China

China Full MapChristianity is exploding in China! The country has a population of over 1.4 billion people, but has a relatively small number of evangelical Christians. Hearts are open, and people are responding to the Gospel.

Our partners are training local Christians and providing biblical materials to take advantage of the tremendous opportunities to spread the Good News. There is a need for millions of Scriptures to disciple the new believers.

Population: 1,408,222,000

Percent Evangelical: 7.5%

Population in Unreached: 140,553,000 (10.0%)

*Unreached People Groups: 441 out of 545 people groups are considered unreached

Religions: officially Atheist, folk religions, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Daoism (Taoism), Hinduism, Judaism

Ethnic groups: Han Chinese, Zhuang, Hui, Manchu, Uyghur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Mongol, Buyi, Subei, Dong, Hmu, Korean, Kazakh, Khampa, Pingdi, Ghao-Xong, Nosu, Lu Mien, Li, She, Chuanqing, Dai, Yao, other ethnic minorities

Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official), Wu (Shanghainese), Yue (Cantonese), Jinyu, Min Nan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Gan, Min Bei (Fuzhou), Xiang, Hakka dialects, other ethnic languages

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*Unreached People Groups are defined by Joshua Project as ethnic groups that have no significant presence of evangelical Christians among them - typically less than 2 percent - and lack the resources to evangelize their own people.

 

Sources:

Joshua Project https://joshuaproject.net/global_list/countries

CIA The World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/wfbExt/region_eas.html