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There are 2.8m[0] government employees out of a work force of 13m[1].. that's over 20% of the entire work force. And that's just current active employees. From

There are 2.8m[0] government employees out of a work force of 13m[1].. that's over 20% of the entire work force. And that's just current active employees. From what you quoted, it includes past employees too. They also own at least 500 companies that operate in a diverse number of industries[2]. And that wasn't found by disclosure from the government.. it required someone to research each of those companies. The actual count is almost certainly much higher. This is important because Adobe needs to know which of these companies are government owned, and the government does not make it easy to determine that. (I'm also not sure if employees of those are in the count above or not... I think not, except maybe the prominent ones like PDVSA.) I think the fault here is Venezuela's... the government is so intermingled with the economy it's impossible for any reasonable person to determine where the government's reach ends. 0. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-workers/phone-calls-dismissal-threats-venezuela-pressures-state-workers-to-vote-idUSKBN1AE08P https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-worker... 1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy/we-all-earn-the-same-venezuela-minimum-wage-hike-angers-skilled-workers-idUSKCN1M62OX https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy/we-all-... 2. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article138402248.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas...

4ntonius8lock 7y ago
USA total full time employees: 128.5 million. Total USA government employees (federal, state and local) 20~ million.* I've seen stats from several countries and they varied from 15-40%. So 20% is not only relatively normal, it's on par with the USA's 17-18%. * https://www.statista.com/statistics/192356/number-of-full-time-employees-in-the-usa-since-1990/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/192356/number-of-full-ti... * https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/21955000-12329000-government-employees-outnumber-manufacturing https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/21955...
- CamelCaseName 7y ago
  Wow, this is quite surprising to me that so much of the population is employed by governments.
  - 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
    This little sideline made me look it up, since I had seen a comparison of only a few countries and it was many years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_sector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_se... Most of the countries on the list I would consider living in are in the 20-30% range. Most of the low range countries tend to be poor and underdeveloped, with the odd exceptions of Japan and South Korea with 10%. Also interesting to see some of the countries with the highest quality of life are generally in the 30% range. The few countries over 40% (Cuba Belarus China Kuwait Russia) aren't ones I'd personally favor for living.

4ntonius8lock 7y ago

USA total full time employees: 128.5 million. Total USA government employees (federal, state and local) 20~ million.* I've seen stats from several countries and they varied from 15-40%. So 20% is not only relatively normal, it's on par with the USA's 17-18%. * https://www.statista.com/statistics/192356/number-of-full-time-employees-in-the-usa-since-1990/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/192356/number-of-full-ti... * https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/21955000-12329000-government-employees-outnumber-manufacturing https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/21955...

CamelCaseName 7y ago
Wow, this is quite surprising to me that so much of the population is employed by governments.
- 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
  This little sideline made me look it up, since I had seen a comparison of only a few countries and it was many years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_sector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_se... Most of the countries on the list I would consider living in are in the 20-30% range. Most of the low range countries tend to be poor and underdeveloped, with the odd exceptions of Japan and South Korea with 10%. Also interesting to see some of the countries with the highest quality of life are generally in the 30% range. The few countries over 40% (Cuba Belarus China Kuwait Russia) aren't ones I'd personally favor for living.