The map shows the number of final round participation of the respective countries with the FIFA world championship (colors indicated as down) and the host countries (black squares).
20 –– Brazil
19 = no country
18 –– Italy • Germany (10 appearances as West Germany from 1954-1990)
4 ––– Algeria • Australia • Croatia • Costa Rica • Czech Republic • Denmark • Iran • Morocco • Peru • Sauda Arabia • Tunisia
3 ––– Bolivia • Ecuador • Ghana • Greece • Honduras • Ivory Coast • Republic of Ireland • Northern Ireland • Norway • Russia • South Africa • Serbia (appearances as FR Yugoslavia in 1994 and as Serbia and Montenegro in 2006)
2 ––– Egypt • El Salvador • New Zealand • North Korea • Slovenia • Turkey
1 ––– Angola • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Canada • China • DR Congo (Zaire) • Cuba • East Germany (1950-1990) • Haiti • Indonesia • Iraq • Israel • Jamaica • Kuwait • Senegal • Slovakia • Togo • Trinidad and Tobago • Ukraine • United Arab Emirates • Wales
never qualified to the final round
The small diagram shows the former countries USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and GDR.