39,199 trekkers from 138 countries checked in on the Mardi Himal trail across three years. This page publishes the whole record: every nationality ranked, the year-by-year totals, the continent mix and the split between women and men, with the raw file free to download. It is the only public breakdown of who actually walks this route.
Counted from Mardi Himal trail check-in records for 2023, 2024 and 2025. Nepali nationals are not recorded in the source, so every figure here describes foreign trekkers.
The Mardi Himal trail is a European trail first and an Asian one second, and the gap at the top is narrow. France sent 3,639 trekkers between 2023 and 2025 and Germany 3,544, a difference of 95 people across three years. Germany was ahead in 2023; France took the lead in 2024 and has held it. Below them the order is less settled: between 2023 and 2025 India climbed from eighth place to fourth, while Australia slipped from fourth to tenth.
The 20 largest nationalities on the trail, by check-in count for 2023 to 2025 combined. These 20 countries account for 83% of all 39,199 trekkers; 118 further countries make up the rest.
| Country | Region | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | Europe | 727 | 1,534 | 1,378 | 3,639 | 9.3% |
| Germany | Europe | 774 | 1,518 | 1,252 | 3,544 | 9.0% |
| United Kingdom | Europe | 506 | 1,036 | 1,169 | 2,711 | 6.9% |
| South Korea | Asia | 418 | 944 | 1,042 | 2,404 | 6.1% |
| India | Asia | 319 | 892 | 1,152 | 2,363 | 6.0% |
| Australia | Oceania | 453 | 877 | 714 | 2,044 | 5.2% |
| United States | North America | 347 | 793 | 838 | 1,978 | 5.0% |
| Netherlands | Europe | 355 | 823 | 734 | 1,912 | 4.9% |
| Malaysia | Asia | 259 | 662 | 724 | 1,645 | 4.2% |
| China | Asia | 183 | 675 | 778 | 1,636 | 4.2% |
| Thailand | Asia | 215 | 510 | 674 | 1,399 | 3.6% |
| Spain | Europe | 229 | 482 | 499 | 1,210 | 3.1% |
| Russia | Europe | 111 | 448 | 514 | 1,073 | 2.7% |
| Italy | Europe | 183 | 350 | 337 | 870 | 2.2% |
| Israel | Asia | 103 | 295 | 424 | 822 | 2.1% |
| Belgium | Europe | 138 | 315 | 289 | 742 | 1.9% |
| Switzerland | Europe | 147 | 223 | 298 | 668 | 1.7% |
| Canada | North America | 138 | 267 | 248 | 653 | 1.7% |
| Singapore | Asia | 93 | 242 | 306 | 641 | 1.6% |
| Japan | Asia | 84 | 258 | 244 | 586 | 1.5% |
All 138 countries recorded on the trail, not just the ones that make the chart. The top ten account for 61% of everyone who walks it, so most countries here sit in a long tail: 65 sent ten trekkers or fewer across the whole three years, and 26 sent exactly one. If yours is one of those, you would have been the only person from your country on the trail that year.
All 138 countries recorded on the Mardi Himal trail between 2023 and 2025.
| # | Country | Region | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total | Share | Women |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France | Europe | 727 | 1,534 | 1,378 | 3,639 | 9.3% | 53% |
| 2 | Germany | Europe | 774 | 1,518 | 1,252 | 3,544 | 9.0% | 51% |
| 3 | United Kingdom | Europe | 506 | 1,036 | 1,169 | 2,711 | 6.9% | 46% |
| 4 | South Korea | Asia | 418 | 944 | 1,042 | 2,404 | 6.1% | 36% |
| 5 | India | Asia | 319 | 892 | 1,152 | 2,363 | 6.0% | 22% |
| 6 | Australia | Oceania | 453 | 877 | 714 | 2,044 | 5.2% | 51% |
| 7 | United States | North America | 347 | 793 | 838 | 1,978 | 5.0% | 46% |
| 8 | Netherlands | Europe | 355 | 823 | 734 | 1,912 | 4.9% | 51% |
| 9 | Malaysia | Asia | 259 | 662 | 724 | 1,645 | 4.2% | 51% |
| 10 | China | Asia | 183 | 675 | 778 | 1,636 | 4.2% | 56% |
| 11 | Thailand | Asia | 215 | 510 | 674 | 1,399 | 3.6% | 56% |
| 12 | Spain | Europe | 229 | 482 | 499 | 1,210 | 3.1% | 50% |
| 13 | Russia | Europe | 111 | 448 | 514 | 1,073 | 2.7% | 56% |
| 14 | Italy | Europe | 183 | 350 | 337 | 870 | 2.2% | 43% |
| 15 | Israel | Asia | 103 | 295 | 424 | 822 | 2.1% | 44% |
| 16 | Belgium | Europe | 138 | 315 | 289 | 742 | 1.9% | 53% |
| 17 | Switzerland | Europe | 147 | 223 | 298 | 668 | 1.7% | 53% |
| 18 | Canada | North America | 138 | 267 | 248 | 653 | 1.7% | 50% |
| 19 | Singapore | Asia | 93 | 242 | 306 | 641 | 1.6% | 51% |
| 20 | Japan | Asia | 84 | 258 | 244 | 586 | 1.5% | 43% |
| 21 | Uruguay | South America | 6 | 247 | 258 | 511 | 1.3% | 54% |
| 22 | Poland | Europe | 81 | 166 | 238 | 485 | 1.2% | 48% |
| 23 | Czech Republic | Europe | 64 | 171 | 203 | 438 | 1.1% | 50% |
| 24 | Austria | Europe | 86 | 169 | 178 | 433 | 1.1% | 53% |
| 25 | Taiwan | Asia | 79 | 161 | 157 | 397 | 1.0% | 68% |
| 26 | Sweden | Europe | 64 | 110 | 194 | 368 | 0.9% | 52% |
| 27 | Hong Kong | Asia | 78 | 180 | 102 | 360 | 0.9% | 59% |
| 28 | Bangladesh | Asia | 22 | 146 | 181 | 349 | 0.9% | 23% |
| 29 | New Zealand | Oceania | 53 | 134 | 138 | 325 | 0.8% | 46% |
| 30 | Denmark | Europe | 43 | 191 | 86 | 320 | 0.8% | 61% |
| 31 | Norway | Europe | 35 | 95 | 99 | 229 | 0.6% | 59% |
| 32 | Ireland | Europe | 18 | 84 | 120 | 222 | 0.6% | 40% |
| 33 | Ukraine | Europe | 7 | 62 | 87 | 156 | 0.4% | 71% |
| 34 | Indonesia | Asia | 16 | 69 | 34 | 119 | 0.3% | 55% |
| 35 | Hungary | Europe | 34 | 28 | 34 | 96 | 0.2% | 44% |
| 36 | Mexico | North America | 12 | 59 | 25 | 96 | 0.2% | 70% |
| 37 | Slovakia | Europe | 11 | 53 | 24 | 88 | 0.2% | 43% |
| 38 | Brazil | South America | 26 | 18 | 40 | 84 | 0.2% | 61% |
| 39 | Finland | Europe | 16 | 43 | 25 | 84 | 0.2% | 51% |
| 40 | Vietnam | Asia | 21 | 28 | 35 | 84 | 0.2% | 65% |
| 41 | Portugal | Europe | 21 | 28 | 28 | 77 | 0.2% | 48% |
| 42 | Philippines | Asia | 9 | 23 | 40 | 72 | 0.2% | 61% |
| 43 | Estonia | Europe | 50 | 9 | 8 | 67 | 0.2% | 55% |
| 44 | Iran | Asia | 21 | 22 | 22 | 65 | 0.2% | 49% |
| 45 | Argentina | South America | 8 | 33 | 21 | 62 | 0.2% | 34% |
| 46 | Lithuania | Europe | 7 | 15 | 36 | 58 | 0.1% | 59% |
| 47 | Romania | Europe | 13 | 31 | 14 | 58 | 0.1% | 55% |
| 48 | Belarus | Europe | 14 | 24 | 17 | 55 | 0.1% | 55% |
| 49 | South Africa | Africa | 16 | 21 | 13 | 50 | 0.1% | 56% |
| 50 | Slovenia | Europe | 15 | 18 | 16 | 49 | 0.1% | 37% |
| 51 | Colombia | South America | 10 | 20 | 18 | 48 | 0.1% | 56% |
| 52 | Chile | South America | 6 | 13 | 25 | 44 | 0.1% | 64% |
| 53 | Turkey | Asia | 6 | 18 | 20 | 44 | 0.1% | 32% |
| 54 | Bulgaria | Europe | 13 | 15 | 10 | 38 | 0.1% | 42% |
| 55 | Greece | Europe | 6 | 12 | 19 | 37 | 0.1% | 54% |
| 56 | Sri Lanka | Asia | 3 | 21 | 12 | 36 | 0.1% | 28% |
| 57 | Costa Rica | North America | 0 | 17 | 18 | 35 | 0.1% | 54% |
| 58 | United Arab Emirates | Asia | 9 | 11 | 15 | 35 | 0.1% | 57% |
| 59 | Luxembourg | Europe | 6 | 15 | 12 | 33 | 0.1% | 42% |
| 60 | Latvia | Europe | 20 | 11 | 0 | 31 | 0.1% | 65% |
| 61 | Myanmar | Asia | 0 | 5 | 26 | 31 | 0.1% | 45% |
| 62 | Armenia | Asia | 5 | 11 | 6 | 22 | 0.1% | 36% |
| 63 | Croatia | Europe | 1 | 8 | 13 | 22 | 0.1% | 45% |
| 64 | Kazakhstan | Asia | 0 | 10 | 12 | 22 | 0.1% | 32% |
| 65 | Egypt | Africa | 6 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 0.1% | 30% |
| 66 | Lebanon | Asia | 8 | 3 | 7 | 18 | <0.1% | 28% |
| 67 | Pakistan | Asia | 3 | 8 | 6 | 17 | <0.1% | 35% |
| 68 | Jordan | Asia | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | <0.1% | 31% |
| 69 | Bahrain | Asia | 7 | 4 | 1 | 12 | <0.1% | 8% |
| 70 | Morocco | Africa | 6 | 2 | 4 | 12 | <0.1% | 42% |
| 71 | Serbia & Montenegro | Europe | 2 | 7 | 3 | 12 | <0.1% | 25% |
| 72 | Afghanistan | Asia | 0 | 2 | 9 | 11 | <0.1% | 45% |
| 73 | Malawi | Africa | 0 | 9 | 2 | 11 | <0.1% | 45% |
| 74 | Georgia | Asia | 3 | 7 | 0 | 10 | <0.1% | 60% |
| 75 | Oman | Asia | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | <0.1% | 33% |
| 76 | Saudi Arabia | Asia | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | <0.1% | 44% |
| 77 | Brunei | Asia | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 | <0.1% | 88% |
| 78 | Mongolia | Asia | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | <0.1% | 88% |
| 79 | Palestine | Asia | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 80 | Peru | South America | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 | <0.1% | 38% |
| 81 | Bhutan | Asia | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 | <0.1% | 14% |
| 82 | Cyprus | Asia | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | <0.1% | 57% |
| 83 | Madagascar | Africa | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | <0.1% | 33% |
| 84 | Algeria | Africa | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | <0.1% | 20% |
| 85 | Belize | North America | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | <0.1% | 60% |
| 86 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Europe | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | <0.1% | 20% |
| 87 | Maldives | Asia | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | <0.1% | 60% |
| 88 | Moldova | Europe | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | <0.1% | 40% |
| 89 | Sudan | Africa | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | <0.1% | 60% |
| 90 | Venezuela | South America | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 91 | Kuwait | Asia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | <0.1% | 50% |
| 92 | Laos | Asia | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | <0.1% | 50% |
| 93 | Syria | Asia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | <0.1% | 25% |
| 94 | Chad | Africa | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | <0.1% | 67% |
| 95 | Comoros | Africa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 96 | Kenya | Africa | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | <0.1% | 33% |
| 97 | Kyrgyzstan | Asia | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 98 | Macau | Asia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | <0.1% | 33% |
| 99 | Malta | Europe | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | <0.1% | 33% |
| 100 | Mauritius | Africa | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | <0.1% | 33% |
| 101 | Azerbaijan | Asia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 102 | Cambodia | Asia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 103 | DR Congo | Africa | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 104 | Ecuador | South America | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 105 | Eswatini | Africa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 106 | Ghana | Africa | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 107 | Guatemala | North America | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | <0.1% | 50% |
| 108 | Iceland | Europe | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 109 | Liberia | Africa | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | <0.1% | 50% |
| 110 | Paraguay | South America | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | <0.1% | 50% |
| 111 | Uzbekistan | Asia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 112 | Yemen | Asia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 113 | Andorra | Europe | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 114 | Barbados | North America | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 115 | Djibouti | Africa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 116 | Dominica | North America | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 117 | El Salvador | North America | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 118 | Ethiopia | Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 119 | Fiji | Oceania | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 120 | Gabon | Africa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 121 | Gambia | Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 122 | Haiti | North America | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 123 | Kosovo | Europe | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 124 | Liechtenstein | Europe | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 125 | Micronesia | Oceania | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 126 | Niger | Africa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 127 | Nigeria | Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 128 | Qatar | Asia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 129 | Rwanda | Africa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 130 | Saint Lucia | North America | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 131 | Senegal | Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 132 | Somalia | Africa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 133 | Suriname | South America | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 134 | Tanzania | Africa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 100% |
| 135 | Timor-Leste | Asia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 136 | Tunisia | Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 137 | Uganda | Africa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
| 138 | Zimbabwe | Africa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | <0.1% | 0% |
Europe accounts for 50.6% of check-ins from 39 countries, Asia for 33.9% from 46. That balance is moving. Among countries that already sent at least 100 trekkers in 2023, the four fastest-growing markets are Russia, China, Israel and India, all of them Asian or Eastern European, while France, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia all came off their 2024 peak in 2025. The trail is growing, and the growth is not coming from where it used to.
Europe and Asia between them send 85% of everyone who walks to Mardi Himal Base Camp. Europe alone is 50.6% of the trail, from 39 countries.
| Region | Trekkers | Share | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | 19,843 | 50.6% | 39 |
| Asia | 13,302 | 33.9% | 46 |
| North America | 2,774 | 7.1% | 11 |
| Oceania | 2,371 | 6.0% | 4 |
| South America | 767 | 2.0% | 10 |
| Africa | 142 | 0.4% | 28 |
The walking route to Mardi Himal only opened in 2012, which makes it one of the youngest trails in the Annapurna region and explains why it is still on the steep part of its curve. The single biggest jump, 6,896 to 15,893, is the year Nepal's post-pandemic recovery finished working through the trekking season. What matters for planning is not the annual total but its concentration: these numbers land almost entirely in two windows, which is what the best season guide covers month by month.
Check-ins on the Mardi Himal trail rose from 6,477 in 2022 to 16,410 in 2025. The jump falls between 2023 and 2024, when Nepal's post-pandemic recovery finished working through: 2024 was 2.3 times 2023, while 2025 added a further 3%.
The 2026 column covers 1 Jan to 15 Jun only and is drawn in a lighter tint for that reason. It is not comparable with a full year, and nothing here projects it forward: the figure stands at 9,363 trekkers by mid-June, which is 57% of the whole of 2025 before the autumn season, the busiest of the year, has started.
48.1% across three years is an unusually even split for a Himalayan trek, and it is the number worth knowing if you are a woman weighing up walking this route alone. It is not uniform by country: Taiwan, Denmark, Hong Kong and Norway all sent more women than men, while India and Bangladesh each sent more than three men for every woman. What that means on the ground is covered on solo trekking Mardi Himal.
Mardi Himal is close to an even split. Women were 48.1% of the 39,199 trekkers who checked in between 2023 and 2025, a share that has held within a point and a half of half the trail in all three years.
A further 13 trekkers were recorded under another gender, which is too small a share to draw at this scale and is left out of the bar rather than rounded up into it.
They tell you the trail is well-travelled and international, that you will not be the only foreigner on it, and that whichever country you are coming from, someone from it has almost certainly walked this route recently. They also tell you Mardi Himal is nowhere near the scale of Annapurna Base Camp or Everest Base Camp, which is the trade it offers: Annapurna-massif views without the queue. If you are deciding between them, the Mardi versus Annapurna Base Camp and Mardi versus Poon Hill comparisons put the routes side by side.
The check-in record captures nationality, gender and date. It does not record which itinerary anyone walked, how long they took, whether they hired a guide, or whether they turned back. So nothing here should be read as “trekkers from your country choose this many days”, because that is not in the data and we will not invent it. To choose a length, start from your own acclimatisation and time budget on the day-by-day itinerary and the difficulty and map page, which between them cover the 4, 5, 6 and 8-day versions of the route.
Trail check-in registrations for the Mardi Himal route, supplied as three annual reports covering 2023, 2024 and 2025. Each record carries a country of origin and a gender. Only foreign trekkers appear: no Nepali nationals are recorded in any of the three years, so every figure on this page describes international visitors.
The per-country totals add up to exactly 6,896, 15,893 and 16,410, matching the separate annual totals for the trail to the trekker. That reconciliation is what confirms these are Mardi Himal figures and not region-wide Annapurna ones.
No count was altered, estimated or interpolated. The cleaning was name-level only: where one country appeared on two rows in the same year the rows were summed; alternate and historic spellings were folded to one label, so “Korea (South)” becomes South Korea and “Hellenic” becomes Greece; Scotland, four trekkers, was folded into the United Kingdom. One 2025 row carried a country name with no counts against it and was dropped. Regions follow the UN M49 geoscheme, which places Turkey, Israel and the South Caucasus in Asia and Russia in Europe.
Figures for 2026 are a part-year to 15 June and are shown that way everywhere they appear. Nothing on this page extrapolates them to a full year.
The complete 138-country table, with per-year and per-gender counts, free to reuse and republish with a link back to this page.
Suggested citation: Mardi Himal trekker check-in records 2023-2025, published at mardihimal.com/trekker-statistics/
France. Between 2023 and 2025, 3,639 French trekkers checked in on the Mardi Himal trail, 9.3% of all 39,199 recorded trekkers. Germany is second with 3,544 (9.0%) and the United Kingdom third with 2,711 (6.9%). Germany led in 2023 with 774 trekkers against France's 727, and France has led every year since.
16,410 trekkers checked in during 2025, 15,893 in 2024 and 6,896 in 2023. The trail has roughly two and a half times the traffic it carried in 2022, when 6,477 trekkers walked it. In 2026, 9,363 trekkers had checked in by 15 June, before the autumn season had begun.
3,544 German trekkers checked in between 2023 and 2025, which is about 1,181 a year and makes Germany the second-largest nationality on the trail after France. German numbers peaked in 2024 at 1,518 and eased to 1,252 in 2025. 51% of German trekkers on the route were women.
Yes. Women were 48.1% of everyone who checked in between 2023 and 2025, 18,867 of 39,199 trekkers, and the share has stayed within a point and a half of half the trail in each of the three years. Mardi Himal is a teahouse trek with no technical sections, which is part of why it draws a far more even split than Nepal's high-pass routes.
It is busy by Annapurna standards and getting busier: 16,410 trekkers in 2025 against 6,477 in 2022. Those numbers are concentrated into the two trekking windows, October to November and March to April, so the trail feels far quieter outside them. The count is small next to Annapurna Base Camp and the Everest routes, which is the reason most people pick Mardi Himal in the first place.
Asian and Eastern European markets. Measured from 2023 to 2025 among countries that already sent at least 100 trekkers in 2023: Russia +363%, China +325%, Israel +312%, India +261%. Over the same period several established Western European markets fell back from their 2024 peak, so the trail's mix is shifting towards Asia even as the overall total rises.
From trail check-in registrations for the Mardi Himal route for 2023, 2024 and 2025, covering foreign trekkers only. The per-country totals reconcile exactly with the separate annual totals for the trail, which is what confirms the figures are Mardi-specific rather than region-wide Annapurna numbers. The full dataset is published here as CSV and JSON and is free to reuse and republish with a link to mardihimal.com.
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