Statistics

Since it was incorporated in 1942, Wycliffe Bible Translators has helped translate 735 New Testaments and 24 complete Bibles, representing around 107 million people.

Today, personnel with Wycliffe and dozens of other organizations are translating the Bible into 1,990 languages, impacting nearly 29% of the world's roughly 6,900 known languages. Many translation projects are led by nationals—South Americans, Africans, Asians and Pacific Islanders, for instance, who are taking up the translation task in their own countries.

Yet almost 33% of the world’s language groups are still without God's Word—or a translation program. These 2,252 language groups represent about 353 million people.

To reach these language groups more quickly, Wycliffe and its partner organizations have embraced Vision 2025: to see a Bible translation program in progress in every language still needing one by the year 2025.