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<onlyinclude>The following table is pre-sorted by total finishes in the top four (in descending order), number of gold medals (in descending order), number of silver medals (in descending order), number of bronze medals (in descending order), name of the team (in ascending order), respectively.
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* <sup>*</sup> – '''Host team'''
* <sup>†</sup> – ''Defunct team''

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: left; font-size: 90%; margin-left: 1em;"
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! {{abbr|Rk|Rank}} !! Men's team<ref name="HistoFINA PDF"/> !! Total !! style="background-color: gold;" | Champions !! style="background-color: silver;" | Runners-up !! style="background-color: #cc9966;" | Third place !! style="background-color: #9acdff;" | Fourth place !! First !! Last
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| style="text-align: center;" | '''1''' || {{wp|HUN}} || style="text-align: center;" | '''14''' || data-sort-value="4, 2023" | 4 (1973, 2003, 2013, 2023) || data-sort-value="7, 2017" | 7 (1975, 1978, 1982, 1998, 2005, 2007, '''2017'''<sup>*</sup>) || data-sort-value="1, 1991" | 1 (1991) || data-sort-value="2, 2019" | 2 (2011, 2019) || style="text-align: center;" | 1973 || style="text-align: center;" | 2023
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''2''' || {{wp|ITA}} || style="text-align: center;" | '''13''' || data-sort-value="4, 2019" | 4 (1978, '''1994'''<sup>*</sup>, 2011, 2019) || data-sort-value="4, 2024" | 4 (1986, 2003, 2022, 2024) || data-sort-value="1, 1975" | 1 (1975) || data-sort-value="4, 2015" | 4 (1973, 2001, 2013, 2015) || style="text-align: center;" | 1973 || style="text-align: center;" | 2024
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''3''' || {{wp|CRO}} || style="text-align: center;" | '''11''' || data-sort-value="3, 2024" | 3 (2007, 2017, 2024) || data-sort-value="1, 2015" | 1 (2015) || data-sort-value="4, 2019" | 4 (2009, 2011, 2013, 2019) || data-sort-value="3, 2022" | 3 (1994, 2005, 2022) || style="text-align: center;" | 1994 || style="text-align: center;" | 2024
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''4''' || {{wp|ESP}} || style="text-align: center;" | '''10''' || data-sort-value="3, 2022" | 3 (1998, 2001, 2022) || data-sort-value="4, 2019" | 4 (1991, 1994, 2009, 2019) || data-sort-value="3, 2024" | 2 (2007, 2023, 2024) || || style="text-align: center;" | 1991 || style="text-align: center;" | 2024
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''5''' || {{wp|SRB}} || style="text-align: center;" | '''6''' || data-sort-value="2, 2015" | 2 (2009, 2015) || data-sort-value="1, 2011" | 1 (2011) || data-sort-value="1, 2017" | 1 (2017) || data-sort-value="2, 2023" | 2 (2007, 2023) || style="text-align: center;" | 2007 || style="text-align: center;" | 2023
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''6''' || {{wp|GRE}} || style="text-align: center;" | '''6''' || || data-sort-value="1, 2023" | 1 (2023) || data -sort-value="3, 2022" | 3 (2005, 2015, 2022) || data-sort-value="2, 2017" | 2 (2003, 2017) || style="text-align: center;" | 2003 || style="text-align: center;" | 2023
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''7''' || ''{{wp|URS}}''<sup>†</sup> || style="text-align: center;" | '''5''' || data-sort-value="2, 1982" | 2 (1975, 1982) || data-sort-value="1, 1973" | 1 (1973) || data-sort-value="1, 1986" | 1 (1986) || data-sort-value="1, 1978" | 1 (1978) || style="text-align: center;" | 1973 || style="text-align: center;" | 1986
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| style="text-align: center;" | '''8''' || ''{{wp|YUG}}''<sup>†</sup> || style="text-align: center;" | '''4''' || data-sort-value="2, 1991" | 2 (1986, 1991) || || data-sort-value="2, 1978" | 2 ('''1973'''<sup>*</sup>, 1978) || || style="text-align: center;" | 1973 || style="text-align: center;" | 1991
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''9''' || data-sort-value="Yugoslavia, FR" | ''{{wp|FRY}}''<sup>†</sup>{{efn |name=FRYugoslavia}} /<br> {{nowrap|''{{wp|SCG}}''<sup>†</sup>}} || style="text-align: center;" | '''4''' || data-sort-value="1, 2005" | 1 (2005) || data-sort-value="1, 2001" | 1 (2001) || data-sort-value="2, 2003" | 2 (1998, 2003) || || style="text-align: center;" | 1998 || style="text-align: center;" | 2005
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| style="text-align: center;" | '''10''' || {{wp|USA}} || style="text-align: center;" | '''3''' || || || || data-sort-value="3, 2009" | 3 (1986, 1991, 2009) || style="text-align: center;" | 1986 || style="text-align: center;" | 2009
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| style="text-align: center;" | '''11''' || {{wp|RUS}} || style="text-align: center;" | '''2''' || || || data-sort-value="2, 2001" | 2 (1994, 2001) || || style="text-align: center;" | 1994 || style="text-align: center;" | 2001
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| style="text-align: center;" | '''12''' || {{wp|MNE}} || style="text-align: center;" | '''1''' || || data-sort-value="1, 2013" | 1 (2013) || || || style="text-align: center;" | 2013 || style="text-align: center;" | 2013
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| style="text-align: center;" | '''13''' || ''{{wp|FRG}}''<sup>†</sup> || style="text-align: center;" | '''1''' || || || data-sort-value="1, 1982" | 1 (1982) || || style="text-align: center;" | 1982 || style="text-align: center;" | 1982
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | '''14''' || {{wp|AUS}} || rowspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | '''1''' || || || || data-sort-value="1, 1998" | 1 ('''1998'''<sup>*</sup>) || style="text-align: center;" | 1998 || style="text-align: center;" | 1998
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| {{wp|CUB}} || || || || data-sort-value="1, 1975" | 1 (1975) || style="text-align: center;" | 1975 || style="text-align: center;" | 1975
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| {{wp|FRA}} || || || || data-sort-value="1, 2024" | 1 (2024) || style="text-align: center;" | 2024 || style="text-align: center;" | 2024
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| {{wp|NED}} || || || || data-sort-value="1, 1982" | 1 (1982) || style="text-align: center;" | 1982 || style="text-align: center;" | 1982
|-
! {{abbr|Rk|Rank}} !! Men's team !! Total !! style="background-color: gold;" | Champions !! style="background-color: silver;" | Runners-up !! style="background-color: #cc9966;" | Third place !! style="background-color: #9acdff;" | Fourth place !! First !! Last
|}</onlyinclude>

==See also==
* [[Template:World Aquatics Championships men's water polo tournament statistics – best performances of confederations]]
* [[Template:World Aquatics Championships men's water polo tournament statistics – participating teams]]
* [[Template:World Aquatics Championships men's water polo tournament statistics – medal table]]
* [[Template:World Aquatics Championships men's water polo tournament statistics – champions (results)]]
* [[Template:Men's Olympic water polo tournament statistics – Olympic and world champions (teams)]]
* [[Template:World Aquatics Championships men's water polo tournament statistics – multiple medalists]]
* [[Template:World Aquatics Championships men's water polo tournament statistics – multiple gold medalists]]
* [[Template:Men's Olympic water polo tournament statistics – Olympic and world champions (players)]]
* [[Template:Men's Olympic water polo tournament statistics – Olympic and world champions (coaches)]]
* [[Template:World Aquatics Championships water polo tournament statistics – sources]]

==Notes==
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{{efn |name=FRYugoslavia |After the [[breakup of Yugoslavia]], [[FR Yugoslavia men's national water polo team]] participated at the 1998 and 2001 World Aquatics Championships. }}

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==References==
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<ref name="HistoFINA PDF">{{Cite HistoFINA wp |page=mwch |format=dmy }}</ref>

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