About this chart race
Sweden won the first two Miss World contests, in 1951 and 1952, and for the next decade the lead changed hands almost every year. The United Kingdom, the host nation, took it outright in 1965 with a third title and then held or shared first place for thirty years - four wins by 1983, the last of them Sarah-Jane Hutt.
Venezuela drew level on four in 1991 and went clear in 1995 with its fifth. India answered immediately: after Reita Faria's win in 1966 it had waited 28 years, then won four times in seven years - 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2000, the last two back to back - to draw level on five in 2000. Venezuela edged ahead again in 2011 and India pulled back alongside in 2017. The race therefore ends the way almost no cumulative race does: dead level, Venezuela 6 and India 6, from completely different eras.
Behind them the United Kingdom and Jamaica have four each, with Jamaica's spread across 56 years (1963, 1976, 1993, 2019). Sweden, South Africa, the United States and Iceland have three. Iceland is the outlier of the whole list: a country of under 400,000 people with as many Miss World titles as the United States.
Thirty-eight countries and territories have won, and twenty of them have won exactly once - among them Grenada, Bermuda, Gibraltar and Guam. Guam's is the strangest entry in the table: the 1980 winner, Gabriella Brum of Germany, resigned within a day, and the runner-up Kimberley Santos assumed the title, so the contest's own records credit Guam rather than Germany for that year. There was no contest in 2020, 2022 or 2024, so those years are absent rather than zero, and the flat stretches in the animation are real.
This animated ranking shows how cumulative miss world titles changed across 38 series between 1951 and 2025. The bars re-order themselves as the years advance, so overtakes are visible as they happen rather than hidden inside a table. Use the list on the left to choose exactly who competes, drag the slider to jump to any year, or open the table view to read the underlying numbers.
As of 2025, Venezuela leads with 6.
Included in this race
Venezuela, India, United Kingdom, Jamaica, United States, Sweden, South Africa, Iceland, Russia, Puerto Rico, Poland, Peru, Netherlands, Czech Republic, China, Austria, Australia, Argentina, Turkey, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, Mexico, Israel, Ireland, Guam, Grenada, Greece, Gibraltar, Germany, France, Finland, Egypt, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Bermuda.
Source
Data from Wikipedia - List of Miss World titleholders. Every figure shown comes from this source — nothing is estimated or generated.
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