Miss World 1991

Miss World 1991, the 41st edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 28 December 1991 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The winner was Ninibeth Leal representing Venezuela. She was crowned by Gina Tolleson of the United States. Miss World 1991 was scheduled to be held in the Dominican Republic. Due to scheduling difficulties, Miss World was first moved to Puerto Rico, then to Atlanta, United States. Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1991 were held in South Africa.

Contestants
Seventy-eight contestants competed for the title.

Judges

 * Mike Favre
 * Brenda McLain
 * Phil Hayes
 * Marie DeGeorge
 * Eric Morley †- Chairman and CEO of Miss World Organization
 * Jarvis Astaire †
 * Paul Block
 * Jane Ambrose
 * Edgar Botero

Returns
Last competed in 1977:
 *  – returned after the Miss World Organization decided to lift a 14-year apartheid rule, allowing its contestants to compete.


 * Last competed in 1986:
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Withdrawals

 * 🇨🇦 Canada - Unable to compete just days before the finals due to Illness
 * 🇨🇰 Cook Islands
 *  Cote d'Ivoire - Muriel Edoukou - Due lack of Sponsorship.
 * 🇬🇾 Guyana - Tracy Ann D'Abreu - Due to the controversy over her victory and citizenship, she was declared ineligible to compete at Miss World 1991.
 *  British Hong Kong - Renewed its franchise, however it happened three months after Miss World.
 * 🇱🇺 Luxembourg - Did not send delegates to Miss World after 1990 until it returned in 2009.
 * 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
 * 🇵🇪 Peru – Due to problems with their franchise and lack of sponsorship
 * 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – Due to scheduling conflict
 *  Soviet Union - The winner of Miss USSR 1991, Ilmira Shamsutdinova was invited to compete in Miss World 1991, however she rejected the invitation because was too underage for the contest. No runners-up from Miss USSR 1991 pageant were sent for Miss World 1991. The USSR ceased to exist only two days before the Miss World pageant. However 5 years later, Shamsutdinova competed at Miss Universe 1996

Replacements

 *  – Antonia Balint - She was Dethroned of her Miss Hungary 1991 crown after Hungarian newspapers printed photographs that she had previously appeared in the men's magazine Lui and other publications against Miss World rules. Her 1st -runner up, Timea Raba couldn't replace her for the same reason.
 *  – Lu Shu-Fang.

Other Notes

 * – Michelle McLean competed in Miss Universe in 1992, held in Bangkok, Thailand, where she emerged victorious. Only four months prior, she had participated in the pageant, making her the first and only Namibian to claim the crown.