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Size and Influence of
Multinational Corporations
©Created by Joan Ferrante for instructional use only
Revenues (in
Profits
Corporation
Royal Dutch Shell
Exxon Mobil
Wal-Mart
BP
Sinopec Group
$ billions)
(in $ billions)
484.5 b
452.9 b
447.0 b
386.5 b
375.2 b
30.9 b
41.1 b
15.7 b
25.7 b
9.5 b
China National Petroleum
352.3 b
16.3 b
State Grid
Chevron
ConocoPhillips
Toyota Motor
259.1 b
245.6 b
237.3 b
235.4 b
5.7 b
26.9 b
12.4 b
3.6 b
$3.5 trillion
Headquarters
Netherlands
Irving, TX
Bentonville, AR
London, UK
Beijing, China
Beijing, China
Beijing, China
San Ramon, CA
Houston, TX
Aichi, Japan
GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
the monetary value of all of goods
and services a country produces
within a particular time period,
usually over the course of a year.
Revenue
the total amount of money a
corporation receives for goods sold
or services provided during a
certain time period such as a year.
Question:
How many countries have a GDP
greater than the combined revenues
($3.5 trillion) of the 10 largest global
corporations?
Answer: 4 countries
US ($15.09 trillion)
China ($7.3 trillion)
Japan ($5.87 trillion)
Germany ($3.57 trillion)
Question:
How many countries have a
GDP greater than Royal Dutch
Shell annual revenue?
($485 billion)
Answer: 23 countries
Australia, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, China, France, Germany,
India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,
Mexico, Netherland, Poland,
Russia, Saudi Arabia, South
Korea, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey, United
Kingdom, United States
Question:
How many countries have a GDP
smaller than McDonald’s
revenues?
$27 billion
Answer: 122 countries
Afghanistan, Albania, American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia,
Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi,
Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central Africa Republic, Chad,
Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of, Congo, Republic of, Cook Islands, Cote
d’Ivoire, Curacao, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominica, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea,
Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia,
Gabon, Gambia, The, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Guernsey,
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Isle of Man, Jamaica,
Jersey, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau,
Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania,
Mauritius, Micronesia, Federated States of, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro,
Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Niue, Northern
Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and
Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome
and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sint Maarten, Solomon Islands,
Somalia, Suriname, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga,
Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, West Bank, Zambia,
Zimbabwe