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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Yanomam of Brazil

The Yanomam of Brazil, numbering approximately 20,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous people of the northern Amazon whose homeland spans the Brazil–Venezuela border, consisting of several closely related Yanomami-speaking subgroups united by a shared forest-based culture and cosmology. They mostly adhere to Animism and Yanomámi is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Yanomam

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Brazil
People Cluster: Amazon
Primary Language(s): Yanomámi (wca)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 20,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017204

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Pray for the Yanomam of Brazil

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

85%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Yanomámi
Language Family: Yanomamic

100%
%
Yanomámi Speakers

Media Resources in Yanomámi:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Yanomámi:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Yanomam are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Yanomam:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Yanomam of Brazil

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
readRomans 1:19

Pray that God will use testimony of creation to cause those who do not yet know the gospel to long for truth and a relationship with the Author of life.

Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.
readPsalm 119:97

Pray that the lost will have access to God's Word in their language and treasure it deeply, meditating on God's promises and precepts.

But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.
readHebrews 10:38

Pray that as people trust in Christ, they will live by faith and not shrink back from their hope in Christ.

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
readActs 17:30

Pray that those God sends to cross cultures will boldly and lovingly declare that God commands all people everywhere to repent.

Yanomam, Waica Across Countries (ROP3 - 110976) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
YanomamPG017204YanomamBrazil20,500No Longer UnreachedYanomámiAnimism

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