• PEOPLE CLUSTER: ARAB, ARABIAN

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QUICK FACTS:

People groups: 70

Population: 29,739,350

Unreached people groups: 66

UPG population: 29,696,750

Unengaged UPGs: 43

UUPG population: 2,727,350

Number of countries: 41


Affinity Bloc: Arab World

Overview: Arabs trace their cultural history to desert-dwelling Semitic tribes in the Syrian and Arabian deserts as early as the ninth century BC. At its zenith Arab culture dominated West Asia and North Africa. The Arabian Arab people cluster encompasses Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemeni, Saudi, Gulf, Omani, Bahraini, etc.

Peoples within this cluster: Arab; Arab, Bahraini, Shia; Arab, Bahraini, Sunni; Arab, Gulf Shia; Arab, Gulf Sunni; Arab, Iranian; Arab, Omani; Arab, Saudi - Hijazi; Arab, Saudi - Najdi; Arabized Black; Batahira; Dhofari, Zofari; Eritrean; Hamar; Harasi; Hobyot; Jibbali; Mahra; Shihuh; Socotran

Countries where they are found: Argentina; Australia; Austria; Bahrain; Barbados; Brazil; Burundi; Canada; Comoros; Congo (Kinshasa); Denmark; Djibouti; Dominica; Ecuador; Ethiopia; Ghana; Greece; India; Iran; Jamaica; Jordan; Kenya; Kuwait; Libya; Malaysia; Maldives; Malta; New Zealand; Oman; Pakistan; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; South Africa; Sudan; Switzerland; Tanzania; Uganda; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States; Yemen


People groups: 70

Population: 29,739,350

Unreached people groups: 66

UPG population: 29,696,750

Unengaged UPGs: 43

UUPG population: 2,727,350

Number of countries: 41