One third of earth’s people call themselves Christians. One third are non-Christians living in already reached people groups. One third are non-Christians living in unreached people groups.

		Amazing Progress In 1974 approximately one half of the world's population was beyond the reach of the Church, living in unreached peoples. Today, just one third of the world's population live in unreached peoples beyond the reach of the Church.

For the first time in history, there are fewer non-Christians within the unreached peoples than there are within the reached groups. As missionaries succeed in establishing church movements in more unreached peoples, that is exactly what you would expect to happen.

As the figures below demonstrate, we are in the final era of missions. For the first time in history we can anticipate the completions of the missionary task, which is to establish an indigenous church planting movement within the language and social structure of every people on earth.

For a more extensive analysis of the state of world evangelization go to the article, Finishing the Task by Ralph Winter and Bruce Koch.

Amazing Growth:
Annual Growth Rates:
Overall World Population is growing by 1.6% each year

Pentecostals and Charismatics 7.3%
Evangelicals 5.7%,
Protestants 2.9%,
Roman Catholics ~1.2%,
All Christians 2.6%

Muslims 2.7%

Evangelical believers are growing at a rate of
three and one half times that of world population.

Milestone Dates in the Growth
of True Christianity

At the dates indicated, a comparison of
1) the number of Bible–believing Christians
and 2) the total number of people in the world:

It took 1430 years for Bible-believing Christians to
become just one percent of world population

By AD 1430, (1%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 99 after 1430 years)
By AD 1790, (2%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 49 after 360 years)
By AD 1940, (3%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 32 after 150 years)
By AD 1960, (4%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 24 after 20 years)
By AD 1970, (5%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 19 after 10 years)
By AD 1980, (6%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 16 after 10 years)
By AD 1983, (7%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 13 after 3 years)
By AD 1986, (8%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 11 after 3 years)
By AD 1989, (9%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 10 after 3 years)
By AD 1993, (10%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 9 after 4 years)
By AD 1997, (11%) were Bible believing Christians. (One to 8 after 4 years)

The Latest Picture

Today, 645 million or (11%) of the world population are Evangelicals or Bible believing Christians.

Of the world’s 24,000 “Unimax” People Groups, 10,000 (having 2.1 billion persons) are still considered Unreached---though Christian work is being done among most. A unimax people is the maximum sized group sufficiently unified to be reached by a single, indigenous church planting movement.

Distribution of Protestant Missionaries Among Cultural Blocks
74% Among Nominal Christians	3% Among Buddhists
8% Among Tribal Peoples	2% Among Hindus
6% Among Muslims	2% Among Chinese Folk Religions
4% Among Non-Religious/Atheists	1% Among Jewish Peoples

Global Church Member Finance in US Dollars:
12,300 Billion (12.3 Trillion) - Total Annual Income
213 Billion - Given to Christian Causes (1.73% of total income)
11.4 Billion - Given to Foreign Missions (5.4% of Giving to Christian causes)


Of Foreign Mission Giving:
87% goes for work among those already Christian,
12% goes for work among already evangelized non-Christians, and
1% or $114 million goes for work among people groups in the Unevangelized or Unreached category.

Other Measures of Progress