I checked the actual numbers just for funsies and you're still wrong.
Posting, in order, first the third weekend total number for Fast 9's current territories then same for its predecessor Fate of the Furious in 2017 then Furious 7 in 2015 (both of which finished with more than a billion pre-pandemic) at the same amount of weekends released:
Egypt: 893,000/1,308,155/1,529,615
Hong Kong: 4,004,596/6,239,756/6,886,232
Russia: 16,099,295/27,715,184/32,100,117
South Korea: 17,701,143/23,142,867/21,606,291
United Arab Emirates: 5,155,662/9,285,724/9,479,151
China: 203,881,000/373,921,406/325,800,000
I'm listing 6 territories instead of the 7 where F9 has been out because I didn't see the previous 2 movies were released in theaters in Saudi Arabia, apparently the industry is just nascent there.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/...?ref_=bo_rl_ti
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/...?ref_=bo_rl_ti
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/...?ref_=bo_rl_ti
So at that point of time in just those territories Fast 7 had made $441,613,092 and Fate of the Furious $397,401,406, so not only did none of them pass $500 million in that few countries without the pandemic being an issue, there was also overall a downturn from 7 to the next installment because as chicago_bastard said, franchises aren't immune from passing expiration dates and the Chinese continue to show that to this day. They can give 800 million to Hi Mom recently but less money to Fast 9 than they did to the last 2 movies in a row.