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Baseball World Series TV viewership in the United States 2000-2017

Average TV viewership of World Series games in the United States from 2000 to 2017 (in millions)

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