World's Most Valuable Companies

RD Shell is Anglo-Dutch.

It's still anglo dutch. HQ is in the Hague but it is incorporated in England and Wales. It also has a daul listing on UK and Dutch stock exchanges.

19/26 it's in USA. Lol. USA is not center of the world !!!

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.)

well, switzerland has 3 on the list which is roughly 100 times per capita ;-)

"Not counting state-owned entities" ... okay so that's why Saudi Aramco is not on here. Far and away #1.

Still #1, but maybe no longer "far and away," with Apple now at 1 trillion and Saudi Aramco at 1.2 trillion, according to Wikipedia.

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.

3 companies from our smaaaall Switzerland :)

Something to yodel about, for sure.

Sad to see no British companies,we invent everything but can't sell it nearly as well as the Americans 😭

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.

Not invented anything in the 20th century. Tim Berners-Lee invented a wee thing that kinda took off......

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.

Georgia country or Georgia state?

Little known fact: Joseph Stalin's first job was stacking lumber in an orange apron.

So Amazon is now more tech than retail?

I think it's filed under "tech" because it started as a website.

I'm surprised not to see Unilever or Coca-Cola on here.

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.