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Datasets & API

Download raw people group, country, and language data for research and analysis, or integrate live Joshua Project data directly into your application via the API.

CSV & Excel formats
Live API access
People groups, countries & languages
Free to use

Downloadable datasets

CSV & Excel

To download data for a specific continent, region, country, religion, affinity bloc, people cluster, or people group, use the search tool or the People Group Lists page and click Download Data from the result. Contact us with any data or cross-reference questions.

All people groups in country (PGIC)
CSV / Excel
Unreached people groups in country (PGIC)
CSV / Excel
All people groups across countries (PGAC)
CSV / Excel
All countries
CSV / Excel
People-country-language table
CSV / Excel
All language data
CSV / Excel
General field descriptions
CSV / Excel
Cross-reference to peoplegroups.org data
CSV / Excel Access
Complete relational database
Access
Developer access

Joshua Project API

The Joshua Project API provides developers with live access to people group, country, and language data. Request a free API key and start building with structured, up-to-date mission data.

Request API Key → View Documentation

Data usage examples

Making Data Count in Reaching the Unreached
Making Data Count in Reaching the Unreached

Chris Maynard · Mission Frontiers
Workers for the Harvest Visualization
Workers for the Harvest

Irene Strodel · CV Global
Stratus Earth
Stratus Earth

Radical
Center of Global Missions Need
Center of Global Missions Need

Ted Esler · Frontier Ventures
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.