The 8th World Summit Report offers insight into the knowledge, experience and perspectives shared by participants and details the conversations that took place during the 8th World Summit on Arts and Culture, Kuala Lumpur from 11-14 March 2019. It also presents the issues that participants identified as key areas that require action from the international arts and culture community.

The 81 countries represented were: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Cook Islands, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Samoa, Scotland, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, Wales, Zambia and Zimbabwe.