The World's Congresses were divided into twenty departments, with 224 general divisions. One thousand two-hundred and eighty-three sessions were held, with 5,978 addresses or papers read by 5,822 speakers from 97 foreign nations as well as every state and territory in the United States.

Woman's Progress	25 divisions
Public Press	6 divisions
Medicine and Surgery	6 divisions
Temperance	12 divisions
Moral and Social Reform	15 divisions
Commerce and Finance	10 divisions
Music	9 divisions
Literature	9 divisions
Education	33 total divisions
Engineering	9 divisions
Art	5 divisions
Government	7 divisions
General	5 total divisions
Science and Philosophy	13 divisions
Social and Economic Science	4 divisions
Labor	1 division
Religion	46 divisions
Sunday Rest	1 division
Public Health	1 division
Agriculture	11 divisions

Source: A History of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1897, p. 6-7