July 2, 2013
A list of countries whose entire GDP will be outstripped by the projected revenue of Penguin Random House
by Alex Shephard
Penguin and Random House announced the completion of their merger yesterday. As of yesterday, Penguin Random House officially exists as a company with 10,000 employees and $3.9 billion in sales (roughly the GDP of Fiji). Below you will find a list of every country in the world whose GDP is less than Penguin Random House’s annual revenue.
A list of countries whose entire GDP will be outstripped by the projected revenue of Penguin Random House:
- Sierra Leone
- Swaziland
- Togo
- Andorra
- Cayman Islands
- Eritrea
- Guyana
- Aruba
- Burundi
- Lesotho
- Greenland
- Maldives
- Bhutan
- Central African Republic
- Cape Verde
- San Marino
- Liberia
- Belize
- Djibouti
- Saint Lucia
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Somalia
- Seychelles
- Solomon Islands
- Micronesia
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- British Virgin Islands
- The Gambia
- Guinea-Bissau
- Grenada
- Vanuatu
- Zanzibar
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- Comoros
- Dominica
- Tonga
- Anguila
- Cook Islands
- Palau
- Marshall Islands
- Sao Tomé and Príncipe
- Kiribati
- Monserrat
- Tuvalu
Jean-Patrick Grillet contributed to this post.
Alex Shephard is the director of digital media for Melville House, and a former bookseller.