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The '''10/40 Window''' is of the Greatest Interest to [[Great Commission]] Researchers and those focused on World [[Evangelism]]. This is because the vast majority of the World's Unevangelized or Non-Christian Population lives in these regions. | The '''10/40 Window''' is of the Greatest Interest to [[Great Commission]] Researchers and those focused on World [[Evangelism]]. This is because the vast majority of the World's Unevangelized or Non-Christian Population lives in these regions. | ||
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The 10/40 Window is of the Greatest Interest to Great Commission Researchers and those focused on World Evangelism. This is because the vast majority of the World's Unevangelized or Non-Christian Population lives in these regions.
Contents
The State of the Mission
Joshua Project explains:
"The 10/40 Window is the rectangular area of North Africa, the Middle East and Asia approximately between 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north latitude. The 10/40 Window is often called "The Resistant Belt" and includes the majority of the world's Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists. The original 10/40 Window included only countries with at least 50% of their land mass within 10 and 40 degrees north latitude. The revised 10/40 Window includes several additional countries that are close to 10 or 40 degrees north latitude and have high concentrations of unreached peoples. See the original and revised country lists on this page.
Approximately 5.32 billion individuals residing in 8,892 distinct people groups are in the revised 10/40 Window. 6,157 (69.2%) of these people groups are considered unreached and have a population of 3.28 billion. This means approximately 62% of the individuals in the 10/40 Window live in an unreached people group. The 10/40 Window is home to some of the largest unreached people groups in the world such as the Shaikh, Yadava, Turks, Moroccan Arabs, Pashtun, Jat and Burmese."[1]
Prioritizing 10/40 in Great Commission Efforts
A careful analysis of the Status of the Great Commission clearly shows that these are the countries which require the greatest targeted focus.
"The 10/40 Window: The Least Evangelized Countries
The 10/40 Window is home to the majority of the world's unevangelized countries. The "unevangelized" are people who have a minimal knowledge of the gospel, but have no valid opportunity to respond to it. While it constitutes only one-third of earth's total land area, nearly two-thirds of the world's people reside in the 10/40 Window. The original 10/40 Window included only countries with at least 50% of their land mass within 10 and 40 degrees north latitude. The revised 10/40 Window removes several Christianized countries such as South Korea and the Philippines and includes several additional countries, such as Indonesia, that are close to 10 or 40 degrees north latitude and have high concentrations of unreached peoples. See the original and revised country lists. These lists include both sovereign states and non-sovereign dependencies.
The 10/40 Window: The Unreached Peoples and Cities
An estimated 3.28 billion individuals live in approximately 6,157 unreached people groups in the 10/40 Window. The 10/40 Window also contains the largest unreached peoples over one million in population. In addition, the 10/40 Window contains the overwhelming majority of the world's least evangelized megacities—that is those with a population of more than one million. The top 50 least evangelized megacities are all in the 10/40 Window! That fact alone underscores the need for prioritizing 10/40 Window Great Commission efforts."[2]
