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Volkswagen had by far the highest amount of global employees of all companies based in Germany in 2024, at approximately 684 thousand employees. Deutsche Post DHL Group had the second highest number of employees at 504 thousand, followed by Bosch which had 429 thousand employees.

Of the selected Danish companies on Forbes' list, the shipping and transportation company Møller-Maersk has the highest number of employees as of June 2024. Around 100,000 people work for the company across the world. The shipping supplier DSV Panalpina has the second highest number of employees. DSV Panalpina DSV Panalpina offers solutions within logistics and transport, both within air, sea, and land transportation. In 2021, the company had a global revenue of around 182 billion Danish Kroner. Employment in Denmark In 2021, the number of employees in Denmark had reached almost 2,5 million. The most common line of work for people in Denmark was within public administration, education, and health.

With a market capitalization of 3.12 trillion U.S. dollars as of May 2024, Microsoft was the world’s largest company that year. Rounding out the top five were some of the world’s most recognizable brands: Apple, NVIDIA, Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Amazon. Saudi Aramco led the ranking of the world's most profitable companies in 2023, with a pre-tax income of nearly 250 billion U.S. dollars. How are market value and market capitalization determined? Market value and market capitalization are two terms frequently used – and confused - when discussing the profitability and viability of companies. Strictly speaking, market capitalization (or market cap) is the worth of a company based on the total value of all their shares; an important metric when determining the comparative value of companies for trading opportunities. Accordingly, many stock exchanges such as the New York or London Stock Exchange release market capitalization data on their listed companies. On the other hand, market value technically refers to what a company is worth in a much broader context. It is determined by multiple factors, including profitability, corporate debt, and the market environment as a whole. In this sense it aims to estimate the overall value of a company, with share price only being one element. Market value is therefore useful for determining whether a company’s shares are over- or undervalued, and in arriving at a price if the company is to be sold. Such valuations are generally made on a case-by-case basis though, and not regularly reported. For this reason, market capitalization is often reported as market value. What are the top companies in the world? The answer to this question depends on the metric used. Although the largest company by market capitalization, Microsoft's global revenue did not manage to crack the top 20 companies. Rather, American multinational retailer Walmart was ranked as the largest company in the world by revenue. Walmart also had the highest number of employees in the world.

These enterprises were chosen in a study featuring Mexico's 25 best companies to work for according to LinkedIn users. The anonymous actions of LinkedIn users in Mexico were analyzed based on four main pillars: interest in the company, interaction with the company's employees, demand for jobs and employee retention. Among the best employers included in the ranking, Walmart México was the company with the largest workforce, amounting to around 193,600 employees in 2021.

Ranked as the largest employer among the Stockholm-based companies as of January 2024 was the security company Securitas AB, the employer of nearly 287,000 people. H&M and the information and communication technology company Ericsson had the second and third largest number of employees in Stockholm, amounting to nearly 107,000 and 102,000 employees respectively.

The three largest employers in Sweden The three companies did not only rank as the three largest employers based in Stockholm, but also formed the top three largest employers among all companies based in Sweden.

Employees in Europe, North and Latin America

Securitas AB is the largest employer based in Sweden, but employees of the company are spread around the world, both in Europe, North America, and Latin America. The largest region of employees of the company was within security services in Europe, where around 120,000 individuals were employed.

This statistic reveals the ranking of the 20 largest French companies in 2018, according to the number of employees. Auchan Holding employed more than 340,000 people that year, compared to more than 378,000 employees for Carrefour.

In 2023, Amazon.com was the top-ranked internet company based on number of employees. The e-commerce giant reported a workforce of more than **** million employees. Amazon has consistently topped the ranking as the online company with the biggest workforce, but the global COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gap as e-commerce has boomed since. During the same period, Meta (formerly Facebook Inc.) had a total of ****** full-time employees. Additionally, Google's parent company Alphabet had ******* full-time workers in 2024.

This statistic shows the largest companies in Finland as of November 2018, by number of employees. At the time, Nokia Oyj was the largest company in Finland, employing a little over 101,700 people. Nokia is a global communications and IT company, largely known of its mobile phones and losing share of the mobile phone market in the beginning of the 21st century. The next largest company in Finland as of 2018 was KONE Oyj with a number of employees of roughly 53,400. The third largest company was the paper pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso Oyj employing roughly 26,200 people.

This statistic contains several companies that specialise in paper and wood production, metals and metal products, energy as well as shipbuilding. While Finland has a tradition for all these industry areas, looking at the economy as a whole, the Finnish economy has become more dominated by electronics and services. As a result, traditional industries such as the forest industry have declined. Leading brands across all industries in Finland include Fazer, Prisma, Paulig and Fiskars.

In 2023, there were estimated to be ******* large companies operating in Asia, with a further ****** in Europe, and over ****** in North America.

Gazprom and Reliance Industries are among the largest oil and gas companies worldwide by number of employees. The majority of companies in this ranking are state-owned enterprises. Reliance Industries is the highest ranking public company, with a workforce of nearly ******* people.

In 2025, there were estimated to be approximately 3.6 billion people employed worldwide, compared to 2.23 billion people in 1991 - an increase of around 1.4 billion people. There was a noticeable fall in global employment between 2019 and 2020, when the number of employed people fell from due to the sudden economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Formal vs. Informal employment globally Worldwide, there is a large gap between the informally and formally employed. Most informally employed workers reside in the Global South, especially Africa and Southeast Asia. Moreover, men are slightly more likely to be informally employed than women. The majority of informal work, nearly 90 percent, is within the agricultural sector, with domestic work and construction following behind. Women’s employment As the number of employees has risen globally, so has the number of employed women. Overall, care roles such as nursing and midwifery have the highest shares of female employees globally. Moreover, while the gender pay gap has shrunk over time, it still exists. As of 2024, the uncontrolled gender pay gap was 0.83, meaning women made, on average, 83 cents per every dollar earned by men.

In 1999, Microsoft Corp had a market capitalization of approximately 602.43 billion U.S dollars, making it the largest company in the world at the time. Seven of the ten largest companies worldwide in 1999 were based in the United States, with one company from Japan, and two from Europe.

Johnson & Johnson is the largest pharmaceutical company worldwide by number of employees. As of 2025, the American company, with headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey, employed over *** thousand people all over the world. Roche from Switzerland followed with over *** thousand employees globally. A view on Johnson & JohnsonThe New Jersey-based company is not a pure pharmaceutical company, thus not all the aforementioned employees are involved in this segment. Johnson & Johnson also has another strong business segment: medical devices and diagnostics. Within Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical segment, oncology and immunology are the strongest therapeutic areas. Pharmaceutical industry employmentOf the estimated **** million people employed in the pharmaceutical industry globally, around *** thirds are in Asia alone. Interestingly, even if North America is the strongest and most innovative pharmaceutical market, it is only the fourth world region by pharmaceutical employment. In the United States, pharmaceutical employment is significant, notably in California, New Jersey, North Carolina, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.

As of December 31, 2021, the United States-based International Paper had approximately 32,800 employees worldwide. This made International Paper the world's largest employer of any forestry and paper company. This was followed by Suzano and Oji Holdings, which employed roughly 37,000 and 36,000 people, respectively.

As of a 2024 ranking of the leading mining companies in the world based on employee count, the Swiss company Glencore was the world's largest mining employer, at nearly ****** people. Sibanye-Stillwater is the world's largest primary platinum producer, and was the second largest mining employer at that time, with almost ****** employees.

From 2000 to 2019, the United States had more Fortune 500 companies than any other country. In 2020, the U.S. was surpassed by China, where 124 companies were reported, compared to 121 U.S. companies. This is an impressive increase, as there were only 10 Fortune 500 companies in China in 2000. In 2023, the number of top world companies ranked by revenue grew by six in China, while in the U.S. there were 12 more companies than in 2022.

In 2024, Microsoft generated approximately, **** billion U.S. dollars in revenue, making it the largest IT services company in the world in terms of revenue. Other major firms in the IT services market include Alphabet Inc., with revenues of over **** billion U.S. dollars, followed by AWS and Meta. IT services market A key sub-sector of the larger information technology industry is the IT services market. This sub-sector brings in hundreds of millions of dollars each year, with forecasts suggesting that this number will reach 1.42 trillion U.S. dollars in spending in 2023 after eclipsing the one trillion dollar mark in 2019. Digitalization, along with constant technological advancement, means that businesses in nearly every industry rely on IT services which results in continuous market spending. What are IT services products? The term IT services refers to a large amount of services and solutions used by businesses to assess, manage, and deliver information. These services include cloud computing, database management, as well as hardware deployment and support. Notably, these IT solutions assist in a vast array of business functions and thereby empower companies to stay agile and adaptive in a quickly changing environment.

The ranking shows the world's leading software companies based on its workforce.

The statistic shows the number of employees from the leading music product companies in terms of revenue worldwide in 2017. Of the leading music companies in terms of revenue, Yamaha Corporation had the most employees in 2017, employing ****** people.