How many Enterprise businesses are their in the United States and Asia?

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How many Enterprise businesses are their in the United States and Asia?

Hello there! Thanks for giving us the opportunity to follow up on your question about the number of enterprises with more than 250 employees in the US and Asia. In researching these figures, I found the most helpful sources to be statistics collected by government and international organizations, such as the US Census and APEC.

In short, my research indicates that there are 40,119 enterprises in the US that employ 250 people or more, and 3.4 million in Asia. For more information on these figures and how I reached them, please read on.

US According to the most recently available Business Dynamics Statistics from the US Census Bureau, there are 40,119 enterprises in the US that employ 250 people or more.

ASIA This statistic was not readily available, but we can reach it with some additional calculations using statistics cited and estimated in previous Wonder responses.

1) First, as my colleague noted, there are an estimated 114 million enterprises of all sizes across Asia. To recap, here's how that data was calculated.

- China: 40.1 million
- India: 49.5 million (48 million SMEs + 1.5 million large enterprises) - Southeast Asia: 24.8 million
*Estimated. The assumption informing this calculation is that, given Southeast Asia's total GDP ($2.4 trillion) is roughly equivalent to India's ($2.09 trillion), but its population is half that of India's, we can reasonably assume that Southeast Asia probably has around half the number of enterprises India does. Half of 49.5 million = 24.8 million.

Therefore: 40.1M + 49.5M + 24.8M = 114 million.

2) Second, we know from a source cited in this previous response that 97% of all enterprises in Asia are SMEs. Therefore, we can assume 3% are large enterprises employing 250 or more people. Accordingly, we can get the number of large enterprises we need by calculating 3% of 114 million. This gives us a final figure of 3.4 million.

CONCLUSION To wrap up, there are 40,119 enterprises in the US that employ 250 people or more, and 3.4 million in Asia. Thank you for using Wonder! Please let us know if we can help with anything else.

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