Indian Railways and Indian Army: The world's biggest employers according to the World Economic Forum

Based on a research published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on June 17, 2015, the Indian Army and Indian Railways have reserved places in the WEF's list of the world's biggest employers. Being at the 8th and 9th positions, the Indian Army and Indian Railways are the only Indian organisations who have secured the positions in the list.

The Indian organisations have a combined employment of 2.7 million people according to the report. Indian Railways is the 8th largest employer and Indian Army took the 9th rank. The former has 0.1 million more employees than the latter. According to the report McDonalds holds the 4th place in the list.

Here we have collected a list of the world's ten largest employers. Read on.

1. United States Department of Defense - 3.2 million people

2. People's Liberation Army, China - 2.3 million people


3. Walmart - 2.1 million people


4. McDonalds - 1.9 million people


5. UK National Health Service - 1.7 million people


6. China National Petroleum Corporation - 1.6 million people


7. State Grid Corporation of China - 1.5 million people


8. Indian Railways - 1.4 million people


9. Indian Armed Forces - 1.3 million people


10. Hon Hai Precision Factory (Foxconn) - 1.2 million people

The report also mentioned that since most of McDonalds' restaurants are franchises, the actual number of employees falls to 420,000 on their exclusion.