While working on the film, we had fun answering questions like: “When you go camping, how do you guard against attacks from lions?”
Worldwide Bible Translation Statistics
World Population—6.5 billion
Languages spoken in the world—6,912 [Ethnologue, 15th Edition, 2005]
Languages with some or all of the Bible—2,403 (26 first published in 2005) [United Bible Societies (2005)]
Translation programs in progress in languages without adequate Scripture—1,640 [Wycliffe International (2005)]
Languages The Jesus Film has been translated into—919 [The Jesus Film (2005)]
Languages needing Bible translation work to begin—2,529 (representing approximately 272 million people) [Wycliffe International (2005)]