# National team appearances in the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup

The article currently lists the first appearances of the 55 national teams that have made at least one appearance in the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, formerly known as the FIBA World Championship for Women, through the 2018 edition.

## Debut of national teams

| Year | Debutants |
| 1953 | Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Switzerland, United States |
| 1957 | Australia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Soviet Union |
| 1959 | Bulgaria, North Korea, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia |
| 1964 | Japan, South Korea |
| 1967 | East Germany, Italy |
| 1971 | Canada, Ecuador, Madagascar |
| 1975 | Colombia, Senegal |
| 1979 | Bolivia, Malaysia, Netherlands |
| 1983 | China, Zaire |
| 1986 | Chinese Taipei |
| 1990 | - |
| 1994 | Kenya, New Zealand, Slovakia, Spain |
| 1998 | Germany, Lithuania, Russia |
| 2002 | Yugoslavia, Tunisia |
| 2006 | Czech Republic, Nigeria |
| 2010 | Belarus, Greece, Mali |
| 2014 | Angola, Mozambique, Serbia, Turkey |
| 2018 | Belgium, Latvia, Puerto Rico |
| 2022 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2026 | TBD |

## Comprehensive team results

| Team | 1953 | 1957 | 1959 | 1964 | 1967 | 1971 | 1975 | 1979 | 1983 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | 2022 | 2026 | Total |
| Angola | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16th | – | – | | 1 |
| Argentina | 6th | 9th | – | 13th | – | 11th | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15th | 10th | 9th | 14th | – | 15th | – | | 9 |
| Australia | – | 10th | – | – | 10th | 9th | 10th | 4th | 11th | 9th | 6th | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 1st | 5th | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | | 16 |
| Belarus | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4th | 10th | – | – | | 2 |
| Belgium | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4th | 5th | | 2 |
| Bolivia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 1 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12th | | 1 |
| Brazil | 4th | 4th | – | 5th | 8th | 3rd | 12th | 9th | 5th | 11th | 10th | 1st | 4th | 7th | 4th | 9th | 11th | – | – | | 16 |
| Bulgaria | – | – | 2nd | 3rd | 7th | – | – | WD | 6th | 7th | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 6 |
| Canada | – | – | – | – | – | 10th | 11th | 3rd | 9th | 3rd | 7th | 7th | – | – | 10th | 12th | 5th | 7th | 4th | | 12 |
| Chile | 2nd | 7th | – | 11th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 3 |
| China | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | WD | 3rd | 5th | 9th | 2nd | 12th | 6th | 12th | 13th | 6th | 6th | 2nd | | 11 |
| Chinese Taipei | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12th | – | 14th | – | 14th | 14th | – | – | – | – | | 4 |
| Colombia | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 1 |
| DR Congo | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14th | – | 15th | – | 16th | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 3 |
| Cuba | 10th | 12th | – | – | – | 7th | – | – | 10th | 6th | 3rd | 6th | 7th | 9th | 11th | – | 12th | – | – | | 11 |
| Czech Republic | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | 2nd | 9th | – | – | | 3 |
| Czechoslovakia † | – | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | WD | – | 4th | 4th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 |
| East Germany † | – | – | – | – | 4th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Ecuador | – | – | – | – | – | 12th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 1 |
| France | 3rd | – | – | 10th | – | 6th | – | 7th | – | – | – | 9th | – | 8th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 5th | 7th | | 11 |
| Germany | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11th | – | – | – | – | – | – | Q | 2 |
| Greece | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11th | – | 11th | – | | 2 |
| Hungary | – | 5th | 7th | – | – | – | 9th | – | – | 8th | – | – | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 5 |
| Italy | – | – | – | – | 9th | – | 4th | 5th | – | – | 13th | 11th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 5 |
| Japan | – | – | – | 9th | 5th | 5th | 2nd | 6th | 12th | – | 12th | 12th | 9th | 13th | – | 10th | 14th | 9th | 9th | | 14 |
| Kenya | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 1 |
| Latvia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13th | – | | 1 |
| Lithuania | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6th | 11th | 6th | – | – | – | – | | 3 |
| Madagascar | – | – | – | – | – | 13th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 1 |
| Malaysia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11th | – | – | 16th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 2 |
| Mali | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15th | – | – | 11th | | 2 |
| Mexico | 8th | 8th | – | – | – | – | 6th | WD | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 3 |
| Mozambique | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15th | – | – | | 1 |
| Netherlands | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 1 |
| New Zealand | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 1 |
| Nigeria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16th | – | – | 8th | WD | | 2 |
| North Korea | – | – | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 1 |
| Paraguay | 5th | 6th | – | 12th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 3 |
| Peru | 7th | 11th | – | 7th | – | – | – | – | 13th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 4 |
| Poland | – | – | 5th | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | – | – | 13th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 3 |
| Puerto Rico | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16th | 8th | | 2 |
| Romania | – | – | 6th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 1 |
| Russia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 7th | – | – | DQ | | 4 |
| Senegal | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13th | 12th | WD | – | 14th | WD | 14th | 15th | 15th | 16th | – | 12th | – | | 8 |
| Serbia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8th | – | 6th | | 2 |
| Slovakia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5th | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 2 |
| South Korea | – | – | – | 8th | 2nd | 4th | 5th | 2nd | 4th | 10th | 11th | 10th | 13th | 4th | 13th | 8th | 13th | 14th | 10th | | 16 |
| Soviet Union † | – | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | WD | 1st | 2nd | 5th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9 |
| Spain | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8th | 5th | 5th | 8th | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | – | | 7 |
| Switzerland | 9th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | 1 |
| Tunisia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16th | – | – | – | – | – | | 1 |
| Turkey | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4th | 10th | – | | 2 |
| United States | 1st | 1st | – | 4th | 11th | 8th | 8th | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | | 18 |
| Yugoslavia † | – | – | 4th | 6th | 6th | – | – | WD | 8th | – | 2nd | – | – | 12th | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| Total | 10 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 16 | |

## Ranking of teams by number of appearances

| Team | App | Record streak | Active streak | Debut | Most recent | Best result (* hosts) |
| United States | 18 | 16 | 16 | 1953 | 2022 | Champions (1953, 1957, 1979, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022) |
| Brazil | 16 | 14 | 0 | 1953 | 2014 | Champions (1994) |
| Australia | 16 | 15 | 15 | 1957 | 2022 | Champions (2006) |
| South Korea | 16 | 16 | 16 | 1964 | 2022 | Runners-up (1967, 1979*) |
| Japan | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1964 | 2022 | Runners-up (1975) |
| Canada | 12 | 7 | 5 | 1971 | 2022 | Third place (1979, 1986) |
| Cuba | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1953 | 2014 | Third place (1990) |
| China | 11 | 11 | 11 | 1983 | 2022 | Runners-up (1994, 2022) |
| France | 11 | 6 | 6 | 1953 | 2022 | Third place (1953) |
| Soviet Union † | 9 | 6 | -- | 1957 | 1990 | Champions (1959*, 1964, 1967, 1971, 1975, 1983) |
| Argentina | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1953 | 2018 | 6th (1953) |
| Czechoslovakia † | 8 | 6 | -- | 1957 | 1990 | Runners-up (1964, 1971) |
| Senegal | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1975 | 2018 | 12th (1979, 2018) |
| Spain | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1994 | 2018 | Runners-up (2014) |
| Bulgaria | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1959 | 1990 | Runners-up (1959) |
| Yugoslavia † | 6 | 3 | -- | 1959 | 2002 | Runners-up (1990) |
| Italy | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1967 | 1994 | Fourth place (1975) |
| Hungary | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1957 | 1998 | 5th (1957) |
| Peru | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1953 | 1983 | 7th (1953, 1964*) |
| Chinese Taipei | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1986 | 2006 | 12th (1986) |
| Russia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1998 | 2010 | Runners-up (1998, 2002, 2006) |
| Chile | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1953 | 1964 | Runners-up (1953*) |
| Paraguay | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1953 | 1964 | 5th (1953) |
| Mexico | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1953 | 1975 | 6th (1979) |
| Poland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1959 | 1994 | 5th (1959) |
| DR Congo | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1983 | 1998 | 14th (1983) |
| Lithuania | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1998 | 2006 | 6th (1998, 2006) |
| Czech Republic | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2006 | 2014 | Runners-up (2010*) |
| Germany | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1998 | 2026 | 11th (1998) |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1979 | 1990 | 11th (1979) |
| Slovakia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1994 | 1998 | 5th (1994) |
| Belarus | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2010 | 2014 | Fourth place (2010) |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2006 | 2018 | 8th (2018) |
| Greece | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2010 | 2018 | 11th (2010, 2018) |
| Turkey | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2014 | 2018 | Fourth place (2014*) |
| Mali | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2010 | 2022 | 11th (2022) |
| Serbia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2014 | 2022 | 6th (2022) |
| Belgium | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2018 | 2022 | Fourth place (2018) |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2018 | 2022 | 8th (2022) |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1953 | 1953 | 9th (1953) |
| North Korea | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1959 | 1959 | 8th (1959) |
| Romania | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1959 | 1959 | 6th (1959) |
| East Germany † | 1 | 1 | -- | 1967 | 1967 | Fourth place (1967) |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1971 | 1971 | 12th (1971*) |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1971 | 1971 | 13th (1971) |
| Colombia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1975 | 1975 | 7th (1975*) |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1979 | 1979 | 10th (1979) |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1979 | 1979 | 8th (1979) |
| Kenya | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1994 | 1994 | 16th (1994) |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1994 | 1994 | 15th (1994) |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2002 | 2002 | 16th (2002) |
| Angola | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2014 | 2014 | 16th (2014) |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2014 | 2014 | 15th (2014) |
| Latvia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2018 | 2018 | 13th (2018) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | 12th (2022) |

## Overall won/lost records from 1953 to 2022

| Team | App | Played | Won | Lost | % |
| United States | 18 | 138 | 117 | 21 | 84.8% |
| Australia | 16 | 120 | 76 | 44 | 63.3% |
| Soviet Union † | 9 | 73 | 69 | 4 | 94.5% |
| Brazil | 16 | 115 | 61 | 54 | 53% |
| South Korea | 16 | 111 | 56 | 55 | 50.5% |
| Canada | 12 | 90 | 46 | 44 | 51.1% |
| China | 11 | 85 | 46 | 39 | 54.1% |
| Czechoslovakia † | 8 | 63 | 45 | 18 | 71.4% |
| France | 11 | 86 | 44 | 42 | 51.2% |
| Japan | 14 | 96 | 35 | 61 | 36.5% |
| Cuba | 11 | 82 | 35 | 47 | 42.7% |
| Spain | 7 | 57 | 35 | 22 | 61.4% |
| Bulgaria | 6 | 46 | 28 | 18 | 60.9% |
| Russia | 4 | 36 | 26 | 10 | 72.2% |
| Yugoslavia † | 6 | 48 | 20 | 28 | 41.7% |
| Italy | 5 | 37 | 19 | 18 | 51.4% |
| Argentina | 9 | 58 | 18 | 40 | 31% |
| Hungary | 5 | 38 | 14 | 24 | 36.8% |
| Czech Republic | 3 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 59.1% |
| Poland | 3 | 24 | 12 | 12 | 50% |
| Lithuania | 3 | 26 | 11 | 15 | 42.3% |
| Mexico | 3 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 50% |
| Chile | 3 | 23 | 9 | 14 | 39.1% |
| Slovakia | 2 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 52.9% |
| Paraguay | 3 | 25 | 8 | 17 | 32% |
| Senegal | 8 | 45 | 6 | 39 | 13.3% |
| Belarus | 2 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 46.2% |
| Serbia | 2 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 46.2% |
| Belgium | 2 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 50% |
| Peru | 4 | 26 | 5 | 21 | 19.2% |
| Turkey | 2 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 50% |
| Chinese Taipei | 4 | 25 | 4 | 21 | 16% |
| Greece | 2 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 33.3% |
| East Germany † | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 57.1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 66.7% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 25% |
| Germany | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 37.5% |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 22.2% |
| Romania | 1 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 28.6% |
| Bolivia | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33.3% |
| DR Congo | 3 | 20 | 1 | 19 | 5% |
| Malaysia | 2 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 7.1% |
| Mali | 2 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 10% |
| Ecuador | 1 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 12.5% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 12.5% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% |
| Kenya | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0% |
| Madagascar | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0% |
| North Korea | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% |
| Colombia | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0% |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% |
| Tunisia | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% |
| Angola | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| Latvia | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| Mozambique | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |