• PEOPLE CLUSTER: ARAB, ARABIAN

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QUICK FACTS:

People groups: 79

Population: 44,961,700

Unreached people groups: 75

UPG population: 44,918,900

Unengaged UPGs: 46

UUPG population: 3,215,000

Number of countries: 42


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, Kuwaiti; 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, Democratic Republic of the; Denmark; Djibouti; Dominica; Ecuador; Egypt; 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: 79

Population: 44,961,700

Unreached people groups: 75

UPG population: 44,918,900

Unengaged UPGs: 46

UUPG population: 3,215,000

Number of countries: 42