The FORBES Global 2000 is a comprehensive list of the world’s largest, most powerful public companies, as measured by revenues, profits, assets and market value. We weight the four numbers equally to come up with a composite score, in pursuit of our goal to best capture the full picture of corporate size.

One world: one gigantic market place. This year, 63 countries have Global 2000 entries vs 51 in our inaugural list in 2004. Forbes Global 2000 are the biggest, most powerful listed companies in the world.

Gazprom

The U.S. Federal Government.

Exxon Mobile...

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That depends on how you measure it.

Total number of employees?

Total number of establishments?

Value of goods traded?

Annual profit?

etc.

oil companies

wal- mart