How many McDonald's are there?
How many McDonald's are there?
about 43,000 in over 100 countries
There is roughly one McDonald's for every 190,000 people alive, and the company serves on the order of 70 million customers a day — about 1% of humanity.
McDonald's operates roughly 43,000 restaurants across more than 100 countries, and about 95% of them are franchised rather than company-owned. The United States has around 13,500 and China around 6,800, with China the fastest-growing market by a wide margin. The company has publicly targeted 50,000 restaurants by 2027. Subway has at times had more outlets, though far fewer of them are large restaurants.
How the figure is arrived at
A regulatory filing, not an estimate. McDonald's reports its systemwide restaurant count in its annual Form 10-K, broken down by segment and by company-operated versus franchised, because those numbers drive its revenue disclosures.
How confident it is
- Low estimate
- 41,000
- High estimate
- 45,000
- Spread
- 1.1× between the bounds
Restaurant counts are as of the most recent annual report and rise by roughly 1,000 to 1,500 a year.
Other things people built counts
- How many countries are there in the world? 195 — or 193, or 206, or 249, depending on who is counting
- How many cars are there in the world? about 1.5 billion motor vehicles
- How many planes are in the air right now? roughly 10,000 to 20,000 at any moment
- How many languages are there in the world? about 7,150 living languages
- How many phones are there in the world? about 8.9 billion mobile connections — more than there are people
- How many nuclear weapons are there? about 12,200 warheads
- How many websites are there? about 1.1 billion hostnames — but only around 200 million active
- How many books have ever been published? about 130 million as of 2010 — probably over 200 million now
- How many airports are there in the world? about 45,000 with runways — but only around 4,000 with scheduled airline service
- How many ATMs are there in the world? about 3 million
- How many cities are there in the world? about 10,000 with over 50,000 people; 33 megacities over 10 million
- How many buildings are there in the world? somewhere between 1.5 and 4 billion
- How many computers are there in the world? roughly 2 billion personal computers in use
- How many miles of road are there in the world? about 64 million km — roughly 40 million miles
Common questions
- How many McDonald's are there?
- about 43,000 in over 100 countries
- How is that estimated?
- A regulatory filing, not an estimate. McDonald's reports its systemwide restaurant count in its annual Form 10-K, broken down by segment and by company-operated versus franchised, because those numbers drive its revenue disclosures.
Related pages
- How many countries are there in the world? 195 — or 193, or 206, or 249, depending on who is counting
- How many cars are there in the world? about 1.5 billion motor vehicles
- How many planes are in the air right now? roughly 10,000 to 20,000 at any moment
- How many languages are there in the world? about 7,150 living languages
- How many phones are there in the world? about 8.9 billion mobile connections — more than there are people
- How many nuclear weapons are there? about 12,200 warheads
- How many websites are there? about 1.1 billion hostnames — but only around 200 million active
- How many books have ever been published? about 130 million as of 2010 — probably over 200 million now
- How many people are there in the world? Living things and the natural world
- How many stars are there in the universe? Space and the universe
- How many bones are in the human body? The human body
- How many grains of sand are there on Earth? Living things and the natural world
- How many ants are there in the world? Living things and the natural world
- How many trees are there in the world? Living things and the natural world
Sources
- Official vendor product documentation — At One Place