The core of the unreached
people of our world live in a rectangular-shaped window! Often
called "The Resistant Belt," the window extends from West Africa
to East Asia, from ten degrees north to forty degrees north of the
equator.
Patrick Johnstone and Jason
Mandryk are the authors of a book titled,
Operation World.
According to the statistics available in the 2001 edition of the
book, and presented on the
WorldVue CDROM from
Global Mapping
International, we learn some interesting facts about who lives
in the 10/40 Window.
Poverty: 21 of the 48
poorest countries of the world
- GNP per person is $500 or less
- 77% of the poorest people (1.6 billion people)
- 7% of evangelical missionaries are working with
this group
Lost: 31 of the 52
least evangelized countries of the world
- 95% of the least evangelized people (3.1
billion people)
- 10% of evangelical missionaries are working
with this group
Hopeless: 11 of the
15 least evangelized, poorest countries of the world
- 98% of the least evangelized, poorest people
(1.4 billion people)
- 4% of evangelical missionaries are working with
this group
The Countries
There are 59 countries that lie at
least partially within the 10/40 Window. Following is a complete
list:
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Burkina Faso
- Burma
- Cambodia
- Chad
- China
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
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- Ethiopia
- Gambia, The
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Korea, North
- Korea, South
- Kuwait
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- Laos
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Macau
- Mali
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Nepal
- Niger
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Portugal
- Qatar
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- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sudan
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Vietnam
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
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Referenced from
http://www.mmronline.org/1040Window.aspx |
