State of global mission 1996
| World Population | 5,804,121,000 |
| Christians | 1,955,229,000 |
| Unevangelized | 1,121,842,000 |
Although there have been over 1,100 plans to evangelize the world since Christ's Great Commission was given to the church, progress in the past 25 years represents only a drop in the bucket: from 1.3 billion down by 200 million to 1.1 billion--an average change of just 8 million per year. 19.3%--nearly 1 out of 5--will still be unevangelized as of mid-1996. Unless current trends are reversed, the year 2000 will see a world one-third Christian, where 16% of its people have never heard the name of Jesus. If we do not increase our efforts, closure will still be achieved--but not until sometime in the vicinity of AD 2050. By then, over half a billion people will have died never hearing the Good News of Jesus Christ.
