The Tribes of Africa

Westerners often find themselves thinking in terms of nations and states, so we talk about Rwanda, or South Africa, or Zimbabwe, or Egypt, or Sudan. But there are two other layers of equal importance: tribes and cities. This post is a series of links to tribal maps.
1700s - http://www.gracegalleries.com/Africa_Listings.htm – a collection of rare maps [...]

Global Map 12: Literacy

This map, developed by Chris Deckert and Storyrunners.com…, illustrates global literacy levels (using UNESCO data) and sets Bible translation needs within this context. For more information and additional maps, see www.storyrunners.com… and the World Mapping Project at www.worldmap.org…

Global Map 11: Progress of World Evangelization, AD1900-2025

This is a different form of map: a chronological scattergraph of the world’s countries measured by percent evangelized (E%, from the World Christian Encyclopedia). The colored bands represent the three categories: majority Christian (green), evangelized non-Christian (yellow) and majority unevangelized (red).
In 1900, many countries were deeply in the red section. Seventy years later, as a [...]

Global Map 10: Progress of Evangelical Christianity by People Group

Level
Stage
Description
# Peoples
% of Peoples
Population
% of World

1.0
Unreached
Status data unavailable; where Gospel is not generally available.
159
1.00 %
5,314,000
0.08 %

1.1
Unreached
Very few, if any, known believers. Adherents<=5%.
3,965
24.83 %
974,502,000
15.06 %

1.2
Unreached
Evangelicals >0.01%, but<=2%. Adherents<=5%.
2,318
14.52 %
1,600,525,000
24.73 %

2.0
Formative
Status data unavailable. Located where the gospel is generally available.
268
1.68 %
1,513,000
0.02 %

2.1
Formative
Very few, if any, known believers. Adherents >5%.
1,549
9.70 %
401,565,000
6.20 %

2.2
Formative
Evangelicals >0.01%, but<=2%. Adherents >5%.
1,074
6.73 %
512,354,000
7.92 %

3.1
Emerging
Evangelicals [...]

Global Map 9: West African Population Density

These maps, from UNEP & Columbia University, show the population densities of Africa. These are important facts to keep in mind, for these are the people we are trying to reach with the Gospel. The first map shows the overall population densities of Africa in the year 2000. The southern coast of Africa is one [...]

China’s African Initiative

China has pledged to double its aid to Africa and expand bilateral trade to US$100 billion by 2010 as part of a multibillion-dollar package covering trade, investment, debt relief and personnel training. The wide-ranging aid package, unveiled by President Hu Jintao at the opening of the China-Africa summit, is aimed at forging closer links with [...]

Expanding Technology

These four maps graphically illustrate the spread of advanced technology into places unreached by Christianity. The first map, in the upper left hand corner, shows countries that generate a high value from biotech crops. The second, in the upper right, shows centers of digital technology innovation: no longer are they centered solely in the United [...]

Global Map: Christians per Cross-Cultural Workers Sent

This month’s global map looks at Global Goal 4: for every 2,000 Christians to send 1 cross-cultural missionary. To create this map, we took the total number of affiliated Christians (of all traditions) from the World Christian Database, and compared it with the number of missionaries (of all traditions) sent out (restricting ourselves to solely [...]