National team appearances in the FIBA Basketball World Cup are the number of appearances that individual country's basketball national teams have made at the FIBA Basketball World Cup. A total of 65 countries have made at least one appearance in the FIBA international senior men's basketball competition.

African, European and teams from the Americas composed the first World Championship – Asian and Oceanian teams did not want to make a long trip to Argentina, the venue of the tournament. Egypt finished fifth in the inaugural world championship, the best finish by a team from Africa. An Asian team, the Philippines, made their debut on the second tournament, where they finished third, the best finish by an Asian team.

Australia was the first team from Oceania to participate in the tournament, in 1970. New Zealand was defeated in the 2002 bronze medal game, earning them a fourth-place finish, a position the Australian team equaled in 2019.

European and teams from the Americas dominated the tournament, with teams from either confederation disputing the gold medal. Since 1978, the first time a final was played, there have been five all-European and six Europe-Americas finals. The worst finish by a European team since 1963 was second; for a team from the Americas, the worst all-time was third.

The tournament formats prior to the 1978 tournament were two round robin phases – teams were first divided into several groups, with the top teams from the group stage qualifying for the Final Group, where they play each other once. The team with the best record after the Final Group wins the gold medal, with ties broken by games played between tied teams. All tournaments after the 1978 tournament determined the world champion via a playoff – in 1978 and 1982, the top two teams from the final group squared off for the championship; since 1986, a single-elimination tournament has been used.

The national team with the most wins is the USA, with five. Although teams bearing the name of "Yugoslavia" have won five titles, FIBA used to consider the championships to have been won by two national teams. The first three were won by the team that represented the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The other two were won by a team representing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which FIBA treats as the predecessor of the current Serbia national team. Furthermore, a Yugoslav team was able to finish at least third from 1963 to 2002.

Germany is the current World Champion, winning the gold medal game against Serbia at the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Debut of teams A total of 65 national teams have appeared in at least one FIBA Basketball World Cup in the history of the tournament through the 2023 competition. Each successive Basketball World Cup has had at least one team appearing for the first time. Countries competing in their first Basketball World Cup are listed below by year.

YearDebutantsNumber1950 , , , , , , , , , The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1950–1990) qualified ten times under the name Yugoslavia prior to its breakup by the secession of many of its constituent republics in 1992. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia qualified twice in 1998 and 2002 as Yugoslavia and in 2006 as Serbia and Montenegro after a name change in 2003. FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro are considered the predecessors of the current Serbia team by FIBA; the latter competed for the first time as Serbia in the 2010 FIBA World Championship. These teams along with the other national teams which resulted from the breakup of the original Yugoslavia (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and North Macedonia) are considered distinct entities from the Yugoslavia team of 1930–1990. Montenegro now also compete separately after independence in 2006. 101954 , ,The national basketball team of the Republic of China competed twice in the FIBA World Championship, both times as Formosa, but since 1960 the team had changed their name to compete as Taiwan in international competitions. Since 1985, they have competed under the name Chinese Taipei. , , , 61959 , , , ,The Soviet Union qualified nine times prior to being dissolved in 1991. The 15 nations that were former Soviet Republics now compete separately. FIBA does not consider any of these nations as the successor team of the Soviet Union. 51963 , 21967 11970 , , ,Czechoslovakia qualified four times prior to being divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. FIBA does not consider any of these nations as the successor team of Czechoslovakia. , 51974 11978 , , 31982 , 21986 , , , , , The German Basketball Association (DBB, for Deutscher Basketball Bund) has continuously existed as a national governing body since joining FIBA in 1934, during the Nazi era in Germany, After World War II, the DBB became the governing body for West Germany, and then became the governing body for reunified Germany in 1990. During the division of Germany, East Germany fielded a team of its own before re-joining West Germany and the DBB upon reunification. Thus, FIBA considers Germany and West Germany as one entity and officially attributes all results of the DBB team since 1934 to Germany. Germany competed in their first FIBA World Championship in 1986 as West Germany and in 1994 for the first time as Reunited Germany. 61990 11994 , , 31998 , , 32002 , , 32006 , 22010 , , , 42014 , 22019 , 22023 , , , 42027 TBD2031TBDTotal 65

Tournament format In deciphering the tables below, the tournament format per championship has to be accounted for.

+YearPreliminary round (group stage)Second round (group stage)Final round (knockout stage)1950Double elimination tournament of 10 teamsRound robin of 6 teamsNone; second group stage determined final rankings1954Round robin of 4 groups with 3 teams eachRound robin of 8 teams1959Round robin of 3 groups with 4 teams eachRound robin of 7 teams1963196719701974Round robin of 8 teams1978Round robin of 8 teamsSingle-game playoff of 2 teams1982Round robin of 7 teams1986Round robin of 4 groups with 6 teams eachRound robin of 2 groups with 6 teams eachSingle-elimination tournament of 4 teams1990Round robin of 4 groups with 4 teams eachRound robin of 2 groups with 4 teams each19941998Round robin of 2 groups with 6 teams eachSingle-elimination tournament of 8 teams20022006Round robin of 4 groups with 6 teams eachNoneSingle-elimination tournament of 16 teams201020142019Round robin of 8 groups with 4 teams each202320272031

Team results Legend:

– Champions – Runner-up – Third place – Fourth place — Knockout quarterfinals (1998–present) — Second round group (1950–1994, 2019–present) WD — Withdrew • — Did not qualify × — Did not enter / disqualified — Hosts

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Ranking of teams by number of appearances