Debut of teams
Each successive World Women's Handball Championship has had at least one team appearing for the first time. Teams in parentheses are considered successor teams by IHF.
| Year | Debutants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 |  Austria,  Czechoslovakia,  Denmark,  Hungary,  Poland,  Romania,  Sweden,  West Germany,  Yugoslavia | 9 |
| 1962 |  Japan,  Soviet Union | 2 |
| 1965 | 0 | |
| 1971 |  East Germany,  Netherlands,  Norway | 3 |
| 1973 | 0 | |
| 1975 |  Tunisia,  United States | 2 |
| 1978 |  Algeria,  Canada,  South Korea | 3 |
| 1982 |  Bulgaria,  Congo | 2 |
| 1986 |  China,  France | 2 |
| 1990 |  Angola | 1 |
| 1993 | ( Germany),  Lithuania, ( Russia),  Spain | 4 |
| 1995 |  Brazil,  Croatia, ( Czech Republic),  Ivory Coast,  Slovakia,  Ukraine | 6 |
| 1997 |  Belarus,  Macedonia,  Slovenia,  Uruguay,  Uzbekistan | 5 |
| 1999 |  Argentina,  Australia,  Cuba | 3 |
| 2001 |  Greenland,  Italy, ( Serbia and Montenegro) | 3 |
| 2003 | 0 | |
| 2005 | 0 | |
| 2007 |  Dominican Republic,  Kazakhstan,  Paraguay | 3 |
| 2009 |  Chile,  Thailand | 2 |
| 2011 |  Iceland, ( Montenegro) | 2 |
| 2013 |  DR Congo, ( Serbia) | 2 |
| 2015 |  Puerto Rico | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | |
| 2019 |  Senegal | 1 |
| 2021 |  Iran | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | |
| 2025 |  Egypt,  Faroe Islands,  Switzerland | 3 |
