• Religion:  

Religion: Islam What is Primary Religion?

Population of Adherents

1,957,650,000

% of World Population

24.7 %

People Groups

4,054

Unreached Groups

3,505 (86.5 %)

Map Notes
Click column headings for sorting ▲▼
Progress Scale: ●●●●●   
☀
 = Frontier peoples
Photo People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherent 		%
Evangelical 		Scripture
Status 		Est. Workers
Needed * ▼
Sylhet (Muslim traditions) Bangladesh 12,224,000 Sylheti Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % New Testament 244
Shaikh Pakistan 11,782,000 Sindhi Islam ☀ 0.00 % Complete Bible 236
Uyghur China 11,770,000 Uyghur Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % Complete Bible 235
Arain (Muslim traditions) Pakistan 11,284,000 Punjabi, Western Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % New Testament 226
Arab, Tunisian Tunisia 11,301,000 Arabic, Tunisian Spoken Islam ● 0.22 % 0.00 % New Testament 226
Afghan, Tajik Afghanistan 11,293,000 Dari Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % Complete Bible 226
Arab, Saudi - Hijazi Saudi Arabia 11,127,000 Arabic, Hijazi Spoken Islam ☀ 0.09 % 0.08 % Bible Portions 223
Mappila India 10,352,000 Malayalam Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 207
Arab, North Iraqi Iraq 9,700,000 Arabic, North Mesopotamian Spoken Islam ● 0.70 % 0.20 % New Testament 194
Shaikh Qureshi India 9,649,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 193
Sayyid India 9,222,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 184
Kurd, Kurmanji Turkey 9,200,000 Kurdish, Northern Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 184
Java Banyumasan Indonesia 9,206,000 Javanese Islam ● 2.50 % 1.18 % Complete Bible 184
Pashtun, Pathan India 9,141,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % Complete Bible 183
Shaikh Siddiqi India 8,947,000 Urdu Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 179
Kashmiri (Muslim traditions) India 7,944,000 Kashmiri Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Complete Bible 159
Azerbaijani Azerbaijan 7,920,000 Azerbaijani, North Islam ● 0.40 % 0.22 % Complete Bible 158
Somali Ethiopia 7,813,000 Somali Islam ● 0.14 % 0.03 % Complete Bible 156
Arab, Yemeni Yemen 7,594,000 Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % Bible Portions 152
Madura Indonesia 7,625,000 Madura Islam ● 0.11 % 0.05 % Complete Bible 152
Kanuri, Yerwa Nigeria 7,619,000 Kanuri, Yerwa Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % New Testament 152
Oromo, Hararghe Ethiopia 7,551,000 Oromo, Eastern Islam ● 5.00 % 0.05 % New Testament 151
Tajik Tajikistan 7,351,000 Tajik Islam ☀ 0.05 % 0.05 % Complete Bible 147
Pashtun, Northern Afghanistan 7,100,000 Pashto, Northern Islam ☀ 0.01 % 0.01 % Complete Bible 142
Minangkabau Indonesia 6,864,000 Minangkabau Islam ● 0.26 % 0.02 % New Testament 137
Totals: 4,054 Peoples   1,957,650,000     3,505 ●       35,726
  Download Data   Data Sources   Definitions
  Prayer Cards
  Prayer Guide
Disclaimers:
  1. Joshua Project data is drawn from many sources and of varying accuracy depending on source and editorial decisions. Populations are scaled to the current year. Other data may have varying ages. We welcome updates.
  2. Joshua Project occasionally adjusts profile text from third party sources. This is done to avoid confusion regarding the current reality of a people group, to fix grammar and spelling and to avoid potentially offensive wording.
  3. A displayed zero can mean true zero, a very small rounded number or sometimes unknown. Blanks mean an unknown value.
  4. Data is not as precise as it appears. Values for %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical (which determine unreached status) are often informed estimates, some more accurate than others. We recommend against using %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical to calculate absolute numbers.
  5. Joshua Project makes every effort to ensure that the subject in an image is in fact from the specific people group. In rare instances a representative photo may be used.
  6. Joshua Project may be able to provide more information than what is published on this site. Please contact us.
  7. On-the-ground reality may vary from what is presented here. Before making travel plans based on data presented here, please confirm with other sources to the extent possible.
Peoples, Countries, Languages People Group
Lists Create
a List Global
Statistics Maps
 Definitions