Data source: Gina A. Zurlo, ed., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2026).
| Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| people | Shintoists | Shintoist population for this people group in this country. These are Japanese who profess, or still profess, Shinto as their first or major religion. |
| people | Sikhs | Sikh population for this people group in this country. These are followers of the Sikh reform movement out of Hinduism, who look to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India (sects: Akali, Khalsa, Nanapanthi, Nirmali, Sewapanthi, Udasi). |
| people | Source ID | ID of the source of the percentage of the country's population. |
| people | Spiritists | Spiritist population for this people group in this country. These are Non-Christian spiritists or spiritualists, or thaumaturgicalists; high spiritists, as opposed to low spiritists (Afro-American syncretists), followers of medium-religions, medium-religionists. |
| people | WLC Language code | World Language Classification language code. |
| people | WLC Language ID | World Language Classification ID number. |
| people | Zoroastrians | Zoroastrian population for this people group in this country. Zoroastrianism is a religion founded in Persia in BC 1200 by the prophet Zoroaster teaching the worship of Ahura Mazda, now followed by Parsis in India and a large underground presence in Iran, Afghanistan, et alia. |
| people_other | Autoglossonym | People’s own name for their language. |
| people_other | Bible availability | Availability of a translations of the New Testament or Bible into this language (including multiple dialects) . |
| people_other | Christians | Christian population for this people group in this country. |
| people_other | Country code | Four-letter abbreviation assigned to country for database purposes. |
| people_other | Country ID | ID of the country in which this people group is located. |
| people_other | Ethnicity | The Ethnicity or ethnocultural family of this people group. |
| people_other | Ethnicity ID | The Ethnicity code for the ethnicty or ethnocultural family of this people group. |
| people_other | Language code | Three letter ISO 639-3 language code. |
| people_other | Language ID | ID number of the primary language spoken by this people. |
| people_other | Largest religion % | Percentage of the largest religion of this people group. |
| people_other | Largest religion code | Religion code of the largest religion of this people group. |
| people_other | People % | Persons in this people group as % country. |
| people_other | People Name | Name of this ethno-linguistic people group. |
| people_other | People population | Number of persons in this people group, in 2025. |
| people_other | People reference number | Unique reference number (primary key) for each People group. |
| people_other | People with gospel access % | The percentage of this people's population with access to the gospel. |
| people_other | WLC Language code | World Language Classification language code. |
| people_other | WLC Language ID | World Language Classification ID number. |
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