Of the 8.12 billion people on earth, an estimated 3.39 billion have almost no access to the gospel. This piece pulls together the current picture — where the world’s population actually lives, how people groups break down between reached, unevangelized, and unreached, what the 10/40 Window is, how the major world religions compare, and where the money and the missionaries actually go.
It’s built as a full interactive infographic rather than a plain article, since most of this is easier to take in visually — a donut chart for the people-group split, a bar chart for world religions, and an icon grid showing the well-known “30 missionaries to reached peoples for every 1 to unreached peoples” ratio.
Data compiled from Joshua Project, the Gordon Conwell Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Wycliffe Bible Translators, the World Christian Database, and R.W. Lewis’s writing in the International Journal of Frontier Mission. Full source list is on the infographic page itself.