List of largest employers

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This is a list of the world's largest public, private, and government employers by number of employees.

2012 BBC

The BBC includes non-corporate employers in its list.

The world's largest employers, 2012^[1]
Employer	Employees	Headquarters
United States Department of Defense	3.2 million	United States
People's Liberation Army	2.3 million	People's Republic of China
Walmart	2.1 million	United States
McDonald's	1.9 million (including franchises)	United States
National Health Service	1.7 million	United Kingdom
China National Petroleum Corporation	1.6 million	People's Republic of China
State Grid Corporation of China	1.5 million	People's Republic of China
Indian Railways	1.4 million	India
Indian Armed Forces	1.3 million	India
Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn)	1.2 million	Taiwan

2010 Economist

The Economist includes non-corporate employers in its list.

World's largest employers, 2010^[2]
Employer	Employees
United States Department of Defense	3.2 million
People's Liberation Army	2.3 million (2008 data)
Walmart	2.1 million
McDonald's	1.7 million (including franchises)
China National Petroleum Corporation	1.7 million
State Grid Corporation of China	1.6 million
National Health Service (England)	1.5 million
Indian Railways	1.4 million
China Post	0.9 million
Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn)	0.8 million

Fortune 2007 and 2009

The rankings below are from the Fortune Global 500 and does not include non-corporate public employers.

Rank (2007)	Company name	Employees (2007)	Employees (2011)^[3]/	Revenue (2007) (US$ millions)	Profit (US$ millions, 2007)	Fortune Global 500 rank
1.	Walmart	2,055,001	2,100,000	$408,214	$14,335	1
2.	Indian Railways	1,900,000	1,361,519	$19,130	$211	501
3.	State Grid	1,486,000	1,533,800	$86,984	$1,074	24
4.	China National Petroleum	1,117,345	1,649,992	$83,557	$12,950	25
5.	Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn)	920,000	611,000	$59,300	$2,200	25
6.	U.S. Postal Service	573,929 (career employees)	574,000	$69,907	-$8,500	109
7.	Sinopec	634,011	633,383	$98,785	$2,668	23
8.	G4S	625,000	630,000	$11,407	$357	N/A
9.	Carrefour	590,042	475,976	$94,455	$1,784	25
10.	ISS A/S	522,700	522,700	$14,111	$101	N/A
11.	Deutsche Post	502,545	424,686	$59,990	$2,777	75
12.	Agricultural Bank of China	478,895	441,144	$17,166	$0,127	377
13.	Siemens	461,000	405,000	$100,099	$2,855	22
14.	McDonald's	447,000	385,000	$20,460	$2,602	318
15.	Tesco	440,000	472,000	$71,128	$2,821	59
16.	Compass Group	410,074	386,170	$23,469	$0,002	260
17.	China Telecommunications	407,982	312,520	$22,736	$2,376	279
18.	UPS	407,000	408,000	$42,581	$3,870	129
19.	IBM	399,409	426,751	$91,134	$7,934	29
20.	Coal India Limited	397,138	383,347	$11,590	$2,140	N/A
21.	Gazprom	396,571	376,300	$50,824	$14,865	102
22.	Daimler	382,724	260,100	$186,106	$3,536	7
23.	Sodexo	380,000	379,140	$20,800	$1,051	459
24.	Industrial & Commercial Bank of China	361,623	389,827	$29,167	$4,114	199
25.	Hitachi	355,879	361,745	$83,596	$0,330	38
26.	Sears Holdings	355,000	280,000	$49,124	$0,858	107
27.	Volkswagen	344,902	368,500	$118,377	$1,392	17
28.	Target Corporation	338,000	355,000	$52,620	$2,408	97
29.	General Motors	335,000	209,000	$192,604	-$10,567	5
30.	Panasonic Corporation	334,402	365,899	$78,558	$1,364	47
31.	General Electric	316,000	304,000	$157,153	$16,353	11
32.	La Poste	303,405	287,174	$24,018	$0,692	252
33.	Citigroup	303,000	260,000	$131,045	$24,589	14
34.	China Construction Bank	300,288	301,537	$22,771	$5,749	277
35.	BSNL	299,840	281,635	$7,210	N/A	N/A
36.	Kroger	290,000	334,000	$60,553	$0,958	73
37.	Home Depot	289,800	321,000	$81,511	$5,838	43
38.	Toyota Motor	285,977	317,734	$185,805	$12,120	8
39.	HSBC Holdings	284,000	295,995	$93,494	$15,873	26
40.	China Railway Group	280,581	220,000	$15,294	$0,083	441
41.	Robert Bosch GmbH	276,000	270,687	$62,593	$3,148	119
42.	Veolia Environnement	271,153	291,000	$31,368	$0,774	185
43.	Nestlé	250,000	281,000	$74,659	$6,416	53