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As the holiday season approaches, streaming platforms are vying for viewers' attention with festive content. As of December 2024, Netflix dominated the top 10 most-watched holiday originals released on streaming services in the United States, with “Our Little Secret” leading the pack at 3.3 million viewing households. This trend reflects the ongoing shift in how Americans consume holiday entertainment, with streaming services increasingly becoming the go-to source for seasonal cheer.
The PNC Christmas Price Index in the United States stood at over 49,200 U.S. dollars in 2024. This was an increase of 5.4 percent compared to the previous year. Between 1984 and 2024, the highest value was recorded in the most recent time period.
In total, the cost of an average Christmas dinner for four people came to 32.57 British pounds in 2024. This is an increase of 6.5 percent compared to the previous year. Potatoes have seen the largest increase in cost. Potatoes were among the parts of the dinner that increased in cost by double digits in 2024, together with carrots, cauliflower, and parsnips.
The number of Bitcoin ATMs worldwide increased by over seven percent between December 2024 and December 2023. As of December 1, 2024, there were over 38,500 Bitcoin ATMs all over the world. As far as Bitcoin ATMs are concerned, there are two main types of such ATMs: the basic ones, allowing the users only to purchase Bitcoins, and more complex ones, enabling the users both to buy and sell the virtual money. In case of complex ATMs, only the members of a particular ATM producer can use the ATM. As of July 2020, the main manufacturers of the Bitcoin ATMs were Genesis Coin, and General Bytes, with 34.6 percent and 30.3 percent of the market share, respectively. The highest number of Bitcoin ATMs was recorded in the United States as of July 2020. In total, approximately 83 percent of global ATMs were concentrated in North America.
In November 2024, Truth Social generated around 427,000 downloads from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store in the United States combined. The social media app Truth Social, officially launched on February 21, 2022, saw approximately one million downloads in the remaining days of February 2022. The app, which became available to Android users in October 2022, saw around 353 thousand downloads from Android users in the first month of its release from the Google Play Store. The Truth Social app, which is published by T Media Tech LLC, and it is owned by Trump Media & Technology Group, went public on the New York Stock Exchange on March 26, 2024, at a staggering valuation of almost eight billion U.S. dollars.
As of October 2024, there were over 1.78 billion mobile cell phone subscriptions in China. According to official government statistics, the country had a penetration rate 99.8 percent for mobile internet. It becomes clear, therefore, why the Chinese economy and society reached such a high degree of digitalization.
The backbone of the mobile network is an efficient communications network. In China, three state-owned telecommunication companies are responsible for the construction and maintenance of the national cellular network. Together with the government, China Unicom, China Mobile, and China Telecom also built the country’s 5G infrastructure. In 2023, the three enterprises invested a almost of 150 billion yuan in next-generation mobile internet technology.
In China, smartphones have become a central tool in everyday life. Recently, mobile payments have slowly replaced cash and cards, with e-commerce revolutionizing shopping behavior for millions of Chinese consumers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the mobile phone has become a crucial tool for public health. Citizens are required to carry a health code on their phone which shows how much the risk exposure of a person is depending on proximity to coronavirus infections.
In 2024, about 76.5 percent of new university graduates in Japan secured regular employment. The total number of new university graduates who secured regular employment during that year amounted to about 451 thousand people.
In 2024, around 284 terawatt hours of gross electricity in Germany were generated from renewable energy sources, based on preliminary figures. Over the course of the past 20 years, power generation from renewable energies has increased significantly. At the same time, hard coal and nuclear energy in particular recorded a significant decline in use.
In 2023, Sudan had the lowest score in the political stability and absence of violence or terrorism index in North Africa, at minus 2.47 points. Thus, the country was considered completely politically unstable. In that year, all the North African countries recorded negative index values. After the Arab Spring in 2010 and 2011, the political situation and violence/terrorism risk worsened the most for Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.
Outbound tourism from Australia in the 2024 financial year was predominantly to Indonesia, with over 1.3 million Australians making the trip. By comparison, just over 1.1 million Australian tourists visited New Zealand that same year, the previous number-one destination in the 2023 financial year, and about 639,000 took a trip to the United States.
Australians venturing overseasUp until the 2019 financial year, there was a consistent, significant year-on-year increase in the number of overseas departures of Australian residents, with more than 9.9 million traveling outside the country during the financial year 2019. This number decreased greatly in 2021 to just over 200,000, largely due to travel restrictions, with overseas departures slightly recovering in 2022.
Expenditure on overseas tripsAustralians visiting the United States in the 2024 financial year spent over 8.9 billion Australian dollars, making it the overseas destination where Australians had the highest expenditure. Although Indonesia was the most popular outbound destination for Australians in the financial year 2024, visitor spending in Indonesia reached only around six billion Australian dollars in comparison.
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