• AFFINITY BLOC: ARAB WORLD


QUICK FACTS:

People groups: 448

Population: 439,597,160

Unreached people groups: 430

UPG population: 438,385,360

Unengaged UPGs: 287

UUPG population: 91,456,860

Number of clusters: 19

Number of countries: 87

 

Overview: The Arab World encompasses all areas in which Arabic is the dominant language, even though many peoples that speak languages that pre-date the Arab invasions are included in this affinity bloc. The Arab World is located in Western Asia and North Africa. More than thirty Arabic languages are spoken by the nineteen people clusters that comprise this affinity bloc. Included among these are two Bedouin clusters and five Berber clusters.

  -- Patrick Johnstone, The Future of the Global Church, p. 169

People clusters: Amazigh-Kabyle; Amazigh-Riff; Amazigh-Saharan; Amazigh-Shawiya; Amazigh-Shilha; Arab World, generic; Arab, Arabian; Arab, Hassaniya; Arab, Levant; Arab, Libyan; Arab, Maghreb; Arab, Shuwa; Arab, Sudan; Arab, Yemeni; Assyrian / Aramaic; Bedouin, Arabian; Bedouin, Saharan; Egyptian; Tuareg

Countries where they are found: Algeria; Argentina; Australia; Austria; Bahrain; Barbados; Belgium; Brazil; British Virgin Islands; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Canada; Chad; Comoros; Congo; Congo, Democratic Republic of the; Cote d’Ivoire; Curacao; Cyprus; Denmark; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Eritrea; Ethiopia; France; French Guiana; Germany; Ghana; Gibraltar; Greece; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Haiti; Honduras; India; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Italy; Jamaica; Jordan; Kenya; Kuwait; Lebanon; Libya; Madagascar; Malaysia; Maldives; Mali; Malta; Martinique; Mauritania; Morocco; Netherlands; New Zealand; Niger; Nigeria; Oman; Pakistan; Palestine; Panama; Portugal; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; South Africa; South Sudan; Spain; Sudan; Suriname; Sweden; Switzerland; Syria; Tajikistan; Tanzania; Tunisia; Türkiye; Uganda; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States; Yemen


People groups: 448

Population: 439,597,160

Unreached people groups: 430

UPG population: 438,385,360

Unengaged UPGs: 287

UUPG population: 91,456,860

Number of clusters: 19

Number of countries: 87