• Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations; only 49 are countries (based on a comparison of corporate sales and country GDPs).

• The Top 200 corporations' combined sales are bigger than the combined economies of all countries minus the biggest 10.

• The Top 200s' combined sales are 18 times the size of the combined annual income of the 1.2 billion people (24 percent of the total world population) living in ‘severe’ poverty.

• While the sales of the Top 200 are the equivalent of 27.5 percent of world economic activity, they employ only 0.78 percent of the world's workforce.

• U.S. corporations dominate the Top 200, with 82 slots (41 percent of the total). Japanese firms are second, with only 41 slots.

• In 1970 there were approximately 7,000 corporations operating internationally. Today there are approximately 60,000 trans-nationals with over half a million foreign affiliates.

• Trade between subsidiaries within the same parent corporation now accounts for roughly a third of world trade.

• Mergers and a proliferation of strategic partnerships among corporations are giving a few producers an undue amount of influence on the market. Market power often also translates into political influence. The current cascade of mergers is bolstered by the broad trend toward privatization of state-owned companies and public infrastructure, deregulation and the liberalization of trade, investments and capital markets.

• Oxfam estimates that developing countries lose tax revenues of at least $50 billion a year due to tax competition and the use of tax havens.