I'm not referring to people who have heard the Gospel, heard of Jesus, or heard of God. I asked about the large number of people throughout history who never did. How about them?
As we look at Church History we see much of the world was forced into Catholicism and in many places still exist today. Of course after that came Reformation. But the Gospel has been covering much of the known world for Centuries so many people just have no excuse.
But there are no doubt places where only the nations belief system was allowed and everything else banned. However, that really is the minority as we know from researchers who have been successful at discovering these types of questions.