Data Visualisation on the Camino - some questions stand out

I think that the Camino launching point was 1993 (99000 pilgrims), when the Holy Year was widely promoted . So more or less the relevant increase has been 2,5x the number of people in 20 years.

Interesting observations and questions.

Oh how I wish I had walked it when I first thought of it, about 40 years ago
To any young pilgrim reading this thread...don't delay

From Internet:

"En junio de 1962, Álvaro Cunqueiro realiza el Camino de las Estrellas en un Seat 600 desde O Cebreiro a Santiago. El correspondiente relato apareció publicado por entregas en un periódico gallego y hoy puede ser disfrutado en forma de libro. En un momento de la narración, el autor pregunta a un niño si vio pasar a algún peregrino, y el muchacho le responde repreguntándole qué es eso. Y en 1970, el sistema contabiliza 70 peregrinos. A mi entender, el renacimiento que experimenta el Camino de Santiago en los últimos treinta años se debe al impulso que le imprime don Manuel Fraga desde la presidencia de la Xunta de Galicia"

Summary: In June 1962 Alvaro Cunqueiro (a Galician writer) drove in a Seat 600 the Stars Way from O Cebreiro to Santiago and he wrote a book about that trip. On the narrative he asks a boy if had ever seen a pilgrim and the boy responds What is a pilgrim?.In 1970 were counted 70 pilgrims. The renaissance of the Camino was due to President of Xunta Manuel Fraga who took office in 1990.

Mine: Manuel Fraga was a minister in the Franco regime and because of that he never was well accepted by many people but he was really brilliant (IMO) and as a president of Xunta he did a lot of good things for Galicia.