Scripture Access Statistics
Of the world’s 7,393 known living languages:
803
have a full Bible
1,837
only have a New Testament
1,516
only have Scripture portions
3,237
have no known Scripture
Of the 1.5 billion people who do not have the full Bible in their heart language:
900 million
have a New Testament
have some Scripture portions
459 million
106 million
are still waiting for translation work to begin
Europe
12
Africa
132
Pacific
149
Asia
222
Americas
20
These figures only reflect the number of languages without any Scripture in which work is already being requested or is likely to be requested. There are thousands more languages with incomplete translation projects as well.
Statistics updated June 2026
