Top 100 World Ecnomies – 51 are Corporations

[autorank]

Happy Easter, expect a miracle

Of the world's 100 largest economic entities,
51 are now corporations and 49 are countries.

Link


Compiled by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh of the of the Institute for Policy Studies in their Report on the Top 200 corporations
released in December 2000

(Corporations are in bold)

Rank Country/Corporation GDP Sales ($mil)
1 United States 8,708,870.00
2 Japan 4,395,083.00
3 Germany 2,081,202.00
4 France 1,410,262.00
5 United Kingdom 1,373,612.00
6 Italy 1,149,958.00
7 China 1,149,814.00
8 Brazil 760,345.00
9 Canada 612,049.00
10 Spain 562,245.00
11 Mexico 474,951.00
12 India 459,765.00
13 Korea, Rep. 406,940.00
14 Australia 389,691.00
15 Netherlands 384,766.00
16 Russian Federation 375,345.00
17 Argentina 281,942.00
18 Switzerland 260,299.00
19 Belgium 245,706.00
20 Sweden 226,388.00
21 Austria 208,949.00
22 Turkey 188,374.00
23 General Motors 176,558.00
24 Denmark 174,363.00
25 Wal-Mart 166,809.00
26 Exxon Mobil 163,881.00
27 Ford Motor 162,558.00
28 DaimlerChrysler 159,985.70
29 Poland 154,146.00
30 Norway 145,449.00
31 Indonesia 140,964.00
32 South Africa 131,127.00
33 Saudi Arabia 128,892.00
34 Finland 126,130.00
35 Greece 123,934.00
36 Thailand 123,887.00
37 Mitsui 118,555.20
38 Mitsubishi 117,765.60
39 Toyota Motor 115,670.90
40 General Electric 111,630.00
41 Itochu 109,068.90
42 Portugal 107,716.00
43 Royal Dutch/Shell 105,366.00
44 Venezuela 103,918.00
45 Iran, Islamic rep. 101,073.00
46 Israel 99,068.00
47 Sumitomo 95,701.60
48 Nippon Tel & Tel 93,591.70
49 Egypt, Arab Republic 92,413.00
50 Marubeni 91,807.40
51 Colombia 88,596.00
52 AXA 87,645.70
53 IBM 87,548.00
54 Singapore 84,945.00
55 Ireland 84,861.00
56 BP Amoco 83,556.00
57 Citigroup 82,005.00
58 Volkswagen 80,072.70
59 78,515.10
60 Philippines 75,350.00
61 Siemens 75,337.00
62 Malaysia 74,634.00
63 Allianz 74,178.20
64 Hitachi 71,858.50
65 Chile 71,092.00
66 Matsushita Electric . 65,555.60
67 Nissho Iwai 65,393.20
68 ING Group 62,492.40
69 AT&T 62,391.00
70 Philip Morris 61,751.00
71 Sony 60,052.70
72 Pakistan 59,880.00
73 Deutsche Bank 58,585.10
74 Boeing 57,993.00
75 Peru 57,318.00
76 Czech Republic 56,379.00
77 Dai-Ichi Mutual Life . 55,104.70
78 Honda Motor 54,773.50
79 Assicurazioni Generali 53,723.20
80 Nissan Motor 53,679.90
81 New Zealand 53,622.00
82 E.On 52,227.70
83 Toshiba 51,634.90
84 Bank of America 51,392.00
85 Fiat 51,331.70
86 Nestle 49,694.10
87 SBC Communications 49,489.00
88 Credit Suisse 49,362.00
89 Hungary 48,355.00
90 Hewlett-Packard 48,253.00
91 Fujitsu 47,195.90
92 Algeria 47,015.00
93 Metro 46,663.60
94 Sumitomo Life Ins. 46,445.10
95 Bangladesh 45,779.00
96 Tokyo Electric Power 45,727.70
97 Kroger 45,351.60
98 44,990.30
99 NEC 44,828.00
100 State Farm Insurance 44,637.20

[Hugabear]

1. I pledge allegiance to the corporation of Walmart...

Is there any doubt that fascism is on the rise?

[autorank]

2. ...and to the sales it provides, one nation, under thumb,

with profits and justice for The Money Party;)

[catzies]

14. Yup, and here's our flag

[autorank]

15. Very nice!

[Me.]

3. That Seems Right

After all, aren't 51 out of 100 of the top citizens of the world also corporations? Must be, they have more rights than us so they should be more valuable.

[autorank]

6. Well, since the Supreme Court treats Corporate rights as Individual rights

51 of the top 100 economic entities in the world are people;)

[Me.]

7. Yep,

However I would like to stress that they are super citizens as technically they have more rights than we 'common' folk. I wonder if they have more rights than a president?

[autorank]

8. They president is a wholely owned subsidiary;)

N'est pas?

[bluesmail]

16. don't they own our government?

[Cerridwen]

24. Please don't forget, not only are they "super" they are immortal...

incorporation papers say "in perpetuity"...they are immortal super citizens. Amassing wealth, influence and power we mere mortals can barely imagine. Hardly what the founders envisioned but definitely what we have.

[annabanana]

25. ! They will be the ultimate customers of mercenary armies !

super forever

[Cerridwen]

27. Who will be their customer base? I wonder if they every think of

that?

[kineneb]

4. hey, they missed my country: California

last I heard it was around 7th or 8th...

California, not just a state but a state of mind...

[autorank]

5. The Golden State

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California#Gross_domestic_product_.28GDP.29

The economy of California is often cited for how it would compare to other countries if California was an independent nation. The statistic quoted varies widely (usually placing California between 7th and 10th)<10><11><12>, depending on the source.

$1,700,000,000 ($1.7 trillion if I got the 0's wrong;)

[kineneb]

10. thanks. enjoy the wine.

from one of the Native-born Californians on DU... this year celebrating my family's 100th year in the Golden State.

[autorank]

20. You got me thinking...

...I'm a native son of that great state (Sacramento) - 1888 (mothers side) 1922 (father's).

East Coaster now but when you folks leave, I want dual citizenship;)

[Greyhound]

11. CA was number 5 through the 70s, 80s, and 90s IIRC, possibly longer.

It is in rapid decline and most Californians don't seem to notice... :shrug:

[kineneb]

23. new competition- China, Brazil, Germany

kind of hard to compete with

China- land of our former factories and lots more people
Brazil- more people and bigger
Germany- wasn't a unified country until the 1990s...fine German engineering

I think we are holding our own, given the horrid mismanagement from on high (both state and federal). We are still a huge producer/exporter of agricultural products.

[Greyhound]

36. No, we're really not. n/t

[lpbk2713]

9. What are #59 & #98?

Reason I ask, I'm kinda surprised Verizon and Microslop didn't make the cut.


Ed: Never mind. I checked the link. The figures are from July 2000. Verizon was still GTE and NYNEX then.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. The thing is most of these Corporations are like leaches to

many of the governments on the list. They let the government do the roads, schools, bridges that support their 'way of life'.

[autorank]

17. They always exclude this VITAL point when they gripe about everything

If it were not for the 1100 bases we have overseas, their market entry overseas and access to
resources would be diminished considerably. Of course, they can't mention this fact since it's
vital to their survival. Who mans the bases? Who pays? The very people they screw day in and
day out by installing their minions like Bush-Cheney who deny the people reasonable return on their
labor and taxes.

Nice deal for them but their ingratitude and short sightedness is stunning.

[Ichingcarpenter]

21. Yep, and meanwhile they pay less and less and less of their

fair share in taxes and expect the taxpayer to bail them out
who never profited from their greed.

[IamyourTVandIownyou]

13. And therein lies the problem.

Multi-gnats.

[autorank]

18. Infesting our homes and work places.

Drats it's the gnats! Grab your wallet!

[robinlynne]

19. Jesus, that is terrifying!

[Kurovski]

22. K&R. (nt)

[kster]

26. K&R ..nt

[Kurovski]

28. Kick. (nt)

[autorank]

30. There you are!

:toast:

[Kurovski]

32. Hey, hey!

:toast:

[Swamp Rat]

29. Jeebus! Wal-Mart above all those countries.

:wow:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

31. That is wayyyyy fucked up.

We are nothing but Cogswell's Cogs and Spacely Sprockets. The Jetson Era looked like it was going to be so much more fun...

It's hell on Earth, and we are owned by a money grubbing slave trade. Can we take back our "liberty and freedom" yet?

[snot]

33. Who needs allies; much easier to deal with corps. --

which are often much less answerable to their supposed constituents.

But the link to the Report is broken. I went to the Institute for Policy Studies to check for it and couldn't readily find one that worked . . .

Also, note that the Report was released in 2000 -- what's happened since then?

[autorank]

34. Snot

My apologies, the link is on the main page but it's tiny. I should have had the link plus the main
page. Here's the chart! http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html

What a deal, huh. Wonder if you took California plus their corporations, what the ran would be?
We better hope that they don't leave;)

:hi:

[Javaman]

35. They should also list the debt each owes. The US would drop to the bottom. nt