unreached people stats: muslims...pretty eye opening

i was looking online today and reading about evangelizing unreached nations, found these stats...they are pretty eye opening. man what a great opportunity the church has to reach people...my job is to help people see the need then go and do...i truly believe this is the greatest job of the universal church, reaching every known human with the gospel of jesus christ!!!

• There are more than 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, about 21 percent of the world's population (up from 12 percent in 1900), with the highest annual growth rate of any religious group (2.17 percent).
• There are 42 countries in the world with a Muslim majority, and another 40 countries with a significant Muslim minority.
• Of the 10 most populous countries in the year 2000, four of them are predominantly Muslim (Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria), and two more have significant Muslim populations (India and China).
• Muslims make up 41 percent of the population of Africa, and 25 percent of the population of Asia.
• The Muslim population in Europe has grown to more than 14 million, and in the U.S. to between six and eight million. Both populations are increasing steadily.
• Muslim countries are troubled in many ways:
  • 42 of the 66 nations that place significant restrictions on religious belief are Muslim.
  • 60 percent of the world's poor are Muslim.
  • 80 percent of the world's refugees are Muslim.
  • 15 of the top 20 nations on the Human Rights Watch List (nations who abuse human rights) are Muslim.
• Muslims make up the largest block of unreached peoples on earth:
  • There are 3,700 unreached Muslim people groups.
  • 78 percent of the untargeted peoples in the world are Muslim.
  • 51 of the 100 "gateway cities" of the 10/40 window are predominantly Muslim.
  • Since the inception and spread of Islam, during which the Christian church suffered serious losses by conversion to Islam and was virtually wiped out in many places, the church has never made significant inroads anywhere in the Muslim world.
  • Fewer Christian missionaries work among Muslims than among any other people in the world. Currently the ratio is about 2.7 per million, representing a mere 1 percent of the globe's entire missionary force!