• AFFINITY BLOC: NORTH AMERICAN PEOPLES


QUICK FACTS:

People groups: 294

Population: 242,887,390

Unreached people groups: 23

UPG population: 732,875

Unengaged UPGs: 18

UUPG population: 69,975

Number of clusters: 4

Number of countries: 39

 

Overview: The North American Peoples affinity bloc includes the original indigenous people groups and the long-settled Caucasians and African-Americans, but does not include recent immigrant groups or the many Spanish speaking peoples classified within the Latin-Caribbean American bloc.

  -- Patrick Johnstone, "Affinity Blocs and People Clusters", in Mission Frontiers, March-April 2007, p. 11

People clusters: Afro-American, Anglophone; Anglo-American; Inuit; North American Indigenous

Countries where they are found: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Australia; Bahamas; British Virgin Islands; Canada; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Curacao; Denmark; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Fiji; French Guiana; Germany; Greenland; Grenada; Guam; Guyana; Haiti; Iceland; Jamaica; Marshall Islands; Mexico; Micronesia; New Zealand; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Singapore; Sint Maarten; Suriname; United Kingdom; United States; Venezuela; Virgin Islands


People groups: 294

Population: 242,887,390

Unreached people groups: 23

UPG population: 732,875

Unengaged UPGs: 18

UUPG population: 69,975

Number of clusters: 4

Number of countries: 39