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Mark_Kutte t1_j139cvp wrote

Doesn't McDonnalds mostly franchise out? Are employees of franchices counted in this? It must be because by glancing the wikisource you gave.... But it has no reference and the McDonnalds page itself lists "200,000" employees.

Out of the 15 companies you sourced from Wikipedia, only 7 have actual references backing up the data. Unreferenced wikipedia information isn't the same as sourced information.

Edit: Diving a little deeper cuz i'm procrestinating. This list can probably be confirmed by 2 hours of a deeper dive into the (english version) pages of all the government employers you listed. Combined by the 2020 Statista research into private companies and the confirmed data about militaries.

#Dataisbeautifulwhenitssourced #Dataisdangerouswhenitsnot

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Staxitall t1_j13et6b wrote

Now ain’t that interesting 🧐

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hackerboiiii t1_j13giw0 wrote

Damn why are you calling us Slovenians out like that?

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hotfezz81 t1_j13ntcr wrote

As a UK person: are you telling me that 1 in 30 people are in the NH... oh. Yeah OK actually probably. Might even be higher.

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TotallynottheCCP t1_j13q2eq wrote

Damn, I would've sworn Walmart had more employees than Amazon.

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UsrHpns4rctct t1_j13u71m wrote

Is Minisry of public security (China) pretty much like old DDR Stasi?

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eva01beast t1_j14a85u wrote

What's even more interesting is that the majority of these jobs are either government jobs or jobs in state-owned corporations.

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Scared-Conflict-653 t1_j14e4i5 wrote

I was going to point out why the US non military personnel seems low, China's has a lot of non military personnel but I'm stuck on Walmart being on the list.

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Sirvink t1_j14j02e wrote

McD should top Russia soon, the way the war is going.

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jnemesh t1_j14lzjr wrote

Ministry of Defense of Russia needs to be adjusted 100,000 down. Only 1.8M now...and falling.

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Arkainso t1_j14yvsg wrote

So I checked the NHS statistic, and according to the NHS November report they employ almost 1.4 million people. Initially I thought this was really high, but the number for France is a little over 1.3 million so I guess it is fair. I'm just surprised by how high it is (about 1 in 50 people work for the NHS).

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gluonbag t1_j14zbf7 wrote

Edit: retraction, I was confidently incorrect as pointed out below

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Silverthing t1_j15uces wrote

I don't think he's saying either, it's just a very high percent of people employed by one organisation, similarly it surprised me as well but then I think how many people I know that work there, I pretty much had the same reaction.

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hotfezz81 t1_j15xx7w wrote

Neither. There are ~60 million people in the UK, I'm surprised that almost 2 million work in the NHS, at least until I think about it. One of my friends is a paramedic, another a care hoke worker. Makes sense.

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PM-ME-SOMETHING-GOOD t1_j160wpp wrote

That's a really crappy source. Many people in the comments have pointed out various inaccuracies with your data. If you take the time to make the chart, please take time to verify the data is correct.

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killroy1971 t1_j16gpa6 wrote

Six of those employers are Chinese, and most of those are part of China's government in some way.

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kissmyabbis422 t1_j17j3or wrote

Bold to say the Korean People’s Army “employs” people. As if they’re getting paid.

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khwaled t1_j17od5k wrote

2.9M that's almost 1% of the population, talk about a warmongering nation

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berrybearry t1_j1hxgjb wrote

Here's a trick - Russian Army has 1.9M of "employees". And employee is a person who gets paid. So 1.9 = office staff + more or less professional soldiers who signed the contract + officers and so on. And besides of that there's a regular army staff - these who are not getting any money, but they just HAVE to spend a year there. For free. It's not a job, or privilege, it's a duty to waste there a year of their lives.

So basically the numbers are bigger, even if we take into account these 100k left somewhere in Ukraine.

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jnemesh t1_j1qbo1m wrote

  1. a lot of the army isn't getting paid, and they aren't happy about it
  2. it really doesn't matter how many men you throw into combat if you don't have weapons or even warm clothes for them...or food.
  3. the death toll is horrific, and the Russians know it.

I don't expect this to end well for the Russians.

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