Remember its the world's third largest country by population, and largest fully developed country by quite a margin (Japan and being about a third the population and Germany a little over a 4th). A lot of China's industry is state owned, or i'd expect to see far more than two companies on this list. By 2067 though, i'd expect perhaps more China as the People's Republic develops and shifts towards a more market based economy and certainly more India.
It's funny how completely beaten down the rest of the world's self-esteem has been the last 70 years that this is the best they can come up with for a brag. "The entire rest of the world accounts for 20% of the value of this list! Suck it USA!!"
nope, the center of the world is in the core. on a map, it's in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, right off the coast of Africa. it's where the equator and prime meridian meet. (equatorial guinea is very close to this.)
If you include the value of the untapped resources the company controls then it's still far and away. Several trillion dollars in oil still underground.
That's not entirely fair, though obviously the glory days are long gone. Problem is that many of the things that are invented by Brits don't get UK investment. The Dyson vacuum cleaner springs to mind. Successful British invention but James Dyson could only get initial investment from Japan. Then when production started in the UK it was using an American company I believe. Movies too (though not "inventions" exactly). Plenty of British properties, like Harry Potter, made into hugely successful films with largely British crew and cast, but the finance generally comes from the US so the profits go there.
Wait, in Switzerland, a British guy comes up with a web protocol to use the internet developed by the US Dept of Defense decades before. And this is a British invention? Because he was born there? Even if we spot you one, it's a pretty damn short list. Oh, the adapted vacuum cleaner. Clever, that. Still you guys call it Hoovering...
Wow. Home Depot is way bigger than I thought. Also, though it makes sense now, when I was taking the quiz I could not for the life of me figure out what type of business the "Consumer" sector was.
Typed Exxon and typed Mobil. Never tried to put them together. Also, would have though retail a better description for Amazon. Though, with Echo/Alexa and the streaming services, maybe tech does suit.
Generally speaking, Amazon is tech first and retail is what they use to make money at the moment. They are one of the top software companies in the world and pay top dollar for engineers to create tech like assistant & AWS. Calling Amazon retail is kind of like calling Google an ad company.
Amazon is all things to all people. But their core strength is tech. Not only does technology enable everything they do, but they make more than 50% of their profit from cloud computing.
Unilever is at about $147Bn and Coca-cola is $244Bn as of today. So yeah, Coke should probably be added, although on the date given, it was around 231-234Bn so probably didn't quite make it based on the quizmaster's data source.