McDonald’s, the renowned global quick service restaurant chain, has maintained annual growth in its restaurant count for almost two decades, even during the years of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In 2024, the company operated and franchised ****** restaurants globally, marking a rise from the previous year’s count of ****** establishments.

This statistic shows the number of McDonald's restaurants worldwide from 2008 to 2014, by geographic region. There were ****** McDonald's restaurants in the United States in 2014, making it the region with the largest number of units.

The regional reporting structure was changed in the 2015 annual report. The most up-to-data regional data can be found here.

In North America, fast food king McDonald’s operated and franchised by far the largest proportion of restaurants in its home country of the United States, accounting for 13,557 units in 2024. Meanwhile, there were 1,489 McDonald’s establishments in Canada that same year.

In 2024, the European country in which McDonald’s operated and franchised the majority of its establishments was *************************. The United Kingdom accounted for the second largest number of McDonald’s restaurants in 2024 with ***** units.

Analysis of ‘⭐ McDonalds Review Sentiment’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/yamqwe/mcdonalds-review-sentimente on 13 February 2022.

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About this dataset

A sentiment analysis of negative McDonald's reviews. Contributors were given reviews culled from low-rated McDonald's from random metro areas and asked to classify why the locations received low reviews. Options given were: * Rude Service

• Slow Service
• Problem with Order
• Bad Food
• Bad Neighborhood
• Dirty Location
• Cost
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This dataset was created by CrowdFlower and contains around 2000 samples along with Unit State, Policies Violated, technical information and other features such as: - Review - Policies Violated Gold - and more.

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McDonald's is one of the world's most recognizable fast-food chains, and its UK operations are no exception. In the UK, McDonald's offers a menu similar to its global offerings, including burgers, fries, chicken nuggets, and soft drinks. However, McDonald's U.K. also adapted to local tastes and preferences, offering breakfast items like the McMuffin and McFlurry desserts. McDonald's U.K.'s business model is primarily based on food and beverage sales and generates revenue through in-store dining, drive-thru service, and delivery. McDonald's U.K. focuses on providing a fast and efficient dining experience, with a focus on consistency and affordability and has implemented various initiatives to improve its menu offerings and customer experience, such as introducing healthier options and modernizing its restaurants. You can download the complete list of key information about McDonald's U.K. locations, contact details, services offered, and geographical coordinates, beneficial for various applications like store locators, business analysis, and targeted marketing. The McDonald's U.K. data you can download includes:

Identification & Location:


  Store_ name, store_number, store_location, address, city, state, zip_code, latitude, longitude, geo_accuracy, country_code, county, 


Contact Information:


  Phone_number,  


Operational Details & Services:


  Store_hours, services, 

As of February 2023, the state with the highest number of McDonald's restaurants in the United States was California, which had ***** establishments in that month. Texas followed in the ranking with ***** restaurants in operation. Both of these states are home to many of the most well-known fast food restaurants in the United States. What city has the most McDonald's restaurants in the U.S.? Although California was the U.S. state with the largest number of McDonald’s restaurants, Houston, Texas ranked as the city with the highest number of McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. as of February 2023. The city accounted for a total of *** McDonald’s restaurants in that month. Meanwhile, Chicago, Illinois had a total of *** McDonald's establishments. How do McDonald's sales compare to other burger chains in the U.S.? In 2022, McDonald’s ranked as the leading quick service restaurant chain in the U.S., with systemwide sales totaling approximately **** billion U.S. dollars. Wendy's sales, by comparison, amounted to only **** billion U.S. dollars. Other burger chains in the ranking included Burger King, Sonic Drive-n, Jack in the Box, and more.

This dataset consists of: 1 GeoEye-1 stereo imagery of an area of approximately 100 square kilometres including McDonald Island, captured 19 May 2012 2 A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) derived from the GeoEye-1 stereo imagery; and 3 Image products derived from the most vertical dataset of the stereo imagery and orthorectified using the DEM. 4 Contours generated from the DEM.

The DEM was produced at a 1 metre pixel size and is available in ESRI grid, ESRI ascii and BIL formats. The DEM and image products are stored in a Universal Transverse Mercator zone 43 south projection, based on the WGS84 datum.

The image products are geotiffs as follows.

McDonald_Island_BGRN.tif: GeoEye-1 4-band multispectral (vis blue, green, red and Near Infrared), 2 metre resolution.

McDonald_Island_PAN.tif: GeoEye-1 panchromatic, 0.5 metre resolution.

McDonald_Island_PS_BGRN.tif: GeoEye-1 pansharpened, 4-band multispectral (vis blue, green, red and Near Infrared), 0.5 metre resolution.

McDonald_Island_RGB.tif: GeoEye-1 pansharpened, natural colour enhancement, 0.5 metre resolution.

Imports: Heard and McDonald data was reported at 0.000 SEK th in May 2018. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 SEK th for Apr 2018. Imports: Heard and McDonald data is updated monthly, averaging 0.000 SEK th from Jan 1998 (Median) to May 2018, with 245 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 523.000 SEK th in Dec 2016 and a record low of 0.000 SEK th in May 2018. Imports: Heard and McDonald data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Sweden. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Sweden – Table SE.JA007: Imports: by Country.

United States Exports: FAS: Heard and McDonald Isles data was reported at 0.000 USD mn in May 2018. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 USD mn for Apr 2018. United States Exports: FAS: Heard and McDonald Isles data is updated monthly, averaging 0.000 USD mn from Jan 1990 (Median) to May 2018, with 341 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.500 USD mn in Apr 2009 and a record low of 0.000 USD mn in May 2018. United States Exports: FAS: Heard and McDonald Isles data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.JA011: Trade Statistics: Census Basis: By Country: Exports: FAS.

In 2024, McDonald's reported that its various loyalty schemes had more than *** million active users worldwide. The company stated that it was hoping to increase the number to *** million by 2027.

McDonald's generated a total revenue of ***** billion U.S. dollars in 2024. In that year, when looking at McDonald’s revenue by region, the country that generated the highest portion of revenue was the United States - accounting for ***** billion U.S. dollars. However, internationally operated markets including, but not exclusive to, Australia, France, Canada, and the UK, contributed the largest sum to the McDonald's total revenue in 2024. How did McDonald’s start? McDonald’s was originally founded in 1940 in San Bernardino, California, United States by Richard, and Maurice McDonald. It was eventually turned into a franchise operation and was bought from the McDonald’s brothers in 1955 by businessman Ray Kroc. In 2024, there were over ** thousand conventionally franchised McDonald's restaurants worldwide, which constituted the majority of its ****** establishments across the globe. The burger behemoth earned most of its revenue from McDonald’s franchised restaurants and received ***** billion U.S. dollars through this mode of operation in 2024. Is McDonald’s the largest quick service chain? McDonald’s had the highest brand value of any quick service restaurant company by a large margin in 2024. Not only that, but it also ranked in the top 100 biggest companies in the world in 2024. The biggest player in the market that year was ********** with a total market capitalization amounting to over *** trillion U.S. dollars.

The Heard Island and McDonald Island management maps and polygon datasets stored in a Quantum Geographical Information System (QGIS) GeoPackage format. The four maps were developed to update the management zones figures in accordance with the Heard Island and McDonald Island Marine Research Management Plan, 2014-2024.

The unaltered datasets used included the ANARE historical Sites, countours_terrasar_100m_draft, flyingbird_pt_heard_pt_0304, sealer historical sites and WATERCOURSE_LN_heard.

Several of the older datasets were updated or edited these include; the Antarctic prion nests and HI_South Georgian diving petrel 2003-4, which were adapted from the FLYING_BIRD_PY_heard dataset. The Current buildings on HI_2001 and HI_Refuge_operational datasets were adapted from the heard_infrastructure dataset. The ShagIsland_Sail_DruryRocks was adapted from the 2009 DEM. Alert Island dataset was digitised from a panchromatic Digital Globe Worldview-1 satellite imagery acquired on 23 March 2008.

Additional datasets were created for this project including – HI glaciers 2014; HI_Coastline_2014; HI_Lagoons2014; and the HI_Vegetation Zone 2014; all of which were digitised from a pansharpened image derived from multispectral and panchromatic Digital Globe GeoEye-1 satellite imagery acquired on 6 February 2014. The HI glaciers 2014 dataset is an estimate of glacier coverage of the island in 2014 (some semi-permeant snow areas may be included, therefore should not be used to calculate total glacier area of the island). The HI_Vegetation Zone 2014 was created using the False Colour (FC) images created by Digital Globe from the pansharpened image derived from multispectral and panchromatic Digital Globe GeoEye-1 satellite imagery, which was used to estimate the vegetation coverage of the island. The vegetation zone dataset should not be used to calculate total vegetation coverage of the island.

HI_LongBeach_Macaroni_Colony_2012-2016 was digitised from three pansharpened images derived from multispectral and panchromatic two GeoEye-1 satellite imageries acquired on 2 February 2012 and 6 February 2014 and Worldview-2 imagery acquired on 21 February 2016.

The HI_Heritage_Zone_2021; HI_MainUseZone_2021; HI_RestrictedZone_2021; and HI-VisitorAccessZone_2021 were all digitised based on the areas as defined in the 2014-224 Management Plan and altered to fit the new 2014 coastline. HI_WildernessZone_2014 is a duplicate of the HI_Coastline_2014 with the symbology altered to reflect the Wilderness Zone as defined in the Management Plan 2014-2024.

The McDonald Island coastline for 1980 (McD_1980_coastline) was digitised from the georeferenced 1980 aerial photo casa9491 image; the McD_2003_coastline was digitised from a pansharpened image derived from multispectral and panchromatic Digital Globe Quickbird satellite imagery acquired on 9 April 2003; the McD_coastline_2012 was digitised from a pansharpened image derived from multispectral and panchromatic Digital Globe GeoEye-1 satellite imagery acquired on 19 May 2012 and the McD_RestrictedZone_2022 was digitised from a pansharpened image derived from multispectral and panchromatic Maxar Worldview-3 satellite imagery acquired on 25 June 2020. As it encompasses the entire island it is also the 2020 coastline for McDonald Island.

This project contains the following unaltered files:
ANARE historical Sites
countours_terrasar_100m_draft
flyingbird_pt_heard_pt_0304
sealer historical sites
WATERCOURSE_LN_heard

This project contains the following altered/edited files:
Antarctic prion nests
HI_South Georgian diving petrel 2003-4
Current buildings on HI_2001
HI_Refuge_operational
ShagIsland_Sail_DruryRocks
Alert Island 2008

This project contains the following new files:
HI glaciers 2014
HI_Coastline_2014
HI_Lagoons2014
HI_Vegetation Zone 2014
HI_LongBeach_Macaroni_Colony_2012-2016
HI_Heritage_Zone_2021
HI_MainUseZone_2021
HI_RestrictedZone_2021
HI-VisitorAccessZone_2021
HI_WildernessZone_2014

McD_1980_coastline
McD_2003_coastline
McD_coastline_2012
McD_RestrictedZone_2022 (same as McD_coastline_2020)

As of March 2025, New South Wales was home to the highest number of McDonald's locations in Australia, with over *** stores. In comparison, there were only ** McDonald's restaurants in Tasmania that same year. In total, over ***** McDonald's stores were in operation nationwide in 2025. Australia: one of McDonald’s leading international markets Famous for its Big Mac, American quick service restaurant (QSR) chain McDonald’s is by far the most valuable fast food brand worldwide, with an estimated brand value of almost *** billion U.S. dollars. The Australian McDonald’s franchise is one of the largest contributors to McDonald’s total revenue among the company’s internationally operated markets. In 2023, McDonald’s Australia Holdings Pty Ltd generated an annual revenue of around *** million U.S. dollars. Battle of the burger chains McDonald’s and Hungry Jack’s are the most prevalent burger franchises in Australia, with McDonald’s recording the highest brand score index value across Australia’s QSRs in 2024. In terms of locations, McDonald’s boasted the highest number of locations of all burger franchises across Australia in 2025 and had more than double the number of stores compared to Hungry Jack’s. Nonetheless, by a small margin, Australian consumers voted Hungry Jack’s as being better value for money than McDonald’s. Furthermore, the Big Jack was rated higher across all categories than the Big Mac regarding taste, quality of ingredients, and value for money. Popular Australian burger chain Grill’d also keeps its foot in the door of Australia’s burger market due to its extensive variety of burger options and highly-rated dine-in experience. With Wendy’s and Mr. Charlie’s having entered Australia’s fast food market, the battle of the country’s burger chains may become even more intense.

United States Imports: Customs: Heard and McDonald Isles data was reported at 0.000 USD mn in May 2018. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 USD mn for Apr 2018. United States Imports: Customs: Heard and McDonald Isles data is updated monthly, averaging 0.000 USD mn from Jan 1991 (Median) to May 2018, with 329 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.700 USD mn in Feb 1991 and a record low of 0.000 USD mn in May 2018. United States Imports: Customs: Heard and McDonald Isles data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.JA012: Trade Statistics: Census Basis: By Country: Imports: Customs.

This statistic shows shows the number of McDonald's restaurants in the Netherlands in 2018, by province. Zuid-Holland has the highest amount of restaurants, whereas Zeeland has the lowest amount of restaurants. The total number of McDonald's restaurants in the Netherlands amounted to *** in 2018.

During the 2024 financial year, McDonald's franchise restaurants generated a total of ****** billion U.S. dollars in sales. This shows a slight increase over the previous year's total of ****** billion. The franchise sales of McDonald's restaurants have trended upwards over the past decade.

At **** U.S. dollars, Switzerland has the most expensive Big Macs in the world, according to the January 2025 Big Mac index. Concurrently, the cost of a Big Mac was **** dollars in the U.S., and **** U.S. dollars in the Euro area. What is the Big Mac index? The Big Mac index, published by The Economist, is a novel way of measuring whether the market exchange rates for different countries’ currencies are overvalued or undervalued. It does this by measuring each currency against a common standard – the Big Mac hamburger sold by McDonald’s restaurants all over the world. Twice a year the Economist converts the average national price of a Big Mac into U.S. dollars using the exchange rate at that point in time. As a Big Mac is a completely standardized product across the world, the argument goes that it should have the same relative cost in every country. Differences in the cost of a Big Mac expressed as U.S. dollars therefore reflect differences in the purchasing power of each currency. Is the Big Mac index a good measure of purchasing power parity? Purchasing power parity (PPP) is the idea that items should cost the same in different countries, based on the exchange rate at that time. This relationship does not hold in practice. Factors like tax rates, wage regulations, whether components need to be imported, and the level of market competition all contribute to price variations between countries. The Big Mac index does measure this basic point – that one U.S. dollar can buy more in some countries than others. There are more accurate ways to measure differences in PPP though, which convert a larger range of products into their dollar price. Adjusting for PPP can have a massive effect on how we understand a country’s economy. The country with the largest GDP adjusted for PPP is China, but when looking at the unadjusted GDP of different countries, the U.S. has the largest economy.

The net sales of McDonald's Australia Holdings Pty Limited amounted to approximately *** million U.S. dollars in 2023, representing an increase compared to the previous year. More information on McDonald's Australia Holdings Pty Ltd and other companies worldwide can be found on the Statista Company Database.