Can you name the 15 biggest nations to have never qualified for the World Cup?

Several of the world’s most populated countries have never qualified for the World Cup finals, despite having millions of people to choose from.

Whether their national sport is not football or corruption inhibits the game in their country, it’s safe to say that this lot are less than their sum of their parts.

We’ve trawled through the population statistics and picked out the 15 biggest countries to have never qualified for the World Cup. How many of them can you name in 10 minutes?

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