The following is the list of the cricket World Cup winners since the quadrennial tournament's inception in 1975:
1975: West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs in final
1979: West Indies beat England by 92 runs in final
1983: India beat West Indies by 43 runs in final
1987: Australia beat England by 7 runs in final
1992: Pakistan beat England by 22 runs in final
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1996: Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets in final
1999: Australia beat Pakistan by 8 wickets in final
2003: Australia beat India by 125 runs in final
2007: Australia beat Sri Lanka by 52 runs in final
2011: India beat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in final
2015: Australia beat New Zealand by 7 wickets in final
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