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IBM doesn't report its headcount in the US any longer, but in 2009 IBM had approximately 105,000 employees in the US, based on congressional testimony (via this article http://www.computerworld.com/article/2520399/it-outsourcing/... ).

IBM has 431,212 employees worldwide (according to their 2013 annual report).

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Trying to wrap my mind around the number -- 6 employees per 100,000 people worldwide is equal or higher than the number of physicians per 100,000 in Benin, Ethiopia, Niger, Burkina Faso, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Malawi, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Togo and Zimbabwe.

Very surprising given how easy it is to become a doctor, relative to getting hired by IBM. Combined with how appealing it is to live in those places, I too share your mind-wrapping-around-difficulty.

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