As of 2024, the highest-grossing DC Comics film adaptation in the United States and Canada was "The Dark Knight" (2008), which generated more than half a billion U.S. dollars at box offices across the two countries. "The Batman", released in March 2022, ranked fourth after grossing almost 370 million dollars at the so-called North American box office.

Superheroes on the big screen After reaching, in 2020, its second-lowest point this century, the annual box office revenue of superhero movies in the U.S. and Canada experienced a tenfold increase in the following year. Still, the 2021 figure amounted to approximately only 45 percent of the 3.2-billion-dollar box office revenue recorded in 2019, before the pandemic. Apart from the impact of COVID-19 on cinemas' business model, American audiences have expressed an increasing superhero movie fatigue. The share of internet users in the U.S. saying they enjoyed the genre but were getting tired of so many superhero films went from 17 percent in 2018 to 23 percent at the end of 2021.

Is Gen Z too cool for superhero movies? Members of Generation Z are less passionate about superhero films than Millennials. During a December 2021 survey, two-thirds of Generation Y respondents in the U.S. stated that they watched superhero movies at least once a month, while 56 percent of Gen Z interviewees said the same. But the genre remains a significant aspect of the American Gen Z lifestyle: half of the respondents from that age group said they monthly watched superhero shows, and 30 percent said they read superhero comics at least once a month.

Kiribati GNP for 2023 was 497.79 million US dollars, a 14.29% increase from 2022.

• Kiribati GNP for 2022 was 435.54 million US dollars, a 6.92% increase from 2021.
• Kiribati GNP for 2021 was 407.36 million US dollars, a 5.32% increase from 2020.
• Kiribati GNP for 2020 was 386.78 million US dollars, a 13.44% decline from 2019.

GNI (formerly GNP) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. Data are in current U.S. dollars. GNI, calculated in national currency, is usually converted to U.S. dollars at official exchange rates for comparisons across economies, although an alternative rate is used when the official exchange rate is judged to diverge by an exceptionally large margin from the rate actually applied in international transactions. To smooth fluctuations in prices and exchange rates, a special Atlas method of conversion is used by the World Bank. This applies a conversion factor that averages the exchange rate for a given year and the two preceding years, adjusted for differences in rates of inflation between the country, and through 2000, the G-5 countries (France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States). From 2001, these countries include the Euro area, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Equatorial Guinea foreign direct investment for 2023 was 141.78 million US dollars, a 89.79% decline from 2022.

• Equatorial Guinea foreign direct investment for 2022 was 1.39 billion US dollars, a 147.19% increase from 2021.
• Equatorial Guinea foreign direct investment for 2021 was 561.60 million US dollars, a 6290.09% decline from 2020.
• Equatorial Guinea foreign direct investment for 2020 was -9.07 million US dollars, a 101.1% decline from 2019.

Foreign direct investment refers to direct investment equity flows in the reporting economy. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, and other capital. Direct investment is a category of cross-border investment associated with a resident in one economy having control or a significant degree of influence on the management of an enterprise that is resident in another economy. Ownership of 10 percent or more of the ordinary shares of voting stock is the criterion for determining the existence of a direct investment relationship. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

Afghanistan trade balance for 2022 was -5.24 billion US dollars, a 61.58% increase from 2021.

• Afghanistan trade balance for 2021 was -3.24 billion US dollars, a 37.19% decline from 2020.
• Afghanistan trade balance for 2020 was -5.16 billion US dollars, a 5062.25% increase from 1978.
• Afghanistan trade balance for 1978 was -100.00 million US dollars, a 7.14% increase from 1977.

External balance on goods and services (formerly resource balance) equals exports of goods and services minus imports of goods and services (previously nonfactor services). Data are in current U.S. dollars.

Long term historical dataset of the daily U.S. Dollar - Chinese Yuan (USDCNY) exchange rate back to 1981.

Key information about Kenya Exchange Rate against USD

• Kenya Exchange Rate against USD averaged 137.240 (USD/KES) in May 2023, compared with 134.395 USD/KES in the previous month.
• Kenya Exchange Rate against USD data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1957 to May 2023.
• The data reached an all-time high of 137.240 in May 2023 and a record low of 6.900 in Dec 1973.

CEIC extends history for monthly average Exchange Rate against USD. Central Bank of Kenya provides average Exchange Rate against USD. Exchange Rate against USD prior to January 2000 is sourced from the International Monetary Fund.


Key information about Kenya Exchange Rate against USD

• In the latest reports, Kenya Short Term Interest Rate: Monthly Average: Treasury Bills Rate: 91 Days was reported at 9.760 % pa in Mar 2023.
• Its Long Term Interest Rate (Treasury Bonds Rate: 10 Years) was reported at 13.490 % pa in May 2022.
• The cash rate (Policy Rate: Month End: Central Bank Rediscount Rate) was set at 9.500 % pa in May 2023.

Long term historical dataset of the daily British Pound - U.S. Dollar (GBPUSD) exchange rate back to 1971.

Key information about Lebanon Exchange Rate against USD

• Lebanon Exchange Rate against USD averaged 15,000.000 (USD/LBP) in Apr 2023, compared with 15,000.000 USD/LBP in the previous month.
• Lebanon Exchange Rate against USD data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1957 to Apr 2023.
• The data reached an all-time high of 15,000.000 in Apr 2023 and a record low of 2.220 in Jun 1975.

CEIC extends history for monthly average Exchange Rate against USD. Banque du Liban provides average Exchange Rate against USD. Exchange Rate against USD prior to January 1964 is sourced from the International Monetary Fund.


Key information about Lebanon Exchange Rate against USD

• In the latest reports, Lebanon Short Term Interest Rate: Month End: Interbank Rate: Weighted Average was reported at 20.000 % pa in Jan 2023.
• Its Long Term Interest Rate (Treasury Bills: Coupon Rate: 5 Years) was reported at 6.000 % pa in Jan 2023.
• The cash rate (Policy Rate: Month End: Lebanon: Repo Rate) was set at 10.000 % pa in Jan 2023.