The 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships was held in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia from 28 February to 6 March 2016.

The top sixteen teams of the first division and the top two teams of the second division at the 2014 World Team Championships were guaranteed a place in the first division, along with the top six placed teams in the world rankings not already qualified.

[2] China Germany Chinese Taipei Japan Austria South Korea Portugal Singapore Greece Croatia Poland Sweden France Russia Ukraine North Korea China Japan Singapore Hong Kong North Korea Romania Germany Netherlands Ukraine South Korea Belarus Chinese Taipei Hungary Poland Czech Republic Austria Five individual events were contested.

Qualification rounds were held from 26–27 April.

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