- The annual revenues of giant corporations such as Apple, Microsoft, and Walmart are colossal.
- The scale of their profits takes on a whole new meaning when compared with the GDPs of many of the world's countries.
- Walmart out-earned Belgium last year.
The annual revenues of companies such as Apple, Microsoft, and Walmart are so huge that they take on whole new dimensions. So much so that so that their profits dwarf the economy of many countries across the globe - for example, in 2017 Walmart earned more than the whole of Belgium.
We examined the earnings of giant conglomerates and compared them with the GDP of countries around the world, as reported by the IMF. Take a look and see what countries are being out-earned by a company.
Spotify's revenues in 2017 exceeded Mauritania's GDP
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- Mauritania's GDP in 2016 was $4,755 million.
- Spotify's total revenue in 2017 came to $4,794 million.
- Spotify would be 151st wealthy in the world if it were a country.
Netflix had a greater revenue in 2017 than Malta's GDP
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- Malta's GDP value in 2016 was $11,278 million.
- Netflix's revenues in 2017 were $11,693 million.
- Going off Netflix's total revenue, it would be the 126th country in the world GDP.
Tesla's takings surpassed Albania's GDP
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- Albania's GDP in 2016 was $11,865 million.
- Tesla's revenues in 2017 totalled $12,000 million.
- If Tesla were a country, it would be 125th wealthiest in the world.
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