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{{Infobox beauty pageant
| winner = [[Lara Dutta]]
|represented = India
| congeniality = Tamara Scaroni, Aruba
| photogenic = [[Helen Lindes]], Spain
| best national costume = [[Letty Murray]], Mexico
| photo=Lara dutta in London (cropped).jpg
| caption=[[Lara Dutta]]
| date = 12 May 2000<ref name="local date">The event was televised live at 08:00 pm [[Time in Cyprus|local time]] ([[UTC+03:00]]) in various broadcasters around the world. For the United States, it was tape delayed to make way for the primetime broadcast.</ref>
| presenters = {{Hlist|[[Sinbad (comedian)|Sinbad]]|[[Ali Landry]]|[[Julie Moran]]}}
| venue = [[Eleftheria Indoor Hall]], [[Nicosia]], Cyprus
| broadcaster = {{Hlist|[[CBS]](international)|[[Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation|CyBC]] (official broadcaster)}}
| entrants = 79
| placements = 10
| debuts =
| acts = {{Hlist|[[Elvis Crespo]]|[[Dave Koz]]|[[Montell Jordan]]|[[Anna Vissi]]}}
| withdraws = {{Hlist|Austria|Bonaire|Barbados|Cook Islands|Curaçao|Guyana|Nicaragua|Northern Mariana Islands|Suriname|Turkey|United States Virgin Islands|Zambia}}
| returns = {{Hlist|Bulgaria|Denmark|Guam|Netherlands|Norway|Sint Martin|Zimbabwe}}
| before = [[Miss Universe 1999|1999]]
| next = [[Miss Universe 2001|2001]]
}}

'''Miss Universe 2000''' was the 49th [[Miss Universe]] pageant, held at the [[Eleftheria Indoor Hall]] in [[Nicosia]], Cyprus on 12 May 2000.<ref name="local date" />

At the conclusion of the event, [[Mpule Kwelagobe]] of Botswana crowned [[Lara Dutta]] of India as Miss Universe 2000. It is the country's second victory in the pageant's history.

Contestants from seventy-nine countries and territories competed in this year's pageant. The competition was hosted by Sinbad, with [[Miss USA 1996]] Ali Landry and Julie Moran providing commentary and analysis throughout the event. Elvis Crespo, Dave Koz, Montell Jordan, and Anna Vissi performed in this year's pageant.

== Background ==

=== Location and date ===
[[Nicosia]] was announced as host city of the pageant on 1 July 1999.<ref>{{cite news |date=1 July 1999 |title=Cyprus to host Miss Universe in millennium |publisher=Agence France Press}}</ref> The country invested $3.5&nbsp;million in the event, in the hope that the publicity would increase tourism, the island's main industry.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kambas |first=Michele |date=1 July 1999 |title=Cyprus to host Miss Universe next year-official |publisher=Reuters}}</ref>

Conservative Cypriot church leaders protested the decision to hold the pageant on the island, claiming that millennium celebrations of the birth of Christ were more important and that the event was scandalous and would promote female nudity.<ref>{{cite news |date=4 August 1999 |title=Church and state feud over Miss Universe contest |publisher=Associated Press}}</ref>

=== Selection of participants ===
Seventy-nine countries and territories competed in the pageant. Four candidates were appointed to their position to replace the original winner.

==== Replacements ====
Miss Universe Hungary 2000 first runner-up Izabella Kiss replaced Miss Universe Hungary 2000 Ágnes Nagy as the representative of their country for personal reasons. [[Miss Italia]] 1999 [[:it:Manila Nazzaro|Manila Nazzaro]] was slated to compete in this edition. However, the Miss Italia Organization lost their Miss Universe license due to objections of the Miss Universe Organization that the contest was opened to married women and mothers,<ref>{{Cite web|date=6 September 1999|title=L' ultima Miss del secolo eletta tra errori e fischi - la Repubblica.it|trans-title=The last Miss of the century elected between errors and whistles|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1999/09/06/ultima-miss-del-secolo-eletta-tra.html|access-date=15 May 2025|website=La Repubblica|language=it}}</ref> and the license was transferred to Italian actress [[:it:Clarissa Burt|Clarissa Burt]] who organized the ''The Miss for Miss Universe'' contest which will select the new Italian representative to Miss Universe.<ref>{{Cite news|date=6 September 1999|title=Non sfilerà per l'Universo|language=it|trans-title=He won't parade through the Universe|pages=11|work=La Stampa|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,11/articleid,0507_01_1999_0243_0011_9354258/|access-date=15 May 2025}}</ref> Annalisa Guadalupi won the pageant. Miss Russia 1999 first runner-up Svetlana Goreva was appointed to represent Russia as Miss Russia 1999 Anna Kruglova is underage, and Miss Russia 1997–1998 Yelena Rogozhina won the [[Miss Europe 1999]] contest.<ref>{{Cite news|date=15 January 2000|title=Pretty maidens in a row vie for Russian beauty title|language=en|pages=11|work=New Straits Times|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e1ZIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YxQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2885%2C562942|access-date=15 May 2025|via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=28 December 2001 |title=Russian Beauty To Vie For Miss Europe-2001 Title In Beirut |url=https://english.pravda.ru/news/society/23970-n/ |access-date=15 May 2025 |website=PravdaReport |language=en}}</ref>

Initially, Miss Venezuela 1999 [[Martina Thorogood]] was chosen to represent their country at both Miss Universe and [[Miss World 1999]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=11 September 1999|title=Miranda ganó Miss Venezuela|trans-title=Miranda wins Miss Venezuela|url=http://buscador.eluniversal.com/1999/09/11/cul_art_11312ZZ.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903120511/http://buscador.eluniversal.com/1999/09/11/cul_art_11312ZZ.shtml|archive-date=3 September 2009|access-date=15 May 2025|website=El Universal|language=es}}</ref> However, Miss Universe officials objected to this as Thorogood placed first runner-up at Miss World 1999 and there was a chance that she could become Miss World should the winner resign or lose her crown.<ref>{{Cite news|date=6 December 1999|title=Miss India crowned Miss World amid feminist demonstrations|language=en|pages=B6|work=Reading Eagle|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gRQyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jqMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1431%2C5037389|access-date=15 May 2025|via=Google News Archive}}</ref> Miss Universe officials also objected the participation of Miss Venezuela 1999 first runner-up [[Norkys Batista]] because she was not the national official titleholder. Finally, a smaller pageant was held among delegates who had competed in previous Miss Venezuela competitions, and [[Claudia Moreno]] was chosen to compete at Miss Universe.<ref name="Venezuela">{{cite news |date=28 March 2000 |title=Venezuela elects new representative to Miss Universe contest |publisher=Associated Press}}</ref>

== Results ==
[[File:Miss Universe 2000 Map.PNG|thumb|Miss Universe 2000 participating nations and results|250x250px]]

=== Placements ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Placement
! Contestant
|-
| Miss Universe 2000
|
* {{Flagu|India}} – [[Lara Dutta]]<ref name=":5">{{Cite news|date=14 May 2000|title=Indian woman crowned Miss Universe|language=en|pages=14|work=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hVg1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=gSUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=502%2C6360110|access-date=15 May 2025|via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>
|-
| 1st runner-up
|
* {{Flagu|Venezuela}} – [[Claudia Moreno]]<ref name=":5" />
|-
| 2nd runner-up
|
* {{Flagu|Spain}} – [[Helen Lindes]]<ref name=":5" />
|-
| Top 5
|
* {{Flagu|Canada}} – Kim Yee
* {{Flagu|United States}} – [[Lynnette Cole]]
|-
| Top 10
|
* {{Flagu|Colombia}} – Catalina Acosta<ref name=":5" />
* {{Flagu|Estonia}} – Evelyn Mikomägi
* {{Flagu|France}} – [[Sonia Rolland]]
* {{Flagu|South Africa}} – Heather Hamilton
* {{Flagu|Zimbabwe}} – Corinne Crewe
|}

=== Special awards ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Award
! Contestant
|-
| Miss Photogenic
|
* {{Flagu|Spain}} – [[Helen Lindes]]
|-
| Miss Congeniality
|
* {{flagicon|ARU}} Aruba – Tamara Scaroni
|-
| Clairol Herbal Essences Style Award
|
* {{flagicon|MEX}} Mexico – [[Leticia Murray]]
|}

== Pageant ==

===Selection committee===

==== Final telecast ====
Source:<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alv5aL_kwLU|title = 2000 Miss Universe: Discover Cyprus & Meet the Judges|website = YouTube|access-date = 23 January 2022|archive-date = 23 January 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220123113508/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alv5aL_kwLU|url-status = live}}</ref>
* [[Tony Robbins]]
* [[Catherine Bell (actress)|Catherine Bell]]
* [[André Leon Talley]]
* [[Kim Alexis]]
* [[Cristián de la Fuente]]
* [[Debbie Allen]]
* [[Serena Altschul]]

== Contestants ==
Seventy-nine contestants competed for the title.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"
!Country/Territory
!Contestant
!Age
!Hometown
|-
|{{flagicon|ANG}} [[Miss Angola|Angola]]
|Eunice Manita
|19
|[[Luanda Province|Luanda]]
|-
|{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Miss Argentina|Argentina]]
|Andrea Nicastri<ref>{{Cite web|date=29 April 2000|title=Photo: Miss Universe Pageant|url=https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/view/upi/27f63584f3d803a1330f2a70afed7a19/Miss-Universe-Pageant/|access-date=15 April 2025|website=UPI|language=en}}</ref>
|25
|[[Buenos Aires Province|Buenos Aires]]
|-
|{{flagicon|ARU}} [[Miss Aruba|Aruba]]
|Tamara Scaroni
|23
|[[San Nicolaas]]
|-
|{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Miss Universe Australia|Australia]]
|Samantha Frost<ref>{{Cite news|date=18 April 2000|title=Miss Australia|language=en|pages=84|work=Manila Standard|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HlcbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=70oEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3490%2C2464106|access-date=15 April 2025|via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>
|22
|[[Sydney]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[Miss Universe Bahamas|Bahamas]]
|Mikala Moss
|24
|[[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]]
|-
|{{flagicon|BEL}} [[Miss Belgium|Belgium]]
|Joke Van de Velde<ref>{{Cite web|date=8 August 2023|title=Ex-Miss België Joke Van de Velde hervat studies voor kleuterleidster: “De media bieden niet genoeg zekerheid”|trans-title=Ex-Miss Belgium Joke Van de Velde resumes studies as a kindergarten teacher: “The media do not provide enough certainty”|url=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20230808_93231396|access-date=15 April 2025|website=Het Nieuwsblad|language=nl-BE}}</ref>
|20
|[[Ghent]]
|-
|{{flagicon|BLZ}} [[Miss Universe Belize|Belize]]
|Shiemicka Richardson<ref>{{Cite web|date=3 April 2000|title=New York Belizean crowned Miss Belize|url=https://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/21221|access-date=15 April 2025|website=Channel 5 Belize|language=en-US|archive-date=9 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240109154020/https://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/21221|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|26
|[[Belize City]]
|-
|{{flagicon|BOL}} [[Miss Bolivia|Bolivia]]
|Yenny Vaca<ref>{{Cite web|date=29 July 2017|title=El título les dio alegrías, trabajo y fama que aún saborean|url=https://eldeber.com.bo/sociales/el-titulo-les-dio-alegrias-trabajo-y-fama-que-aun-saborean_32650|access-date=15 April 2025|website=El Deber|language=es-ES|archive-date=23 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023090330/https://eldeber.com.bo/sociales/el-titulo-les-dio-alegrias-trabajo-y-fama-que-aun-saborean_32650|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|18
|[[Santa Cruz de la Sierra]]
|-
|{{flagicon|BOT}} [[Miss Universe Botswana|Botswana]]
|Joyce Molemoeng
|21
|[[Orapa]]
|-
|{{flagicon|BRA}} [[Miss Brazil|Brazil]]
|Josiane Kruliskoski
|20
|[[Sinop, Mato Grosso|Sinop]]
|-
|{{flagicon|VGB}} [[Miss British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]
|Tausha Vanterpool
|22
|[[Tortola]]
|-
|{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Miss Universe Bulgaria|Bulgaria]]
|[[Magdalina Valchanova]]
|22
|[[Plovdiv]]
|-
|{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Miss Universe Canada|Canada]]
|Kim Yee
|22
|[[Edmonton]]
|-
|{{flagicon|CYM}} [[Miss Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]
|Mona Lisa Tatum
|22
|[[George Town, Cayman Islands|George Town]]
|-
|{{flagicon|CHL}} [[Miss Universo Chile|Chile]]
|Francesca Sovino
|21
|[[Valparaíso Region|Valparaíso]]
|-
|{{flagicon|COL}} [[Miss Colombia|Colombia]]
|Catalina Acosta
|22
|[[Bogotá]]
|-
|{{flagicon|CRC}} [[Miss Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]
|Laura Mata
|22
|[[San José, Costa Rica|San José]]
|-
|{{flagicon|CRO}} [[Miss Universe Croatia|Croatia]]
|Renata Lovrinčević
|23
|[[Split (city)|Split]]
|-
|{{flagicon|CYP}} [[Miss Cyprus|Cyprus]]
|Christy Groutidou
|19
|[[Nicosia]]
|-
|{{flagicon|CZE}} [[Miss České republiky|Czech Republic]]
|Jitka Kocurová
|20
|[[Prague]]
|-
|{{flagicon|DEN}} [[Miss Universe Denmark|Denmark]]
|Heidi Meyer Vallentin
|23
|[[Copenhagen]]
|-
|{{flagicon|DOM}} [[Miss Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]
|[[Gilda Jovine]]
|20
|[[Santo Domingo]]
|-
|{{flagicon|ECU}} [[Miss Ecuador|Ecuador]]
|Gabriela Cadena
|20
|[[Guayaquil]]
|-
|{{flagicon|EGY}} [[Miss Egypt|Egypt]]
|Rania El-Sayed
|18
|[[Cairo]]
|-
|{{flagicon|SLV}} [[Nuestra Belleza El Salvador|El Salvador]]
|Alexandra Rivas
|20
|[[San Salvador]]
|-
|{{flagicon|EST}} [[Miss Estonia|Estonia]]
|Evelyn Mikomägi
|20
|[[Tallinn]]
|-
|{{flagicon|FIN}} [[Miss Finland|Finland]]
|Suvi Miinala
|19
|[[Kemi]]
|-
|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Miss France|France]]
|[[Sonia Rolland]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Princewill|first=Nimi|last2=Mawad|first2=Dalal|date=3 June 2022|title=First African-born Miss France investigated over apartment gift from late Gabon president|url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/africa/france-investigation-sonia-rolland-intl/index.html|access-date=15 May 2025|website=[[CNN]]|language=en}}</ref>
|18
|[[Cluny]]
|-
|{{flagicon|DEU}} [[Miss Universe Germany|Germany]]
|Sabrina Schepmann<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=12 January 2000|title=Miss Deutschland 2000: Die Allerschönste im Land?|language=de|trans-title=Miss Germany 2000: The most beautiful one in the country?|work=Der Spiegel|url=https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/miss-deutschland-2000-die-allerschoenste-im-land-a-59487.html|access-date=15 May 2025|issn=2195-1349}}</ref>
|18
|[[Nauen]]
|-
|{{flagicon|GHA}} [[Miss Universe Ghana|Ghana]]
|[[Maame Esi Acquah Taylor|Maame Esi Acquah]]
|18
|[[Cape Coast]]
|-
|{{flagicon|GRB}} [[Miss Universe Great Britain|Great Britain]]
|Louise Lakin
|21
|[[Manchester]]
|-
|{{flagicon|GRE}} [[Star Hellas|Greece]]
|Eleni Skafida
|21
|[[Athens]]
|-
|{{flagicon|GUM}} [[Miss Guam|Guam]]
|Lisamarie Quinata
|22
|[[Hagåtña, Guam|Hagåtña]]
|-
|{{flagicon|GUA}} [[Miss Guatemala|Guatemala]]
|Evelyn López
|21
|[[Guatemala City]]
|-
|{{flagicon|HON|variant=1949}} [[Miss Honduras|Honduras]]
|Flor Garcia
|19
|[[San Pedro Sula]]
|-
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[Miss Hong Kong Pageant|Hong Kong]]
|[[Sonija Kwok]]
|25
|Hong Kong
|-
|{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Miss Universe Hungary|Hungary]]
|Izabella Kiss
|24
|[[Budapest]]
|-
|{{flagicon|IND}} [[Femina Miss India|India]]
|[[Lara Dutta]]
|22
|[[Bengaluru]]
|-
|{{flagicon|IRL}} [[Miss Universe Ireland|Ireland]]
|Louise Doheny
|19
|[[Dublin]]
|-
|{{flagicon|ISR}} [[Miss Israel|Israel]]
|Nirit Bakshi
|18
|[[Beersheba]]
|-
|{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Miss Universo Italia|Italy]]
|Annalisa Guadalupi
|18
|[[Rome]]
|-
|{{flagicon|JAM}} [[Miss Jamaica Universe|Jamaica]]
|[[Saphire Longmore]]
|24
|[[Clarendon Parish, Jamaica|Clarendon]]
|-
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Miss Universe Japan|Japan]]
|Mayu Endo
|24
|Tokyo
|-
|{{flagicon|LBN}} [[Miss Lebanon|Lebanon]]
|Norma Elias Naoum
|23
|[[Beirut]]
|-
|{{flagicon|MYS}} [[Miss Universe Malaysia|Malaysia]]
|Lynette Ludi
|25
|[[Kuching]]
|-
|{{flagicon|MLT}} [[Miss Malta|Malta]]
|Jolene Arpa
|18
|[[Santa Luċija]]
|-
|{{flagicon|MUS}} [[Miss Mauritius|Mauritius]]
|Jenny Arthemidor
|18
|[[Port Louis]]
|-
|{{flagicon|MEX}} [[Nuestra Belleza México|Mexico]]
|[[Leticia Murray]]
|20
|[[Hermosillo]]
|-
|{{flagicon|NAM}} [[Miss Namibia|Namibia]]
|Mia de Klerk
|20
|[[Khomas]]
|-
|{{flagicon|NLD}} [[Miss Nederland|Netherlands]]
|Chantal van Roessel
|25
|[[North Brabant]]
|-
|{{flagicon|NZL}} [[Miss Universe New Zealand|New Zealand]]
|Tonia Peachey
|19
|[[Auckland]]
|-
|{{flagicon|NGA}} [[Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria|Nigeria]]
|[[Matilda Kerry]]
|19
|[[Lagos]]
|-
|{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Miss Norway|Norway]]
|Tonje Kristin Wøllo
|25
|[[Buskerud]]
|-
|{{flagicon|PAN}} [[Señorita Panamá|Panama]]
|[[Analía Núñez]]
|20
|[[Panama City]]
|-
|{{flagicon|PAR}} [[Miss Paraguay|Paraguay]]
|Carolina Ramírez
|20
|[[Alto Paraná Department|Alto Paraná]]
|-
|{{flagicon|PER}} [[Miss Perú 2000|Peru]]
|Verónica Rueckner
|19
|[[Piura Region|Piura]]
|-
|{{flagicon|PHL}} [[Binibining Pilipinas 2000|Philippines]]
|Nina Ricci Alagao
|22
|[[Makati]]
|-
|{{flagicon|POL}} [[Miss Polonia|Poland]]
|Emilia Raszynska
|21
|[[Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship|Warmia-Masuria]]
|-
|{{flagicon|POR}} [[Miss República Portuguesa|Portugal]]
|Licinia Macedo
|24
|[[Madeira]]
|-
|{{flagicon|PUR}} [[Miss Universe Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]]
|Zoribel Fonalledas
|22
|[[Guaynabo, Puerto Rico|Guaynabo]]
|-
|{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Miss Russia|Russia]]
|Svetlana Goreva
|18
|Moscow
|-
|{{flagicon|SGP}} [[Miss Universe Singapore|Singapore]]
|Eunice Olsen
|22
|Singapore
|-
|{{flagicon|SXM}} [[Miss Sint Maarten|Sint Maarten]]
|Angelique Romou
|26
|[[Philipsburg, Sint Maarten|Philipsburg]]
|-
|{{flagicon|SVK}} [[Miss Universe Slovenskej Republiky|Slovakia]]
|Miroslava Kysucká
|19
|[[Bratislava]]
|-
|{{flagicon|ZAF}} [[Miss South Africa|South Africa]]
|Heather Hamilton
|22
|[[Gauteng]]
|-
|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Miss Korea|South Korea]]
|Kim Yeon-joo
|19
|[[Seoul]]
|-
|{{flagicon|SPA}} [[Miss Spain|Spain]]
|[[Helen Lindes]]
|18
|[[Girona]]
|-
|{{flagicon|SWE}} [[Miss Sweden|Sweden]]
|[[Valerie Aflalo]]
|23
|[[Malmö]]
|-
|{{flagicon|CHE}} [[Miss Switzerland|Switzerland]]
|[[Anita Buri]]
|21
|[[Berg, Thurgau|Berg]]
|-
|{{flagicon|TAI}} [[Miss Taiwan|Taiwan]]
|Lei-Ann Chang
|22
|[[Taipei]]
|-
|{{flagicon|THA}} [[Miss Universe Thailand|Thailand]]
|[[Kulthida Yenprasert]]
|21
|[[Bangkok]]
|-
|{{flagicon|TTO}} [[Miss Universe Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]
|Heidi Rostant
|22
|[[Port of Spain]]
|-
|{{flagicon|TCA}} [[Miss Turks and Caicos|Turks and Caicos Islands]]
|Clintina Gibbs
|20
|[[Cockburn Town]]
|-
|{{flagicon|UKR}} [[Miss Ukraine Universe|Ukraine]]
|Natalie Shvachko
|24
|[[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast|Dnipropetrovsk]]
|-
|{{flagicon|USA}} [[Miss USA 2002|United States]]
|[[Lynnette Cole]]
|22
|[[Columbia, Tennessee|Columbia]]
|-
|{{flagicon|URU}} [[Miss Uruguay|Uruguay]]
|Giovanna Piazza
|18
|[[Montevideo Department|Montevideo]]
|-
|{{flagicon|VEN}} [[Miss Venezuela|Venezuela]]
|[[Claudia Moreno]]
|22
|[[Caracas]]
|-
|{{flagicon|SCG}} [[Miss Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]
|Lana Marić
|19
|[[Belgrade]]
|-
|{{flagicon|ZIM}} [[Miss Zimbabwe|Zimbabwe]]
|Corinne Crewe
|18
|[[Harare Province|Harare]]
|}

==Notes==

===Withdrawals===
* {{Flagu|Austria}} – Simone Smrekar.
* {{BOE}} – No contest due to lack of Sponsorship.
* {{Flagu|Barbados}} – No contest due to lack of Sponsorship Until 2003.
* {{Flagu|Cook Islands}} – Miss Cook Islands 1999 and Miss South Pacific 1999, Liana Scott did not compete due to lack of Sponsorship.
* {{Flagu|Curaçao}} – Miss Curaçao 2000, Jozaïne Wall, couldn't participate because she was underage. Jozaïne successfully sued the Miss Curaçao organization due to this issue and went to [[Miss World 2000]] instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/7955/mu2k.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001012172223/http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/7955/mu2k.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 October 2000|title=MU2K - Miss Universe 2000 Candidates|date=12 October 2000|access-date=11 April 2018}}</ref>
* {{Flagu|Guyana}} – No contest due to lack of Sponsorship.
* {{Flagu|Nicaragua}} – No contest due to lack of Sponsorship.
* {{Flagu|Northern Mariana Islands}} – Miss Northern Marianas International 1999, Michelle Boyer Sablan did not participate for undisclosed reasons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/950ff710-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e/|title=NMBPA CONFIRMS Sablan out, Hill in - Saipan News, Headlines, Events, Ads - Saipan Tribune|website=www.saipantribune.com|date=22 October 1999|access-date=11 April 2018|archive-date=26 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726170318/http://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/950ff710-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{Flagu|Suriname}} – No contest held and they lost their Miss Universe licence.
* {{Flagu|Turkey}} – Miss Turkey 2000, 1° Runner up [[Gamze Özçelik]] was replaced by Cansu Dere because Özçelik was underage at the time,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2000/04/02/yasam/yas00.html|title=MİLLİYET YAŞAM SAYFALARI|website=www.milliyet.com.tr|access-date=11 April 2018|archive-date=14 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114054353/http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2000/04/02/yasam/yas00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> but [[Cansu Dere]] was forbidden by the Turkish Government to travel to the Miss Universe 2000 pageant in Cyprus, due to the current tense [[Foreign relations of Cyprus|Turkish-Cypriot relationships]] over Northern Cyprus.
* {{Flagu|United States Virgin Islands}} – No contest.
* {{Flagu|Zambia}} – Sidonia Mwape – Due to lack of Sponsorship.

=== Returns ===
Last competed in [[Miss Universe 1982|1982]]
* {{flagu|Sint Maarten}}

Last competed in [[Miss Universe 1996|1996]]
* {{Flagu|Denmark}}

Last competed in [[Miss Universe 1998|1998]]
* {{Flagu|Bulgaria}}
* {{Flagu|Guam}}
* {{Flagu|Netherlands}}
* {{Flagu|Norway}}
* {{Flagu|Zimbabwe}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Miss Universe 2000}}
* [http://www.missuniverse.com/ Miss Universe official website]

{{Miss Universe}}
{{Miss Universe 2000 delegates}}

[[Category:Miss Universe by year|2000]]
[[Category:2000 in Cyprus]]
[[Category:2000 beauty pageants]]
[[Category:Beauty pageants in Cyprus]]
[[Category:Culture in Nicosia]]
[[Category:May 2000 in Europe]]