By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won.

If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code.

Two bronze medals were awarded in the dartchery, snooker and table tennis events.

The Israeli athlete Michal Escapa was reported to be of Italian nationality and without a first name, as she is mentioned in the International Paralympic Committee[10] of the Italian Paralympic Committee[11] web sites) for the reports of the Swimming at the 1964 Summer Paralympics where she won two bronze medals, simply reported as Escapa and not as Michal Escapa.

[16] Dick Thompson of the United Kingdom won two individual golds, one silver and one bronze in athletics.

South Africa had just been banned from taking part in the 1964 Summer Olympic Games, due to its policy of apartheid.

[20][21] A letter from archery medalist Irene Preslipski published in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader on December 1, 1964, also mentions delegations from Ceylon, Mexico and the Philippines marching in the opening ceremony.