Here’re details of pilgrims count in 9M 2024

مسؤول: 7.4 مليون معتمر وزائر للمسجد الحرام خلال الأيام الثمانية الأولى من شهر رمضان المبارك

The Holy Mosque of Makkah

A total of 28.25 million pilgrims performed Umrah during the first nine months of 2024, according to the General Authority for Statistics’ (GASTAT) recent data.

In detail, Saudi Arabia received 1.52 million foreign pilgrims (41% of the total) and 16.73 million domestic pilgrims (59% of the total), respectively, during the nine-month period.

No. of Pilgrims in 9M 2024 (mln)
Period	Domestic	Foreign	Total
Q1	5.68	5.79	11.47
Q2	8.14	2.38	10.52
Q3	2.91	3.35	6.26
Total	16.73	11.52	28.25

The nine-month pilgrim count in the first nine months of 2024 surpassed the total count for the entire year of 2023, which reached 26.86 million.

No. of Pilgrims since 2017 (mln)

Period	Domestic	Foreign	Total
2017	12.55	6.53	19.08
2018	11.55	6.77	18.31
2019	11.70	7.46	19.16
2020*	1.97	3.85	5.82
2021*	6.49	0.01	6.50
2022	16.34	8.37	24.72
2023	13.31	13.55	26.86
9M 2024	16.72	11.52	28.25

*During the COVID-19 pandemic.

Makkah accounted for 72% (12 million) of the total number of pilgrims in 9M 2024, followed by Riyadh (1.6 million).

No. of Pilgrims by Region in 9M 2024
Region	No. of Pilgrims (‘000)	% to Total
Makkah	12050.9	72.0%
Riyadh	1648.9	9.9%
Madinah	936.5	5.6%
Eastern Province	627.2	3.8%
Asir	469.5	2.8%
Jazan	279	1.7%
Qassim	220.1	1.3%
Tabuk	148.8	0.9%
Baha	120.8	0.7%
Hail	82.5	0.5%
Najran	58.5	0.3%
Al-Jouf	55.9	0.3%
Northern Borders	27.7	0.2%
Total	16726.2	100%

January 2024 recorded the highest number of domestic pilgrims for 9M 2024, with about 1.3 million of the total count, as shown in the following table:

No. of Domestic Pilgrims by Month in 9M 2024
Month	No. of Pilgrims
January	1256.8
February	1250.8
March	3173.5
April	5977.5
May	1820.2
June	341.2
July	886.0
August	1170.7
September	849.6

Meanwhile, March witnessed the highest number of foreign pilgrims, with nearly 2.2 million, as shown in the following table:

No. of Foreign Pilgrims by Month in 9M 2024
Month	No. of Pilgrims
January	1785.7
February	1826.4
March	2182.5
April	1242.0
May	717.3
June	419.2
July	900.5
August	1191.8
September	1256.2

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