How many people outside the U.S. watch the Super Bowl?

Sports hard Data from 2024

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In viewers. Thousands: 1.000 · Decimals: 1,5 · Millions: 9m.

The answer

62,000,000 viewers

Roughly 62M.

Around 62 million people outside the United States watch the Super Bowl — a big number, but a fraction of the 123 million domestic audience and tiny next to a World Cup final. American football remains overwhelmingly an American sport.

How to get close to this number

Anchor on the domestic figure and apply a small multiple. This site's companion question puts the American audience around a hundred and twenty-three million; for a sport played seriously in one country, the international audience is a fraction of that rather than a multiple. Roughly half is the right scale.

The comparison that matters is with a genuinely global event. A World Cup final reaches over a billion, which is an order of magnitude more, because the sport is played everywhere. Domestic dominance and global reach are completely different properties, and the biggest event in one country can be a minor broadcast everywhere else.

International audience figures are also the softest numbers in sports broadcasting. They are assembled from dozens of national measurement systems with incompatible methodologies, and leagues have an obvious incentive to report generously. Treat the domestic figure as measured and the international one as estimated.

Where this number comes from

Source National Football League international audience figures
Figure refers to 2024
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