Placements

§ — People's Choice winner
(Voted into the Top 6 by viewers)

Continental Queens of Beauty

Top Model

Megan Young of Philippines won Miss World Top Model 2013.

Beach Beauty

Sancler Frantz of Brazil won Miss World Beach Beauty 2013.

Sports and Fitness

Jacqueline Steenbeek of Netherlands won Miss World Sport and Fitness 2013.

Multimedia

Navneet Kaur Dhillon of India won Miss World Multimedia 2013.

Talent

Vania Larissa of Indonesia won Miss World Talent 2013.

Beauty With a Purpose

Ishani Shrestha of Nepal won Miss World Beauty With a Purpose 2013.

Debuts

Returns

Designations

•  Belarus – Maryia Vialichka was appointed to represent Belarus, after no national pageant was held because the Miss Belarus pageant is a bi-annual event. It was last time held in 2012. Maria won the title of Miss Charity at the Miss Belarus 2012 pageant.
•  British Virgin Islands – Kirtis Kassandra Malone was appointed as Miss World British Virgin Islands 2013. The Miss World British Virgin Islands Committee acquired the franchise license from the Miss World organisation this year.
•  Cyprus – Kristy Marie Agapiou was appointed to represent Cyprus, she was the 1st runner-up at the Star Cyprus 2011 pageant.
•  Guyana – Ruqayyah Boyer was appointed Miss Guyana 2013 after Natasha Martindale became the new national director in Guyana.
•  Iceland – Sigríður Dagbjört Ásgeirsdóttir was appointed to represent Iceland, she was the 2nd runner-up at the Ungfrú Island 2011 pageant.
•  Kazakhstan – Aynur Toleuova was appointed to represent Kazakhstan. She was previously Miss Kazakhstan 2011.
•  South Korea – Park Min-ji was appointed to represent Korea. She was the 2nd runner-up at the Miss World Korea 2011 pageant.
•  Mongolia – Pagmadulam Sukhbaatar was appointed as Miss World Mongolia 2013 after a casting call took place.
•  Nicaragua – Luz Decena was appointed as Miss Mundo Nicaragua 2013 by Denis Davila, national director of Miss World in Nicaragua.
•  Norway – Alexandra Backström was appointed as Miss World Norway 2013 after a casting call took place.^[5]
•  St. Kitts & Nevis – Trevicia Adams was appointed as Miss World St. Kitts & Nevis 2013 by Eversley Liburd & Joan Millard, national directors of Miss World in St. Kitts & Nevis.^[6]
•  United States – Olivia Jordan, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was appointed to represent United States. She was the 1st runner-up at the Miss California USA 2013 pageant. Later competed at Miss USA 2015 as Miss Oklahoma USA and won the title and competed at Miss Universe 2015 and placed as 2nd runner-up.
•  Vietnam – Thảo Lại Hương was appointed to represent Vietnam. The permission was granted by the Ministry of Culture of Vietnam, which authorises the international representation of the nation in events of any kind. Thảo was crowned Miss Sport Vietnam 2012.
•  Zambia – Christine Mwaaba was appointed to represent Zambia, she was the 2nd runner-up at the Miss Zambia 2010 pageant.

Replacements

•  Hong Kong – The reigning Miss Hong Kong Carat Cheung was replaced by her 1st runner-up Jacqueline Wong due to being over-age.
•  Serbia – Nikolina Bojić was replaced by Aleksandra Doknić the 1st runner-up of Miss Serbia 2012, after being withdrawn because of her marriage to Canadian tennis player Frank Dancevic.

Withdrawals

•  Bonaire
•  Macau
•  Malawi
•  Israel – Yityish Titi Aynaw withdrew due to political reason regarding to Indonesia being an Islamic country. Later competed at Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow, but was unplaced.^[7]
•  Sierra Leone
•  Suriname – Rachel De La Fuente
•  Uruguay – Mercedes Bissio Del Puerto
•  Zimbabwe

Did not compete

Note: These countries were to debut or return at Miss World, but did not compete.

•  Benin
•  Cape Verde - Christina Spencer
•  Greenland - Dianne Illiansen
•  Grenada - Priscilla Collingsworth
•  Madagascar
•  Mozambique
•  Rwanda
•  São Tomé and Príncipe