Friday, November 2, 2012

Current Bible Translation Stats

Language Census
6,874 = Number of languages in use in the world
-of that number, 2,804 = Number of those languages where Scripture now exists

Scripture
2,804 have at least some Scripture
-513 = complete Bibles
-1,276 = languages that have NT and some portions
-1,015 = languages that have just portions

Population
4.9 billion = Number of people who have a Bible in their 1st language
additional 593 million = have the NT, some of which have some OT

Need
239 million people speaking 2,026 languages wait for translation work to begin in their language





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