Overview:
The Melanesian populations of Australia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, etc. are small, but speak an astonishing variety of languages. Thus 0.26% of the world's population speak 22.4% of the languages listed in the Ethnologue!
-- Patrick Johnstone, "Affinity Blocs and People Clusters", in Mission Frontiers, March-April 2007, p. 12
People clusters:
Aboriginal Australians; Fiji; Micronesian; New Caledonia; New Guinea; Other Pacific Islanders; Polynesian; Solomons; Vanuatu
Countries where they are found:
American Samoa; Australia; Canada; Chile; Cook Islands; Fiji; French Polynesia; Guam; Indonesia; Kiribati; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Nauru; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Niue; Norfolk Island; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Pitcairn Islands; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tokelau; Tonga; Tuvalu; United States; Vanuatu; Wallis and Futuna
People groups:
1,473
Population:
17,523,050
Unreached people groups:
52
UPG population:
143,025
Unengaged UPGs:
31
UUPG population:
99,920
Number of clusters:
9
Number of countries:
29