The Globe at a Glance

NOTES
1. In the past, we have relied on a variety of expert sources for our figures and estimates for our “All Humanity in Mission Perspective” chart. We are now using information supplied by Todd M. Johnson of the World Evangelization Research Center. Todd is familiar with the unimax principle and is a caretaker of the data underlying the World Christian Encyclopedia (David B. Barrett, ed.) His table reflects Todd’s interpretation of missiologically significant groups within larger ethnolinguistic peoples and gives estimates of the numbers based upon analyzing statistical clues and making adjustments where necessary. No attempt has been made to adjust the estimates to make them more in line with previous estimates. If you were to compare with previous charts, you would notice that some of the numbers for unimax groups within a bloc have gone up instead of down. In fact, the overall number of estimated unimax groups has increased back to our earlier published estimate of 10,000 from several years ago. This can be attributed to a change in sources and methodology.
Other changes from previous versions of this chart: 1) the Jews and non-Religious/Atheist categories have been added; 2) because of the inclusion of the Non-Religious/Atheist category, the Chinese bloc was split between the between that category and the Chinese Folk bloc.

2. The global foreign mission force includes all kinds of Christians (Protestants, Anglican, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, etc).

3. The graphs for the Protestant Mission Force were generated from data derived from Appendix 3, Protestant Missionary Force, found in the 1993 edition of Operation World. The country figures were analyzed based on Patrick Johnstone’s extensive knowledge of mission work around the world. The separation of the cross-cultural work force into the different religious blocs was a preliminary analysis done specifically for the Perspectives Reader. Missionaries in church development ministries within non-Christian peoples are not included in the pioneer categories. Our thanks to Patrick Johnstone and his assistant Jason Mandryk for their willing hearts and expedient labor.

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	NOTES 1. In the past, we have relied on a variety of expert sources for our figures and estimates for our “All Humanity in Mission Perspective” chart. We are now using information supplied by Todd M. Johnson of the World Evangelization Research Center. Todd is familiar with the unimax principle and is a caretaker of the data underlying the World Christian Encyclopedia (David B. Barrett, ed.) His table reflects Todd’s interpretation of missiologically significant groups within larger ethnolinguistic peoples and gives estimates of the numbers based upon analyzing statistical clues and making adjustments where necessary. No attempt has been made to adjust the estimates to make them more in line with previous estimates. If you were to compare with previous charts, you would notice that some of the numbers for unimax groups within a bloc have gone up instead of down. In fact, the overall number of estimated unimax groups has increased back to our earlier published estimate of 10,000 from several years ago. This can be attributed to a change in sources and methodology. Other changes from previous versions of this chart: 1) the Jews and non-Religious/Atheist categories have been added; 2) because of the inclusion of the Non-Religious/Atheist category, the Chinese bloc was split between the between that category and the Chinese Folk bloc. 2. The global foreign mission force includes all kinds of Christians (Protestants, Anglican, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, etc). 3. The graphs for the Protestant Mission Force were generated from data derived from Appendix 3, Protestant Missionary Force, found in the 1993 edition of Operation World. The country figures were analyzed based on Patrick Johnstone’s extensive knowledge of mission work around the world. The separation of the cross-cultural work force into the different religious blocs was a preliminary analysis done specifically for the Perspectives Reader. Missionaries in church development ministries within non-Christian peoples are not included in the pioneer categories. Our thanks to Patrick Johnstone and his assistant Jason Mandryk for their willing hearts and expedient labor.
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