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Worlds Largest Employers Dataset
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About
Explore the landscape of global corporations with this dataset, which ranks companies worldwide by their number of employees. It provides key financial and geographical data, offering insights into the scale of major international businesses. This information is valuable for understanding employment trends, corporate size, and economic distribution across different countries.
Columns
- Rank: The company's current rank based on its total number of employees.
- Name: The name of the company.
- Symbol: The stock ticker symbol for the company.
- employees_count: The total number of employees, expressed as Full-Time Equivalent (FTE).
- price (USD): The company's share price in US Dollars.
- country: The country where the company's headquarters is located.
Distribution
The data is provided in a single CSV file named
largest_companies_by_number_of_employees.csv. It contains 8,401 records and 6 columns.Usage
Ideal applications for this dataset include economic analysis, investment research, market studies, and corporate strategy. It can be used to identify the largest employers globally, compare company valuations against employee numbers, and analyse the geographical distribution of major corporations.
Coverage
This dataset has a global geographic scope, with data from 78 different countries, although 43% of the companies listed are headquartered in the United States. The temporal coverage is not explicitly defined, but the data is expected to be updated on a quarterly basis.
License
CC0: Public Domain
Who Can Use It
- Economists and Researchers: For analysing global employment trends and the economic impact of large corporations.
- Investors and Financial Analysts: To perform comparative analysis between companies based on employee size, share price, and country of origin.
- Business Strategists: For competitive intelligence and understanding the scale of major players in various markets.
- Data Scientists: For building models to explore relationships between employee count, valuation, and geographical location.
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- Global Corporations by Employee Count
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Attributes
Original Data Source: Worlds Largest Employers Datasett
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