Learn

Using PeopleGroups.org

Be empowered to pray and act today. Everything here is free: our mission is to mobilize prayer and action worldwide.

• Explore profiles of people groups, countries, languages and religions.
• Search by any name a group is known by, or by country or language. Search forgives misspellings.
• Filter and download exactly the groups you need, then make your own resources.
• Learn about unreached people groups and how they are tracked. New to this? Start with the definitions.
• Find resources: printable maps, and films and Bibles in thousands of languages.
• Read in your language: use the language menu at the top of every page. Translations are made by machine; the English is always one click away.

The people groups map

The people groups of the world page shows a point for every people group, sized by population. Click a point to see the group and open its profile. Every filter you set (gospel status, region, country, religion, affinity group, language, or a search) updates the map, the table and the totals together, and is saved in the page address, so you can bookmark or share exactly what you are looking at.

Use Color by to change what the colors mean:

• Strategic Progress Index (SPI): red for Unengaged and Unreached, gold for Engaged yet Unreached, green for No Longer Unreached. Use it to see where engagement is still needed and to discuss where your team, church or organization might send or partner.
• GSEC: the Global Status of Evangelical Christianity scale from 0 to 6, combining evangelical presence, access to Scripture and resources, engagement and recent church planting. In use since 2005, it shows the urgency of the task at a glance.
• Lostness priority: from Frontier peoples (less than 0.1% evangelical) through Pioneer peoples (0.1% to less than 0.5%) to significantly reached peoples. Use it to find groups among whom God has begun moving but who still need focused prayer and more laborers.

To see only the Unengaged and Unreached Peoples, untick the other two statuses. To see the Frontier or Pioneer peoples, color by lostness priority.

Countries, languages and religions

Each country page shows its people groups, how many remain unreached and unengaged, and the country’s weighted GSEC: each group’s GSEC score weighted by its population, which gives one measure of how lost a country is spiritually. Language pages list the groups that speak the language and the films and Bibles available in it.

Getting the data

• Download CSV on the people groups page saves the groups you have filtered.
• The research data page has the complete daily list and field descriptions.
• Developers can use the free API.