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Top 20 listed companies by employees · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The biggest employers on the world's stock exchanges
Updated · employees (employees)
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Why these 20
Head count as reported in Wikidata for companies listed on a stock exchange. Big employers shape job markets: drill into your own country.
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Johnson & Johnson
U.S multinational medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer
136,400
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Linde Group
multinational industrial gases and engineering company founded in Germany in 1879
80,820
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How it is measured
Wikidata: items with a stock exchange (P414) and an employee count of 5,000 or more.
References
- Wikidata query: listed companies by employees, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-19 18:49 UTC.
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