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.

[edit] 2010 Economist

The Economist includes non-corporate employers in its list.

World's largest employers, 2010^[1]
Employer	Employees
United States Department of Defense	3.2 million
People's Liberation Army (China)	2.3 million (2008)
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)	1.4 million
Indian Railways	1.4 million
China Post	0.9 million
Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn)	0.8 million

[edit] Fortune 2007 and 2009

The rankings below are from the [[Fortune Global \ Global
500]] rank |- |19.|| IBM ||align="right"|399,409||426,751||align="right"|$91,134||align="right"|$7,934||align="right"|29 |- |20.|| Coal India Limited||align="right"|397,138||383,347||align="right"|$11,590||align="right"|$2,140||align="right"|N/A |- |21.|| Gazprom||align="right"|396,571||376,300||align="right"|$50,824||align="right"|$14,865||align="rightSUPER RHINOSAURAUSDSAGD GDSGD|25.|| Hitachi||align="right"|355,879||361,745 ||align="right"|$83,596||align="right"|$0,330||align="right"|38 |- |26.|| Sears Holdings||align="right"|355,000||280,000||align="right"|$49,124||align="right"|$0,858||align="right"|107 |- |27.|| Volkswagen||align="right"|344,902||368,500||align="right"|$118,377||align="right"|$1,392||align="right"|17 |- |28.|| Target Corporation||align="right"|338,000||355,000 ||align="right"|$52,620||align="right"|$2,408||align="right"|97 |- |29.|| General Motors||align="right"|335,000||209,000||align="right"|$192,604||align="right"|-$10,567||align="right"|5 |- |30.|| Panasonic Corporation||align="right"|334,402||365,899||align="right"|$78,558||align="right"|$1,364||align="right"|47 |- |31.|| General Electric||align="right"|316,000||304,000||align="right"|$157,153||align="right"|$16,353||align="right"|11 |- |32.|| La Poste||align="right"|303,405||287,174||align="right"|$24,018||align="right"|$0,692||align="right"|252 |- |33.|| Citigroup||align="right"|303,000||260,000||align="right"|$131,045||align="right"|$24,589||align="right"|14 |- |34.|| China Construction Bank||align="right"|300,288||301,537||align="right"|$22,771||align="right"|$5,749||align="right"|277 |- |35.|| BSNL||align="right"|299,840||281,635 ||align="right"|$7,210||align="right"|N/A||align="right"|N/A |- |36.|| Kroger||align="right"|290,000||334,000||align="right"|$60,553||align="right"|$0,958||align="right"|73 |- |37.|| Home Depot||align="right"|289,800||321,000||align="right"|$81,511||align="right"|$5,838||align="right"|43 |- |38.|| Toyota Motor||align="right"|285,977||317,734||align="right"|$185,805||align="right"|$12,120||align="right"|8 |- |39.|| HSBC Holdings||align="right"|284,000||295,995 ||align="right"|$93,494||align="right"|$15,873||align="right"|26 |- |40.|| China Railway Group||align="right"|280,581||220,000||align="right"|$15,294||align="right"|$0,083||align="right"|441 |- |41.|| Robert Bosch GmbH||align="right"|276,000||270,687||align="right"|$62,593||align="right"|$3,148||align="right"|119 |- |42.|| Veolia Environnement||align="right"|271,153||291,000||align="right"|$31,368||align="right"|$0,774||align="right"|185 |- |43.|| Nestlé||align="right"|250,000||281,000 ||align="right"|$74,659||align="right"|$6,416||align="right"|53 |}