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Inny-CA t1_j33nsy4 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in [OC] Country Distribution of Top 500 Companies by Market Capitalization by chartbear

It doesnt necessarily indicate the country is dependent on large companies just that they produce more companies of high value. Like South Korea is 4% of the top 500 but 20% of SK GDP comes from Samsung alone indicating they are more reliant on large company(s).

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YakEvery4395 t1_j33txht wrote

True

So does it indicate anything interesting... ?

Having data is cool, knowing how to interpret it is cooler, which I failed

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Inny-CA t1_j33zlmt wrote

To me its interesting when you take population into account. Like Canada has a population of 35m but makes up 4%. Also the obvious one of USA having a population of 300m yet they make up almost half of the list.

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a_holzbaur t1_j354ny7 wrote

I also found it interesting that the US’s share of the top 10 companies (9/10) alone accounted for over $8t in value, or nearly 10% of the $81t in market value across over 7100 companies.

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