Edited sentence: According to Swedish author Johan Norberg, if one were to compare nations and corporations, then one should be comparing GDP to goods only produced within the particular company (gross sales do not take into account goods purchased from 3rd party vendors and resold, just as GDP does not take into account imported goods).An inaccurate claim is that out of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are multinational corporations.That correction would make only 37 of 100 largest economies corporations and all of them would be in bottom box: only 5 corporations would be in top 50.The problem with the comparison is that GDP takes into account only the final value, whereas gross sales don't measure how much was produced outside the company.This claim is based on a miscalculation, where two numbers describing totally different things are compared: the GDP of nations to gross sales of corporations