thumb|Postkort fra Verdensudstillingen i Paris 1937, Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. Dette er en Liste over verdensudstillinger (og eventuelle bemærkelsesværdige permanente udstillingsbygninger). Listen omfatter både udstillinger, der er godkendt af organisationen Bureau international des expositions og andre verdensudstillinger.
For verdensudstillinger godkendt af BIE, se Verdenudstillinger godkendt af BIE.
1750'erne 1751 – London, Storbritannien – The Great Exhibition
1790'erne 1798 – Paris, Frankrig – First Exhibition (1798) og Second Exhibition (1798) i Europa
1800'erne 1802 – Paris, Frankrig – Third Exposition (1802)
1820'erne 1829 – New York, USA – American Institute Fair (1829)
1840'erne 1844 – Paris, Frankrig – French Industrial Exposition (1844) 1849 – Birmingham, Storbritannien – Exposition of British Society (1849) 1849 – First Exhibition of British Manufacturers (1849)
1850'erne 1851 – London, Storbritannien – Great Exhibition (of the Works of Industry of All Nations) -- The Crystal Palace 1852 – Cork, Irland – Irish Industrial Exhibition (1852) 1853 – New York, USA – Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853) 1853 – Dublin, Irland – Great Industrial Exhibition (1853) 1854 – München, Tyskland – Allgemeine deutsche Industrie-Ausstellung (1854) 1854 – Melbourne, Australien – Melbourne Exhibition (1854) (i forbindelse med Exposition Universelle (1855)) 1855 – Paris, Frankrig – Exposition Universelle (1855) 1855 – Dublin, Irland – Dublin International Exhibition (1855) 1857 – Manchester, Storbritannien – Art Treasures Exhibition (1857)
1860'erne 1860 – Besançon, Frankrig – Exposition universelle (1860) 1861 – Melbourne, Australien – Victorian Exhibition (1861) 1862 – Hamburg, Tyskland – International Agricultural Exhibition (1862) 1862 – London, Storbritannien – International Exhibition (1862) (Great London Exposition) (South Kensington, England) 1864 – Amsterdam, Holland – Dutch Industry Expostion (1864) 1865 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – Great Central Fair for the US Sanitary Commission (1865) 1865 – Porto, Portugal – Exposição Internacional (1865) 1865 – Dublin, Irland – International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (1865) 1865 – Dunedin, New Zealand – New Zealand Exhibition (1865) 1866 – Melbourne, Australien – Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia (1866) 1867 – Paris, Frankrig – Exposition Universelle (1867) 1868 – Le Havre, Frankrig – Exposition Maritime Internationale (1868)
1870'erne 1870 – Córdoba, Argentina – Exposición Nacional (1870) 1870 – Sydney, Australien – Intercolonial Exhibition (1870) 1871 – London, Storbritannien – First Annual International Exhibition (1871) 1872 – London, Storbritannien – Second Annual International Exhibition (1872) 1872 – Lyon, Frankrig – Exposition Universelle et Internationale (1872) 1872 – Kyoto, Japan – Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (1872) 1873 – London, Storbritannien – Third Annual International Exhibition (1873) 1873 – Wien, Østrig – Weltausstellung 1873 Wien 1873 – Sydney, Australien – Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition (1873) 1874 – London, Storbritannien – Fourth Annual International Exhibition (1874) 1874 – Dublin, Irland – International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (1874) 1874 – Rom, Italien – Esposizione internazionale (1874) (ikke afholdt) 1875 – Santiago, Chile – Exposicion Internacional de 1875 1875 – Melbourne, Australien – Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition (1875) 1875 – Nizjnij Novgorod, Rusland – Nizhni Novgorod Fair (1875) 1875 – Sydney, Australien – Intercolonial Exhibition (1875) 1875 – Santiago, Chile – Exposición Internacional de Chile 1876 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – Centennial Exhibition 1876 – Brisbane, Australien – Intercolonial Exhibition (1876) 1877 – Cape Town, Sydafrika – South African International Exhibition (1877) 1877 – Tokyo, Japan – First National Industrial Exhibition (1877) (Ueno Park) 1878 – Paris, Frankrig – Exposition Universelle (1878) 1878 – Ballarat, Australien – Australian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition (1878) 1879 – Sydney, Australien – Sydney International Exhibition (1879) 1879 – Melbourne, Australien – Intercolonial Juvenile Industrial Exhibition (1879)
1880'erne 1880 – Melbourne, Australien – Melbourne International Exhibition (1880) 1881 – Atlanta, Georgia, USA – International Cotton Exposition (1881) 1881 – Budapest, Ungarn – Országos Magyar Nöiparkiállitás (1881) 1882 – Bordeaux, Frankrig – Exposition internationale des vins (1882) 1882 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Exposición Continental Sud-Americana (1882) 1883 – Boston, Massachusetts, USA – The American Exhibition of the Products, Arts and Manufactures of Foreign Nations (1883) 1883 – Amsterdam, Holland – Internationale Koloniale en Uitvoerhandel Tentoonstelling (1883) (International Colonial Exhibition) 1883 – Calcutta, Indien – Calcutta International Exhibition (1883) 1883 – Parramatta, Australien – Intercolonial Juvenile Industrial Exhibtion (1883) 1883 – Louisville, Kentucky, USA – Southern Exposition (1883) 1883 – New York, USA – World's Fair (1883) (ikke afholdt) 1884 – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – World Cotton Centennial (1884) (New Orleans Universal Expositon and World's Fair), (World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exhibition), (New Orleans Centennial) 1884 – Melbourne, Australien – Victorian International Exhibition 1884 of Wine, Fruit, Grain & other products of the soil of Australasia with machinery, plant and tools employed 1884 – Edinburgh, Skotland – International Forestry Exhibition (1884) 1884 – Saint Louis, Missouri, USA – Saint Louis Exposition (1884) 1884 – Torino, Italien – Esposizione generale italiana (1884) 1885 – Melbourne, Australien – Victorians' Jubilee Exhibition (1885) (Jubilee of Victoria Exhibition) 1885 – Antwerpen, Belgien – Exposition Universelle d'Anvers (1885) 1885 – Wellington, New Zealand – New Zealand Industrial Exhibition (1885) 1885 – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – North, Central and South American Exposition (1885) 1885 – London, Storbritannien – International Exhibition of Inventions 1886 – London, Storbritannien – Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886) 1886 – Melbourne, Australien 1886 – Edinburgh, Skotland – International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art (1886) 1886 – Liverpool, England – International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry (1886) 1887 – Adelaide, Australien – Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition (1887) 1887 – Geelong, Australien – Geelong Jubilee Juvenile and Industrial Exhibition (1887) 1887 – London, Storbritannien – American Exhibition (1887) 1887 – Rom, Italien – Esposizione mondiale (1887) 1888 – Melbourne, Australien – Victorian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition (1888), Centennial International Exhibition 1888 – Glasgow, Skotland – International Exhibition (1888) 1888 – Bruxelles, Belgien – Grand Concours International des Sciences et de l'Industrie (1888) 1888 – Barcelona, Spanien – Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888) 1888 – Lissabon, Portugal – Exposição Industrial Portugueza (1888) 1888 – København, Danmark – Den Nordiske Industri, -Landbrugs, -og Kunstudstilling i Kjøbenhavn 1888 1889 – Paris, Frankrig – Exposition Universelle (1889) – Eiffeltårnet 1889 – Dunedin, New Zealand – New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition (1889) 1889 – Buffalo, New York, USA – International Industrial Fair (1889)
1890'erne 1890 – Bremen, Tyskland – Nord-West-Deutsche Gewerbe und Industrie-Ausstellung (1890) 1891 – Moskva, Rusland – Exposition française (1891) 1891 – Kingston, Jamaica – International Exhibition (1891) 1891 – Launceston, Australien – Tasmanian International Exhibition (1891) 1891 – Prag, Bøhmen – General Land Centennial Exhibition (1891) i Prague Exhibition Grounds 1892 – Genova, Italien – Esposizione italo-americana (1892) 1892 – Madrid, Spanien – Exposición Histórico-Americana (1892) 1892 – Washington, DC, USA – Exposition of the Three Americas (1892) (ikke afholdt) 1893 – Chicago, Illinois, USA – World's Columbian Exposition 1893 – Kimberly, Sydafrika – South Africa and International Exhibition (1893) 1893 – New York, USA – World's Fair Prize Winners' Exposition (1893) 1894 – San Francisco, Californien, USA – California Mid-Winter Exposition (1894) 1894 – Antwerpen, Belgien – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers (1894) 1894 – Lyon, Frankrig – Exposition internationale et coloniale (1894) 1894 – Porto, Portugal – Exposição Insular e Colonial Portugueza (1894) 1895 – Hobart, Australien – Tasmanian International Exhibition (1895) 1895 – Ballarat, Australien – Australian Industrial Exhibition (1895) 1895 – Atlanta, Georgia, USA – Cotton States and International Exposition (1895) (Atlanta Exposition) 1896 – Berlin, Tyskland – Gewerbe-Ausstellung (1896) 1896 – Mexico City, Mexico – International Exposition (1896) (ikke afholdt) 1897 – Bruxelles, Belgien – Exposition Internationale de Bruxelles (1897) 1897 – Guatemala City, Guatemala – Exposición Centro-Americana (1897) 1897 – Brisbane, Australien – Queensland International Exhibition (1897) 1897 – Chicago, Illinois, USA – Irish Fair (1897) 1897 – Nashville, Tennessee, USA – Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition 1897 – Stockholm, Sverige – Allmänna konst- och industriutställningen (1897) 1898 – Dunedin, New Zealand – Otago Jubilee Industrial Exhibition (1898) 1898 – Omaha, Nebraska, USA – Trans-Mississippi Exposition 1898 – Bergen, Norge – International Fisheries Exposition (1898) 1898 – München, Tyskland – Kraft- und Arbeitsmaschinen-Ausstellung (1898) 1898 – San Francisco, California, USA – California's Golden Jubilee (1898) 1898 – Torino, Italien – Esposizione generale italiana (1898) 1898 – Wien, Østrig – Jubiläums-Ausstellung (1898) 1899 – Coolgardie, Australien – Western Australian International Mining and Industrial Exhibition (1899) 1899 – Omaha, Nebraska, USA – Greater America Exposition (1899) 1899 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – National Export Exposition (1899) 1899 – London, Storbritannien – Greater Britain Exhibition (1899)
1900'erne 1900 – Paris, Frankrig – Exposition Universelle (1900)* 1900 – Adelaide, Australien – Century Exhibition of Arts and Industries (1900) 1901 – Buffalo, New York, USA – Pan-American Exposition 1901 – Glasgow, Skotland – Glasgow International Exhibition (1901) 1901 – Wien, Østrig – Bosnische Weihnachts-Ausstellung (1901) 1901 – Charleston, South Carolina, USA – South Carolina and Interstate and West Indian Exposition (1901) 1902 – Torino, Italien – Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna (1902) 1902 – Hanoi, Vietnam (Tonkin), Indo China Exposition Française et Internationale (1902) 1902 – New York, USA – United States, Colonial and International Exposition (1902) (ikke afholdt) 1902 – Toledo, Ohio, USA – Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory Exposition (1902) – (ikke afholdt) 1903 – Osaka, Japan – National Industrial Exposition (1903) 1904 – Saint Louis, Missouri, USA – Louisiana Purchase Exposition (også kaldet Louisiana Purchase International Exposition and Olympic Games): OL 1904* 1905 – Portland, Oregon, USA – Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition (1905) 1905 – Liège, Belgien – Exposition universelle et internationale (1905) 1905 – London, Storbritannien – Naval, Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition (1905) 1905 – New York, USA – Irish Industrial Exposition (1905) 1906 – Milano, Italien – Esposizione Internazionale del Sempione (1906) 1906 – London, Storbritannien – Austrian Exhibition (1906) 1906 – Marseille, Frankrig – Exposition coloniale (1906) 1906 – Christchurch, New Zealand – International Exhibition (1906) 1907 – Dublin, Irland – Irish International Exhibition (1907) 1907 – Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA -Jamestown Exposition 1907 – Chicago, Illinois, USA – World's Pure Food Exposition (1907)