- Who
- Women’s March on Washington
- What
- 4,465,169 total number
- Where
- United States ()
- When
Globally an estimated 4.47 million people took part in the "Women’s March on Washington" protest on 21 January 2017. Although the epicentre for this mobilization, as the name implies, was Washington, DC (which saw several hundred thousand protesters), some 650 demonstrations took place across the USA; dozens of sister marches were also held in solidarity outside the USA, on every continent including Antarctica! The nationwide turnout in the USA alone – best estimate: 4.16 million – is being heralded by some as the largest single-day protest in US history.
The global mass protest was a backlash to several controversial comments made by the former US president Donald Trump. The mobilization took place the day after Trump was sworn into office.
Between 3,267,134 and 5,246,670 American citizens are believed to have participated, which works out to 1–1.6% (median 1.3%) of the total US population of 318.9 million.
The estimates were compiled by political scientists Professor Erica Chenoweth of Harvard University and Associate Professor Jeremy Pressman of the University of Connecticut who used figures from people on the ground, cross-checked with local law-enforcement statements, press reports, social media posts and photo/video evidence; conservative totals were used in regions where data was limited (e.g, "hundreds" was interpreted as 200; "thousands" as 2,000 etc.)
