Souls in
the Dark

Joshua Project Data Visualizations

16.4K People Groups

8.2B Total Population

7.1K Unreached Groups

3.6B Unreached People

Gospel Access Analysis

JP Scale Spectrum

Horizontal bars showing the 5 Joshua Project scale levels with hellfire to angelic gradient.

Geographic scatter plot showing people groups with location data, colored by gospel access.

Matrix grid showing unreached population percentages by country with hellfire-angelic gradient.

Network & Structural Visualizations

Force-directed network showing cultural connections across 16 major affinity blocs and their people groups.

Radial bar chart showing top 20 religions sized by population, colored by unreached percentage.

Multi-View Explorer

Interactive dashboard with 5 different perspectives: stardust, religions, language network, spectrum, and geo-points.

Population & Distribution

Population Spiral

Beautiful spiral visualization arranging all people groups by population size, with unreached highlighted.

Continent Bubbles

Packed circle visualization grouping people groups by continent, colored by gospel access scale.

Three-dimensional visualization of people groups arranged in a galaxy-like structure by religion.

Three-dimensional status spectrum showing gospel access across people groups with spatial depth.

Bible Translation & Religion

Translation Progress

Sunburst visualization showing Bible translation status hierarchically organized by religion.

Religion Clouds 3D

Three-dimensional clustering visualization showing people groups grouped by primary religion.

Flowing three-dimensional visualization of affinity blocs as cultural rivers connecting peoples.

3D Sphere Variants Gallery

Compare 5 different approaches to handling population outliers in 3D Fibonacci sphere visualization. Includes logarithmic scaling, orbital layers, dramatic animation, and more.

Hexagonal Grids

Language Geography

Massive hexagonal grid with language families connected by geographic clustering and same-language links.

Population Density

Hexagonal heatmap aggregating population density by geographic region with unreached percentage overlay.

Religion Mosaic

Grid organized by religion groupings with each hex representing a people group, colored by unreached percentage.

Affinity Honeycomb

Hexagonal clusters organized by affinity blocs, sized by population and colored by JP scale.

Translation Progress

Grid organized by Bible translation completeness levels (0-5) with language resource indicators.

Artistic & Experimental

Gospel Map Dots

Enhanced geographic visualization with refined point rendering and improved color gradients.

Phyllotaxis Souls

Natural spiral pattern arranging people groups using the golden ratio, inspired by sunflower seeds.

Stardust Unreached

Random scatter plot positioning groups by population and JP scale with beautiful jitter effect.

Polar Rose - Religions

Swiss-inspired radial area chart showing religions as petals, sized by population and colored by unreached percentage.

Time-based spiral showing Bible translation progress, animating from center outward with full Bible first.

Geometric Blocs

Swiss design aesthetic showing affinity blocs as clean geometric shapes with rotation based on unreached percentage.

Gospel Map Hexbin

Hexagonal binning map showing geographic density with dominant JP scale, providing aggregate view of clusters.

Gospel Map Connections

Network visualization overlaying language family connections on geographic map with arc lines between related groups.

Data Source: Joshua Project API (joshuaproject.net)
Last Updated: December 23, 2025
Coverage: 16,382 people groups across 238 countries and 7,134 languages
Methodology: Data fetched via API v1, enriched with country and language metadata, and optimized for browser visualization.

The Joshua Project tracks ethnolinguistic people groups worldwide to identify where the Christian gospel has limited access. "Unreached" groups are defined as having less than 2% evangelical Christian population.