Data source: Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson, eds., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).
| Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| version_2020_people | Denominations | Data-entered number of denominations present in this people group. (Overrides the count listed in Denom_note). |
| version_2020_people | Denominations code | A number code is assigned to each range of denominations, e.g. no denominations present = 0, two denom. = 2, 3-10 denominations present = 3, 11-20 denom. = 4, and over 20 denom. = 5. |
| version_2020_people | Denominations note | Names or initials of denominations working among this people. |
| version_2020_people | Discipleship code | Discipleship/discipling (0-10) for this people group. The code number represents the percentage of the people's population who have become evangelized in the recent past and up to the present as a result of local Christians' personal witness and evangelism. |
| version_2020_people | Ethnic religionists | Ethnic religionist population for this people group in this country. "Ethnic religionists" is a collective term for primal religionists, animists, spirit-worshippers, shamanists, ancestor-venerators, polytheists, pantheists, traditionalists (in Africa), local or tribal folk-religionists; including adherents of neo-paganism or non-Christian local or tribal syncretistic or nativistic movements, cargo cults, witchcraft eradication cults, possession healing movements, tribal messianic movements; still occasionally termed pagans, heathen, fetishists; usually confined each to a single tribe or people, hence tribal or local as opposed to ‘universal’ (open to any or all peoples). |
| version_2020_people | Ethnic religionists who know Christians | Ethnic religionists who know Christians. |
| version_2020_people | Ethnicity | The Ethnicity or ethnocultural family of this people group. |
| version_2020_people | Ethnicity ID | The Ethnicity code for the ethnicty or ethnocultural family of this people group. |
| version_2020_people | Evangelism Responsiveness | A measure of new church members baptized per year, per million evangelism-hours expended per year. Higher values indicate greater responsiveness to evangelism, lowest values signify small or even zero response. |
| version_2020_people | Evangelized | Number of persons in this people group living in this country who have had adequate opportunity, or opportunities, to hear the gospel and to respond to it, whether they respond positively or negatively by 2020. |
| version_2020_people | Hindus | Hindu population for this people group in this country. Followers of the main Hindu traditions: (a) Vaishnavites (Vishnaivites) numbering 70% of all Hindus; (b) Saivites numbering 25% mostly in South India; (c) Saktists or other sects (3%); (d) neo-Hindu movements and modern sects arising out of Hinduism, about 1.5%; and (e) Arya Samaj and other reformist movements, 0.5% (Brahmo Samaj, Prarthana Samaj, Swami-Narayanis, Ramakrishna Mission, but excluding Jains and Sikhs). |
| version_2020_people | Hindus who know Christians | Hindus who know Christians. |
| version_2020_people | Jains | Jain population for this people group in this country. Followers of the Jain reform movement are from Hinduism, composed of the Svetambara and Digambara sects. |
| version_2020_people | JESUS Film code | A numeric code for ‘Jesus’ Film availability for this people group in this country: 2= available 10 years or more; 1= available for less than 10 years, or available in near-language only; 0= not available in mother tongue or its cluster of languages. |
| version_2020_people | Jews | Jewish population for this people group in this country. |
| version_2020_people | Language code | Three letter ISO 639-3 language code. |
| version_2020_people | Language ID | ID number of the primary language spoken by this people. |
| version_2020_people | Mass Evangelism code | Numeric code for mass evangelistic campaigns (0-5) for this people group; 5= the most extensive, and 0= none. |
| version_2020_people | Muslims | Muslim population for this people group in this country. |
| version_2020_people | Muslims who know Christians | Muslims who know Christians. |
| version_2020_people | Neoreligionists | Neoreligionist population for this people group in this country. |
| version_2020_people | New Reader code | 1= New Reader Scriptures available in this language. 'New Reader Scriptures' is a UBS-sponsored program for producing versions of the Scriptures specially compiled for newly-literate persons. |
| version_2020_people | non-Christians who know Christians | non-Christians who know Christians. |
| version_2020_people | Note | Additional descriptive data for this people group in this country. |
| version_2020_people | Offers pc pa | This is a per year/ per capita figure for the cited people group. Offers are a scientific count producing numbers of concrete disciple-opportunities, invitations, chances to hear the gospel and become disciples of Christ. |
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