The number of entries and exits recorded at Macau’s border checkpoints so far this year reached 100 million on Sunday night, reaching the benchmark 14 days earlier than last year, the Public Security Police (PSP) announced in a statement last night.
Border crossers comprise permanent and non-permanent Macau SAR residents, non-resident workers (NRWs), tourists, non-local students enrolled in local educational establishments, and others.
In 2025, Macau recorded 235 million entries and exits at its border checkpoints, the highest annual number on record, representing a 9.8 percent increase from 2024.
In 2025, the then cumulative number of entries and exits at Macau’s border checkpoints exceeded the 100-million benchmark on June 7, while this year the cumulative number reached the 100-million benchmark on Sunday, May 24.
Macau has nine border checkpoints, comprising five land border checkpoints with Zhuhai City in Guangdong Province, three passenger ferry terminals, and the international airport in Taipa.
As of Sunday night, according to the PSP statement, the cumulative number of border crossings at the Barrier Gate checkpoint so far this year accounted for 52.2 percent of the total number of border crossings at all checkpoints during the period, while the Qingmao checkpoint, the Hengqin checkpoint, and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge’s (HZMB) Macau checkpoint made up 15.4 percent, 14.7 percent and 10.8 percent of the total respectively.
Together with the small Zhuhai-Macau Cross-border Industrial Zone checkpoint (its border crossings accounting for only 0.1 percent of the total), Macau’s five land border checkpoints accounted for 93.2 percent of the total number of border crossings recorded at the city’s nine checkpoints during the period, i.e., between January 1 and May 24 this year.
Only those working at the Zhuhai-Macau Cross-border Industrial Zone can use the checkpoint there.
This undated handout photo released by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows border crossers thronging the departures hall of the Barrier Gate border checkpoint, Macau’s busiest checkpoint.
