List of largest employers
The largest employers in the world include companies, militaries, and governments.
Companies and militaries
Non-corporate employers are included in this lists:
| Employees | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Employer | 2015[1] | 2010[2][3] | Headquarters |
| United States Department of Defense | | United States | |
| People's Liberation Army | | China | |
| Walmart | | United States | |
| McDonald's[note 1] | 1.9 million | 1.7 million | United States |
| National Health Service | 1.7 million | 1.4 million | United Kingdom |
| China National Petroleum Corporation | 1.6 million | 1.7 million | China |
| State Grid Corporation of China | 1.5 million | 1.6 million | China |
| Indian Railways | | India | |
| Indian Armed Forces | | India | |
| Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) | 1.3 million | 0.8 million | Taiwan[4] |
Largest private and semi-private employers
The rankings below are the seven private-sector companies providing the most jobs worldwide, according to the 2017 list compiled by Fortune magazine.[5] That list does not include entirely government-owned corporations.
| Public and semi-public companies with the most employees in the world | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Employer | Country | Employees |
| 1 | Walmart |  United States |
2,300,000 |
| 5 | China National Petroleum |  China |
1,512,048 |
| 6 | China Post Group | China |
941,211 |
| 6 | State Grid | China |
926,067 |
| 5 | Hon Hai Precision Industry |  Taiwan |
726,772 |
| 6 | Sinopec Group | China |
713,288 |
| 7 | Volkswagen |  Germany |
626,715 |
See also
- Fortune Global 500
- Forbes Global 2000
- List of multinational corporations
- List of largest European manufacturing companies by revenue
- List of largest financial services companies by revenue
- List of the largest software companies
- List of largest Internet companies
- List of the largest information technology companies
- List of private equity firms
- List of largest companies by revenue
- List of public corporations by market capitalization
- List of companies by profit and loss
- List of professions
- List of types of tradesman
- Lists of companies – company-related list articles on Wikipedia
- List of largest employers in the United States
- List of wealthiest organizations
References
- ↑ "The World's Biggest Employers". Forbes.com. Forbes. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
- ↑ "Employment: Defending jobs - The Economist". 2011-09-12. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
- ↑ IISS 2012, pp. 243–248
- ↑ "9 Most Largest Companies – by employee number". most09.com. March 5, 2016.
- ↑ http://fortune.com/global500/list/filtered?sortBy=employees
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