3.2 Million Workers Pentagon is The Largest Employer in The World as BBC

3.2 million are in the service of the U.S. Department of Defense.

3.2 million workers making the DOD the single largest employer in the world. In second place ranking is the counterpart in China, namely the People’s Army with 2.3 million employees. In third place, the U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart is at 2.1 million. It follows the McDonald’s fast food empire to the world 1.9 million. But, the workers are not united under one umbrella organization, most McDonald’s outlets franchise. These figures are a report by the BBC to refer to.

According to the article is the National Health Service (NHS), which dominates in many parts of Britain is in fifth place. Overall, it operates in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland 1.7 million people. The top ten are still the state oil company China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) with 1.6 million workers, the energy company “State Grid Corporation of China” (1.5 million), the Indian Railways ‘Indian Railways’ (1 , 4 million), the Indian army (1.3 million) and electrical and computer company Foxconn (1.2 million), which produces, for example, Apple.

The difference between the American and the Chinese army size, the BBC explained by the fact that in the U.S. in addition to military force and the civilian employees are counted as the Pentagon. If you were to pull this off, the U.S. military would “only” 1.6 million workers, and would lie in seventh place