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- In 2021, there’s an estimated 430,000 Christian missionaries on the field full-time. In the study, a missionary was defined as someone serving over two years as a self-described Christian missionary. This includes Catholics, Protestants, and other denominations. This number is down sharply from 1,135,000 missionaries in 2001.
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Mar 1, 2024 · 430,000 Missionaries. In 2021, there’s an estimated 430,000 Christian missionaries on the field full-time. In the study, a missionary was defined as someone serving over two years as a self-described Christian missionary. This includes Catholics, Protestants, and other denominations. This number is down sharply from 1,135,000 missionaries in ...
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Less than 2% Evangelical Christian.Total Unreached People Groups: 7,246Total Population of UPGs: 3.39 billion peopleTotal Percentage of world: UPG’s make up 41.8% of world populationGreater than 2% Evangelical Christian but still great numbers of unsaved.Total Unevangelized People Groups: 2,906Total Population: 799.7 millionTotal Percentage of world: the unevangelized make up 9.9% of world populationGreater than 2% Evangelical Christian or majority Christian PopulationTotal Reached People Groups: 7,129Total Population: 3.8 billionTotal Percentage of world: the reached population makes up 46.9% of world populationDec 22, 2020 · The concept of who a missionary is has evolved since the beginning of the twentieth century, making it much more difficult to assess how many missionaries there are in the world. The proportion of long-term missionaries from the Global North is on the decline (227,000 sent in 2021, which is 53 percent of the total of 430,000, down from 88 ...
- Gina A. Zurlo, Todd M. Johnson, Peter F. Crossing
- 2021
188. Published Languages. 31,490. Congregations. Missionaries. 67,871. Full-Time Teaching Missionaries. 27,070. Senior Service Missionaries. 2,736. Young Service Missionaries. The Church's missionary program is one of its most recognized characteristics.
The table provides a statistical overview of the world’s 2.6 billion Christians and their activities. Our 2022 article in the International Bulletin of Mission Research, with its corresponding tables, is now available in several other languages:
The concept of “missionary” has evolved since the beginning of the twentieth century, making it much more difficult to assess how many missionaries there are in the world. The sending of long-term missionaries from the West is on the decline, but since the 1980s and 1990s there has been a dramatic explosion of the number of short-term mis-
There are 430,000 missionaries from all branches of Christendom. Only between 2 and 3% of these missionaries work among unreached peoples. (The Traveling Team) There are 140,000 recorded protestant missionaries serving in the world, with 64,000 from the US. (The Traveling Team)