Hired Staff Statistics

Hired staff (Sherpas, porters, etc.) as a proportion of total expedition members by year, with death comparisons between hired and non-hired members.

Year	Members	Hired	Non-Hired	Hired %	Hired Deaths	Non-Hired Deaths
1905	9	4	5	44.4%	4	1
1907	2	0	2	0.0%	0	0
1909	2	0	2	0.0%	0	0
1910	3	0	3	0.0%	0	0
1920	5	0	5	0.0%	0	0
1921	13	4	9	30.8%	1	1
1922	22	9	13	40.9%	7	0
1924	13	2	11	15.4%	2	2
1925	2	0	2	0.0%	0	0
1929	15	4	11	26.7%	0	1
1930	32	6	26	18.8%	1	0
1931	16	6	10	37.5%	3	1
1933	43	27	16	62.8%	0	0
1934	4	3	1	75.0%	0	1
1935	31	16	15	51.6%	0	0
1936	55	21	34	38.2%	0	0
1937	29	11	18	37.9%	0	0
1938	23	16	7	69.6%	0	0
1939	33	18	15	54.5%	0	0
1940	1	0	1	0.0%	0	0
1947	6	2	4	33.3%	0	0
1949	61	16	45	26.2%	0	0
1950	45	17	28	37.8%	0	0
1951	29	10	19	34.5%	0	1
1952	99	27	72	27.3%	1	0
1953	152	38	114	25.0%	0	1
1954	212	27	185	12.7%	1	5
1955	169	33	136	19.5%	1	2
1956	72	21	51	29.2%	1	0
1957	28	7	21	25.0%	2	1
1958	57	8	49	14.0%	0	1
1959	95	13	82	13.7%	3	5
1960	180	37	143	20.6%	1	1
1961	102	20	82	19.6%	2	3
1962	151	40	111	26.5%	1	0
1963	171	28	143	16.4%	0	3
1964	187	30	157	16.0%	0	4
1965	132	29	103	22.0%	2	0
1966	14	4	10	28.6%	0	1
1967	15	4	11	26.7%	0	0
1968	4	1	3	25.0%	0	0
1969	173	13	160	7.5%	4	10
1970	355	36	319	10.1%	8	5
1971	232	21	211	9.1%	5	11
1972	229	29	200	12.7%	12	10
1973	354	30	324	8.5%	4	14
1974	363	33	330	9.1%	8	4
1975	379	23	356	6.1%	6	13
1976	271	19	252	7.0%	1	5
1977	249	20	229	8.0%	0	6
1978	575	56	519	9.7%	5	13
1979	697	74	623	10.6%	9	16
1980	849	87	762	10.2%	2	18
1981	916	66	850	7.2%	2	12
1982	973	97	876	10.0%	6	17
1983	931	61	870	6.6%	5	22
1984	1102	94	1008	8.5%	6	12
1985	1087	85	1002	7.8%	3	31
1986	955	47	908	4.9%	4	22
1987	966	63	903	6.5%	4	19
1988	1219	89	1130	7.3%	6	22
1989	1301	84	1217	6.5%	9	25
1990	1244	88	1156	7.1%	8	9
1991	1411	95	1316	6.7%	5	17
1992	1293	107	1186	8.3%	10	23
1993	1222	106	1116	8.7%	1	13
1994	1192	107	1085	9.0%	5	23
1995	1220	132	1088	10.8%	6	8
1996	1513	158	1355	10.4%	3	21
1997	1604	146	1458	9.1%	4	19
1998	1607	203	1404	12.6%	2	16
1999	1389	176	1213	12.7%	3	10
2000	1898	255	1643	13.4%	6	10
2001	1613	234	1379	14.5%	1	16
2002	1576	253	1323	16.1%	7	7
2003	2005	379	1626	18.9%	2	12
2004	2006	402	1604	20.0%	2	14
2005	2025	441	1584	21.8%	13	21
2006	2498	604	1894	24.2%	13	21
2007	2434	605	1829	24.9%	4	11
2008	2577	601	1976	23.3%	4	10
2009	2690	745	1945	27.7%	3	16
2010	2598	719	1879	27.7%	2	19
2011	2614	799	1815	30.6%	1	21
2012	2536	763	1773	30.1%	5	23
2013	2568	816	1752	31.8%	10	13
2014	2241	591	1650	26.4%	24	9
2015	2284	755	1529	33.1%	12	10
2016	2691	932	1759	34.6%	5	8
2017	2752	955	1797	34.7%	2	8
2018	2974	1104	1870	37.1%	10	16
2019	3313	1316	1997	39.7%	3	21
2020	239	102	137	42.7%	0	0
2021	2175	721	1454	33.1%	3	6
2022	3306	1032	2274	31.2%	5	6
2023	3492	1186	2306	34.0%	6	16
2024	3606	1317	2289	36.5%	4	15
2025	1851	695	1156	37.5%	4	7