Continent:  Africa


Population

1,536,040,000

Number of
Countries

58

Number of People Groups

3,792

People Groups Unreached

1,041 (27.5%)

Population in Unreached

510,019,000

% Population in Unreached

33.2%

Map Notes
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Country Population People
Groups
Unreached
Groups
% Unreached
Groups
Popl in
Unreached
% Popl in
Unreached
Primary
Religion
Progress
Scale
%
Evangelical
% Christian
Adherents
Est. Workers
Needed * 
Algeria 47,400,000 43 38 88.4 % 47,320,000 99.8 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.0 % 0.1 % 966
Angola 38,629,000 61 4 6.6 % 336,000 0.9 % Christianity Progress Gauge 23.3 % 91.1 % 7
Benin 14,608,000 62 11 17.7 % 2,688,000 18.4 % Ethnic Religions Progress Gauge 7.5 % 31.4 % 57
Botswana 2,479,000 46 1 2.2 % 7,000 0.3 % Christianity Progress Gauge 8.3 % 65.3 % 1
Burkina Faso 23,865,000 80 28 35.0 % 5,683,000 23.8 % Islam Progress Gauge 10.7 % 21.1 % 127
Burundi 14,229,000 12 3 25.0 % 23,000 0.2 % Christianity Progress Gauge 30.5 % 93.1 % 3
Cameroon 29,723,000 293 18 6.1 % 4,539,000 15.3 % Christianity Progress Gauge 8.6 % 50.2 % 98
Cape Verde 510,000 5 2 40.0 % 67,000 13.1 % Christianity Progress Gauge 8.2 % 84.3 % 2
Central African Republic 5,401,000 81 7 8.6 % 491,000 9.1 % Christianity Progress Gauge 32.0 % 70.8 % 12
Chad 20,856,000 142 82 57.7 % 11,757,000 56.4 % Islam Progress Gauge 7.3 % 25.3 % 268
Comoros 864,000 13 8 61.5 % 845,000 97.8 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.7 % 1.8 % 21
Congo, Democratic Republic of 111,944,000 231 4 1.7 % 791,000 0.7 % Christianity Progress Gauge 19.3 % 91.1 % 16
Congo, Republic of the 6,414,000 73 3 4.1 % 55,000 0.9 % Christianity Progress Gauge 14.8 % 84.8 % 3
Côte d'Ivoire 32,167,000 107 33 30.8 % 6,926,000 21.5 % Islam Progress Gauge 12.7 % 37.1 % 150
Djibouti 1,094,000 11 7 63.6 % 1,061,000 97.0 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.1 % 2.4 % 25
Egypt 117,901,000 51 34 66.7 % 82,788,000 70.2 % Islam Progress Gauge 2.4 % 9.5 % 1,665
Equatorial Guinea 1,856,000 18 3 16.7 % 45,000 2.4 % Christianity Progress Gauge 4.8 % 89.1 % 3
Eritrea 3,539,000 18 11 61.1 % 1,593,000 45.0 % Islam Progress Gauge 2.4 % 45.9 % 36
Eswatini 1,225,000 10 2 20.0 % 6,700 0.5 % Christianity Progress Gauge 20.7 % 83.6 % 2
Ethiopia 134,456,000 129 33 25.6 % 30,671,000 22.8 % Christianity Progress Gauge 17.9 % 58.2 % 623
Gabon 2,536,000 53 7 13.2 % 84,000 3.3 % Christianity Progress Gauge 10.8 % 73.3 % 7
Gambia 2,780,000 29 14 48.3 % 2,354,000 84.7 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.9 % 3.6 % 53
Ghana 34,899,000 110 17 15.5 % 1,873,000 5.4 % Christianity Progress Gauge 25.9 % 62.0 % 47
Guinea 14,935,000 48 30 62.5 % 12,973,000 86.9 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.7 % 4.2 % 273
Guinea-Bissau 2,204,000 36 20 55.6 % 1,064,000 48.3 % Islam Progress Gauge 2.1 % 11.8 % 34
Kenya 57,257,000 108 31 28.7 % 5,307,000 9.3 % Christianity Progress Gauge 45.8 % 80.2 % 119
Lesotho 2,288,000 10 1 10.0 % 13,000 0.6 % Christianity Progress Gauge 13.0 % 89.3 % 1
Liberia 5,658,000 39 6 15.4 % 673,000 11.9 % Ethnic Religions Progress Gauge 11.7 % 39.8 % 14
Libya 7,406,000 53 37 69.8 % 6,515,000 88.0 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.2 % 2.6 % 144
Madagascar 32,441,000 40 11 27.5 % 632,000 1.9 % Christianity Progress Gauge 6.1 % 49.4 % 18
Malawi 21,976,000 26 5 19.2 % 2,868,000 13.1 % Christianity Progress Gauge 17.1 % 73.8 % 59
Mali 24,825,000 74 44 59.5 % 22,706,000 91.5 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.7 % 2.8 % 466
Mauritania 5,233,000 21 17 81.0 % 5,217,000 99.7 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.1 % 0.2 % 114
Mauritius 1,231,000 18 9 50.0 % 109,000 8.9 % Hinduism Progress Gauge 9.8 % 32.4 % 9
Mayotte 324,000 8 6 75.0 % 319,000 98.5 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.1 % 1.6 % 10
Morocco 38,113,000 34 29 85.3 % 38,097,000 100.0 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.1 % 0.2 % 769
Mozambique 35,312,000 57 12 21.1 % 3,852,000 10.9 % Christianity Progress Gauge 10.8 % 45.9 % 77
Namibia 3,018,000 35 1 2.9 % 8,300 0.3 % Christianity Progress Gauge 12.5 % 88.2 % 1
Niger 27,508,000 38 30 78.9 % 27,012,000 98.2 % Islam Progress Gauge 1.0 % 1.7 % 545
Nigeria 235,202,000 542 52 9.6 % 72,424,000 30.8 % Christianity Progress Gauge 26.6 % 51.0 % 1,470
Reunion 852,000 18 8 44.4 % 57,000 6.7 % Christianity Progress Gauge 6.9 % 86.0 % 8
Rwanda 14,363,000 12 4 33.3 % 45,000 0.3 % Christianity Progress Gauge 26.8 % 90.2 % 4
Saint Helena 4,800 1 0 0.0 % 0 0.0 % Christianity Progress Gauge 8.8 % 95.0 % -
São Tomé and Príncipe 216,000 6 1 16.7 % 1,000 0.5 % Christianity Progress Gauge 5.9 % 86.2 % 1
Senegal 18,703,000 58 30 51.7 % 15,312,000 81.9 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.2 % 4.6 % 316
Seychelles 129,000 5 1 20.0 % 100 0.1 % Christianity Progress Gauge 7.0 % 96.1 % 1
Sierra Leone 8,771,000 29 12 41.4 % 1,669,000 19.0 % Islam Progress Gauge 4.9 % 12.8 % 36
Somalia 19,468,000 22 20 90.9 % 19,407,000 99.7 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.1 % 0.5 % 396
South Africa 64,356,000 66 9 13.6 % 1,287,000 2.0 % Christianity Progress Gauge 21.1 % 76.8 % 28
South Sudan 12,108,000 81 6 7.4 % 682,000 5.6 % Christianity Progress Gauge 10.7 % 56.0 % 16
Sudan 51,224,000 201 170 84.6 % 48,618,000 94.9 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.5 % 2.3 % 1,036
Tanzania 70,046,000 157 24 15.3 % 6,340,000 9.1 % Christianity Progress Gauge 11.0 % 50.5 % 131
Togo 9,526,000 56 9 16.1 % 757,000 7.9 % Christianity Progress Gauge 11.1 % 45.1 % 18
Tunisia 12,319,000 21 17 81.0 % 12,221,000 99.2 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.0 % 0.5 % 255
Uganda 50,680,000 68 2 2.9 % 1,071,000 2.1 % Christianity Progress Gauge 34.1 % 84.4 % 22
Western Sahara 528,000 10 10 100.0 % 528,000 100.0 % Islam Progress Gauge 0.0 % 0.0 % 15
Zambia 21,699,000 75 4 5.3 % 127,000 0.6 % Christianity Progress Gauge 25.1 % 86.4 % 4
Zimbabwe 16,763,000 41 3 7.3 % 102,000 0.6 % Christianity Progress Gauge 25.3 % 76.6 % 3
Totals:  58 1,536,040,000 3,792 1,041 27.5 % 510,019,000 33.2 %   16 ◼︎ 15.8 % 47.7 % 10,605