Did You Know...

india statistics

  • 32% (or 2,275) of the world's 7,000 remaining unreached people groups live in India.
  • 90% of India's population lives in an unreached people group.
  • India holds almost one fifth of the entire world's population and 40% of the world's poorest people. 
 

Every red dot represents a population of people with little or no access to the Gospel.

 

  • India's population of 1.28 billion people is more than North & South America combined (900 million) and more than Africa & the Middle East combined (1.26 billion). 

  • 8 Indian States have more impoverished people than 26 of Africa's poorest countries combined, totaling more than 410 million people.

* Source: Joshua Project, Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (IMB-SBC) *

 

MAHARAShTRA 

  • The state of Maharashtra in western India is the second-most populated sub-national entity on earth & India's second-most populated state.
  • As of 2018, Maharashtra has an estimated population of 116 million.
  • The capital of Maharashtra is Mumbai, and the second largest city is Pune.

Laborers

  • Almost 90% of all cross-cultural missionaries labor among nominally Christian people groups, only about 10% among unreached peoples.
  • Out of every dollar of Christian giving to all causes less than one penny goes towards pioneer church-planting among unreached peoples. 
  • An estimated 95% of pastors worldwide have had no formal training. 

* Source: Joshua Project, Operation World, & World Christian Encyclopedia *