908,000 (7.8%)
Primary Religion	Christianity
Percent Christian Adherent	64.4%
Percent Evangelical	1.5%
Evangelical Annual Growth Rate	2.5%
Pioneer Workers Needed *	36
Country Progress Level	3 ●
Urbanization	98%
Continent	Europe
Region	Europe, Western
10/40 Window	No
Country Code	BE
Official Language(s)	West Flemish \| French
Literacy Rate	100%
Estimated Illiterate Population	0
Persecution Ranking	Not ranked

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