2025
2025 (MMXXV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium, the 25th year of the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.
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| 2025 by topic: |
| Arts |
| Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Rock, Metal, UK, US) – Radio – Photo – Television (UK, US) – Video gaming |
| Politics and government |
| Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors |
| Science and technology |
| Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight |
| Sports |
| American football – Association football – Athletics (sport) – Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Chess – Combat sports – Cricket – Cycling – Golf – Handball – Ice hockey – Rugby union – Swimming – Tennis – Volleyball |
| By place |
| Afghanistan – Albania – Algeria – Andorra – Angola – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – The Bahamas – Bahrain – Barbados – Belarus – Belgium – Benin – Bhutan – Bolivia – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Botswana – Brazil – Bulgaria – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cambodia – Cameroon – Canada – Cape Verde – Central African Republic – Chad – Chile – China – Colombia – Costa Rica – Comoros – Croatia – Cuba – Cyprus – Czechia – Denmark – Ecuador – Egypt – El Salvador – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Fiji – Finland – France – Gabon – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Guatemala – Guinea – Guyana – Haiti – Honduras – Hong Kong – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iran – Iraq – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Ivory Coast – Japan – Jordan – Kazakhstan – Kenya – Kosovo – Kuwait – Kyrgyzstan – Laos – Latvia – Lebanon – Lesotho – Liberia – Libya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macau – Madagascar – Marshall Islands – Malawi – Malaysia – Mali – Malta – Mauritania – Mexico – Micronesia – Moldova – Mongolia – Montenegro – Morocco – Mozambique – Myanmar – Nauru – Namibia – Nepal – Netherlands – New Zealand – Nicaragua – Niger – Nigeria – North Korea – North Macedonia – Norway – Oman – Pakistan – Palau – Palestine – Panama – Papua New Guinea – Paraguay – Peru – Philippines – Poland – Portugal – Qatar – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Samoa – Saudi Arabia – Senegal – Serbia – Seychelles – Singapore – Slovakia – Slovenia – Somalia – South Africa – Solomon Islands – South Korea – South Sudan – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sudan – Sweden – Switzerland – Syria – Taiwan – Tajikistan – Tanzania – Thailand – Togo – Tonga – Tunisia – Turkey – Turkmenistan – Tuvalu – Uganda – Ukraine – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Uruguay – Uzbekistan – Vanuatu – Venezuela – Vietnam – Yemen – Zambia – Zimbabwe |
| Other topics |
| Religious leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Works and introductions categories |
| Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain |
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Predicted and scheduled events
- January 1
- The American FAA will have been implementing a new system of GPS called NextGen that will be fully functional by this year.[1]
- Books, films, and other works published in 1929 will enter the public domain.
- May–October – Expo 2025 will be held in Osaka, Japan.[2]
- June 15 – If still living, Kane Tanaka will surpass Jeanne Calment to become the oldest verified person ever.
- July 10 – If still living, Mahathir Mohamad will become the first Malaysian Prime Minister to celebrate his 100th birthday.
- September 6 – Every known recording of Jimi Hendrix will be in the public domain, on the 55th anniversary of his last performance.
Date unknown
- Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes have sufficient electrical power to operate their radio transmitters until at least this year.[3]
- Planned ecumenical meeting of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches at Nicaea (İznik, Turkey) to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.[4]
- World population is expected to reach 8 billion.[5][6]
- The ESA plans to begin mining the moon for natural resources by this date.[7]
- Norway plans to ban the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars by this year.[8][9]
- ITER's first plasma will occur.[10]
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See also
- 21st century in fiction
References
- Gugliotta, Guy (November 17, 2009). "An Air-Traffic Upgrade to Improve Travel by Plane". The New York Times.
- "Osaka Is World Expo 2025 Host | JAPAN Forward". Japan Forward. November 23, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
- "Voyager – Spacecraft – Spacecraft Lifetime". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. January 14, 2003. Archived from the original on October 27, 2007. Retrieved November 4, 2007.
- Peppard, Michael (May 30, 2014). "Nicea III in 2025?". Commonweal Magazine. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- NatureWorldNews (June 14, 2013). "UN World Population Report Predicts 8 Billion People by 2025, 11 billion by 2100". Retrieved October 30, 2016.
- Van Bavel, J. (2013). "The world population explosion: causes, backgrounds and projections for the future". Facts, Views & Vision in ObGyn. 5 (4): 281–291. ISSN 2032-0418. PMC 3987379. PMID 24753956.
- Kent, Lauren (January 22, 2019). "The European Space Agency plans to start mining for natural resources on the moon". CNN. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
- Coren, Michael J. (August 7, 2018). "Nine countries say they'll ban internal combustion engines. So far, it's just words". Quartz. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
- "Norway is electric". Government.no. Government of Norway. November 29, 2019. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- "First Plasma: 2025". ITER. August 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
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