2.1 billion people around the world are Bibleless...
The reality of how many people have no or limited access to God’s Word breaks our hearts!
This is why Wycliffe South Africa exists. We are grateful for the opportunity to be used by God to change these staggering statistics and to see God’s Word alive in every language that still needs it.
GLOBAL BIBLE TRANSLATION STATISTICS
As of October 2026
7,394 total languages - 8.3 billion people
812 (10.9%) languages have a full Bible – 6.2 billion people
In Africa, 929 languages have no Scripture - 30 million people
295 (13.6%) languages have a full Bible - 814 million people
Globally, 1 in 5 people are still waiting for the Bible in their language
3,204 (43.3%) languages have no Scripture
266 of the world’s 392 sign languages have started Bible translation
4,444 languages have Bible translation “in progress”
512* languages with no Scripture and no work in progress (5-years ago it was 1,892!)
*This figure excludes languages that have insufficient vitality to support translation.
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BIBLE POVERTY
Taken from progress.bible, June 2026
Taken from Wycliffe UK "State of the Bible 2026"
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