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The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the top 2000 corporations in the world by Forbes magazine. The ranking is based on a mix of four metrics: Sales, Profit, Assets and Market Value.

The Forbes Global 2000 is a useful indicator of which are the leading companies in the world, but it is only an interpretation. The results are not definitive; any change to the criteria would produce a different list.

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Exclusions and inconsistencies

As the list is published early in the calendar year, Forbes has to use out of date information for the many non U.S companies which have year ends early in the calendar year, including Japanese companies, which all have 31 March year ends. No adjustments are made to reflect different accounting practices in different countries, which leads to some major anomalies. For example Vodafone is ranked 377 in the 2005 list due to losses created by huge writedowns of purchased goodwill, but if amortisation of purchased goodwill was not charged against statutory profits in the UK, it would be in the top 20. It should also be noted that wholly state owned corporations are excluded because no market valuation exists and in some cases accounts are not publicly available either. Some of these state companies would rank highly if they were eligible, for example the national oil companies of some of the OPEC countries.

2006 list

Listed below are the top 50 companies featuring on the 2006 list.
  1. Citigroup
  2. General Electric
  3. Bank of America
  4. American International Group
  5. HSBC
  6. ExxonMobil
  7. Royal Dutch Shell
  8. BP
  9. JPMorgan Chase
  10. UBS
  11. ING Group
  12. Toyota Motor
  13. Wal-Mart Stores
  14. Royal Bank of Scotland
  15. Total
  16. Chevron
  17. BNP Paribas
  18. Berkshire Hathaway
  19. Banco Santander Central Hispano
  20. Barclays
  21. Procter & Gamble
  22. ConocoPhillips
  23. IBM
  24. HBOS
  25. Verizon Communications
  26. Wells Fargo
  27. Altria Group
  28. AXA
  29. Allianz
  30. Credit Suisse
  31. ENI
  32. Nippon Tel & Tel (NTT DoCoMo)
  33. E.ON
  34. Morgan Stanley
  35. Pfizer
  36. Merrill Lynch
  37. Fannie Mae
  38. Fortis
  39. Deutsche Telekom
  40. Wachovia
  41. ABN AMRO
  42. Goldman Sachs
  43. Société Générale
  44. Mizuho Financial
  45. DaimlerChrysler
  46. Crédit Agricole
  47. Lloyds TSB
  48. Samsung Electronics
  49. AT&T
  50. Nestlé
The complete list is available at http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/18/Rank_1.html.

2005 list

Forbes 2000
Rank 		Company Country Category Sales Profits Assets Market Value
1 Citigroup United States Banking 108.28 17.05 1,484.10 247.66
2 General Electric United States Conglomerates 152.36 16.59 750.33 372.14
3 American International Group United States Insurance 95.04 10.91 776.42 173.99
4 Bank of America United States Banking 65.45 14.14 1,110.46 188.77
5 HSBC United Kingdom Banking 62.97 9.52 1,031.29 186.74
6 ExxonMobil United States Oil & gas operations 263.99 25.33 195.26 405.25
7 Royal Dutch/Shell the Netherlands/United Kingdom Oil & gas operations 265.19 18.54 193.83 221.49
8 BP United Kingdom Oil & gas operations 285.06 15.73 191.11 231.88
9 ING Group Netherlands Diversified financials 92.01 8.10 1,175.16 68.04
10 Toyota Motor Japan Consumer durables 165.68 11.13 211.15 140.89
11 UBS AG Switzerland Diversified financials 62.22 7.10 1,115.90 89.16
12 Wal-Mart United States Retailing 285.22 10.27 120.62 218.56

2005 breakdown by region

2005 breakdown by country

  1. United States - 719
  2. Japan - 326
  3. United Kingdom - 140
  4. Canada - 67
  5. Germany - 63
  6. France - 62
  7. Italy - 45
  8. South Korea - 41
  9. Australia - 38
  10. Switzerland - 37
  11. Taiwan - 35
  12. Netherlands - 33
  13. India - 30
  14. Spain - 30
  15. Hong Kong - 28
  16. Sweden - 28
  17. China - 25
  18. Bermuda - 19
  19. Brazil - 19
  20. Mexico - 18
  21. South Africa - 18
  22. Finland - 15
  23. Malaysia - 14
  24. Russia - 13
  25. Singapore - 13
  26. Thailand - 13
  27. Belgium - 12
  28. Greece - 12
  29. Turkey - 11
  30. Denmark - 10
Many other countries have between 1 and 9 companies on the list.

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