CORPORATE VS. COUNTRY ECONOMIC CLOUT THE TOP 100
	Country or Corporation	GDP/sales ($mil)
1	United States	7,745,705
2	Japan	4,201,636
3	Germany	2,100,110
4	France	1,396,540
5	United Kingdom	1,271,710
6	Italy	1,145,370
7	China	825,020
8	Brazil	786,466
9	Canada	603,085
10	Spain	531,419
11	South Korea	442,543
12	Russian Federation	440,562
13	Australia	391,045
14	Netherlands	360,472
15	India	359,812
16	Mexico	334,766
17	Argentina	322,730
18	Switzerland	293,400
19	Belgium	264,400
20	Sweden	227,751
21	Indonesia	214,593
22	Austria	206,239
23	Turkey	181,464
24	General Motors	178,174
25	Hong Kong	171,401
26	Denmark	161,107
27	Thailand	157,263
28	Ford Motor	153,627
29	Norway	153,403
30	Mitsui & Co.	142,754
31	Poland	135,659
32	South Africa	129,094
33	Mitsubishi	128,982
34	Royal Dutch/Shell Group	128,108
35	Itochu	126,691
36	Saudi Arabia	125,266
37	Exxon	122,379
38	Wal-Mart	119,299
39	Greece	119,111
40	Finland	116,170
41	Marubeni	111,173
42	Sumitomo	102,443
43	Malaysia	97,523
44	Portugal	97,357
45	Singapore	96,319
46	Toyota Motor	95,181
47	Israel	91,965
48	General Electric	90,840
49	Colombia	85,202
50	Philippines	83,125
51	Nissho Iwai	81,932
52	IBM	78,508
53	Nippon Tel & Tel	77,019
54	AXA-UAP	76,869
55	Egypt	75,482
56	Chile	74,292
57	Ireland	72,037
58	Daimler-Benz Group	71,536
59	British Petroleum	71,175
60	Hitachi	68,599
61	Venezuela	67,316
62	Volkswagen Group	65,306
63	New Zealand	64,999
64	Pakistan	64,360
65	Matsushita Electric Ind.	64,310
66	Siemens Group	63,731
67	Peru	62,431
68	Chrysler	61,147
69	Mobil	59,978
70	Philip Morris	56,114
71	Allianz Worldwide	55,397
72	Sony	55,058
73	Czech Republic	54,890
74	Nissan Motor	53,503
75	AT&T	53,261
76	Fiat Group	52,590
77	Honda Motor	48,899
78	Credit Suisse Group	48,641
79	Unilever	48,479
80	HSBC Group	48,404
81	Nestlé	48,230
82	Algeria	45,997
83	Boeing	45,800
84	Texaco	45,187
85	United Arab Emirates	45,147
86	Hungary	44,845
87	Toshiba	44,488
88	Ukraine	44,007
89	State Farm Insurance	43,957
90	VEBA Group	43,866
91	Elf Aquitaine	43,570
92	Tomen	43,420
93	Tokyo Electric Power	43,017
94	Hewlett-Packard	42,895
95	DuPont	41,304
96	Sears Roebuck	41,296
97	Deutsche Bank	40,778
98	Fujitsu	40,632
99	NEC	39,945
100	Philips Group	39,181
Sales figures are from Fortune, April 27, 1998 and Forbes, July 27, 1998. GDP figures are from World Bank, World Development Report 1998/99, pp. 212-213.