Carlos Pizzarotti wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:00:15 -0300, <friam-request at redfish.com> wrote:
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>> 3. Of the world's 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now
>> corporations and 49 are countries (2000) (Owen Densmore)
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Since 1999, GM has fallen from 23rd to 46th.
WalMart has dropped from 25th to 31st.
#1 corporation in sales ExxonMobil has dropped from 26th to 28th even as
its sales went from $164 billion to $340 billion.
Taking Croatia at $58 billion as #100 and Marathon Oil at #99 on the
mixed lists,
there are now 67 countries and 23 corporations in the top 100 for 2005.
Poland went from $154 billion to $453 billion
The Phillipines went from $75 billion to $409 billion
The US went from $8.7 trillion to $12.4 trillion
China went from $1.1 to $8.6 trillion
Japan shrunk from $4.4 to $3.9 trillion
India grew from $460 billion to $3.8 trillion
Of course we all know not to take the peak of the internet boom/economy
as the starting point for much of anything
statistically meaningful, right?
Also, if you look at profits instead of revenues, you see
#1 Exxon Mobil at $36 billion
#2 Citigroup at $24 billion on revenues of $131 billion,
#3 Bank of America at $16 billion on revenues of $84 billion,
#4 GE at $16 billion on revenues of $157 billion,
Wal-Mart is at $11 billion, GM at -$10 billion, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/full_list/http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html[Note, there might be some sloppiness in that I started with IMF
instead of World Bank figures for a couple of the companies that I didn't
bother to correct]
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