The International Co-operative Alliance has estimated that co-operatives generate an estimated 100 million jobs worldwide e.g.

• Canada - co-operatives and credit unions employ over 160,000 people.
• France - 21,000 co-operatives provide jobs to 700,000 people.
• Germany - about 8,100 co-operatives provide jobs for 440,000 people
• Kenya - 250,000 people are employed by co-operatives.
• Slovakia - 700 co-operatives employ an estimated 75,000 individuals.
• Colombia - co-operatives employ 109,000 persons and there are 379,000 owner-workers in worker co-operatives.

The report is available in the official UN languages - Arabic, Chinese, English, french, Russian and Spanish at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/social/publications/reports/index.html