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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Danes of Faroe Islands

The Danes of Faroe Islands, numbering approximately 4,400 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a North Germanic (Scandinavian) people native to Denmark whose culture has been shaped by maritime traditions, agriculture, trade, local cooperation, and a long history of stable state institutions. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Danish is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Eurasian Peoples
Country: Faroe Islands
People Cluster: Scandinavian
Primary Language(s): Danish (dan)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 4,400
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG000101
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

75%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Danish
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
Danish Speakers

Media Resources in Danish:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Danish:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1933 Danish Bible✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Danish bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Danes 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 Danes:
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 Danes of Faroe Islands

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
readExodus 2:23-24

As the lost among them labor, groan, and cry out under false religions and sin, pray God will have mercy on them and hear their cries, that He will be their Rescuer from the kingdom of darkness and bring them into the kingdom of light.

Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.
readMatthew 13:8-9

Pray that they will have open hearts and minds to the Word of God, and that it will take root in their lives and bear fruit for His glory.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
read2 Corinthians 9:8

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will trust God in all things, especially in times of persecution.

Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
readIsaiah 43:19

Praise the God who is able to make a way forward, even when it seems impossible. Ask Him to do a new thing among this people group specifically and among the nations, raising up believers to go and share the gospel with individuals and places where it has not flourished before.

Danes Across Countries (ROP3 - 102439) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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9 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▼CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
DanesPG000081DanesDenmark5,305,000Engaged yet UnreachedDanishUnaffiliated
DanesPG000101DanesFaroe Islands4,400No Longer UnreachedDanishProtestantism
DanesPG000283DanesGreenland7,700No Longer UnreachedDanishUnaffiliated
DanesPG000289DanesIceland3,900Unengaged and UnreachedDanishUnaffiliated
DanesPG000448DanesNorway20,500Unengaged and UnreachedDanishUnaffiliated
DanesPG000550DanesSweden63,500Unengaged and UnreachedDanishUnaffiliated
DanesPG000625DanesUnited Kingdom29,000Unengaged and UnreachedDanishUnaffiliated
DanesPG043222DanesUnited States36,000Engaged yet UnreachedDanishUnaffiliated
DanesPG043382DanesCanada41,000No Longer UnreachedDanishUnaffiliated

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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