Apple has been posting record setting profits, quarter after quarter, and it’s already earned the title “richest tech company in the world”. But did you ever wonder what that really means?

This infographic provides some startling details which answer that question. For example, an old way to measure the size of a corporation is to compare its revenue with that of national budgets of various countries. Apple is a little too big for that. Apple’s income in 2011 was bigger than the GDP of over 100 countries in the world, including New Zealand, Syria, and Ecuador.

The infographic is after the break.

via Mashable