Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) announced on Tuesday that 1,707,301 pilgrims were preset at this year’s Hajj. International pilgrims totaled 1,546,655, while domestic pilgrims, comprising citizens and residents, reached 160,646. A total of 893,396 male and 813,905 female pilgrims were tallied. Regarding international pilgrims, GASTAT said that 1,485,729 arrived through air entry points, 54,429 arrived through land crossings, and 6,497 arrived through sea entry points. GASTAT relied on the Ministry of Interior's administrative records as its primary source for this year's Hajj, utilizing a unified, register-based model adopted over the past six years to ensure highly accurate and reliable statistical data.
