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Table 6. Employment, total assets and gross value-add of U.S. majority owned foreign affiliates as per-
centage of gross domestic product of selected home countries (Mataloni, 2008)

Gross Value-Add Employees

('000)

Assets
(million $)

1989 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2005 2005

Ireland 12.4 16.6 18.9 18.4 19.5 18.5 89.8 381,943

Singapore 7.8 12.0 11.3 13.2 13.2 15.0 123.6 150,696

Canada 9.5 10.3 9.7 9.8 10.1 9.5 1,106.8 695,945

Honduras 5.6 6.2 6.1 6.6 6.3 5.8 91.2 n.a.

Nigeria 5.7 10.0 9.7 9.8 7.9 6.7 1 n.a.

United Kingdom 6.2 7.1 6.7 6.5 5.9 6.2 1,251.9 2,377,098

Malaysia 4.6 5.8 6.1 6.3 5.3 5.3 120.8 33,098

Hong Kong 4.6 4.9 4.4 5.3 4.8 4.7 110.9 168,928

Thailand 2.5 3.5 3.0 3.2 4.0 3.9 143.1 38,676

Chinese Taipei 1.3 1.2 1.5 1.6 1.7 88.1 80,360

China 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 316.7 44,997

Japan 0.9 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.1 554.8 574,655

South Korea 0.3 1.0 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.0 114.2 56,106

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