The data displays the average TV viewership of World Series games from 2000 to 2017. The games of the 2017 World Series (Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers) were watched by an average of 18.9 million viewers.
Averages were calculated by adding up the viewership of the games and dividing it by the number of games played in the World Series of that year.
2000 | 18.12 |
2001 | 24.31 |
2002 | 19.4 |
2003 | 20.2 |
2004 | 25.47 |
2005 | 17.21 |
2006 | 15.8 |
2007 | 17.21 |
2008 | 13.7 |
2009 | 19.33 |
2010 | 14.22 |
2011 | 16.52 |
2012 | 12.7 |
2013 | 14.9 |
2014 | 13.8 |
2015 | 14.7 |
2016 | 23.4 |
2017 | 18.9 |