QUEBEC, Canada—Despite U.S. credit unions’ enormous assets and membership ranks compared to the rest of the world, the United States did not make it on a new Top 10 list of the “most cooperative economies in the world.”
The newly-released Global Census on Cooperatives, commissioned by the United Nations’ Department for Economic and Social Affairs, found the 10 most cooperative economies in the world to be New Zealand, France, Switzerland, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Denmark and Norway. The analysis found that the 2.6-million cooperatives around the world employ 12.6-million people – equivalent of the entire adult population of Ecuador.