Companies under 50 years old with market cap over USD 10bn
Count of listed firms under 50 years old worth at least 10 billion USD.
Sourced from CompaniesMarketCap
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The story
Count the listed companies younger than fifty years worth more than ten billion dollars and the renewal gap becomes a list of names. America's list is long and keeps growing; Europe's is short enough to memorise. Most of Europe's corporate giants predate the microchip.
Why it matters
This is the cleanest test of creative destruction: can a firm founded within a working lifetime reach world scale? Where the answer is no, incumbents age in place and the economy's center of gravity stops moving.
Policy context
Every barrier this platform tracks, thin growth capital, fragmented markets, lost listings, shows up here as an absence. The fix is not one policy but the compound effect of capital-market depth and a single market that lets winners scale before they are acquired or emigrate.
How this number is calculated
Count of listed firms under 50 years old with market capitalisation above 10 billion USD per region, curated from public market-cap rankings with founding years matched by hand. In curation; goes live when the dataset meets our sourcing bar.
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