According to the news of the Saudi Arabian official news agency SPA, the General Directorate of Passports made a statement regarding the number of pilgrim candidates who entered the country by land, air and sea until yesterday evening.
It was stated in the statement that 1 million 626 thousand 500 pilgrim candidates entered the country, 1 million 559 thousand 53 of them came by air, 60 thousand 617 by land and 6 thousand 830 by sea.
According to the data of the Saudi Arabian Statistical Institute, the number of pilgrim candidates for 2023 was announced as 2.4 million from inside and outside the country.
Within the scope of the country’s 2030 vision, it is aimed to increase the number of pilgrims with the expansion of the Masjid al-Haram and the end of the COVID-19 epidemic.