Millions of Muslims come from Saudi Arabia to pilgrimage Hajj every year, which makes the Saudi economy more powerful. However, many people think that how much income Saudi Arabia earns for Hajj and Umrah, and how much it is in Saudi Arabia's economy. First, for the purpose of Hajj, the total number of Muslims going to Saudi Arabia will have to be removed. How many people every year go to Mecca?
Last year, 83 million people came to Saudi Arabia for Hajj. One thing is that Hajj is done in a special time of the year and secondly, Saudi Arabia has set a quota of every country to control the number of people coming to Hajj. A large number of pilgrims also belong to people living in Saudi Arabia. There is no doubt that many of them are citizens of different countries.
In the last ten years, the number of Muslims who traveled from Saudi Arabia to the number of Hajj has been almost half compared to the pilgrimage coming from other countries. The population of Muslims in the world is only two percent of the population, it lives in Saudi Arabia. Muslims go for ages all year. Last year more than 60 million people did Umrah.
More than 80% of the people going to Saudi Arabia go to Umrah there. Seven years ago, the number of people going to Ummah was 40 million and Saudi Arabia hopes that this number will be 20 million in the coming four years. Last year, Saudi Arabia had direct $ 12 billion from Hajj. Hajj, who went to Saudi Arabia spent around $ 23 billion, leaving there.
The Muslims who spend Saudi Arabia going to Saudi Arabia become part of their economy. All this money is not a direct income from Saudi Arabia, but it gives a great boost to their economy. According to Mecca Chamber and Commerce estimates, Muslims coming from outside country have to spend $ 4,600 on Hajj, while Saudi Arabia's Hajjaj pilgrimage takes $ 1500. Hajj expenses are different for the people of different countries. Every person in Iran's caravan comes near $ 3,000.
It includes a budget of travel, food and shopping. The Muslims of Pakistan and Bangladesh too have to spend almost this.
According to an Iranian pilgrim, this time the Hajj budget is US $ 8000.
It also includes many of his personal expenses, but still this money becomes part of the economy of Saudi Arabia in somehow.
Indonesian quota is highest. From here every year, 20,000 people can go to Saudi Arabia for Hajj, which is 14% of Hajj Ikram. After that, Pakistan is 11%, India also 11% and the quota of Bangladesh is 8%. This list includes countries such as Nigeria, Iran, Turkey, Egypt.