What Is The 10/40 Window?
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.
The countries of the 10/40 window
Here are the countries that exist within the 10/40 window: Northern Nigeria is clearly situated within the 10/40 window. Other countries are Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Chad, China, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Gibraltar, Greece, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel.
Two-thirds of the world’s population live within the 10/40 Window
Joshua Project, a non-profit Christian ministry focused on gathering and distributing information about ethnic groups with the least access to the Gospel, estimates that 5.11 billion individuals live in this area, representing 8,717 distinct ethnic groups.
Three out of every five people in the 10/40 Window have no access to the Gospel
According to Joshua Project, 68.6% of the 10/40 Window’s ethnic groups (5,984) are considered unreached, with a total population of 3.09 billion. That means there is no thriving local church movement in those ethnic groups. Some of the world’s largest unreached ethnic groups — the Shaikh, Yadava, Turks, Moroccan Arabs, Pashtun, Jat, and Burmese — call this region home.
“How To Pray for the 10/40 Window” includes —
- FAQs about the 10/40 Window
- Top 4 Challenges of the 10/40 Window
- 7 Kingdom Opportunities to Pray About Now
- 50 Specific Prayer Needs
Click here for resources on how to pray for the 10/40 window countries.
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