The Holy Mosque of Mecca
Knowledge lately issued by the Normal Authority for Statistics revealed that the variety of Umrah pilgrims reached about 20.66 million within the first half of 2025.
The Umrah pilgrims had been distributed amongst 12.82 million inner pilgrims, representing 62% Of the whole variety of Umrah pilgrims, the variety of Umrah pilgrims overseas reached 7.84 million.
The variety of Umrah pilgrims within the second quarter reached about 5.44 million, in keeping with Umrah statistics.
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Growth of the variety of Umrah pilgrims in the course of the first half of 2025 – a million Umrah pilgrims
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Interval
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Inside
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exterior
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Whole
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First quarter
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8.70
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6.52
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15.22
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Second quarter
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4.12
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1.32
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5.44
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Whole
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12.82
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7.84
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20.66
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Thus, the variety of Umrah pilgrims decreased by 6% in the course of the first half of 2025, in comparison with the variety of Umrah pilgrims in the course of the first half of 2024, which then reached 21.99 million pilgrims.
Inner pilgrims recorded a lower of seven% within the first half, whereas exterior pilgrims recorded a lower of 4%.
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Growth of the variety of pilgrims – a million pilgrims
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Interval
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Inside
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exterior
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Whole
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2017
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12.55
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6.53
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19.08
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2018
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11.55
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6.77
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18.31
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2019
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11.70
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7.46
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19.16
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2020*
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1.97
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3.85
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5.82
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2021*
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6.49
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0.01
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6.50
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2022
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16.34
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8.37
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24.72
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2023
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13.31
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13.55
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26.86
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2024
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18.88
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16.80
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35.68
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First half 2025
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12.82
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7.84
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20.66
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*Corona interval
The Makkah Al-Mukarramah area accounted for 43% of the whole variety of Umrah pilgrims, with 5.6 million Umrah pilgrims, then the Riyadh area, with 2.3 million Umrah pilgrims.
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Distribution of home pilgrims in keeping with administrative area
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Space
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Variety of pilgrims (thousand)
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Proportion of the whole
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Mecca
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5567.3
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43.4 %
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Riyadh
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2254.7
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17.6 %
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Japanese area
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807.4
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6.3 %
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AL Madinah AL Munawwarah
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742.1
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5.8 %
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Jazan
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602.8
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4.7 %
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Al-Qassim
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586.3
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4.6 %
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Tabuk
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554.8
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4.3 %
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tough
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480.7
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3.7 %
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Najran
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400.3
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3.1 %
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Hail
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337.7
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2.6 %
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The hole
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305.6
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2.4 %
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Al-Baha
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128.2
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1.0 %
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Northern border
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49.7
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0.4 %
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Whole
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12817.9
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100.0 %
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The month of March got here in first place when it comes to the variety of Umrah pilgrims from inside, with about 7 million pilgrims. As the next desk exhibits:
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Distribution of home pilgrims in keeping with month
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month
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Variety of pilgrims (thousand)
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January
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683.4
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February
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970.8
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March
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7044.6
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April
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2147.7
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Might
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1063.4
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June
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907.9
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Alternatively, January got here in first place when it comes to the variety of pilgrims from overseas, with about 2.4 million pilgrims. As the next desk exhibits:
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Distribution of pilgrims from overseas by month
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month
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Variety of pilgrims (thousand)
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January
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2377.8
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February
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2167.2
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March
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1978.5
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April
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832.3
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Might
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197.8
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June
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294.3
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