The pilgrim's office gathers data on pilgrim's that complete the Camino. As far as I know there are no stats on people that stop before reaching the end.
Visitors to Saint Jame's relics don't all walk, some take boats or airplanes. For example when we visited Spain in 2014 by boat. We could have taking a bus from Vigo to Santiago but we didn't in case we ever did the walking part.
I am going to call people who use modern transportation "tourists".
Most self propelled pilgrims walk but some take bikes:
Most pilgrims are from European countries but they come from all over the place:
There are many paths to take, we are taking the most popular route "the French way":
Starting points for non-Europeans like us are somewhat arbitrary. We are started in St Jean 800KM distance:
About 40% walk the minimum distance 100km:
Tim and Jayne - you are amazing! Thanks for all the statistics.
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