LET'S REACH
THE
WORLD!

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Information for Thought
Prayer

AND ACTION!

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THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
Acts 1:8

But ye shall receive power, after that the
Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall
be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem,
and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and
unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Samaria & the Uttermost Parts
(Foreign Missions)

By Population
By Language
By Tribes
By 10/40 Window
           Cities
For More Information
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12
14
16
20

Judea
(Home Missions)
U.S. Statistics
About Our Country
Cities In Need
Conclusion
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25
27
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Information compiled from various sources by
Pastor Doug Hammett
Lehigh Valley Baptist Church, Emmaus, Pa

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SAMARIA & THE
UTTERMOST PARTS
(FOREIGN MISSIONS)

BY POPULATION

World Population Growth
Pop. Information Network of the United Nations
***********************************
Year
 
1000
1500
1800
1850
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
1994
Projected
2000
2025
Population
(in billions)
0.31
0.50
0.98
1.26
1.65
1.75
1.86
2.07
2.30
2.52
3.02
3.70
4.45
5.30
5.63
 
6.23
8.47

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Our Present Population is
6 Bill.+

There are 228 countries in the world.   From
January 1992 to July 1992, in a six-month
period, 17 new countries were formed.   From
January 1990 to December of 1991, 25%
of the countries of the world changed
governments.

The Statistics are Staggering!

Deaths
52,000,000 deaths per year
143,000 deaths per day
100 deaths per minute

Births
77 million births per year
210,959 births per day
146 births per minute

Unevangelized
3 Bill.+ people
have NEVER heard the gospel!

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The Need is Great!

The following figures will give you an idea
of the least evangelized areas of our world.

USA

Australia

N. America

S. America

Europe

Africa

Asia

1 for every

1 for every

1 for every

1 for every

1 for every

1 for every

1 for every

14,819

95,745

252,185

527,714

831,081

1,275,564

3,784,037

The figures were reached by combining the figures
for Independent Baptist Mission Agencies as reported
in the 17th Edition of the "1998-2000 Mission
Handbook"
.

Where would you say
the need is the greatest?

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BY LANGUAGE

ETHNOLOGUE
Computerized mapping by Global Mapping International

The Ethnologue is a catalogue of
more than 6,700 languages spoken in
228 countries.   The Ethnologue Name
Index
lists over 39,000 language
names, dialect names, and alternate
names.   The Ethnologue Language
Family Index
organizes languages
according to language families and
categorizes them into five
geographical areas.

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Geographic Distribution of
Living Languages

1996


                  Total
                  Living       Percentage
                  Languages
The Americas      1,000               15% 
Africa            2,011               30% 
Europe              225                3% 
Asia              2,165               32% 
The Pacific       1,302               19%
                  -----
TOTAL             6,703

   Part of the Ethnologue, 13th Edition, Barbara F.
   Grimes, Editor.
   Copyright (C) 1996, Summer Institute of Linguistics,
   Inc.   All rights reserved.

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[Graphic: pie graph]

The Americas 15%
Africa 30%
Europe 3%
Asia 33%
The Pacific 19%

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Top 102 Languages by
Population
The population figures in this table refer to first
language speakers in all countries.   Figures are taken
from the 13th Edition of the Ethnologue (1996).
Copyright (C) 1996, Summer Institute of Linguistics,
Inc.
 Rank Language       Country       Population
 ---------------------------------------------
 1-CHINESE, MANDARIN     China     885,000,000 
 web
 2-ENGLISH        United Kingdom   332,000,000     
 web
 3-SPANISH              Spain      266,000,000
 web
 4-BENGALI            Bangladesh   189,000,000
 web
 5 HINDI                 India     182,000,000
 web

 6-PORTUGUESE           Portugal   170,000,000
 web
 7-RUSSIAN              Russia     170,000,000
 web
 8 JAPANESE             Japan      125,000,000
 web
 9-GERMAN, STANDARD    Germany      98,000,000
 web
 10 CHINESE, WU         China       77,175,000
 web

 11 JAVANESE          Indonesia     75,500,800
 web
 12-KOREAN           Korea, South   75,000,000
 web
 13-FRENCH            France        72,000,000
 web
 14 VIETNAMESE       Viet Nam       66,897,000
 web
 15 TELUGU            India         66,350,000
 web

 16 CHINESE, YUE      China         66,000,000
 web
 17 MARATHI           India         64,783,000
 web
 18 TAMIL             India         63,075,000
 web
 19-TURKISH          Turkey         59,000,000
 web
 20 URDU             Pakistan       56,584,000
 web

 21 CHINESE, MIN NAN  China         49,000,000
 web
 22 CHINESE, JINYU    China         45,000,000
 web?
 23 GUJARATI          India         44,000,000
 web
 24-POLISH           Poland         44,000,000
 web
 25-ARABIC, EGYPTIAN SPOKEN  Egypt  42,500,000
 web

 26-UKRAINIAN        Ukraine        41,000,000
 web
 27-ITALIAN           Italy         40,000,000
 web
 28 CHINESE, XIANG [Hunanese]  China          36,015,000
 web?
 29 FARSI, WESTERN    Iran          34,679,300 
 web

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 30 MALAYALAM         India         34,022,000
 web
 31 CHINESE, HAKKA    China         34,000,000    
 web
 32 KANNADA           India         33,663,000
 web
 33 ORIYA             India         31,000,000
 web
 34 PANJABI, WESTERN   Pakistan     30,000,000
 web

 35 SUNDA            Indonesian     27,000,000
 web
 36 PANJABI, EASTERN  India         26,013,000
 web
 37-ROMANIAN         Romanian       26,000,000
 web
 38 BHOJPURI          India         25,000,000
 web
 39 MAITHILI          India         24,260,000
 web

 40-ARABIC, ALGERIAN SPOKEN  Algeria  22,400,000
 web
 41 HAUSA            Nigeria        22,000,000
 web
 42-BURMESE          Myanmar        22,000,000
 web
 43-SERBO-CROATIAN   Yugoslavia     
21,000,000 
 44 CHINESE, GAN      China         20,580,000
 web?

 45 AWADHI            India         20,300,000
 web
 46-THAI            Thailand        20,047,000
 web
 47-DUTCH          Netherlands      20,000,000
 web
 48 YORUBA           Nigeria        20,000,000
 web
 49 AMHARIC          Ethiopia       20,000,000
 web

 50 SINDHI           Pakistan       19,675,000
 web
 51-ARABIC, MOROCCAN SPOKEN  Morocco  19,542,000
 web
 52-ARABIC, SA&Lt SPOKEN  Egypt     18,900,000
 web
 53 UZBEK, NORTHERN  Uzbekistan     18,386,000
 web
 54-MALAY            Malaysia       17,600,000
 web

 55-INDONESIAN      Indonesia       17,000,000
 web
 56 IGBO             Nigeria        17,000,000
 web
 57-TAGALOG         Philippines     17,000,000
 web
 58-NEPALI           Nepal          16,056,000
 web
 59-ARABIC, SUDANESE SPOKEN  
Sudan  16,000,000 
 web

 60 SARAIKI          Pakistan       15,020,000
 web?
 61 CEBUANO         Philippines     15,000,000
 web
 62-ARABIC, N. LEVANTINE SPOKEN  Syria  15,000,000
 web
 63-THAI, NORTHEASTERN  Thailand    15,000,000
 web
 64 ASSAMESE          India         14,634,000
 web

 65-HUNGARIAN        Hungary        14,500,000
 web
 66 AZERBAIJANI, SOUTH  Iran        13,869,000
 web
 67 MADURA           Indonesia      13,694,000
 web
 68 SINHALA          Sri Lanka      13,220,000
 web
 69 HARYANVI          India         13,000,000
 web?

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 70 MARWARI       India                 12,104,000
 web
 71-GREEK         Greece                12,000,000
 web
 72-CZECH      Czech Republic           12,000,000
 web
 73 CHHATTISGARHI    India              10,985,000
 web 
 74 MAGAHI           India              10,821,000
 web

 75 DECCAN           India              10,709,800
 web
 76 CHINESE, MIN BEI  China             10,537,000
 web
 77 BELARUSAN       Belarus             10,200,000
 web
 78 ZHUANG, NORTHERN      China         10,000,000
 web
 79-ARABIC, NAJDI SPOKEN  Saudi Arabia   9,800,000
 web

 80 PASHTO, EASTERN    Pakistan          9,685,000
 web
 81-ARABIC, TUNISIAN SPOKEN  Tunisia     9,308,000
 web
 82 RWANDA         Rwanda                9,306,800
 web
 83 ZULU          South Africa           9,140,000
 web
 84 BULGARIAN      Bulgaria              9,000,000
 web

 85-SWEDISH        Sweden                9,000,000
 web
 86 LOMBARD         Italy                8,974,000
 web
 87 SOMALI         Somalia               8,335,000
 web
 88 PASHTO, WESTERN     Afghanistan      8,117,000
 web
 89 OROMO, WEST-CENTRAL       Ethiopia   8,000,000
 web

 90 KAZAKH        Kazakhstan             8,000,000
 web
 91 ILOCANO       Philippines            8,000,000
 web
 92 TARTAR         Russia                8,000,000
 web
 93-ARABIC, SANAANI SPOKEN       Yemen   7,600,000
 web
 94 UYGHUR         China                 7,595,512
 web

 95 AZERBAIJANI, NORTH  Azerbaijan       7,059,000
 web
 96 NAPOLETANO-CALABRESE    Italy        7,047,400
 web
 97 KHMER, CENTRAL    Cambodia           7,039,200
 web
 98 AKAN            Ghana                7,000,000
 web
 99 FARSI, EASTERN   Afghanistan         7,000,000
 web

 100 HILIGAYNON     Philippines          7,000,000
 web
 101 KURMANJI        Turkey              7,000,000
 web
 102 SHONA          Zimbabwe             7,000,000
 web

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BY TRIBES & CULTURES

Depending on how a researcher defines
people groups, there are from 3,000 to 6,000
unreached tribal groups in the world.   They
are found in places you would expect like
Irian Jaya, Papau New Guinea, the Amazon
Basin and parts of the African continent.
However there are also tribal groups in
virtually every country in the world!   Most
of the 2 million nomads are actually tribal
groups.

In addition to the tribal situations all peoles
on earth have a culture to which they
belong.   When a missionay goes to a people,
other than the culture in which he is raised,
he must learn the culture of the people he is
targeting to better communicate the gospel
of Jesus Christ.

SO HOW ARE THE PEOPLES OF THE
WORLD DIFFERENT???

Well, at the least, try "age-grading, athletic
sports, bodily adornment, calendar,
cleanliness training, community
organization, cooking, co-operative labor,
cosmology, courtship, dancing, decorative
art, divination, division of labor, dream
interpretation, education, eschatology,
ethics, ethnobotany, etiquette, faith healing,
family, feasting, fire making, folklore, food

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taboos, funeral rites, games, gestures, gift
giving, government, greetings, hair styles,
hospitality, housing, hygiene, incest taboos,
inheritance rules, joking, kin-groups, kinship
nomenclature, language, law, luck
superstitions, magic, marriage, mealtimes,
medicine, modesty concerning natural
functions, mourning, music, mythology,
numerals, obstetrics, penal sanctions,
personal names, population policy, postnatal
care, pregnancy practices, property rights,
propitiation of supernatural beings, puberty
customs, religious ritual, residence rules,
sexual restrictions, soul concepts, status
differentiation, surgery, tool making, trade,
visiting, weaning, and weather control."

These 73 categories were first mentioned by
Murdock in his "The Common Denominator of
Cultures" (1945:124), then quoted in Christianity in
Culture
by Charles Kraft, 1979, Orbis Books.

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BY 10/40 WINDOW

The 10/40 Window

The 1040 window refers to a rectangular
shaped box stretching from West Africa to
the eastern edge of Asia, between the 10 and
40 degree north latitude's.   95% of the
worlds unreached peoples live in this area.
This window outlines the heart lands of the
major non-Christian religions of the world:
Isl_m, and H_nduism, Buddhism, Shintoism,
Confucianism.

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[Graphic]

Living in the 10/40 Window

82% of the Poorest of the Poor

95% of the Least Evangelized

2.7 Billion Buddhists, H_ndus and
Musl_ms.

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The 100 Gateway Cities in the 10/40
Window

One way to get a handle on this area of the
world is by understanding the 100 Gateway
Cities to these people.

10/40
NATION
GATEWAY CITY POP. AREA RELIGION
         
Afghanistan Kabul

2,051,000

C Asia Isl_m
Albania Tirana

427,000

SE Europe Isl_m
Algeria Algiers

3,722,000

N Africa Isl_m
Azerbaijan Baku

1,808,000

C Asia Isl_m
Bahrain Manama

270,000

Mid East Isl_m
Bangladesh Dhaka

9,105,000

SC Asia Isl_m
Benin Cotonou

501,000

NC Africa Animism
Bhutan Thimphu

121,400

SC Asia Buddhism
Brunei Bandar Seri
Begawan

110,000

SE Asia Isl_m
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou

437,000

NW Africa Isl_m
Cambodia Phnom Penh

2,827,000

SE Asia Buddhism
Chad N'Djamena

729,000

NC Africa Isl_m
China Beijing

12,332,000

EC Asia Atheism
China Changchun

2,620,000

EC Asia Atheism
China Chengdu

3,528,000

EC Asia Atheism
China Chongqing

3,646,000

EC Asia Atheism
China Guangzhou

4,184,000

EC Asia Atheism
China Hohhot

1,312,000

EC Asia Buddhism/Isl_m
China Jinan

3,208,000

EC Asia Atheism
China Lanzhou

1,803,000

EC Asia Isl_m
China Lhasa

120,000

SC Asia Buddhism
China Nanjing

3,073,000

EC Asia Atheism
China Shanghai

15,112,000

EC Asia Atheism

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China Shenyang

5,493,000

EC Asia Atheism
China Taiyuan

2,596,000

EC Asia Atheism
China Tianjin

10,995,000

EC Asia Atheism
China Urumqi

1,724,000

C Asia Isl_m
China Wuhan

4,556,000

EC Asia Atheism
China Xian

3,417,000

EC Asia Atheism
Djibouti Djibouti

137,000

NE Africa Isl_m
Egypt Cairo

10,361,000

NE Africa Isl_m
Eritrea Asmara

1,069,000

NE Africa Isl_m/Christianity
Ethiopia Addis Abada

2,419,000

NE Africa Christianity
Gambia Banjul

560,000

NW Africa Isl_m
Gaza Strip Gaza

1,073,000

Mid East Isl_m
Guinea Conakry

1,734,000

NW Africa Isl_m
Guinea-Bissau Bissau

130,000

NW Africa Animism
India Ahmedabad

4,396,000

SC Asia H_nduism
India Amritsar

837,000

SC Asia Sikhism
India Calcutta

13,604,000

SC Asia H_nduism
India Delhi

10,857,000

SC Asia H_nduism
India Hyderabad

4,208,000

SC Asia H_nduism
India Jaipur

1,969,000

SC Asia H_nduism
India Kanpur

2,378,000

SC Asia H_nduism
India Lucknow

1,391,000

SC Asia H_nduism/Isl_m
India Patna

2,209,000

SC Asia H_nduism
India Pune

2,971,000

SC Asia H_nduism
India Varanasi

1,193,000

SC Asia H_nduism
Indonesia Jakarta

11,401,000

SE Asia Isl_m
Iran Mashhad

2,450,000

Mid East Isl_m
Iran Tehran

7,509,000

Mid East Isl_m
Iraq Baghdad

4,511,000

Mid East Isl_m
Israel Jerusalem

518,000

Mid East Judaism
Israel Tel Aviv

2,092,000

Mid East Judaism
Japan Fukuoko-Kita- Kyushu

4,164,000

E Asia Shintoism

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Japan Osaka-Kobe- Kyoto

8,563,000

E Asia Shintoism
Japan Sapporo

2,300,000

E Asia Shintoism
Japan Tokyo-Yokohama

18,527,000

E Asia Shintoism
Jordan Amman

1,273,000

Mid East Isl_m
Kazakhstan Almaty

1,197,000

C Asia Isl_m
Korea, North Pyongyang

2,471,000

E Asia Atheism
Kuwait Kuwait City

231,000

Mid East Isl_m
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek

710,000

C Asia Isl_m
Laos Vientiane

491,000

SE Asia Buddhism
Lebanon Beirut

1,543,000

Mid East Isl_m/Christianity
Libya Tripoli

1,828,000

N Africa Isl_m
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur

2,183,000

SE Asia Isl_m
Maldives Male

50,000

SC Asia Isl_m
Mali Bamako

680,000

NW Africa Isl_m
Mauritania Nouakchott

650,000

NW Africa Isl_m
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar

600,000

C Asia Animism/Buddhism
Morocco Casablanca

3,858,000

N Africa Isl_m
Myanmar (Burma) Yangon

3,905,000

SE Asia Buddhism
Nepal Kathmandu

372,000

SC Asia H_nduism
Niger Niamey

430,000

NW Africa Isl_m
Nigeria Kano

660,000

WC Africa Isl_m
Oman Muscat

177,000

Mid East Isl_m
Pakistan Karachi

9,506,000

SC Asia Isl_m
Pakistan Lahore

4,926,000

SC Asia Isl_m
Qatar Doha

340,000

Mid East Isl_m
Saudi Arabia Mecca

884,000

Mid East Isl_m
Saudi Arabia Riyadh

2,664,000

Mid East Isl_m
Senegal Dakar

1,847,000

NW Africa Isl_m
Somalia Mogadishu

849,000

E Africa Isl_m
Sri Lanka Colombo

2,345,000

SC Asia Buddhism

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Sudan Khartoum

2,477,000

NE Africa Isl_m
Syria Damascus

2,511,000

Mid East Isl_m
Taiwan Taipei

3,561,000

E Asia Buddhism
Tajikistan Dushanbe

620,000

C Asia Isl_m
Thailand Bangkok

8,627,000

SE Asia Buddhism
Tunisia Tunis

1,935,000

N Africa Isl_m
Turkey Ankara

3,071,000

Mid East Isl_m
Turkey Istanbul

8,143,000

Mid East Isl_m
Turkey Izmir

2,169,000

Mid East Isl_m
Turkmenistan Ashkhabad

407,000

C Asia Isl_m
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi

730,000

Mid East Isl_m
Uzbekistan Tashkent

2,037,000

C Asia Isl_m
Vietnam Hanoi

1,260,000

SE Asia Buddhism
Western Sahara El Aaiun

186,000

NW Africa Isl_m
Yemen Sana'a

503,600

Mid East Isl_m
         

1995 population figures are based on United Nations
or Rand McNally figures, whichever are larger, with
modifications based on in-city verifications.   They
have been collected by Viv Grigg and Leland Brown
of the Urban Leadership Foundation
, Pasadena, CA.

Who is going to go to these
cities with the Gospel of Jesus
Christ?

Will You?

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

How to Access Additional Data on the
Joshua Project 2000 Peoples

By Pete Holzmann - AD2000 Interactive Task Force
Coordinator, & Doug Lucas - Brigada Forums
Coordinator

Need information on one of the Joshua
Project 2000 listed peoples?   You can now
retrieve people group data on-line:
interactively via the World Wide Web (on
..., or other
services) or using any of the many e-mail
services around the world.   The "People
Group Consultant"
(PGC) is a cooperative
venture made up of a number of different
agencies and researchers, including the
AD2000 and Beyond Movement.   You can
access the People Group Consultant in two
different ways: simple e-mail searches or
even easier searches (and updates!) via the
World Wide Web.
Easy Access: Via E-mail Only   The most
basic approach is through a simple e-mail
exchange.   An e-mail search of PGC will
provide a short list of information about any
people group, such as population in each
country or churches that have already
adopted the people.   For example, to use this
method to search for informatuon on the
Yemeni people group, send an e-mail
message to the address: hub@xc.org with

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only the following line in the body of the e-
mail message:
search Yemeni
It does not matter what you write in the
"subject" section.   The hub computer will
immediately e-mail you the results.   (You
will receive the message usually within a
few mintues or possibly several hours if
your e-mail service is slow.)   For other
people groups, simply replace the word
"Yemeni" with the name of the group you
are researching.
Easier Access: Via the World Wide Web   If
you have access to the World Wide Web
(i.e. ...
etc.), you can use the People Group
Consultant more fully and easily.   Type in
the following World Wide Web address
(also called a "URL"):
https://www.xc.org/pgc.html   You will see a
form showing you how to search (fill in a
blank and press the SEARCH button) or
respond (click on the appropriate button).   If
you do a search, in a few seconds you will
see your results in the form of two charts
one based on country data and the other
organized by the people group itself.
There are many other helpful World Wide
Web resources for learning about a nation,
people or language.   For example,
"https://www.morningstar.org/world-
christian.html
"
provides direct access to
hundreds of resources (not all Christian) on

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peoples, nations and religions.
" https://www2.infoseek.com/Query? "
searches millions of documents around the
world for anything relating to any word you
type!
Finally, new Joshua Project 2000 updates
will always be listed at the AD2000 and
Beyond Movement's World Wide Web
home page (at https://www.ad2000.org).
Hundreds of pages of information gathered
at the Global Consultation on World
Evangelization '95 are also found there, as
well as updated information about how to
access the complete database and listing of
least-reached peoples.

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Judea (Home Missions)

U.S. STATISTICS

[Map: U.S.A.]

If you draw a line across America
from New York City to San
Francisco the area to the north of
that line will be as churchless as
South America!

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Consider!

1889   1 church for every   3,730 people

1930   1 church for every   5,200 people

Now   1 church for every   12,000 people

Characteristics

Northeast- Heavy Catholic, Congregational
influence and an intellectual approach to
religion.

South- Heavy Baptist and Methodist
influence.   However the Bible Belt has lost
its belt buckle!

MidWest- Heavy Lutheran and sections of
Catholic influence.

West- Grab bag religious influences.

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ABOUT OUR COUNTRY

Area:
9,529,000 sq.km.   3rd largest in area & population.
Population:
258,204,000 in 1995.   Pop. density of 27/sq. km.
Peoples:
A nation of immigrants with a great diversity.   There
are approx. 670,000 legal immigrants annually, and
over 700,000 illegal immigrants.
  • Native Americans 0.8%.   Major groups:
       Amerindians 1,760,000 in 266 ethnic
       groups.   Hawaiian 200,000; Polynesians in
       Hawaii.   Eskimo 37,000 in Alaska.   Aleut
       2,000 in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands.
  • Euro-American 70.5%.   German 20%, Irish
       17%, English 16%, Scots 7%; Other 10.5%.
  • Afro-American 12.1%.   Most of their
       forebears came to America as slaves.
       Increasing immigration from Caribbean and
       Africa, including possibly 450,000 Haitians.
  • Hispanic 9.4% officially.   Over 25 ethnic
       groups identifiable, who all speak Spanish.
       Mexican 12,600,000; Central and South
       American 2,500,000; Puerto Rican
       2,300,000; Cuban 1,100,000; Other
       1,600,000.   Also Portuguese-speaking
       Brazilians 1,140,000.
  • Asian/Pacific 3%.   Rapid increase in
       immigrants -- 42% of all immigrants in 80's
       were Asian.   Chinese 1,645,000; Filipino
       1,405,000; Vietnamese 859,000; Japanese
       804,000; Korean 800,000; South Asians
       634,000.
  • Other 4.2%.   Jews 5,900,000; Arabs
       3,000,000; Armenian 1,100,000; Iranian
       900,000.
  • Literacy est: 95.5% (functional literacy 85%).

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    Official language:
    English.
    All languages 189, of which 77 are close to
    extinction.   About 13% of the population use a
    language other than English in the home.
    Capital:
    Washington DC 3,288,000.   There are 44 mega-cities
    (over one million).   Largest conurbations: New York
    17,100,000; Los Angeles 11,640,000; Chicago
    7,660,000; Philadelphia 5,118,000; San Francisco
    4,623,000; Detroit 4,346,000; Houston 3,468,000;
    Boston 3,454,000; Dallas-Fort Worth 3,152,000;
    Cleveland 3,070,000; Miami 2,954,000; Pittsburgh
    2,538,000; St. Louis 2,534,000; Minneapolis
    2,335,000; Seattle 2,312,000.
    Economy:
    A North American Free Trade area is being created
    between USA, Canada and Mexico.   Unemployment
    5.4%.   Public debt/person $14,300.   Income/person
    $21,100.
    Religion:
    Freedom of religion.   No state in the world has been
    so strongly influenced by Biblical Christianity.
  • Non-religious/other 8.7%.
  • Jews 2.4%.   1/3 of all Jews in the world.
  • Musl_m 1.8% (estimates vary between 0.5%
       and 2.4%).   1/3 are Afro-American.
  • Buddhist 0.4%.   East Asians.
  • H_ndu 0.2%.   Baha'i 0.02%.
  • Christian 86.5%.   Nom 14.9%.   Affil 71.6%.
       Growth 0.3%.
  • Protestant 51.3%.   Affil 43.2%.   Growth
       0.3%.
  • Roman Catholic 28%.   Affil 21.42%.   Growth
       -0.2%.
  • Other Catholic 0.2%.   Affil 0.19%.   Growth -
       0.2%.
  • Orthodox 3%.   Affil 2.84%.   Growth -0 5%.
  • Marginal 4%.   Affil 3.94%.   Growth 4.2%.
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    CITIES IN NEED

    Some of the greatest needs are in the
    Northeastern States.   For instance,
    Massachussets has 70 towns without any
    Baptist church.   Some of the most needy
    cities in America include...

    1.   New York City, NY
    2.   Los Angeles, Ca.
    3.   Philadelphia, Pa.
    4.   San Francisco, Ca.
    5.   St. Louis, Mo.
    6.   Newark, NJ.
    7.   Seattle, Wash.
    8.   San Diego, Ca.
    9.   New Orleans, La.
    10.   Pheonix, Ariz
    11.   Providence, RI.
    12.   Bridgeport, Conn.
    13.   Fresno, Calif.
    14.   Tucoma, Wash.
    15.   Madison, Wisc.
    16.   New London, Conn.
    17.   Santa Rosa, Ca.
    18.   Atlantic City, NJ.
    19.   Salem, Or.
    20.   Provo, Utah
    21.   Rochester, Minn.
    22.   Reno, Nev.
    23.   Boise, Idaho
    24.   Danbury, Conn.
    25.   Pittsburgh, Pa.

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    WHO WILL GO?

    More than 30% of the world's people
    live in cities -- providing both a
    challenge and an opportunity for
    taking the good news to every people
    group.
    Who will go to the 10 largest
    Megacities?

    Ø Mexico City, 28 million
    Ø Tokyo, 28 million
    Ø Sao Paulo, 22.6 million
    Ø Bombay, 18.1 million
    Ø Shanghai, 17.4 million
    Ø New York City, 16.6 million
    Ø Beijing, 14.4 million
    Ø Lagos, 13.5 million
    Ø Jakarta, 13.4 million
    Ø Los Angeles, 13.2 million

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