News - Progress of Bible Translation Statistics 2007

" We've seen an increase from an average of 25 new language projects a year in the 1990s to an average of 74 per year since 2000.

Estimates of the number of language groups without any Bible translation has dropped from 3000 to just over 2000.


At the current rate of progress, however, it will be 2038, not 2025, before translation work begins for some languages. So there is still room for the impossible! As we celebrate what God has already done, let us also search our hearts and seek His will for how each of us and all of God's people can more fully participate in reaching the world with the Word."


--John Watters, Executive Director, Wycliffe International


See: Bible Translation Statistics 2007