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UNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2005/039
THE WORLD´S LARGEST TNCs
Geneva, Switzerland, 29 September 2005
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Transnational Corporations (TNCs) are mainly based in developed countries, and are increasingly being established in developing countries as well. The World Investment Report 2005: Transnational Corporations and the Internationalization of R&D (1) includes the list of the world´s top 100 TNCs and the list of the top 50 TNCs from developing economies. Table 1 and 2 below show the top 25 TNCs from both lists.
| The World Investment Report and its database are available online at www.unctad.org/wir and www.unctad.org/fdistatistics . A complete set of UNCTAD´s major publications on FDI and TNCs - the UNCTAD/UNCTC Digital Library - can be found at http://unctc.unctad.org . |
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ANNEX
Tables and figures
Table 1: The world´s top 25 non-financial TNCs, ranked by foreign assets, 2003 (Millions of dollars and number of employees)
Table 2: The top 25 non-financial TNCs from developing economies, ranked by foreign assets, 2003 (Millions of dollars, number of employees)