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2018 Peregrino Data Available Yet?

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The first edition came out in 2003 and has become the go-to-guide for many pilgrims over the years. It is shipping with a Pilgrim Passport (Credential) from the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela.
Anyone know if the final numbers have been published and where I can find them?

I checked here and the page was blank:

https://oficinadelperegrino.com/en/statistics/

Thanks in advance...
That page worked for me. I had to change 2019 to 2018, and from a particular month to "Todos".

Durante el año 2018 en la Oficina de Peregrinaciones se recibieron 327.378 peregrinos; el anterior Año Santo en 2010 fueron 272.417. De estos peregrinos, 164.836 (50,35%) son mujeres y 162.542 (49,65%) hombres. A pie han llegado 306.064 (93,49%), en bicicleta 20.787 (6,35%), a caballo 318 (0,10%) y 79 (0,02%) en silla de ruedas.

Edad de los peregrinos.
Menores de 30 años son 87.843 peregrinos (26,83%); de entre 30 y 60 son 179.450 (54,81%) y mayores de 60 años son 60.085 peregrinos (18,35%).

Motivación que expresan personalmente los peregrinos.
Religiosa 140.037 (42,78%)
Religiosa-cultural 156.720 (47,87%)
Sólo cultural 30.621 (9,35%).

Nacionalidades de los peregrinos.
Españoles: 144.137 (44,03%); el mayor número de peregrinos procede de las comunidades de Andalucía con 30.833 (21,39%); Madrid con 28.680 (19,90%); Comunidad Valenciana con 17.243 (11,96%); Cataluña con 13.626 (9,45%); Galicia con 8.780 (6,09%); Castilla la Mancha con 7.722 (5,36%); Castilla León con 7.264 (5,04%); Canarias con 5.330 (3,70%); etc.
Extranjeros: 183.237 (55,97%); el país que mayor número de peregrinos aporta es Italia, con 27.009 (14,74%); Alemania, con 25.296 (13,81%); Estados Unidos, con 18.582 (10,14%); Portugal, con 14.413 (7,87%); Francia, con 8.775 (4,79%); Reino Unido, con 7.624 (4,16%); Irlanda, con 7.548 (4,12%); Corea, con 5.665 (3,09%); etc.

Etc.
 
Anyone know if the final numbers have been published and where I can find them?

I checked here and the page was blank:

https://oficinadelperegrino.com/en/statistics/

Thanks in advance...
Does anyone know why places of departure (where you start your pilgrimage, are repeated in the official stats? To give you an idea of what I am talking about, this is the beginning of the list. Notice how places like Sarria, SJPP, Porto, show up multiple times with different numbers.

La mayor parte de los peregrinos llegados en este año 2018 ha iniciado su camino en Sarria con 18.274 (5,58%); Sarria con 13.293 (4,06%); Sarria con 12.898 (3,94%); Sarria con 11.793 (3,60%); Sarria con 9.633 (2,94%); Sarria con 8.486 (2,59%); Sarria con 6.613 (2,02%); S. Jean P. Port con 6.042 (1,85%); S. Jean P. Port con 5.891 (1,80%); S. Jean P. Port con 5.535 (1,69%); Tui con 5.308 (1,62%); Oporto con 4.602 (1,41%); Oporto con 4.526 (1,38%); Sarria con 4.476 (1,37%); Tui con 4.035 (1,23%); S. Jean P. Port con 3.912 (1,19%); S. Jean P. Port con 3.700 (1,13%); S. Jean P. Port con 3.602 (1,10%); Oporto con 3.562 (1,09%); Oporto con 3.340 (1,02%); Tui con 3.221 (0,98%); Oporto con 3.057 (0,93%); Oporto con 3.015 (0,92%); Ferrol con 2.876 (0,88%); Oporto con 2.757 (0,84%);
 
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That page worked for me. I had to change 2019 to 2018, and from a particular month to "Todos".

Durante el año 2018 en la Oficina de Peregrinaciones se recibieron 327.378 peregrinos; el anterior Año Santo en 2010 fueron 272.417. De estos peregrinos, 164.836 (50,35%) son mujeres y 162.542 (49,65%) hombres. A pie han llegado 306.064 (93,49%), en bicicleta 20.787 (6,35%), a caballo 318 (0,10%) y 79 (0,02%) en silla de ruedas.

Edad de los peregrinos.
Menores de 30 años son 87.843 peregrinos (26,83%); de entre 30 y 60 son 179.450 (54,81%) y mayores de 60 años son 60.085 peregrinos (18,35%).

Motivación que expresan personalmente los peregrinos.
Religiosa 140.037 (42,78%)
Religiosa-cultural 156.720 (47,87%)
Sólo cultural 30.621 (9,35%).

Nacionalidades de los peregrinos.
Españoles: 144.137 (44,03%); el mayor número de peregrinos procede de las comunidades de Andalucía con 30.833 (21,39%); Madrid con 28.680 (19,90%); Comunidad Valenciana con 17.243 (11,96%); Cataluña con 13.626 (9,45%); Galicia con 8.780 (6,09%); Castilla la Mancha con 7.722 (5,36%); Castilla León con 7.264 (5,04%); Canarias con 5.330 (3,70%); etc.
Extranjeros: 183.237 (55,97%); el país que mayor número de peregrinos aporta es Italia, con 27.009 (14,74%); Alemania, con 25.296 (13,81%); Estados Unidos, con 18.582 (10,14%); Portugal, con 14.413 (7,87%); Francia, con 8.775 (4,79%); Reino Unido, con 7.624 (4,16%); Irlanda, con 7.548 (4,12%); Corea, con 5.665 (3,09%); etc.

Etc.
Thanks. Now it's working. Must have been a slow server. So, and increase of 20K or so over 2017....
 
Does anyone know why places of departure (where you start your pilgrimage, are repeated in the official stats? To give you an idea of what I am talking about, this is the beginning of the list. Notice how places like Sarria, SJPP, Porto, show up multiple times with different numbers.
I got the same confusion viewing the webpage version of the statistics on my smartphone but the PDF version makes sense.
 

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