The 2018 Women’s Marches by the Numbers

“The naysayers tried to dismiss the Jan. 21, 2017, Women’s Marches as a one-time event,” Eleanor Smeal, president of Feminist Majority (and publisher of Ms.), told the crowds at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. this January, at the city’s anniversary Women’s March. “But they know now what we knew then: that we will not go away and are determined to change the direction of this nation.”

One year after the historic Women’s Marches following Donald Trump’s inauguration, we were at it again. Out came the pink pussy hats and nearly 2.7 million people joined at least 419 Women’s Marches in the U.S. and its territories, in red states and blue states, in all 50 states, and at least 131 marches in 33 other countries around the world.

And, as we did last year, Ms. recorded the crowd counts from every city in the U.S.

Total Marches

• U.S. Women’s March Events: 407
• Global Women’s March Events: 133
• Women’s March Events Worldwide: 540

Total Participants

• U.S. Women’s March Participants: 2,637,214
• Global Women’s March Participants: 46,193
• Total Women’s March Participants Worldwide: 2,683,407

U.S. March Participant Counts by State

This piece wouldn’t be possible without the research of Professors Erica Chenoweth of University of Denver, Jeremy Pressman of University of Connecticut and their associates Fizza Alam, Camille Chill, Kevin Fitzgerald and Abbey Vogel. To see more of their research, go to crowdcounting.org.