Top 100 Economies of the World

there are unofficially 195 countries in the world. Taiwan which is nicknamed " the roc " is considered a providence of China key word being considered. The Vatican City is considered a country which i did not know. It has some pretty interesting infrastructure that makes it pretty "untouchable " and kinda gangsta in my opinion. Anyhow the point of this post is that out of the unofficial 195 countries in the world 51 of the top 100 economies are corporations....the world is being pimped on a grand scale. to think a simple boycott of some buses in 1955 started a revolution of change we cannot allow ourselves to feel helpless about the direction that things are going in.

i feel everyone in the world is beautiful and has something beautiful to offer. It is not fair that some have a quality of life of excess while others live in total poverty. It is absolutely shameful that half of the worlds top 100 economies are corporations. this has to change. This is the list of pimps from pimp of the year to new pimp on the block. The funny thing is that in our obessive greed we have been programed to think this is cool. we kill for it and we are proud of it. to me it is kinda embarrassing. we claim to be civilized. we claim to be helpers of the world, but in the end we really only help ourselves. i think we can be a much stronger country if we actually stood by our values instead of using them as a sales pitch to our own people. God Bless America

Of the world's 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries.

compiled by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh of the of the Institute for Policy Studies in their Report on the Top 200 corporations released in December 2000

(Corporations are in bold italics)

Rank	Country / Corporation	GDP / sales ($mil)
1	United States	8,708,870.00
2	Japan	4,395,083.00
3	Germany	2,081,202.00
4	France	1,410,262.00
5	United Kingdom	1,373,612.00
6	Italy	1,149,958.00
7	China	1,149,814.00
8	Brazil	760,345.00
9	Canada	612,049.00
10	Spain	562,245.00
11	Mexico	474,951.00
12	India	459,765.00
13	Korea, Rep.	406,940.00
14	Australia	389,691.00
15	Netherlands	384,766.00
16	Russian Federation	375,345.00
17	Argentina	281,942.00
18	Switzerland	260,299.00
19	Belgium	245,706.00
20	Sweden	226,388.00
21	Austria	208,949.00
22	Turkey	188,374.00
23	General Motors	176,558.00
24	Denmark	174,363.00
25	Wal-Mart	166,809.00
26	Exxon Mobil	163,881.00
27	Ford Motor	162,558.00
28	DaimlerChrysler	159,985.70
29	Poland	154,146.00
30	Norway	145,449.00
31	Indonesia	140,964.00
32	South Africa	131,127.00
33	Saudi Arabia	128,892.00
34	Finland	126,130.00
35	Greece	123,934.00
36	Thailand	123,887.00
37	Mitsui	118,555.20
38	Mitsubishi	117,765.60
39	Toyota Motor	115,670.90
40	General Electric	111,630.00
41	Itochu	109,068.90
42	Portugal	107,716.00
43	Royal Dutch/Shell	105,366.00
44	Venezuela	103,918.00
45	Iran, Islamic rep.	101,073.00
46	Israel	99,068.00
47	Sumitomo	95,701.60
48	Nippon Tel & Tel	93,591.70
49	Egypt, Arab Republic	92,413.00
50	Marubeni	91,807.40
51	Colombia	88,596.00
52	AXA	87,645.70
53	IBM	87,548.00
54	Singapore	84,945.00
55	Ireland	84,861.00
56	BP Amoco	83,556.00
57	Citigroup	82,005.00
58	Volkswagen	80,072.70
59	Nippon Life Insurance	78,515.10
60	Philippines	75,350.00
61	Siemens	75,337.00
62	Malaysia	74,634.00
63	Allianz	74,178.20
64	Hitachi	71,858.50
65	Chile	71,092.00
66	Matsushita Electric Ind.	65,555.60
67	Nissho Iwai	65,393.20
68	ING Group	62,492.40
69	AT&T	62,391.00
70	Philip Morris	61,751.00
71	Sony	60,052.70
72	Pakistan	59,880.00
73	Deutsche Bank	58,585.10
74	Boeing	57,993.00
75	Peru	57,318.00
76	Czech Republic	56,379.00
77	Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Ins.	55,104.70
78	Honda Motor	54,773.50
79	Assicurazioni Generali	53,723.20
80	Nissan Motor	53,679.90
81	New Zealand	53,622.00
82	E.On	52,227.70
83	Toshiba	51,634.90
84	Bank of America	51,392.00
85	Fiat	51,331.70
86	Nestle	49,694.10
87	SBC Communications	49,489.00
88	Credit Suisse	49,362.00
89	Hungary	48,355.00
90	Hewlett-Packard	48,253.00
91	Fujitsu	47,195.90
92	Algeria	47,015.00
93	Metro	46,663.60
94	Sumitomo Life Insur.	46,445.10
95	Bangladesh	45,779.00
96	Tokyo Electric Power	45,727.70
97	Kroger	45,351.60
98	Total Fina Elf	44,990.30
99	NEC	44,828.00
100	State Farm Insurance	44,637.20

Sources: Sales: Fortune, July 31, 2000. GDP: World Bank, World Development Report 2000.