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States and TNCs Compared
The 25 largest non-financial corporations worldwide compared with the largest nation-states,
ranked on a basis of annual revenues.
Note that the state data is for national-level government revenues, not GNP.
Only 13 nation-states have large enough national budgets to rank them among these top 25 corporations. Financial institutions are not included, because of comparability problems. But if they could be included, the imbalance would be even more striking.
Sums in US$ billion
Name Revenues Year USA 1.258 1994 GERMANY 690 1994 JAPAN 595 1995 UK 389 94/95 ITALY 339 1994 FRANCE 221 1993 Mitsubishi 184 1995 Mitsui 182 1995 Itochu 169 1995 General Motors 169 1995 Sumitomo 168 1995 Marubeni 161 1995 Ford Motor 137 1995 Toyota Motor 111 1995 Exxon 110 1995 NETHERLANDS 110 1992 Royal Dutch/Shell Group 110 1995 SWEDEN 109 95/96 Nissho Iwai 98 1995 SPAIN 97 1994 AUSTRALIA 96 95/96 Wal-Mart Stores 94 1995 CANADA 90 94/95 Hitachi 84 1995 Nippon Life Insurance 83 1995 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone 82 1995 AT&T 80 1995 Daimler-Benz 72 1995 Intl. Business Machines 72 1995 Matshushita Electric Industrial 70 1995 General Electric 70 1995 KOREA, SOUTH 69 1995 Tomen 68 1995 Mobil 67 1995 Nissan Motor 63 1995 Volkswagen 61 1995 Siemens 61 1995 BRAZIL 59 1994 Some other countries: KENYA 2,4 1990 SENEGAL 0,9 1996 UGANDA 0,6 94/95 NICARAGUA 0,4 1996
(Table compiled by Michèle Roth, GPF Associate) Sources:
Data on Corporations: "Fortune's Global 500. The World's Largest Corporations", in: Fortune, August 5, 1996.
Data on State Revenues: The World Factbook by the CIA as posted on the web.More Information on Social and Economic Policy
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