East Asian Peoples

features People Group Strategic Needs

The following pie charts reflect real-time current status of people groups. Hover over the charts/graphs and click on the pop-up window links to learn more about a specific people group.

PG* (People Group) is the largest group through which the gospel can flow without encountering significant barriers of understanding and acceptance.

UPG* (Unreached People Group) is when the percentage of evangelical Christians in the people group is less than 2 percent.

UUPG* (Unengaged Unreached People Group) is Unreached plus there is no intentional church planting strategy being implemented.


People Group Highlights

Displaying 1-17 of 17 results.
StatusPG Name Country Of Birth IMB Affinity Group Affinity Bloc Primary Religion Population Total
 
TibetanChinaEast Asian PeoplesTibetan / Himalayan PeoplesBuddhism - Lamaism10,500
Hmong, NjuaLaosEast Asian PeoplesSoutheast Asian PeoplesEthnic Religions110,000
Hmong, WhiteLaosEast Asian PeoplesSoutheast Asian PeoplesEthnic Religions180,000
Chinese, TeochewMalaysiaEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesEthnic Religions - Chinese Universalism / Folk32,000
MongolianMongoliaEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesBuddhism13,000
Oirat, Western MongolMongoliaEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesBuddhism1,700
OkinawanJapanEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesBuddhism14,000
Sino-VietnameseVietnamEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesBuddhism3,700
Chinese, HakkaTaiwanEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesEthnic Religions - Chinese Universalism / Folk4,700
Chinese, CantoneseHong KongEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesEthnic Religions - Chinese Universalism / Folk471,000
Chinese, MandarinChinaEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesBuddhism2,391,070
Chinese, Fuzhou Min DongChinaEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesBuddhism - Mahayana19,000
Chinese, HokkienTaiwanEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesBuddhism - Mahayana203,000
Chinese, Shanghainese WuChinaEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesNon-Religious6,400
Chinese, HuiChinaEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesIslam2,100
JapaneseJapanEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesEthnic Religions - Shintoism799,267
KoreanSouth KoreaEast Asian PeoplesEast Asian PeoplesChristianity - Protestant1,475,000

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