American hard rock band Guns N' Roses have overtaken Belgium to become the 12th largest economy in the world - grossing an eye-watering $116.8 million during their long-awaited comeback this summer.

The 1980s rock icons, who are back on the road with vocalist Axl Rose, original guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan for the first time since 1993, have enjoyed a lucrative nine-week North American tour, playing to more than one million fans during 21 stadium shows.

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And now the latest Boxscore figures reveal just how much the band has pocketed.

Ticket sales for the first two shows of the Not In This Lifetime tour – a double stint at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas – totalled $6.2m (£4.6m). But this paled compared to the top-earning tour date at The New York City market, making the band a cool $116.8m (£90m) from two nights alone.

Even the lowest-grossing date, at the Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, secured $2.8m (£2.1m).

The news may make painful reading for ex-guitarist Izzy Stradlin, who claimed he turned down a place on the tour because the band "did not want to split the loot equally". Fair share or not, this seems an awful lot of money to miss out on.

Rose, 54, has also supplemented his earnings further by taking over from Brian Johnson as touring vocalist for AC/DC earlier this year.

And the money-making is not over yet. Guns N' Roses will resume touring on 27 October with a show in Peru, before touring South America until 26 November.

This will be followed by new year shows in Japan, New Zealand and Australia until 21 February.