List of Miss World editions

The following is a list of Miss World pageant edition and information.

Year	Edition	Date	Venue	Country/territory	Entrants
1951	1st	July 29	Lyceum Theatre, London	United Kingdom	26
1952	2nd	November 14			11
1953	3rd	October 19			15
1954	4th	October 18			16
1955	5th	October 20			21
1956	6th	October 15			24
1957	7th	October 14			23
1958	8th	October 13			22
1959	9th	November 10			37
1960	10th	November 8			39
1961	11th	November 9			37
1962	12th	November 8			33
1963	13th	November 7			40
1964	14th	November 12			42
1965	15th	November 19			48
1966	16th	November 17			51
1967	17th	November 16			55
1968	18th	November 14			53
1969	19th	November 27	Royal Albert Hall, London		50
1970	20th	November 20			58
1971	21st	November 10			56
1972	22nd	December 1			53
1973	23rd	November 23			54
1974	24th	November 22			58
1975	25th	November 20			67
1976	26th	November 18			60
1977	27th	November 17			62
1978	28th	November 16			68
1979	29th	November 15			69
1980	30th	November 13			67
1981	31st	November 12			67
1982	32nd	November 18			68
1983	33rd	November 17			72
1984	34th	November 15			72
1985	35th	November 14			78
1986	36th	November 13			77
1987	37th	November 12			78
1988	38th	November 17			84
1989	39th	November 22	Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wan Chai North	Hong Kong	78
1990	40th	November 8	London Palladium, London	United Kingdom	81
1991	41st	December 28	Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia	United States	78
1992	42nd	December 12	Sun City Entertainment Center, Sun City	South Africa	83
1993	43rd	November 27			81
1994	44th	November 19			87
1995	45th	November 18			84
1996	46th	November 22	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	India	88
1997	47th		Plantation Club, Baie Lazare	Seychelles	86
1998	48th	November 26	Lake Berjaya Mahé Beach Resort, Port Glaud		86
1999	49th	December 4	Olympia, London	United Kingdom	94
2000	50th	November 30	Millennium Dome, London		95
2001	51st	November 16	Sun City Super Bowl, Sun City	South Africa	93
2002	52nd	December 7	Alexandra Palace, London	United Kingdom	88
2003	53rd	December 6	Crown of Beauty Theatre, Sanya	China	106
2004	54th	December 4			107
2005	55th	December 10			102
2006	56th	September 30	Congress Hall, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw	Poland	104
2007	57th	December 1	Crown of Beauty Theatre, Sanya	China	106
2008	58th	December 13	Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg	South Africa	109
2009	59th	December 12	Gallagher Convention Centre, Johannesburg		112
2010	60th	October 30	Crown of Beauty Theatre, Sanya	China	115
2011	61st	November 6	Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London	United Kingdom	113
2012	62nd	August 18	Dongsheng Fitness Center Stadium, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia	China	116
2013	63rd	September 28	Nusa Dua Bali International Convention Center, Nusa Dua, Bali	Indonesia	127
2014	64th	December 14	ExCeL London, London	United Kingdom	121
2015	65th	December 19	Crown of Beauty Theatre, Sanya	China	114
2016	66th	December 18	MGM National Harbor, Washington, D.C.	United States	118
2017	67th	November 18	Sanya City Arena, Sanya	China	118
2018	68th	December 8
2019	69th	December 14	ExCeL London, London	United Kingdom	111
2020	No competition will be held due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	70th	December	TBA	TBA	TBA

Host country/territory by number

Country/territory	Hosts	Year(s)
United Kingdom	45	1951–1988, 1990, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2011, 2014, 2019
China	9	2003–2005, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018
South Africa	7	1992–1995, 2001, 2008, 2009
United States	2	1991, 2016
Seychelles		1997, 1998
Indonesia	1	2013
Poland		2006
India		1996
Hong Kong		1989

Notes

^ 1: Miss World 2002 was initially slated for Abuja, Nigeria but due to conflict in the city of Kaduna arising from a publication of an article in a Lagos-based newspaper the pageant was relocated to London, United Kingdom.
^ 2: Miss World 2008 was originally going to take place in Kiev, Ukraine but because of the ongoing 2008 Russo-Georgian diplomatic crisis in neighboring South Ossetia, t. The Miss World Organization decided to move the pageant to South Africa.
^ 3: Miss World 2010 which celebrates the 60th anniversary was initially slated for Nha Trang, Vietnam, but later was relocated to Sanya, China.
^ 4: Miss World 2019 was initially slated for Thailand on 7 December, but later was relocated to London, and was not held in 2020 due to COVID-19.

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