Miss World 1991

Results

Placements

Continental Queens of Beauty

Contestants

Debuts

• Returns

• ' – 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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• Last competed in 1988:
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• Last competed in 1989:
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  Withdrawals

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• ' - Muriel Edoukou - Due lack of Sponsorship.
• ' - Tracy Ann D'Abreu - Due the controversy over her victory and citizenship, she was declared inelegible to compete at Miss World 1991.
• ' - Renewed its franchise, however it happened three months after Miss World.
• ' - Did not send delegates to Miss World after 1990 until it returned in 2009.
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• ' – Due to problems with their franchise and lack of sponsorship
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• ' - 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.

  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 due the same reason.
• ' – Lu Shu-Fang