{"id":12550,"date":"2025-07-09T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=12550"},"modified":"2025-07-11T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:34:08","slug":"big-business-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/big-business-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Big business around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am planning an article on US trade policy and in particular the export of its IP laws worldwide and so wondered how important big tech and creative media were to the US economy. So I looked it up, and was somewhat surprised. I then looked up the UK to see if I was equally surprised, and I present the two tables below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#wpls-logo-showcase-slider-1 .wpls-fix-box,\n\t\t\t#wpls-logo-showcase-slider-1 .wpls-fix-box img.wp-post-image{max-height:250px; }\n\t\t<\/style>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"wpls-wrap wpls-logo-showcase-slider-wrp wpls-logo-clearfix wpls-design-1 \" data-conf=\"{&quot;slides_column&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;slides_scroll&quot;:1,&quot;dots&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;arrows&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;autoplay_interval&quot;:&quot;7000&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;rtl&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:&quot;5000&quot;,&quot;center_mode&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;lazyload&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpls-logo-showcase logo_showcase wpls-logo-slider  sliderimage_hide_border \" id=\"wpls-logo-showcase-slider-1\" >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wpls-logo-cnt\">\n\t<div class=\"wpls-fix-box\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibisworld.com\/united-states\/industry-trends\/biggest-industries-by-revenue\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/business-ustop10-w750.png\" alt=\"a list of the top 10 business classes in the US in 2025\" \/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"logo-title\">US Businesses<\/div>\n\t<\/div><div class=\"wpls-logo-cnt\">\n\t<div class=\"wpls-fix-box\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibisworld.com\/united-kingdom\/industry-trends\/biggest-industries-by-revenue\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/business-uktop10-w750.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"logo-title\">UK Businesses<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\n\n<p>The slider images have a URL that takes you to their posted pages at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibisworld.com\/\">https:\/\/www.ibisworld.com\/<\/a>. which is behind a humanity test. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thir divison into categories is interesting and not what I expected, and in the US it is my experience that they get confused between health care delivery and health insurance. The <strong>top two are health care<\/strong> related, No 6 is Petrol\/Gas distribution and there remain three other categories of financial services which includes pension administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the UK, the top two are supermarkets and construction. Construction would be No 1, if no 2 &amp; 7 (Residential Construction) were added together. Healthcare aka hospitals is sixth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am interested in the abscene of software and hardware sales &amp; rental within the US, and the abscence of the creative industries i.e. Hollywood and Nashville. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I went further, and checked the proportion of US GDP represented by trade, and also checked up the UK too. The US is low (25%), the UK is high (62%). The world average is 57%. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS?locations=GB-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"618\" height=\"784\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/trade-GDP-UK-US-worldbank-2024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/trade-GDP-UK-US-worldbank-2024.png 618w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/trade-GDP-UK-US-worldbank-2024-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">World Bank 2024, click to visit their site\/this page.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am planning an article on US trade policy and in particular the export of its IP laws worldwide and so wondered how important big tech and creative media were to the US economy. 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