A broad grouping of all the peoples by language, culture, religion, and politics. Every bloc may contain widely dissimilar and unrelated linguistic minorities, but often there is one particular culture that is dominant. Closely related peoples within each bloc clustered together, based on a common identity of language or name, or on culture, religion, economy. Most peoples in the list may be grouped in Gateway People clusters of which almost all have total populations of over one million. The name of the specific ethno-linguistic people within that cluster and affinity bloc.
Alternative names appear in parentheses behind the primary people name.
The country in which this people lives. Some people may live in more than one country. This list contains every country in which 10,000 or more of these people live. The population of this people within this country, in thousands. For example, a group with no known evangelicals, no known churches, no ministry tools, no agency work and a large population would receive a priority of 1.