The trend of Arbaeen pilgrims over the past eight years
The Al-Abbas Holy Shrine (AS) is one of the most important sources announcing statistics of participants in the Arbaeen pilgrimage. According to this institution's estimate, the total number of participants in this ceremony over the past 8 years has become 2 times as large. Even the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought the tourism industry to its knees around the world, did not produce a meaningful change in the statistics of Arbaeen pilgrims, and this figure in 2020 fell by less than 1 million relative to 2019. According to some sources, the government of Iraq has announced the pilgrim statistics for 1402 (2023/24) as 25 million people. In this way, the Arbaeen pilgrimage ceremony is the second-largest human gathering in the world.
The most important jump in these statistics is seen between the years 2021 and 2022. A time when pilgrim statistics go from 16 million people in 2021 to 21 million people in 2022. One of the reasons for this jump can be the sending of Iranian pilgrims toward the Arbaeen ceremony after a two-year COVID interruption.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian