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In pictures: Expo 2020 Dubai in numbers
About 70 percent of visitors to Expo 2020 are expected to come from outside the UAE, the largest proportion of international visitors in more than a century and a half of World Expos
About 70 percent of visitors to Expo 2020 are expected to come from outside the UAE, the largest proportion of international visitors in more than a century and a half of World Expos.
A target of
25 million visits has been set, equal to the population of Australia.
Around
60 live events will take place per day for 173 consecutive days.
Expo 2020 expects to attract approximately
16 times the number of people who attended the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Al Wasl Plaza’s
steel trellis dome covers an area the size of 16 tennis courts and weighs as much as 500 elephants.
Between 20,000 and 35,000 people will work at the site every day.
Expo will have more than 200 F&B outlets, with 50 million meals served, generating around $544.5m over six months
.
The Expo 2020 site can hold up to 300,000 people per day, more than three times the capacity of London’s Wembley Stadium.
More than 38,000 suppliers from 151 countries have registered to work on Expo 2020 Dubai.
Smart building strategies will reduce power consumption by 20%, saving as much power used by 11,000 UAE residents for an entire year.
The renewable energy produced by the Sustainability Pavilion will be enough to charge more than 900,000 mobile phones.
Al Wasl Plaza is 67.5 metres in height, 10m taller than Italy’s Leaning Tower of Pisa and at 130 metres in diameter, it is wide enough to fit two Airbus A380s across its centre, wing to wing.
More than 130 million work hours have been completed at the Expo 2020 site.
