The reality of how many people have NO 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
7396 total languages in the world -
7.45 billion people
3756 languages with some Scripture – 7.3 billion people
1.3 billion people do not have a full Bible in their first language
29.34 million people, speaking 985 languages, are wanting and waiting for translation work to begin.
In Africa, that's 5.64 million people speaking 206 languages who need translation to start!
Compare with 2023 by hovering over the image:
SCRIPTURE & Language Statistics for Southern Africa
The information in this table represents ongoing and pipeline translation work among LuminAfrica organisations:
Country | Angola | Botswana | DRC | Eswatini | Lesotho | Madagascar | Malawi | Mozambique | Namibia | South Africa | Zambia | Zimbabwe | Other | Total |
# of Ongoing Translations | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | N/A | 20 |
# of Pipeline Translations | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
