Joshua Project’s evangelical Christian research perspective · Retrieved October 8, 2026. Figures draw on research from different years; this retrieval date is not their research date.
Capital
Longyearbyen
Official language
Norwegian
Primary religion
Christianity
Population
2,600Svalbard (Joshua Project country scope)
People groups
2Svalbard (Joshua Project country scope)
Unreached people groups
Not reportedSvalbard (Joshua Project country scope)
Christian presence
Faith & affiliation
Christian adherents90.9%
Evangelical Christians6.64%
0%50%100%
Share of the population, on the same 0–100% scale. Evangelicals are a subset of Christian adherents, which includes Catholic, Orthodox and other Christian traditions. These measures must not be added together.
These are Joshua Project’s people-group classifications. “Unreached” and “frontier” describe mission reach, not persecution or a community’s safety. Affiliation estimates overlap; evangelical Christians are included in Christian adherents.
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People groups in Svalbard and Jan Mayen; source: Joshua Project, retrieved October 8, 2026.
These are primary languages reported for the country’s people groups, not a complete inventory of languages spoken. Scripture status describes translation availability worldwide in a language, not whether every person here can obtain or read it. Audio resources are not necessarily audio Bibles.
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Languages & the Word in Svalbard and Jan Mayen; source: Joshua Project, retrieved October 8, 2026.
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Annual assessment
Not on the World Watch List 2026 list.
This collection rates the countries on that list and does not rate the rest. That does not mean Christians there face no pressure.
Annual persecution assessments, mission reach and religious freedom for all faiths are different measures. This page shows only the first, when cleared.
Christian affiliation Christian adherents across traditions; includes evangelical Christians. (Svalbard (Joshua Project country scope))Denominator: Total country populationData provided by Joshua Project. Used by permission.
90.9 %
Research date not supplied
Evangelical affiliation Joshua Project evangelical estimate, a subset of Christian affiliation. (Svalbard (Joshua Project country scope))Denominator: Total country populationData provided by Joshua Project. Used by permission.
Unreached people groups Joshua Project classification: at most 5% Christian adherents and at most 2% evangelical. Mission reach, not persecution. (Svalbard (Joshua Project country scope))Data provided by Joshua Project. Used by permission.
Unknown: Not supplied by the source
Research date not supplied
Frontier people groups Joshua Project frontier classification, a subset of unreached groups. Mission reach, not persecution. (Svalbard (Joshua Project country scope))Data provided by Joshua Project. Used by permission.
Unknown: Not supplied by the source
Research date not supplied
Population in unreached groups Combined population of groups classified unreached; this does not mean every person is non-Christian. (Svalbard (Joshua Project country scope))Data provided by Joshua Project. Used by permission.
Unknown: Not supplied by the source
Research date not supplied
Population in frontier groups Combined population of groups classified frontier; this does not measure persecution. (Svalbard (Joshua Project country scope))Data provided by Joshua Project. Used by permission.
Unknown: Not supplied by the source
Research date not supplied
Primary languages Distinct primary languages of the people groups reported for this country; not every language spoken. (Svalbard (Joshua Project country scope))Data provided by Joshua Project. Used by permission.
2 languages
Research date not supplied
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Regional context
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Sources
Joshua Project — SvalbardJoshua Project Faith org · Evangelical missions researchUndated Published: date unknown · Accessed October 8, 2026Data provided by Joshua Project. Used by permission.Research dates vary and are not supplied per statistic. Retrieval is not a research date. Estimates are rounded and coverage is incomplete; a reported zero may reflect rounding or limited information.
Coverage limits: Country-level source estimates are not local safety advice. Research dates vary. People-group and language records do not identify congregations or individual believers. Operation World remains a link for further reading; its data is not reproduced. Published October 8, 2026.
Map: Natural Earth (public domain). Country names and codes are provisional until the publication catalog is supplied.