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Missions Statistics:
World Population:
6 billion people.
One third of earth’s people call themselves Christians.
One third of non-Christians live in already reached people groups.
One third of non-Christians live in unreached
people groups.
680 million (~11.5%) are Evangelicals or Bible reading Christians.
Over 160,000 believers will be martyred this year.
US missionaries make up only 30% of the world’s missionaries. Our slightly declining annual number is being overtaken by increased participation from Africa, Latin America and Korea.
Of those involved in missions in the US, 98% are Senders (Financial Support, Prayers, Letter, Mobilizers, Pastors, etc.), 0.5% are Servicers (Mobilizers, Administrative, Tech Support, Training, Communication), 1.5% are Missionaries (Church Planting, Development, Tentmaking, Tribal Outreach, Health Services).
Worldwide: Last year alone, about 120,000,000 people were presented the gospel for the first time.
Worldwide: About 1.7 billion people now listen
to Christian radio or
watch Christian TV on
a monthly basis.
Worldwide: Christians now spend 388,000,000,000
man-hours every year proclaiming the gospel in evangelism.
The stats above are adapted from data by David B. Barrett and Todd M Johnson of the Global Evangelization Movement. Other portions come from Patrick Johnstone’s The Church is Bigger Than You Think, Bill and Amy Stearns’ Catch the Vision 2000,
and the course material for Vision for the Nations published by the US Center for World Mission.
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