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{{Short description|Current decade of the Gregorian calendar (2020–2029)}}
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|A crowded temporary hospital during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]; [[COVID-19]] became a global pandemic in 2020 and was deemed an international public health emergency until 2023.
|The [[January 6 United States Capitol attack]] over [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|claims of electoral fraud]] during the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]]; the decade witnessed widespread [[democratic backsliding]] as many countries shifted from [[liberal democracy]] to [[authoritarianism]].
|[[President of the United States]] [[Donald Trump]] was [[2024 United States presidential election|elected in 2024]] for a non-consecutive second term. He displays the chart detailing tariffs levied against the United States and his retaliatory [[Liberation Day tariffs]], as part of [[Tariffs in the second Trump administration|his global trade war]].
|Two major ongoing conflicts such as the [[Gaza war]] and the [[Russo-Ukrainian War]] started and reached its peak during the decade.
|[[Elizabeth II]], who served as the Queen of the [[United Kingdom]] for 70 years, [[death and state funeral of Elizabeth II|passed away]] in 2022. Her state funeral was watched by billions of viewers worldwide.
|In December 2024, Syrian rebels celebrate the [[fall of the Assad regime]], ending 62 years of [[Ba'athist Syria|Ba'athist rule]].
| The [[July Revolution (Bangladesh)|July Revolution]] in [[Bangladesh]], described as the world's first [[Gen Z protests|Gen Z revolution]] spread around the world against [[democratic backsliding]], [[political corruption]], and [[authoritarianism]], where young protesters overthrow their governments.
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The '''2020s''' (pronounced "twenty-twenties" or "two thousand [and] twenties"; shortened to "'''the '20s'''" and also known as "'''The Twenties'''") is the current [[decade]] that began on 1 January 2020, and will end on 31 December 2029.

During the early part of this decade, the [[world population]] grew from 7.7 billion to over 8 billion people. In 2023, [[India]] overtook [[China]] to become the [[List of countries by population (United Nations)|most populous country]] in the world.<ref>{{cite web |date=15 November 2022 |title=World population reach 8 billion |url=https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-reach-8-billion-15-november-2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230120024524/https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-reach-8-billion-15-november-2022 |archive-date=20 January 2023 |work=United Nations}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=UN DESA Policy Brief No. 153: India overtakes China as the world's most populous country {{!}} Department of Economic and Social Affairs |url=https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/publication/un-desa-policy-brief-no-153-india-overtakes-china-as-the-worlds-most-populous-country/#:~:text=UN%20DESA%20Policy%20Brief%20No,the%20world%27s%20most%20populous%20country&text=Department%20of%20Economic%20and%20Social%20Affairs |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626135116/https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/publication/un-desa-policy-brief-no-153-india-overtakes-china-as-the-worlds-most-populous-country/#:~:text=UN%20DESA%20Policy%20Brief%20No,the%20world%27s%20most%20populous%20country&text=Department%20of%20Economic%20and%20Social%20Affairs |archive-date=26 June 2023 |access-date=2023-05-18 |website=un.org}}</ref> The [[COVID-19 pandemic]] and its aftermath marked the early 2020s. The first reports of [[SARS-CoV-2|the virus]] were published on 31 December 2019, though the [[Origin of SARS-CoV-2|first cases are said to have appeared]] nearly a month earlier.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-12-31 |title=Chinese officials investigate cause of pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-idUSKBN1YZ0GP |access-date=2022-12-01 |archive-date=2 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102144414/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-idUSKBN1YZ0GP |url-status=live}}</ref> The pandemic led to [[COVID-19 recession|a global economic recession]], [[2021–2023 inflation surge|sustained rise in global inflation]], and [[2021–2023 global supply chain crisis|supply chain crisis]]. The [[World Health Organization]] declared the virus a [[State of emergency|global state of emergency]]. With multiple [[extreme weather]] events and [[ecological crisis|ecological crises]] continuing to escalate, several world leaders have called the 2020s the "decisive decade" for [[Climate change mitigation|climate action]].<ref name="Queen">{{cite news |date=1 November 2021 |title=COP26: First day ends with Queen's message of statesmanship |url=https://www.ft.com/content/e9f81272-3986-44de-9715-e83ec9be2bd2 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/e9f81272-3986-44de-9715-e83ec9be2bd2 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |access-date=2 November 2021 |newspaper=[[Financial Times]]}}</ref><ref name="unity">{{cite news |date=1 November 2021 |title=Cop26: Biden urges unity in 'decisive decade' for planet |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2021/nov/01/cop26-biden-urges-unity-in-decisive-decade-for-planet-video |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525153745/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2021/nov/01/cop26-biden-urges-unity-in-decisive-decade-for-planet-video |archive-date=25 May 2024 |access-date=2 November 2021 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> The years 2023 and 2024 both broke yearly [[Global surface temperature|global temperature records]], with 2024 breaching [[1.5-degree target|1.5 °C]] above [[Industrial Revolution|pre-industrial levels]].

Global [[economic inequality]] skyrocketed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weidemann |first=Andrea |date=July 7, 2021 |title=Comparing the emerging risks of 2020 to the Roaring Twenties |url=https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/07/covid19-emerging-risks-comparison-ww1/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250707204512/https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/07/covid19-emerging-risks-comparison-ww1/ |archive-date=2025-07-07 |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=World Economic Forum |language=en}}</ref> Widespread [[democratic backsliding]] continued and many countries' governance shifted from [[liberal democracy]] and towards [[authoritarianism]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Boese |first1=Vanessa A. |last2=Lundstedt |first2=Martin |last3=Morrison |first3=Kelly |last4=Sato |first4=Yuko |last5=Lindberg |first5=Staffan I. |date=2022 |title=State of the world 2021: autocratization changing its nature? |journal=Democratization |volume=29 |issue=6 |pages=983–1013 |doi=10.1080/13510347.2022.2069751 |issn=1351-0347 |s2cid=249031421 |doi-access=free}}</ref> marking the end of the [[Post–Cold War era]].<ref name="Plokhy 2024"/> According to the [[V-Dem Institute]], the [[United States]] became an [[electoral autocracy]] under a [[Hybrid regime|competitive authoritarian]] regime for the first time in its history during the [[second presidency of Donald Trump]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=I. Lindberg |first=Staffan |author-link=Staffan I. Lindberg |date=September 16, 2025 |title=Can democracy survive without America? |url=https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/1219044.html |access-date=2025-11-06 |website=Hankyoreh |language=ko}}</ref> [[Far-right politics|Far-right extremist]] and [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] politics also became prominent in [[China]], [[South Korea]], [[Israel]], [[Europe]], and [[Russia]].<ref name="Plokhy 2024">{{Cite book|title=The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History|date=August 27, 2024|quote=Ukraine, Plokhy argues, has remained central to Russia's idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path. In a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international order, and a resurgence of populist nationalism, Ukraine is now more than ever the most volatile fault line between authoritarianism and democratic Europe.|first1=Serhii|last1= Plokhy|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-1324078920}}</ref> [[Conservatism|Conservative]] and [[right-wing populist]] leaders maintained or returned to power,<ref name="The World Trump Wants" /> such as [[Donald Trump]], [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], and [[Vladimir Putin]],<ref name="Economist 3202025">{{Cite news |date=March 20, 2025 |title=The American and Russian right are aligning |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/03/20/the-american-and-russian-right-are-aligning |url-access=subscription |access-date=March 23, 2025 |issn= |quote=Within the West, the international coalition of nationalist conservatives, stretching from Trumpism in America to bolsonarismo in Brazil to Orbanism in Hungary, rejects the basic precepts of enlightenment liberalism, like individualism and the universality of human rights. ... The nationalist conservative movement in America and Europe, however, is couched in majoritarian populism—expressing the democratic will of people while imposing ever-fewer limits on the authority of their elected representatives. In America the goal is to smash the liberal state.}}</ref> while [[Liberalism|liberal]] leaders such as [[Kamala Harris]],<ref name="graveyard"/><ref name="Well-to-Do"/> [[Keir Starmer]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Edwards |first1=Christian |title=Keir Starmer is Polling as the UK's Most Unpopular Prime Minister on Record |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/30/uk/keir-starmer-labour-party-conference-intl|location=Atlanta|work=[[CNN]] |publisher=CNN Worldwide |date=30 September 2025}}</ref> and [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]]<ref name="no term end"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/world/europe/ukraine-zelensky-corruption.html|title=Zelensky Under Siege as Corruption Case Shatters Ukraine’s Wartime Unity|date=November 19, 2025|access-date=November 19, 2025|website=The New York Times|first1=Andrew E.|last1=Kramer}}</ref> were defeated or are struggling.<ref name="Beauchamp 2024"/>

Anti-government [[protest|demonstrations]] and [[rebellion|revolt]]s occurred, such as the [[Gen Z protests]] including the "[[Gen-Z protests in Asia|Asian Spring]]" in [[Asia]]n countries, predominantly led by the eponymous [[Generation Z]], in response to [[Social inequality|inequality]], declining [[standards of living]], [[corruption]], [[democratic backsliding]] and [[authoritarianism]]. Social media has been a common tool for activism and coordination. [[Protests against responses to the COVID-19 pandemic|Protests]] against responses to COVID-19, [[George Floyd protests|against racism and police brutality]] by the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement, and against various forms of governmental jurisdiction, [[corruption]], and authoritarianism occurred; along with citizen riots throughout the [[January 6 United States Capitol attack|United States]] and [[8 January Brasília attacks|Brazil]] attempting to overturn election results, seen by supporters as stolen, taking place. Among [[Democracy|democracies]] in 2024, its elections saw 80% of [[incumbent]] parties lose support worldwide, as with the [[2024 United States presidential election]].{{efn|[[Donald Trump]] defeated [[Kamala Harris]] in [[2024 United States presidential election|2024]] to win a non-consecutive second term, after Harris previously defeated Trump in [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]] as the [[Vice President of the United States|vice presidential]] candidate.}} In 2025, Trump [[Tariffs in the second Trump administration|triggered a global trade war]], marking a new era of [[Mercantilism|economic nationalism]]<ref name="The World Trump Wants">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/world-trump-wants-michael-kimmage|title=The World Trump Wants: American Power in the New Age of Nationalism|date=February 25, 2025|access-date=March 18, 2025|website=Foreign Affairs|first1=Michael|last1=Kimmage|volume=104 |issue=2 |quote=They are self-styled strongmen who place little stock in rules-based systems, alliances, or multinational forums. They embrace the once and future glory of the countries they govern, asserting an almost mystical mandate for their rule. Although their programs can involve radical change, their political strategies rely on strains of conservatism, appealing over the heads of liberal, urban, cosmopolitan elites to constituencies animated by a hunger for tradition and a desire for belonging.}}</ref> and the end of [[free trade]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1 =Strauss |first1 =Delphine |last2 =Fleming |first2 =Sam |date =2025-04-04 |title =Trump's aggressive push to roll back globalisation |url =https://www.ft.com/content/ed994477-a23a-4f48-9019-917b5dc51041 |access-date =2025-04-07 |work =Financial Times}}
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Ongoing [[List of ongoing armed conflicts|military conflicts]] include those in [[Myanmar civil war (2021–present)|Myanmar]], [[Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present)|Ethiopia]], [[Mali War|Mali]], [[Yemeni civil war (2014–present)|Yemen]], [[Somali Civil War|Somalia]], [[Sudanese civil war (2023–present)|Sudan]], [[Syrian civil war|Syria]], [[Russo-Ukrainian War|Ukraine]], and [[Gaza war|Gaza]]. The year 2021 saw the [[2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan|withdrawal of US troops]] from [[Afghanistan]] and the [[Fall of Kabul (2021)|fall of Kabul]] to the [[Taliban]], ending nearly [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|20 years of war]]. The [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russian invasion of Ukraine]] in 2022 resulted in a [[Ukrainian refugee crisis|refugee crisis]], [[Economic impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine|global trade]] disruptions, and economic [[inflation]]. In 2023, [[Hamas]] carried out the [[October 7 attacks]] in Israel, killing over 1,200 [[Israelis]] and taking 250 as hostages. This led to the [[Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip|Israeli invasion]], [[Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip|bombing]], [[Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip (2023–present)|blockade]], and [[Gaza Strip famine|starvation]] of the [[Gaza Strip]], which has killed over 65,000 [[Palestinians]] and has been characterized as a [[Gaza genocide|genocide]] by a wide consensus of scholarship. The [[Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)|Gaza conflict spilled over]], with [[Houthis|Houthi]] [[Houthi attacks on commercial vessels|attacks on commercial vessels]] triggering the [[Red Sea crisis]] and [[2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon|Israel invading Lebanon]] amid [[Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)|its conflict with]] [[Hezbollah]]. In 2024, a quick and renewed [[2024 Syrian opposition offensives|rebel offensive]] during the [[Syrian civil war]] led to the toppling of [[Bashar al-Assad]] and the [[fall of the Assad regime|fall of his regime]]. In 2025, Israel [[Iran–Israel war|launched airstrikes]] against [[Iran]]'s military and [[Nuclear facilities in Iran|nuclear facilities]], prompting Iran to retaliate and the U.S. to join with [[United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites|its own strikes on Iranian nuclear sites]]. Meanwhile, in the context of the [[war on cartels]], the [[Mexican drug war]] and the economic [[crisis in Venezuela]], the U.S. launched a [[2025 US Caribbean naval deployment|military campaign against the cartels]] in the [[Caribbean]] starting in August 2025 with the aim of combating large-scale [[drug trafficking]] and [[narcoterrorism]]. 

Technological advances made during the decade include the widespread use of [[Teleconference|teleconferencing]], [[Educational technology|online learning]], [[e-commerce]] and [[Online food ordering|food delivery services]] to compensate for [[Stay-at-home order|lockdowns]] ordered by governments around the world during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. [[Streaming media|Streaming services]], such as [[Disney+]] and [[HBO Max]], have increased in popularity during the decade, with [[cable television]] continuing to fall out of usage. Several popular [[social media]] applications launched, such as [[Threads (social network)|Threads]], [[BeReal]], [[Clubhouse (app)|Clubhouse]], [[Bluesky]], [[Gettr]], and [[Truth Social]], continuing advances in [[Digital electronics|digital technology]]. [[5G]] networks launched around the globe at the start of the decade and became prevalent in [[smartphone]]s. Research into outer space further evolved, with the United States mainly leading [[space exploration]], including with the [[James Webb Space Telescope]], [[Ingenuity (helicopter)|''Ingenuity'' helicopter]], and [[Artemis program|''Artemis'' program]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Signé |first1=Landry Signe |last2=Dooley |first2=Hanna |date=March 28, 2023 |title=How space exploration is fueling the Fourth Industrial Revolution |url=https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-space-exploration-is-fueling-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=Brookings |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525153745/https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-space-exploration-is-fueling-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Chandrayaan-3 Details |url=https://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan3_Details.html |access-date=14 February 2024 |website=isro.gov.in |archive-date=23 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230823165138/https://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan3_Details.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Virtual reality]] (VR) and [[augmented reality]] (AR) are being used for remote collaboration, meetings, and training. [[Contactless payment]]s, including [[mobile wallet]]s such as [[Apple Pay]] and [[Google Pay]], have grown in popularity. [[Cryptocurrencies]], such as [[Bitcoin]] and [[Non-fungible token|NFT]]s, have also increased in popularity. The growth of [[Cryptocurrency|cryptocurrencies]] and [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] led to the [[cryptocurrency bubble]] and [[AI bubble]], with both involved in a circular flow of investments believed to be artificially significantly inflating their actual values.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roth |first=Emma |date=2025-08-15 |title=Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble |url=https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/759965/sam-altman-openai-ai-bubble-interview |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=The Verge |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stening |first=Tanner |date=July 7, 2025 |title=Bitcoin’s ‘Crypto Week’ climb to $120,000 points to likely bubble |url=https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/14/bitcoin-bubble-120k-crypto-week/ |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=Northeastern Global News |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Politics and wars==
{{Main|2020s in military history}}
{{See also|List of sovereign states in the 2020s}}

===Major conflicts===
{{Main|List of wars: 2003–present}}

The prominent wars of the decade include:

====International wars====
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! style="width:110px;"| Start date
! style="width:110px;"| End date
! Description
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| [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]]
* [[2021 Israel–Palestine crisis]]
* [[Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)]]
** [[Gaza war]]
** [[Red Sea crisis]]
** [[2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon|Israeli invasion of Lebanon]]
** [[Israeli invasion of Syria (2024–present)|Israeli invasion of Syria]]
** [[Iran–Israel war]]
|Late 19th or early 20th century
* 6 May 2021
* 7 October 2023
** 7 October 2023
** 19 October 2023
** 1 October 2024
** 8 December 2024
** 13 June 2025
| ''Ongoing''
* 21 May 2021
* ''Ongoing''
** ''Ongoing''
** ''Ongoing''
** 27 November 2024
** ''Ongoing''
** 24 June 2025
| The [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]], which began in the late 19th or early 20th century, erupted into 11 days of open violence in May 2021 after the attempted eviction of Palestinians in the West Bank by Israeli settlers and an Israeli police raid on [[Al-Aqsa Mosque]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=Vox |date=2021-05-17 |title=Israeli-Palestinian tensions erupt into open conflict |url=https://www.vox.com/22440330/israel-palestine-gaza-airstrikes-hamas-updates-2021 |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=Vox}}</ref> with leading militant group [[Hamas]] launching over 4,000 rockets into Israel.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-12 |title=Palestinian Rockets in May Killed Civilians in Israel, Gaza {{!}} Human Rights Watch |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/12/palestinian-rockets-may-killed-civilians-israel-gaza |access-date=2025-01-23}}</ref> The subsequent unrest caused extensive damage primarily, but not entirely, to Palestinians. The outbreak ended on 19 May.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-21 |title=Israel, Hamas agree to cease-fire to end bloody 11-day war |url=https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-cease-fire-hamas-caac81bc36fe9be67ac2f7c27000c74b |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=AP News}}</ref>
On [[October 7 attacks|7 October 2023]], Hamas and other Gazan militant groups conducted an armed attack on Israel, killing 797 civilians and taking 251 hostages back into Gaza. The subsequent war between Israel and Hamas has resulted in more than 50,000 casualties as of 2024, more than all the preceding decades of the conflict combined.

After weakening [[Axis of Resistance|Iranian proxies]] and the [[fall of the Assad regime]], Israel launched a series of strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, nuclear scientists and [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps|IRGC]] leadership. Iran retaliated by launching ballistic missiles against Israel. The United States temporarily joined the war by [[United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites|attacking Iranian nuclear facilities]].
|-
|[[Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency|Turkey–PKK conflict]]
|27 November 1978
|12 May 2025
|Numerous Kurdish groups, including the [[Kurdistan Workers' Party]] (the PKK) have fought for an independent Kurdistan incorporating parts of Turkey. In 2020, Turkey launched [[Operations Claw-Eagle and Tiger|an insurgency]] in [[Iraqi Kurdistan]]. After a [[Syrian civil war#Renewed rebel offensives and fall of the Assad regime (2024)|rebel offensive]] overthrew the regime of Syrian President [[Bashar al-Assad]], Turkey renewed its offensive against [[Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria|Kurdish-held territories]] in Northern Syria.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Broomfield |first=Matt |date=2025-01-15 |title=What Does the Future Hold for Syrian Kurds Post-Assad? |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/world/kurds-syria-post-assad-turkey/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |issn=0027-8378}}</ref> On 12 May 2025, the PKK announced its full dissolution to favor political means.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Solomon |first1=Erika |last2=Hubbard |first2=Ben |date=2025-05-12 |title=Kurdish Insurgent Group Says It Is Ending Conflict With Turkish State |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/world/europe/kurdish-pkk-turkey.html |access-date=2025-05-17 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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| [[Nagorno-Karabakh conflict]]
* [[Second Nagorno-Karabakh War]]
* [[2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh|2023 Azerbaijani offensive]]
|February 1988
* 27 September 2020
* 19 September 2023
|1 January 2024
* 10 November 2020
* 20 September 2023
|The region of [[Nagorno-Karabakh]] has been disputed between the governments of [[Armenia]] and [[Azerbaijan]], as well as the breakaway state, the [[Republic of Artsakh]]. Following the [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War|first war's]] [[Bishkek Protocol|ceasefire]] cross-border skirmishes persisted including in July 2020, when [[July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes|a series of border skirmishes]] left at least 15 dead. A [[Second Nagorno-Karabakh War|second war]] broke out later that year and ended after another [[2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement|ceasefire]]. A [[Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis|border crisis]] and [[Blockade of the Republic of Artsakh (2022–present)|blockade]] ensued until a [[2023 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes|2023 offensive]] into the region by Azerbaijan. [[Republic of Artsakh|Artsakh]] dissolved on 1 January 2024, ending the conflict.
|-
| [[War on terror]]
* [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|War in Afghanistan]]
* [[Iraqi conflict|Iraq conflict]]
| 11 September 2001
* 7 October 2001
* 20 March 2003
| ''Ongoing ''
* 30 August 2021
* ''Ongoing''
| Motivated by the [[September 11 attacks|9/11 attacks]], the [[United States]] and other governments started a large scale effort to eliminate terrorism.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030214-7.html |title=President Bush Releases National Strategy for Combating Terrorism |date=14 February 2003 |access-date=10 October 2018 |archive-date=12 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012063823/https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030214-7.html |url-status=live}}</ref> With support from [[NATO]], the United States [[United States invasion of Afghanistan|invaded Taliban-controlled Afghanistan]] and overthrew the government; however, U.S. forces remained in the country to stabilise the situation.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/12/obamas_speech_on_adding_30000.html |title=Updated: Obama speech balances Afghanistan troop buildup with exit pledge |date=1 December 2009 |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162409/https://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/12/obamas_speech_on_adding_30000.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Two years later, on the pretext that the government of [[Saddam Hussein]] had [[weapons of mass destruction]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/23/1064082978207.html |title=Pilger claims White House knew Saddam was no threat |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=23 September 2003 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=6 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206195957/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/23/1064082978207.html |url-status=live}}</ref> the United States and a coalition of partners [[2003 invasion of Iraq|invaded Iraq]] and overthrew Hussein's regime,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/baghdad_04-09-03.html |title=Online NewsHour Update: Coalition Says Iraqi Regime Has Lost Control of Baghdad – April 9, 2003 |date=1 December 2010 |access-date=26 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201163438/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/baghdad_04-09-03.html |archive-date=1 December 2010}}</ref> after which the U.S. occupied the country, officially leaving in 2011.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Ali A. |last=Allawi |title=The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace |url=https://archive.org/details/occupationofiraq00alla |url-access=registration |publisher=Yale University Press |date=2007 |isbn=9780300110159 |author-link=Ali A. Allawi}}</ref> However, insurgencies remained active in both countries, long after the invasions.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/13/washington/world/world-briefing-asia-afghanistan-taliban-leader-vows-return.html |title=World Briefing {{!}} Asia: Afghanistan: Taliban Leader Vows Return |first=Carlotta |last=Gall |date=13 November 2004 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525153745/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/13/washington/world/world-briefing-asia-afghanistan-taliban-leader-vows-return.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Kivu conflict]]
* [[Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict (2022–2025)|Congo–Rwanda conflict (2022–2025)]]
|2 June 2004

* 27 March 2022
|''Ongoing''
* 27 June 2025
|The Kivu conflict began in 2004 in the eastern Congo as an armed conflict between the [[military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo]] (FARDC) and the [[Hutu Power]] group [[Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda]] (FDLR) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has broadly consisted of three phases, the third of which is an ongoing conflict.
|-
| [[Syrian civil war]]
* [[2024 Syrian opposition offensives]]
| 15 March 2011

* 27 November 2024
|''Ongoing''
* 8 December 2024
| In March 2011, popular discontent with the rule of [[Bashar al-Assad]] triggered [[Syrian revolution|large-scale protests]] and [[pro-democracy]] rallies across Syria, as part of the wider [[Arab Spring]] protests in the region. After months of crackdown by the government's [[security apparatus]], various armed [[Syrian opposition to Bashar al-Assad|rebel groups]] such as the [[Free Syrian Army]] began forming across the country, marking the beginning of the [[Syrian Insurgency|Syrian insurgency]]. By mid-2012, the insurgency had escalated into a full-blown civil war until the [[fall of the Assad regime]] in December 2024, following [[2024 Syrian opposition offensives|major offensives]] led by the [[Syrian opposition to Bashar al-Assad|Syrian opposition]]. During the civil war, [[Turkey]] invaded parts of northern [[Syria]] in order to combat the [[Islamic State]], [[Syrian Democratic Forces]], and the [[Kurdistan Workers' Party|PKK]].
|-
| [[Russo-Ukrainian War]]
* [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|2022 Russian invasion]]
| 20 February 2014
* 24 February 2022
| ''Ongoing''
* ''Ongoing''
| Hostilities between the Ukrainian government and Russia-backed separatist forces [[War in Donbas (2014–2022)|in Eastern Ukraine]] have been ongoing since the [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation|Russian annexation of Crimea]] in 2014. In 2021 and early 2022, tensions escalated between the two countries due to a [[Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine|build up of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border]]. Russia launched a [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|full invasion of Ukraine]] in February 2022.
|-
| [[War against the Islamic State|War against ISIS]]
| 13 June 2014
| ''Ongoing''
| In late-2013, a terrorist organisation called [[Islamic State|ISIS]] began making rapid advances and territorial gains in Iraq and Syria. It [[Fall of Mosul|captured Mosul]] in June<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/iraq-sunni-insurgents-islamic-militants-seize-control-mosul |title=Isis insurgents seize control of Iraqi city of Mosul |last=Chulov |first=Martin |date=10 June 2014 |website=The Guardian |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=29 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190429022223/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/iraq-sunni-insurgents-islamic-militants-seize-control-mosul |url-status=live}}</ref> and made [[Raqqa]] its capital.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/06/isis_announces_formation_of_ca.php |title=ISIS announces formation of Caliphate, rebrands as 'Islamic State' |work=The Long War Journal |date=29 June 2014 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404155146/https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/06/isis_announces_formation_of_ca.php |url-status=live}}</ref> Various international coalitions were formed to help fight the militants.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/3273185/isis-us-nato/ |title=U.S. Forms Anti-ISIS Coalition at NATO Summit |last=Nicks |first=Denver |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=12 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012154609/http://time.com/3273185/isis-us-nato/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/14/middleeast/islamic-coalition-isis-saudi-arabia/index.html |title=34 Islamic nations form coalition to fight terrorism |first1=Ed |last1=Payne |first2=Salma |last2=Abdelaziz |publisher=CNN |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=7 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507082417/https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/14/middleeast/islamic-coalition-isis-saudi-arabia/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref> By December 2017, ISIS had lost much of its former territory.
|-
| [[Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war|Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen]]
| 26 March 2015
| ''Ongoing''
| During the [[Yemeni civil war (2014–present)|Yemeni civil war]], [[Saudi Arabia]], the [[United Arab Emirates]], and other countries part of a coalition invaded parts of Yemen in order to depose the [[Houthi movement|Houthi]]-controlled government.
|}

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File:Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022 montage (1).png|Montage of the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]], part of the [[Russo-Ukrainian War]].
File:Evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport 210821-M-AU949-0155.jpg|[[US Marines]] with [[Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Central Command|SP-MAGTF-CR-CC]] at an evacuation checkpoint at Kabul Airport on 21 August during the [[2021 Fall of Kabul]], at the end of the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|War in Afghanistan]].
Image:Damage in Gaza Strip during the October 2023.jpg|Highrise residential building "Palestine Tower"<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdH7aehL_IY |title=Gaza hit by Israeli strikes, buildings destroyed |work=AFP News Agency |date=26 October 2023 |access-date=26 October 2023 |via=www.youtube.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026013359/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdH7aehL_IY |archive-date=26 October 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> in Gaza following an Israeli strike during the [[Gaza war]].
File:Syrian rebels at Hama Military Airport.png|Syrian rebels at [[Hama Air Base]] during the [[Syrian civil war]].
File:Pictures of the Israeli attack on Tehran 1 Mehr (2).jpg|Aerial view of [[Tehran]] suburbs following Israeli airstrikes during the [[Iran–Israel war]].
File:Trump, Putin Alaska Arrival (9260673).jpg|US president Donald Trump greets Russian president [[Vladimir Putin]] at the [[2025 Russia–United States Summit|Alaska summit]] for the first time since the [[Russian Invasion of Ukraine]] to progress peace talks.
File:P20250929JB-0555 President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference.jpg|US president Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], announcing the [[Gaza peace plan]] during a press conference.
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====Civil wars====
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
|-
! style="width:130px;"| Name
! style="width:110px;"| Start date
! style="width:110px;"| End date
! Description
|-
|[[Myanmar conflict]]
* [[Myanmar civil war (2021–present)|Myanmar civil war]]
|2 April 1948
* 7 September 2021
|''Ongoing''
* ''Ongoing''
|[[Myanmar|Myanmar's]] long-running insurgencies escalated significantly into a major [[civil war]] in 2021 following the [[2021 Myanmar coup d'etat|2021 military coup]] and the subsequent brutal crackdown on the [[2021-2022 Myanmar protests|anti-coup protests]].
|-
| [[War in Darfur]]
| 26 February 2003
| 31 August 2020
| A peace agreement was signed on 31 August 2020 between the [[Government of Sudan|Sudanese authorities]] and several rebel factions to end armed hostilities.
|-
| [[Mexican drug war]]
| 11 December 2006
|''Ongoing''
| Following a rise in criminal violence as a result of drug trafficking in the country, Mexican President [[Felipe Calderón]] declared a war on drugs in December 2006.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/mexicos-drug-war-is-taking-worse-turn-2015-5 |title=Mexico's drug war is getting even worse |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=17 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617112719/http://www.businessinsider.com/mexicos-drug-war-is-taking-worse-turn-2015-5 |url-status=live}}</ref> Since the start of the war, the death toll from drug violence had sharply increased.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://ncronline.org/news/global/counting-mexicos-drug-victims-murky-business |title=Counting Mexico's drug victims is a murky business |website=National Catholic Reporter |date=March 2014 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=28 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528192211/http://ncronline.org/news/global/counting-mexicos-drug-victims-murky-business |url-status=live}}</ref> Arrests of key cartel leaders led to increasing violence as cartels fought for control of trafficking routes into the United States.<ref>{{cite news |first=Traci |last=Carl |title=Progress in Mexico drug war is drenched in blood |date=10 March 2009 |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilIZ5du3hOOeN7yatYIRIhFY-MJAD96RBGO00 |access-date=1 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090315080309/https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilIZ5du3hOOeN7yatYIRIhFY-MJAD96RBGO00 |archive-date=15 March 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=High U.S. cocaine cost shows drug war working: Mexico |date=14 September 2007 |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1422771920070914 |access-date=1 April 2009 |archive-date=4 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204232646/https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1422771920070914 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=CRS Report for Congress: Mexico and the 112th Congress |chapter=Mexico – U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress |editor-first=Mark P. |editor-last=Sullivan |publisher=Congressional Research Service |pages=2, 13, 14 |date=18 December 2008 |chapter-url=http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32724.pdf |access-date=19 December 2019 |archive-date=10 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610113341/http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32724.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Somali civil war (2009–present)|Somali civil war]]
* [[Las Anod conflict (2023–present)|2023 Las Anod conflict]]
| 31 January 2009
* 6 February 2023
|''Ongoing''
* ''Ongoing''
| In 2009, [[Al-Shabaab (militant group)|Al-Shabaab]], an Islamist militant group, began waging an insurgency against the newly formed [[Transitional Federal Government]]. In 2011, the federal government captured [[Mogadishu]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6E7J601H20110806 |title=Update 3-Somali government declares Islamist rebellion defeated |date=6 August 2011 |publisher=Reuters |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=10 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810134519/http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6E7J601H20110806 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and subsequently retook several towns across the country.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-20658236 |title=Somalia: 'Al-Shabab' militants forced out of Jowhar |publisher=BBC News |date=9 December 2012 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=10 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910111203/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-20658236 |url-status=live}}</ref> Since then, the government has attempted to clean out the remaining Al-Shabaab strongholds with help from [[African Union Mission to Somalia|AMISOM]] soldiers.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.raxanreeb.com/2014/09/somalia-president-says-godane-is-dead-now-is-the-chance-for-the-members-of-al-shabaab-to-embrace-peace/ |title=Somalia: President says Godane is dead, now is the chance for the members of al-Shabaab to embrace peace |publisher=RBC Radio |access-date=26 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906202740/http://www.raxanreeb.com/2014/09/somalia-president-says-godane-is-dead-now-is-the-chance-for-the-members-of-al-shabaab-to-embrace-peace/ |archive-date=6 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
| [[Mali War]]
| 16 January 2012
| ''Ongoing''
| In January 2012, a [[Tuareg rebellion (2012)|rebellion]] by [[Tuareg people|Tuaregs]] in Northern [[Mali]] began. After Malian president [[Amadou Toumani Touré]] was ousted in a coup d'état, Tuaregs captured Northern Mali,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5grilySJ5EdrgURoNp1mt3AIJhTgg?do |title=Mali junta denounces 'rights violations' by rebels |last=Daniel |first=Serge |date=4 April 2012 |publisher=AFP |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201201147/https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5grilySJ5EdrgURoNp1mt3AIJhTgg?docId=CNG.915a5505555757d7df5029b5b99451cc.261 |archive-date=1 February 2013 |access-date=26 June 2016}}</ref> and declared it to be the independent state of [[Azawad]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/04/20124644412359539.html |title=Tuaregs claim 'independence' from Mali |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=7 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407041147/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/04/20124644412359539.html |url-status=live}}</ref> However, shortly afterward, various Islamist groups took over Northern Mali from the Tuaregs and imposed sharia law on the region.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9365390/Trouble-in-Timbuktu-as-Islamists-extend-control.html |title=Trouble in Timbuktu as Islamists extend control |first=Zoe |last=Flood |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=6 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706091133/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9365390/Trouble-in-Timbuktu-as-Islamists-extend-control.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[South Sudanese Civil War]]
| 15 December 2013
| 22 February 2020
| On 22 February 2020, rivals Kiir and Machar struck a unity deal and formed a coalition government, after an estimated 400,000 deaths and more than 4 million people displaced by the war.
|-
| [[Libyan civil war (2014–2020)|Libyan civil war]]
| 16 May 2014
| 23 October 2020
| Following the [[Factional violence in Libya (2011–2014)|factional violence]] that engulfed Libya after the fall of Muammar al-Gaddafi, a second civil war broke out among rival factions seeking control of the territory and oil of [[Libya]]. The conflict at the beginning was mostly between the [[House of Representatives (Libya)|House of Representatives]] (HoR) government that was controversially [[2014 Libyan parliamentary election|elected in 2014]], also known as the "[[Tobruk]] government"; and the rival [[General National Congress (2014)|General National Congress]] (GNC) government, also called the "[[National Salvation Government]]", based in the capital [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]], established after [[Operation Odyssey Dawn]] and [[2014 Libyan coup d'état attempts|the failed military coup]].
|-
| [[Yemeni civil war (2014–present)|Yemeni civil war]]
| 16 September 2014
| ''Ongoing''
| Preceded by a [[Houthi insurgency in Yemen|decade-long Houthi insurgency]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2015/02/22/yemens-ousted-president-hadi-calls-for-houthis-to-quit-capital/ |title=Yemen's ousted president Hadi calls for Houthis to quit capital – World {{!}} The Star Online |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=17 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717041643/https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2015/02/22/yemens-ousted-president-hadi-calls-for-houthis-to-quit-capital/ |url-status=live}}</ref> the Yemeni Civil War began between two factions: the then-incumbent Yemeni government, led by [[Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi]], and the [[Houthi movement|Houthi]] [[militia]], along with their supporters and allies. Both claim to constitute the [[Yemen]]i [[Government of Yemen|government]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/143295/asher-orkaby/houthi-who |agency=Foreign Affairs |title=Houthi Who? |first=Asher |last=Orkaby |date=25 March 2015 |access-date=25 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327115828/http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/143295/asher-orkaby/houthi-who |archive-date=27 March 2015}}</ref>
|-
| [[Philippine drug war]]
| 30 June 2016
| ''Ongoing''
| Following a rise in political and criminal violence as a result of drug trafficking in the country, the [[Philippines]] has been engaged in a drug war and escalating terrorism since [[President of the Philippines|Philippine President]] [[Rodrigo Duterte]] was [[Inauguration of Rodrigo Duterte|inaugurated]] on 30 June 2016. It had caused more than 5,000 deaths and over 150,000 arrests by the beginning of the decade.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-03/duterte-to-push-ahead-with-name-shame-in-drug-war-as-deaths-rise |title=Duterte to Push Ahead With Name-Shame in Drug War as Deaths Rise |first1=Clarissa |last1=Batino |first2=Cecilia |last2=Yap |date=3 August 2016 |website=Bloomberg |access-date=19 December 2019 |archive-date=1 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101052252/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-03/duterte-to-push-ahead-with-name-shame-in-drug-war-as-deaths-rise |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="feb19cnn">{{Cite news |url=https://cnnphilippines.com/news/2019/02/16/SWS-Filipinos-drug-addicts-decrease-2018.html |title=SWS: Most Filipinos believe number of drug addicts decreased in 2018 |newspaper=CNN Philippines |access-date=2021-10-05 |archive-date=18 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018210638/https://cnnphilippines.com/news/2019/02/16/SWS-Filipinos-drug-addicts-decrease-2018.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|[[Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)|Iraqi insurgency]]
| 9 December 2017
|''Ongoing''
|A part of the larger [[Iraqi conflict (2003–present)|Iraqi conflict]] that has been waged since [[Iraq War|2003]], the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] has been engaged in an [[insurgency]] against the [[Federal government of Iraq|Iraqi government]] and [[Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve|CJTF-OIR]] since the loss of territorial control in the [[War in Iraq (2013–2017)|Iraqi Civil War]] in 2017.
|-
| [[Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present)|Ethiopian civil conflict]]
* [[Tigray War]]
* [[War in Amhara]]
|2 April 2018
* 3 November 2020
* 9 April 2023
|''Ongoing''
* 3 November 2022
* ''Ongoing''
|After years of increased tensions between the [[Tigray People's Liberation Front]] (TPLF) and the [[Ethiopia]]n and [[Eritrea]]n governments, a full-scale war broke out in November 2020, that has killed an estimated 300,000–500,000 people as of March 2022.<ref name="Ghent_death_toll">{{cite web |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-tigray-war-has-seen-up-to-half-a-million-dead-from-violence-and/ |title=Tigray war has seen up to half a million dead from violence and starvation, say researchers |work=The Globe and Mail |date=14 March 2022 |access-date=16 October 2022 |archive-date=19 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219105708/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-tigray-war-has-seen-up-to-half-a-million-dead-from-violence-and/ |url-status=live}}</ref> On 2 November, both the Ethiopian government and TPLF [[Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement|formally agreed to a cessation of hostilities]] and systematic, verifiable disarmament<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/african-union-agreement-reached-on-permanent-cessation-of-hostilities-in-ethiopia |title=African Union: Agreement reached on permanent cessation of hostilities in Ethiopia |newspaper=National Post |date=2 November 2022 |access-date=10 November 2022 |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525153752/https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/african-union-agreement-reached-on-permanent-cessation-of-hostilities-in-ethiopia |url-status=live}}</ref> though Tigrayan authorities allege that Ethiopia continued to launch attacks after the peace deal was signed<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tekle |first=Tesfa-Alem |date=2022-11-04 |title=Ethiopia government accused of drone attacks, shelling after peace deal |url=https://sudantribune.com/article266340/ |access-date= |website=[[Sudan Tribune]] |archive-date=4 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104195220/https://sudantribune.com/article266340/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-04 |title=Tigray rebels accuse Ethiopia of attacks after peace deal |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221104-tigray-rebels-accuse-ethiopia-of-attacks-after-peace-deal |access-date= |website=France 24 |archive-date=5 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105195140/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221104-tigray-rebels-accuse-ethiopia-of-attacks-after-peace-deal |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Sudanese civil war (2023–present)|Sudanese civil war]]
| 15 April 2023
|''Ongoing''
|In April 2023, clashes broke out in western [[Sudan]] between rival factions of the military government of Sudan. The conflict began with the [[paramilitary]] [[Rapid Support Forces]] (RSF) launching attacks on key government sites. {{As of|2023|04|23}}, both RSF leader [[Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo]] and Sudan's ''de facto'' leader and army chief [[Abdel Fattah al-Burhan]] have claimed control over several key government sites, including the general military headquarters, the [[Presidential Palace, Khartoum|Presidential Palace]], [[Khartoum International Airport]], Burhan's official residence, and the [[Sudan TV|SNBC]] headquarters.<ref name="BBC News">{{cite news |last1=Salih |first1=Zeinab Mohammed |author-link=Zeinab Mohammed Salih |last2=Igunza |first2=Emmanuel |date=15 April 2023 |title=Sudan: Army and RSF battle over key sites, leaving 56 civilians dead |work=[[BBC News]] |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65284945 |url-status=live |access-date=15 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415084000/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65284945 |archive-date=15 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="CNN3">{{cite news |date=15 April 2023 |title=At least 25 killed, 183 injured in ongoing clashes across Sudan as paramilitary group claims control of presidential palace |publisher=[[CNN]] |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/15/africa/sudan-presidential-palace-intl/ |url-status=live |access-date=15 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417064549/https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/15/africa/sudan-presidential-palace-intl/ |archive-date=17 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Mullany |first1=Gerry |date=15 April 2023 |title=Sudan Erupts in Chaos: Who Is Battling for Control and Why It Matters |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/article/sudan-khartoum-military.html |url-status=live |access-date=15 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415181904/https://www.nytimes.com/article/sudan-khartoum-military.html |archive-date=15 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Akinwotu |first1=Emmanuel |date=15 April 2023 |title=Gunfire and explosions erupt across Sudan's capital as military rivals clash |publisher=[[NPR]] |location=[[Lagos, Nigeria]] |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/04/15/1170249456/gunfire-and-explosions-erupt-across-sudans-capital-as-military-rivals-clash |url-status=live |access-date=15 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415141842/https://www.npr.org/2023/04/15/1170249456/gunfire-and-explosions-erupt-across-sudans-capital-as-military-rivals-clash |archive-date=15 April 2023}}</ref>
|-
|[[Wagner Group rebellion]]
|23 June 2023
|24 June 2023
|On 23 June 2023, [[Wagner Group]] leader [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]] led a "March for Justice" against the [[Russian government]] for a supposed attack on his men by the [[Russian Armed Forces|military]]. A day later however, as his convoy was encroaching on Moscow, Prigozhin called off the rebellion in exchange for amnesty and other unknown reasons.
|}

<gallery mode="packed" widths="185px" heights="140" perrow="4">
Image:Myanmar_civil_war.svg|Territorial control during [[Myanmar civil war (2021–present)]] as of the present.
Image:VOA Tigray Children2.jpg|A man passing by a destroyed [[T-72]] tank in [[Idaga Hamus (Saesi Tsaedaemba)|Idaga Hamus]] during [[Tigray war]].
Image:Screengrab of refugee camp from Number of Refugees Who Fled Sudan for Chad Double in Week.jpg|Sudanese refugee camp in [[Chad]] during [[Sudanese civil war (2023)]].
Image:Prigozhin rebellion Rostov tank with flowers in the muzzle June 24.jpg|A tank with flowers in the muzzle in [[Rostov-on-Don]] during the [[Wagner Group rebellion]] against the [[Russian government]].
</gallery>

===Revolutions and major protests===
{{Main|List of protests in the 21st century}}

Successful [[revolution]]s and otherwise major [[protest]]s of the decade include, but are not limited to:
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! Event
! Date
! Country
! Events
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
|[[Dutch farmers' protests]]
|1 October 2019 – present
|{{flag|Netherlands}}
|Demonstrations by Dutch [[Intensive animal farming|farmers]], characterised by the use of [[tractor]]s to block roads, and [[Occupation (protest)|occupy public spaces.]] The protests were triggered in October 2019 by a proposal in parliament to halve the country's livestock in an attempt to limit [[agricultural pollution]]. It was related to the [[Dutch nitrogen crisis]]. The farmers' protests combines action groups and an amalgamation of larger goals. Also, the party [[Farmer–Citizen Movement]] was founded, which has gained power in parliament.
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=How Dutch farmers became the center of a global right-wing culture war |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/dutch-farmers-emissions-global-right-wing-culture-war-rcna60269 |date=2022-12-12 |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=NBC News |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228015316/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/dutch-farmers-emissions-global-right-wing-culture-war-rcna60269 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-10-16 |title=Angry farmers cause Dutch police to close off parliament square |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-farmers-protests/angry-farmers-cause-dutch-police-to-close-off-parliament-square-idINKBN1WV0SZ/ |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=Reuters}}</ref>
|-
|[[Indonesia omnibus law protests]]
| 13 January – November 2020
|{{flag|Indonesia}}
|Mass popular protests and riots against the deliberation and passage of the controversial [[Omnibus Law on Job Creation]], which was passed on 5 October 2020. The wider policies of President [[Joko Widodo]] were also protested against, and resulted in the formation of the new [[Labour Party (Indonesia, 2021)|Labour Party]].
|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/9/demonstrations-sweep-indonesia-over-controversial-omnibus-law |title=Demonstrations sweep Indonesia over controversial labour law |work=Al Jazeera |date=2020-10-08 |access-date=2020-10-09 |archive-date=28 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228083250/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/9/demonstrations-sweep-indonesia-over-controversial-omnibus-law |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.tempo.co/read/1394944/police-arrest-5918-allegedly-creating-chaos-omnibus-law-protests |title=Police Arrest 5,918 Allegedly Creating Chaos Omnibus Law Protests |work=Tempo.co |date=2020-10-11 |access-date=2020-10-11 |archive-date=8 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608151829/https://en.tempo.co/read/1394944/police-arrest-5918-allegedly-creating-chaos-omnibus-law-protests |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2020–2021 Belarusian protests]]
| 24 January 2020 – 25 March 2021
|{{flag|Belarus}}
|Mass popular protests and riots against the Belarusian government and President [[Alexander Lukashenko]]. The largest anti-government protests in the history of Belarus, the demonstrations began in the lead-up to and during the [[2020 Belarusian presidential election|2020 presidential election]], in which Lukashenko sought his sixth term in office.
|<ref>{{cite web |last=Hrydzin |first=Uladz |date=25 May 2020 |title=Belarusians Protest Against Lukashenka's Run For a Sixth Term As President |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-protests-politcs/30632716.html |publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |archive-date=26 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526121826/https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-protests-politcs/30632716.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=17 August 2020 |title=Protestors pack Belarus capital, Russia offers Lukashenko military help |publisher=France 24 |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20200817-protestors-pack-belarus-capital-russia-offers-lukashenko-military-help |archive-date=17 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817231733/https://www.france24.com/en/20200817-protestors-pack-belarus-capital-russia-offers-lukashenko-military-help}}</ref>
|-
|[[George Floyd protests]]
|26 May 2020 – 26 May 2021
|{{flag|United States}}
|Protests and riots due to the [[murder of George Floyd]] spread throughout the United States with international protests in support. The stated goal was to end systemic [[racism]] and [[police brutality]]. [[2020–2023 United States racial unrest|Sporadic protests]] in response to racism and police brutality continued throughout the following years, while the [[George Floyd Square|street where Floyd was murdered]] is still [[George Floyd Square occupied protest|under control by protesters]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-protests-timeline.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |last=Taylor |first=Derrick Bryson |title=George Floyd Protests: A Timeline |date=2 June 2020 |access-date=2 June 2020 |archive-date=2 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602235547/https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-protests-timeline.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Burch |first1=Audra D. S. |last2=Harmon |first2=Amy |last3=Tavernise |first3=Sabrina |last4=Badger |first4=Emily |date=21 April 2021 |title=The Death of George Floyd Reignited a Movement. What Happens Now? |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/us/george-floyd-protests-police-reform.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/us/george-floyd-protests-police-reform.html |archive-date=28 December 2021 |url-access=limited |access-date=22 April 2021 |issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
|-
| [[2020–2021 Thai protests]]
| July 2020 – November 2021
| {{flag|Thailand}}
|Mass popular protests and riots against the government of Prime Minister [[Prayut Chan-o-cha]], the dissolution of the [[Future Forward Party]], changes to the constitution in 2017, and the country's political landscape. Resulted in the detention of leading figures.
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Explainer: What's behind Thailand's protests? |date=15 October 2020 |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-protests-reasons-explainer-idUSKBN2700IX |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020004039/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-protests-reasons-explainer-idUSKBN2700IX |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=19 September 2020 |title=Thais hold huge protest demanding reforms |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54217284 |access-date=19 September 2020 |archive-date=19 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919183532/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54217284 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest]]
| 9 August 2020 – 11 December 2021
| {{flag|India}}
| Protests and riots against [[2020 Indian agriculture acts|three farm acts]] that were passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020.
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 January 2021 |title=Farm Bills have potential to represent significant step forward for agriculture reforms in India: IMF |work=The Hindu |agency=Press Trust of India |url=https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/farm-bills-have-potential-to-represent-significant-step-forward-for-agriculture-reforms-in-india-imf/article33577480.ece |access-date=27 January 2021 |issn=0971-751X |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126061803/https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/farm-bills-have-potential-to-represent-significant-step-forward-for-agriculture-reforms-in-india-imf/article33577480.ece |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Gettleman |first1=Jeffrey |last2=Singh |first2=Karan Deep |last3=Kumar |first3=Hari |date=30 November 2020 |title=Angry Farmers Choke India's Capital in Giant Demonstrations |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/world/asia/india-farmers-protest.html |url-status=live |access-date=1 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201005737/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/world/asia/india-farmers-protest.html |archive-date=1 December 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
|-
| [[2020 Kyrgyz Revolution]]
| 5–15 October 2020
| {{flag|Kyrgyzstan}}
| On 5 October, protests began in Kyrgyzstan in response to the annulled [[2020 Kyrgyz parliamentary election|parliamentary election]], which protesters felt were unfair with allegations of vote-rigging. A day later, the parliamentary elections were annulled. 6 days later, on 12 October, [[President of Kyrgyzstan|president]] [[Sooronbay Jeenbekov]] announced a state of emergency. On 15 October, Jeenbekov finally resigned, making way for [[Sadyr Japarov]], who was nominated by parliament on 14 October to be acting [[Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan|prime minister]], as also acting president. Following the protests, Japarov was [[2021 Kyrgyz presidential election|elected]] president on 10 January 2021, on the same day a [[2021 Kyrgyz government system referendum|referendum]] was held on the Kyrgyz government system, in which the Kyrgyz voted for a reintroduction of the presidential system. The new [[Constitution of Kyrgyzstan|constitution]], passed by the [[Supreme Council (Kyrgyzstan)|Supreme Council]] was approved by voters in another [[2021 Kyrgyz constitutional referendum|referendum]] on 11 April 2021. Finally, on 28 November 2021, new [[2021 Kyrgyz parliamentary election|parliamentary elections]] took place.
|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pannier |first1=Bruce |title=Backlash Against Kyrgyz Parliamentary Election Results Comes Instantly |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/backlash-against-kyrgyz-parliamentary-election-results-comes-instantly/30876459.html |website=Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty |publisher=RFE/RL, Inc. |access-date=5 October 2020 |archive-date=6 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006013638/https://www.rferl.org/a/backlash-against-kyrgyz-parliamentary-election-results-comes-instantly/30876459.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54422884 |title=Thousands protest over Kyrgyzstan election result |date=5 October 2020 |access-date=5 October 2020 |newspaper=[[BBC News]] |archive-date=12 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012144323/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54422884 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland]]
| 22 October 2020 – 27 January 2021
| {{flag|Poland}}
| Protest began on 22 October in response to a ruling of the [[Constitutional Tribunal (Poland)|Constitutional Tribunal]] of [[Julia Przyłębska]], mainly consisting of judges who were appointed by the ruling [[Law and Justice]] (PiS) in [[Polish Constitutional Tribunal crisis (2015 – ongoing)|illegal way]], which tightened the law on [[abortion]] making Poland the country with [[Abortion in Poland|the most stringent abortion law in Europe]] (except Malta, Andorra and Vatican). The ruling made almost all cases of abortion illegal, including those cases in which the foetus had a severe and permanent [[disability]], or an incurable and life-threatening disease.

The protests were the biggest protest in Poland since 1989 (creation of [[III Rzeczpospolita]]), and were directed against the ruling party (PiS) and the [[Catholic Church]], which had great influence on the government. As a result of the protests, the popularity of the ruling party fell by 10 percentage points, which was one of the main factors in the change of power in the [[2023 Polish parliamentary election|parliamentary elections in 2023]].
|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jurszo |first1=Robert |title=80 miast w Polsce, 20 na świecie. Strajk Kobiet się nie zatrzymuje. Gdzie odbywają się protesty? |url=https://oko.press/80-miast-w-polsce-20-na-swiecie-strajk-kobiet-sie-nie-zatrzymuje-gdzie-odbywaja-sie-protesty |publisher=oko.press |access-date=23 January 2025 |language=pl |date=28 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Musiałek |first1=Paweł |title=Nieoczywiste porażki, zwycięstwa i znaki zapytania. 10 powyborczych refleksji |url=https://klubjagiellonski.pl/2023/10/20/nieoczywiste-porazki-zwyciestwa-i-znaki-zapytania-10-powyborczych-refleksji/ |access-date=23 January 2025 |language=pl |date=20 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Poland abortion: Top court bans almost all terminations |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54642108 |date=23 October 2020 |website=bbc.com |access-date=23 January 2025 |archive-date=27 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027002409/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54642108 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2020–21 United States election protests]]
* [[January 6 United States Capitol attack|United States Capitol attack]]
|4 November 2020 – 11 April 2021
* 6 January 2021
|{{flag|United States}}
|Protests began in multiple cities in the United States following the [[2020 United States presidential election]] between then-[[President of the United States|President]] [[Donald Trump]] and Democratic challenger [[Vice president of the united states|Vice President]] [[Joe Biden]], held on 3 November 2020. On 6 January 2021, following the defeat of U.S. President Donald Trump in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]], a mob of his supporters attacked the [[United States Capitol|United States Capitol Building]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]
|
|-
| [[2021 Brazilian protests]]
| 15 January – December 2021
| {{flag|Brazil}}
|President [[Jair Bolsonaro|Bolsonaro's]] [[Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro|government's]] response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil|COVID-19 pandemic]] culminated in mass popular protests and riots, with protests occurring in both support and opposition to the government and resulted in a failed impeachment attempt of Bolsonaro.
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Manifestações pró e contra Bolsonaro tomam conta da Esplanada |url=https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/manifestacoes-pro-e-contra-bolsonaro-tomam-conta-da-esplanada |date=1 May 2021 |publisher=Metrópoles |language=pt-br |access-date=4 May 2021 |archive-date=3 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503180449/https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/manifestacoes-pro-e-contra-bolsonaro-tomam-conta-da-esplanada |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Thousands take to streets protesting Brazil's Bolsonaro |date=24 January 2021 |agency=APNews |url=https://apnews.com/article/brazil-rio-de-janeiro-coronavirus-pandemic-impeachments-sao-paulo-5ad797067890f06e0fd4d68bda7931fe |access-date=3 August 2022 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126205353/https://apnews.com/article/brazil-rio-de-janeiro-coronavirus-pandemic-impeachments-sao-paulo-5ad797067890f06e0fd4d68bda7931fe |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.terra.com.br/noticias/brasil/fora-bolsonaro-falam-ex-apoiadores-em-protestos-por-resposta-do-brasil-a-covid-19,9c7a529f98f887dc9d0cb2a863cfd6d9a5t8gl8j.html |title='Fora Bolsonaro!' falam ex-apoiadores em protestos por resposta do Brasil à Covid-19 |date=2021-01-25 |website=terra.com.br |language=pt-BR |access-date=3 August 2022 |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525153757/https://www.terra.com.br/noticias/brasil/fora-bolsonaro-falam-ex-apoiadores-em-protestos-por-resposta-do-brasil-a-covid-19,9c7a529f98f887dc9d0cb2a863cfd6d9a5t8gl8j.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Myanmar protests (2021–present)]]
| 2 February 2021 – present
| {{flag|Myanmar}}
| Protests triggered after the [[2021 Myanmar coup d'état]], during the ongoing [[internal conflict in Myanmar]], and the [[Myanmar civil war (2021–present)|Myanmar civil war]].
|<ref name="Guardian220221">{{cite web |last1=Ratcliffe |first1=Rebecca |date=22 February 2021 |title=Myanmar junta warns of lethal force as crowds gather for 'five twos revolution' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/22/myanmar-junta-warns-of-lethal-force-as-protesters-gather-for-five-twos-revolution |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222050501/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/22/myanmar-junta-warns-of-lethal-force-as-protesters-gather-for-five-twos-revolution |archive-date=22 February 2021 |access-date=22 February 2021 |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first1=Carly |last1=Walsh |first2=Akanksha |last2=Sharma |title=Protests break out in Myanmar in defiance of military coup |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/06/asia/protests-myanmar-military-coup-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=7 February 2021 |website=CNN |date=6 February 2021 |archive-date=21 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221153148/https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/06/asia/protests-myanmar-military-coup-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2021–2023 Eswatini protests]]
| 20 June 2021 – Summer 2023
| {{flag|Eswatini}}
|A series of protests in [[Eswatini]] against the [[Ngwenyama|monarchy]] and for democratization began as a peaceful protest on 20 June, then escalated after 25 June into violence and looting over the weekend as the government took a hardline stance against the demonstrations and prohibited the delivery of petitions.
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Tensions run high in Eswatini as pro-democracy protests continue |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/30/tensions-run-high-eswatini-pro-democracy-protests-continue |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712050005/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/30/tensions-run-high-eswatini-pro-democracy-protests-continue |archive-date=12 July 2021 |access-date=30 June 2021 |website=aljazeera.com}}</ref>
|-
| [[2021–2022 Iranian protests]]
* [[Mahsa Amini protests]]
| 15 July 2021 – 15 September 2022
* 16 September 2022 – 2023
| {{flag|Iran}}
| Throughout 2021 and 2022, crackdowns on the Iranian Democracy Movement, electricity blackouts, and economic conditions led to nationwide demonstrations, including [[2021 Iranian water protests|protests over water scarcity]] as well as [[2022 Iranian food protests|protests over food price hikes]]. The protests escalated rapidly in 2022 following the [[death of Mahsa Amini]], a 22-year-old woman who was detained by the "[[Guidance Patrol|morality police]]" for not wearing a [[hijab]]. The movement has led to a [[Detainees of the Mahsa Amini protests|large government crackdown]], [[Deaths during the Mahsa Amini protests|a death toll over 500]], and [[Reactions to the Mahsa Amini protests|international condemnation]] for the government's response while also fueling the ongoing anti-hijab movement in Iran and Iranian Democracy Movement.
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-12 |title=The Ebrahim Raisi government just jacked up food prices. Iranians are understandably angry. |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/the-ebrahim-raisi-government-just-jacked-up-food-prices-iranians-are-understandably-angry/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512210654/https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/the-ebrahim-raisi-government-just-jacked-up-food-prices-iranians-are-understandably-angry/ |archive-date=2022-05-12 |access-date=2022-05-13 |website=Atlantic Council}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Nimoni |first1=Fiona |date=16 September 2023 |title=Mahsa Amini: Protesters mark one year since death of Iranian student |agency=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66834156 |access-date=24 September 2023 |archive-date=22 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922014505/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66834156 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Lex TVN|Anti-lex TVN protests]]
| 10 September – 27 December 2021
| {{flag|Poland}}
| On 7 August 2021, [[Law and Justice|PiS]] MPs, which was then the ruling party, submitted a bill to the [[Sejm]] amending the "Broadcasting and the Cinematography Act" ("Ustawa o Radiofonii i Telewizji"), the aim of which was to revoke broadcasting licenses for stations with foreign capital exceeding 49%. This act severely affected the main opposition station [[TVN (Polish TV channel)|TVN]], which belonged to a Dutch holding company.

On 11 August, the act was put to a vote. During the vote, the act did not pass, because one of [[United Right (Poland)|PiS's coalition partner]], [[Agreement (political party)|Porozumienie]], voted against it. After reading the vote that was unfavorable for PiS, [[Marshal of the Sejm]] [[Elżbieta Witek]] called a recess, during which [[Kukiz'15]] MPs said that they had voted wrong, which resulted in a resumption of the vote during which the act passed.

In connection with these events, there were mass anti-government protests. As a result, the act was vetoed by [[Andrzej Duda]]. An additional consequence was the expulsion of Porozumienie from the government coalition. 
|<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Wlodarczak-semczuk |first1=Anna |last2=Florkiewicz |first2=Pawel |date=2021-12-27 |title=Polish president vetoes media bill, U.S. welcomes move |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/polish-president-says-he-vetoed-media-law-2021-12-27/ |access-date=2021-12-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sejmowa komisja kultury i środków przekazu o projekcie ustawy anty-TVN |url=https://tvn24.pl/polska/lex-tvn-ustawa-anty-tvn-w-komisji-sejmowej-marek-suski-przedstawicielem-wnioskodawcow-relacja-st5158297 |publisher=TVN24 |access-date=23 January 2025 |language=pl |date=27 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gąbka |first1=Adrian |title=Protesty w obronie TVN przetoczyły się przez cały kraj. "Nie wykluczamy kolejnych, zależy od sytuacji" |url=https://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/protesty-w-obronie-tvn-przetoczyly-sie-przez-caly-kraj-nie-wykluczamy-kolejnych-zalezy-od-sytuacji |publisher=Wirtualnemedia.pl |access-date=23 January 2025 |language=pl |date=11 August 2021}}</ref>
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| [[2022 Kazakh unrest]]
| 2–11 January 2022
| {{flag|Kazakhstan}}
| Protests erupt in Kazakhstan on 2 January 2022 after a sudden sharp increase in liquefied gas prices following the lifting of a government-enforced [[price cap]] on 1 January.
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Litvinova |first=Dasha |date=2022-01-10 |title=Nearly 8,000 detained in Kazakhstan amid unrest |url=https://apnews.com/article/kazakhstan-europe-national-security-terrorism-2c026ecb00584aba668f320d4482d0f1 |access-date=2022-01-10 |website=[[AP News]] |archive-date=10 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110093014/https://apnews.com/article/kazakhstan-europe-national-security-terrorism-2c026ecb00584aba668f320d4482d0f1 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Canada convoy protest]]
| 22 January – 23 February 2022
| {{flag|Canada}}
| A series of [[Protests over responses to the COVID-19 pandemic|protests]] and [[blockades]] in Canada against [[COVID-19 vaccination in Canada#Vaccine mandates, policies and measures|COVID-19 mandates]] and restrictions, called the [[Freedom Convoy]].
| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Seto |first=Chris |date=27 January 2022 |title='Freedom Convoy' highlights frustrations over COVID-19 mandates |url=https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2022/01/27/freedom-rally-to-roll-through-waterloo-region-thursday-morning.html |access-date=28 January 2022 |website=therecord.com |archive-date=3 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303200930/https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2022/01/27/freedom-rally-to-roll-through-waterloo-region-thursday-morning.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Protests against the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)|Protests against the Russo-Ukrainian war]]
* [[Anti-war protests in Russia (2022–present)|2022 anti-war protests in Russia]]
| 24 February 2022 – present
| {{flag|Russia}}
| A series of protests and anti-war demonstrations held in Russia and worldwide against the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] and [[opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia]].
|<ref>{{cite news |last=Franklin |first=Jonathan |date=6 March 2022 |title=Thousands have been detained in anti-war protests across Russia |work=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/03/06/1084818519/russia-protests-detainments |url-status=live |access-date=7 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308030512/https://www.npr.org/2022/03/06/1084818519/russia-protests-detainments |archive-date=8 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Shevchenko |first=Vitaly |date=15 March 2022 |title=Ukraine war: Protester exposes cracks in Kremlin's war message |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60749064 |access-date=15 March 2022 |archive-date=15 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315140128/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60749064 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Economist">{{Cite news |title=More than 15,000 Russians have been arrested in anti-war protests |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/03/22/more-than-15000-russians-have-been-arrested-in-anti-war-protests |date=22 March 2022 |access-date=26 September 2022 |issn=0013-0613 |archive-date=22 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922073953/https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/03/22/more-than-15000-russians-have-been-arrested-in-anti-war-protests |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2022 Sri Lankan protests]]
| 15 March – 14 November 2022
| {{flag|Sri Lanka}}
| Starting in 2019, [[Sri Lanka]] had been facing its [[Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–2024)|worst economic crisis]] since its independence. The then-ongoing crisis culminated in mass popular protests and riots against the incumbent government and the [[Rajapaksa family]], which eventually forced [[President of Sri Lanka|President]] [[Gotabaya Rajapaksa]] to [[Exile of Gotabaya Rajapaksa|flee the country]] and resign in July. [[Prime Minister of Sri Lanka|Prime Minister]] [[Ranil Wickremesinghe]] succeeded Rajapaksa as the President amidst the protests.
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Sri Lanka's Leaderless Protests |url=https://thediplomat.com/2022/04/sri-lankas-leaderless-protests/ |access-date=18 April 2022 |website=thediplomat.com |archive-date=17 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717055832/https://thediplomat.com/2022/04/sri-lankas-leaderless-protests/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=17 April 2022 |title=Sri Lanka: The protesters |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/world/sri-lanka-the-protesters-7872646/ |access-date=18 April 2022 |website=The Indian Express |archive-date=15 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515215030/https://indianexpress.com/article/world/sri-lanka-the-protesters-7872646/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-07-10 |title=Sri Lanka: Protesters 'will occupy palace until leaders go' |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62111900 |access-date=2022-07-11 |archive-date=17 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717054554/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62111900 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2022 Karakalpak protests]]
| 1–3 July 2022
| {{flag|Karakalpakstan}}
|Spurred by a draft of a new version of the [[Constitution of Uzbekistan]], in which the word "sovereign" was removed from the description of the status of [[Karakalpakstan]], and the mention of the republic's right to secede from Uzbekistan was also removed. These were later withdrawn.
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lillis |first1=Joanna |date=7 July 2022 |title=Karakalpakstan: Dazed, confused and angry after deadly turmoil |website=Eurasianet |url=https://eurasianet.org/karakalpakstan-dazed-confused-and-angry-after-deadly-turmoil |access-date=11 July 2022 |archive-date=13 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713072059/https://eurasianet.org/karakalpakstan-dazed-confused-and-angry-after-deadly-turmoil |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| Raging Years Movement
* Resign Shigeru Ishiba rally
| 9 July 2022 – present
| {{flag|Japan}}
| Anti-government protests and riots occurred after the [[assassination of Shinzo Abe]], a controversial [[Unification Church]] ties to the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]] and the [[2023–2024 Japanese slush fund scandal|slush fund scandal]], including the violent storming of the [[National Diet Building]] in [[Tokyo]] led by youth protesters and rioters, but it was dispersed by the [[Riot Police Unit]] and [[Japan Ground Self-Defense Force|military forces]]. Other protests occurred since the [[2024 Japanese general election]], a controversial protest calls for the resignation of Prime Minister [[Shigeru Ishiba]] at the [[Expo 2025]] site in [[Osaka]]. The anti-[[Sanae Takaichi]] protests occurred after the [[2025 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election]] against her ultraconservative policies, and the dissolution of the [[Liberal Democratic Party–Komeito coalition]].
| <ref>{{cite news|url=https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220818/p2a/00m/0na/008000c|title=1,000-plus people march in Tokyo to protest ex-PM Abe's state funeral: organizers |work=[[Mainichi Shimbun]] |date=18 August 2022 |access-date=19 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/139654?display=1|title=国会議事堂前で国葬反対の抗議活動 2500人超参加か |work=TBS News Dig |date=1 September 2022 |access-date=1 September 2022 |language=ja |archive-date=1 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901043816/https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/139654?display=1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=21 September 2022 |title=Japan man sets himself on fire in apparent protest of Abe funeral |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62976842 |access-date=21 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Kiyoshi |last1=Takenaka|first2=Elaine |last2=Lies|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japans-kishida-likely-retain-finance-foreign-ministers-reshuffle-nikkei-2022-08-08/|title=Japan PM says new cabinet members must 'review' ties with Unification Church |work=[[Reuters]] |date=9 August 2022 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Yamaguchi |first=Mari |date=8 December 2023 |title=Japan's leader grilled in parliament over widening fundraising scandal, link to Unification Church |url=https://apnews.com/article/japan-kishida-fundraising-scandal-unification-church-26257498b503bd46298b4349d0b68400 |access-date=11 January 2024 |work=[[Associated Press]] |archive-date=9 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240109191600/https://apnews.com/article/japan-kishida-fundraising-scandal-unification-church-26257498b503bd46298b4349d0b68400 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2022 Sierra Leone protests]]
| 10–12 August 2022
| {{flag|Sierra Leone}}
| Thirty-one people, including 25 civilians and six police officers, died during violent protests and riots in the [[West Africa]]n country of [[Sierra Leone]]. The protests were sparked by the nation's cost-of-living crisis.
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-10 |title=Deadly anti-government protests erupt in Sierra Leone |url=https://www.euronews.com/2022/08/10/deadly-anti-government-protests-erupt-in-sierra-leone |access-date=2022-08-12 |website=euronews |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525154304/https://www.euronews.com/2022/08/10/deadly-anti-government-protests-erupt-in-sierra-leone |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2022–2023 Brazilian election protests]]
* [[2023 Brazilian Congress attack]]
| 31 October 2022 – 9 January 2023
* 8 January 2023
| {{flag|Brazil}}
| The 2022 Brazilian election protests began shortly after the conclusion of the [[2022 Brazilian general election]]'s second round on 30 October, in which [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] was elected president. Supporters of [[Jair Bolsonaro]], the [[Lame duck (politics)|outgoing]] incumbent president, started blocking [[road]]s and [[highway]]s in the country. At least 23 Brazilian states, plus the [[Federal District (Brazil)|Federal District]], recorded roadblocks as of 1 November, adding up to at least 267 roadblocks according to data from [[Federal Highway Police (Brazil)|Federal Highway Police]] (PRF). Dozens of Bolsonaro supporters storm the [[Praça dos Três Poderes|Three Powers Plaza]] in the capital [[Brasília]], cause enormous damage. [[President of Brazil|President]] Lula was not there, nor was Bolsonaro or members of Congress.
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-31 |title=Após derrota de Bolsonaro, país tem 236 bloqueios em estradas |url=https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/eleicoes-2022/apos-derrota-de-bolsonaro-pais-tem-236-bloqueios-em-estradas |access-date=2022-12-08 |website=metropoles.com |language=pt-BR |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525154255/https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/eleicoes-2022/apos-derrota-de-bolsonaro-pais-tem-236-bloqueios-em-estradas |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Rodovias têm 167 bloqueios com protestos de bolsonaristas; veja situação por estado |url=https://valorinveste.globo.com/mercados/brasil-e-politica/noticia/2022/11/01/rodovias-tem-271-bloqueios-com-protestos-de-caminhoneiros-veja-situacao-por-estado.ghtml |access-date=2022-12-08 |website=Valor Investe |date=November 2022 |language=pt-br |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525154258/https://valorinveste.globo.com/mercados/brasil-e-politica/noticia/2022/11/01/rodovias-tem-271-bloqueios-com-protestos-de-caminhoneiros-veja-situacao-por-estado.ghtml |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title='Caminhoneiros são reféns de grupos bolsonaristas armados', diz entidade do setor |language=pt-BR |work=BBC News Brasil |url=https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-63460011 |access-date=2022-12-08 |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525154259/https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-63460011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-31 |title=Manifestantes se concentram em frente ao Quartel-General do Exército em Brasília |url=https://noticias.r7.com/eleicoes-2022/manifestantes-se-concentram-em-frente-ao-quartel-general-do-exercito-em-brasilia-02112022 |access-date=2022-12-08 |website=noticias.r7.com/ |language=pt-BR |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525154300/https://noticias.r7.com/eleicoes-2022/manifestantes-se-concentram-em-frente-ao-quartel-general-do-exercito-em-brasilia-02112022/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/08/jair-bolsonaro-supporters-storm-brazils-presidential-palace-and-supreme-court |title=Jair Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil's presidential palace and supreme court |last=Phillips |first=Tom |date=8 January 2023 |work=The Guardian |access-date= |quote= |archive-date=8 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230108191923/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/08/jair-bolsonaro-supporters-storm-brazils-presidential-palace-and-supreme-court |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="CNN">{{cite web |title=Manifestantes furam bloqueio, entram na Esplanada e invadem o Congresso Nacional |last=Rocha |first=Lucas |url=https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/manifestantes-furam-bloqueio-e-entram-na-esplanada-em-brasilia/ |trans-title=Protesters break through the blockade, enter the Esplanade and invade the National Congress |newspaper=[[CNN Brazil]] |date=8 January 2023 |access-date=8 January 2023 |archive-date=8 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230108184449/https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/manifestantes-furam-bloqueio-e-entram-na-esplanada-em-brasilia/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2022 COVID-19 protests in China]]
| 2 November – 5 December 2022
| {{flag|China}}
| A series of protests against COVID-19 lockdowns began in [[mainland China]] on 15 November 2022. The protests began in response to [[Chinese government response to COVID-19|measures]] taken by the [[Government of China|Chinese government]] to prevent the spread of [[COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China|COVID-19 in the country]], including implementing a [[zero-COVID]] policy. Discontentment towards the policy has grown since the beginning of the pandemic, which confined many people to their homes without work, leaving them unable to purchase daily necessities and subjecting them to harsh restrictions. Protests escalated on 24 November 2022 following a [[2022 Ürümqi fire|fire]] in an apartment building in [[Ürümqi]] which killed 10 people, with protesters blaming China's policies for the deaths.
|<ref>{{Cite news |title=Xinjiang residents complain of hunger after 40-day COVID lockdown |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/15/xinjiang-residents-complain-of-hunger-after-40-day-covid-lockdown |access-date=2022-11-27 |website=[[Al Jazeera English]] |archive-date=10 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310203945/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/15/xinjiang-residents-complain-of-hunger-after-40-day-covid-lockdown |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Jiang |first=Steven |date=2022-04-19 |title=Hunger and anger in Shanghai's unending lockdown nightmare |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/china/shanghai-covid-lockdown-nightmare-intl-dst-hnk/index.html |access-date=2022-11-27 |website=[[CNN]] |archive-date=28 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128131032/https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/china/shanghai-covid-lockdown-nightmare-intl-dst-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Peruvian protests (2022–2023)]]
| 7 December 2022 – 24 March 2023
| {{flag|Peru}}
|Protests erupted against the government of [[Dina Boluarte]] and the [[Congress of the Republic of Peru|Congress of Peru]] called by supporters of the ousted [[president of Peru]], [[Pedro Castillo]], organized by social organizations and indigenous peoples who felt they experienced [[Disfranchisement|political disenfranchisement]], specifically on the politically left-wing to far left. The government's [[Fujimorism|authoritarian response]] was widely criticized, with further discontent following the Supreme Court's decision to declare protesting in Peru to be illegal.
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Continúan marchas en la ciudad exigiendo Elecciones Generales |url=https://diarioelpueblo.com.pe/index.php/2022/12/09/continuan-marchas-en-la-ciudad-exigiendo-elecciones-generales/ |access-date=2022-12-09 |website=Diario El Pueblo |date=9 December 2022 |language=es |archive-date=10 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210015635/https://diarioelpueblo.com.pe/index.php/2022/12/09/continuan-marchas-en-la-ciudad-exigiendo-elecciones-generales/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Seguidores de Pedro Castillo se manifiestan en Lima: "Lo que vemos ahora es una dictadura" |url=https://www.24horas.cl/internacional/noticias/seguidores-de-pedro-castillo-se-manifiestan-en-lima |access-date=2022-12-09 |website=[[24 horas (Chilean TV program)|24 Horas]] |language=es-CL |archive-date=13 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213201613/https://www.24horas.cl/internacional/noticias/seguidores-de-pedro-castillo-se-manifiestan-en-lima |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pari |first=Wilder |date=9 December 2022 |title=Manifestantes en Panamericana Sur de Arequipa indican ser autoconvocados y no tienen dirigentes |url=https://larepublica.pe/sociedad/2022/12/09/manifestantes-en-panamericana-sur-de-arequipa-indican-ser-autoconvocados-y-que-no-tienen-dirigentes-lrsd/ |access-date=2022-12-10 |website=[[La República (Peru)|La República]] |language=es |archive-date=12 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212061917/https://larepublica.pe/sociedad/2022/12/09/manifestantes-en-panamericana-sur-de-arequipa-indican-ser-autoconvocados-y-que-no-tienen-dirigentes-lrsd/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cabrera |first=Gerardo |date=9 December 2022 |title=La izquierda se moviliza para minimizar la responsabilidad de Pedro Castillo en su autogolpe |url=https://www.elespanol.com/mundo/20221209/izquierda-moviliza-minimizar-responsabilidad-pedro-castillo-autogolpe/724427738_0.html |access-date=2022-12-09 |website=[[El Español]] |language=es |archive-date=11 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211093631/https://www.elespanol.com/mundo/20221209/izquierda-moviliza-minimizar-responsabilidad-pedro-castillo-autogolpe/724427738_0.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Noriega |first=Carlos |date=2023-05-17 |title=Perú: la Corte Suprema prohíbe el derecho a la protesta {{!}} Un paso más en la ofensiva authoritaria |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/550438-peru-la-corte-suprema-prohibe-el-derecho-a-la-protesta |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=[[Página 12]] |language=es |archive-date=29 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529070639/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/550438-peru-la-corte-suprema-prohibe-el-derecho-a-la-protesta |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[July Revolution (Bangladesh)|July Revolution]]
| 10 December 2022 – 5 August 2024
|{{flag|Bangladesh}}
|A series of anti-government protests against the authoritarian government were initiated by the Bangladeshi opposition parties in December 2022, the protests continued spite of the government crackdowns. Though initially low-level, with instances of vandalism in late 2023, the movement gained momentum in 2024. Initially focused on restructuring discriminatory traditional and [[Quota system of Bangladesh Civil Service|quota-based systems]] for government job recruitment, the movement expanded against what many perceive as an authoritarian government when hundreds of protestors and civilians, most of whom were students, were killed. The protests resulted in the resignation of prime minister [[Sheikh Hasina]] after 15 years of rule.
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 December 2022 |title=What's behind antigovernment protests in Bangladesh? |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2022/12/11/whats-behind-anti-government-protests-in-bangladesh |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425194122/https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2022/12/11/whats-behind-anti-government-protests-in-bangladesh |archive-date=25 April 2023 |access-date=11 December 2022 |website=[[Al Jazeera]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=5 August 2024 |title=Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina resigns as widening unrest sees protesters storm her official residence |url=https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-hasina-student-protest-quota-violence-fdc7f2632c3d8fcbd913e6c0a1903fd4 |access-date=5 August 2024 |website=[[AP News]] |archive-date=5 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805102752/https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-hasina-student-protest-quota-violence-fdc7f2632c3d8fcbd913e6c0a1903fd4 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gupta |first1=Anant |title=Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigns, army chief says |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/05/bangladesh-prime-minister-hasina-resigns/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=5 August 2024}}</ref><ref name="Alam-Pathi">{{Cite news |last1=Alam |first1=Julhas |last2=Pathi |first2=Krutika |date=5 August 2024 |title=Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigns and leaves Bangladesh, ending 15-year rule |url=https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-hasina-student-protest-quota-violence-fdc7f2632c3d8fcbd913e6c0a1903fd4 |access-date=5 August 2024 |work=[[Associated Press]] |archive-date=5 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805102752/https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-hasina-student-protest-quota-violence-fdc7f2632c3d8fcbd913e6c0a1903fd4 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|[[2023 Israeli judicial reform protests]]
|7 January – 12 October 2023
|{{flag|Israel}}
|Mass protests, strikes and civil disobedience campaigns occurred across the country in response to Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]'s right wing government's [[2023 Israeli judicial reform|plan to overhaul the Israeli Judiciary system]], which have been criticized for removing the checks and balances on the government and giving it unrestrained power.
|<ref>{{Cite news |title=Israel: mass protests after sacking of minister who opposed judicial overhaul |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/26/benjamin-netanyahu-fires-defence-minister-yoav-gallant-judicial-overhaul |date=26 March 2023 |access-date=3 April 2023 |archive-date=27 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327032000/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/26/benjamin-netanyahu-fires-defence-minister-yoav-gallant-judicial-overhaul |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Israel Crisis Battle for Country's Identity |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65097625 |date=29 March 2023 |access-date=3 April 2023 |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525154300/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65097625 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=13th Week of Anti-Overhaul Protests |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/13th-week-of-anti-overhaul-protests-as-in-poland-government-is-just-reorganizing/ |date=1 April 2023 |access-date=3 April 2023 |archive-date=3 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403213512/https://www.timesofisrael.com/13th-week-of-anti-overhaul-protests-as-in-poland-government-is-just-reorganizing/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2023 French pension reform strikes]]
| 19 January – 8 June 2023
|{{flag|France}}
|A series of [[Civil disorder|civil unrest]] incidents occurred in [[France]] in response to a [[2023 French pension reform bill|pension reform bill]] proposed by the [[Borne government]], which would increase the [[retirement age]] from 62 to 64 years old. Strikes and protests have led to widespread disruption, including garbage piling up in the streets and public transport cancellations. In March, the government used [[Article 49 of the French Constitution|Article 49.3 of the constitution]] to force the bill through the [[French Parliament]], sparking more protests and [[March 2023 votes of no confidence in the government of Élisabeth Borne|two failed no confidence votes]].
|<ref name="ITV23">{{cite web |date=23 March 2023 |title=Mass strikes spark shutdowns in France as pension age protesters rally |url=https://www.itv.com/news/2023-03-23/mass-strikes-spark-shutdowns-in-france-as-pension-age-protesters-rally |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323150051/https://www.itv.com/news/2023-03-23/mass-strikes-spark-shutdowns-in-france-as-pension-age-protesters-rally |archive-date=23 March 2023 |access-date=23 March 2023 |website=ITV News}}</ref><ref name="France24Dodman">{{cite web |last=Dodman |first=Benjamin |date=17 March 2023 |title=Bitter pension battle turns to democratic crisis as Macron bypasses French parliament |url=https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230317-bitter-pension-battle-turns-to-democratic-crisis-as-macron-bypasses-french-parliament |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317235954/https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230317-bitter-pension-battle-turns-to-democratic-crisis-as-macron-bypasses-french-parliament |archive-date=17 March 2023 |access-date=18 March 2023 |website=[[France24]]}}</ref>
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| [[2023–2024 Georgian protests]]
* [[2024 Georgian post-election protests]]
| 6–10 March 2023
* 28 October 2024 – present
|{{flag|Georgia}}
|A series of street demonstrations taking place throughout [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] over parliamentary backing of a proposed "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence", which requires NGOs to register as "agents of foreign influence" if the funds they receive from abroad amount to more than 20% of their total revenue. Police have been reported as using water cannons and tear gas to disperse the protests, especially in the capital [[Tbilisi]]. The parliament retracted the bill as a result of protests on 10 March 2023. Protests against the [[2024 Georgian parliamentary election]] results began in Georgia after the preliminary official results were announced. The demonstrators claimed that the elections, which saw the ruling [[Georgian Dream]] win a majority of seats, were fraudulent, and alternatively demanded a recount and a new election. Additional protests were held on 4 November near the parliament building, where the opposition parties unveiled their strategy to tackle the election results. The protests continued on 17 November, when the final results were certified by the [[Election Administration of Georgia|Central Election Commission]] of Georgia. The scope of the protests was broadened on 28 November, when the government announced that it would postpone the EU negotiations process until 2028. The protests are also called "Georgian Maidan".
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 March 2023 |title=Law on "Transparency of Foreign Funding" Passes 76–13 in the First Reading |work=Civil Georgia |url=https://civil.ge/archives/529567 |access-date=13 March 2023 |archive-date=8 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308124013/https://civil.ge/archives/529567 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=7 March 2023 |title=Georgian police use tear gas on protests against 'foreign agents' law |newspaper=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/parliament-georgia-gives-initial-approval-foreign-agents-law-2023-03-07/ |via=reuters.com |access-date=13 March 2023 |archive-date=14 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314194903/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/parliament-georgia-gives-initial-approval-foreign-agents-law-2023-03-07/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Georgians protest against draft law on media, nonprofits |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/georgians-protest-draft-law-media-nonprofits-97688325 |website=ABC News |access-date=13 March 2023 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307192849/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/georgians-protest-draft-law-media-nonprofits-97688325 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Mogul |first1=Rhea |last2=Tanno |first2=Sophie |last3=Kennedy |first3=Niamh |last4=Ritchie |first4=Hannah |date=9 March 2023 |title=Georgia withdraws 'foreign influence' bill but opposition vows more protests |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/europe/georgia-bill-protests-withdrawn-intl-hnk/index.html |website=[[CNN]] |access-date=13 March 2023 |archive-date=9 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309090219/https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/europe/georgia-bill-protests-withdrawn-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Tbilisi protest crackdown: PM says no Ukrainian Maidan scenario in Georgia |url=https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/tbilisi-protest-crackdown-georgian-pm-says-1732973954.html |access-date=1 December 2024 |website=RBC-Ukraine}}</ref>
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| [[2023 Polish protests]]
* [[2023 Polish protests#June 4 protests|June 4 protests]]
* [[2023 Polish protests#March of a Million Hearts|March of a Million Hearts]]
| 4 June – 1 October 2023
* 4 June
* 1 October 2023
|{{flag|Poland}}
| Two big antigoverment demonstrations were held in Poland in 2023.
The first major protest took place on 4 June under the name "March 4th June" ("Marsz 4 Czerwca"). It was organized by the main opposition party, [[Civic Coalition (Poland)|Civic Coalition]], mainly in opposition to the attempt to establish a {{ill|State Commission to investigate Russian influence  on the internal security of the Republic of Poland in the years 2007–2022|lt=State Commission to investigate Russian influence in the years 2007–2022|pl|Państwowa Komisja do spraw badania wpływów rosyjskich na bezpieczeństwo wewnętrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w latach 2007–2022}}, because this commission could ban people from holding public office without giving a reason, which was a thing aimed at [[Donald Tusk]] and the opposition by ruling [[Law and Justice]]. The march was organized on 4 June, the day commemorating the [[1989 Polish parliamentary election|first partially free elections in Poland in 1989]]. The protest gathered between 300 000 and 500 000 people.

The result of the protest was the submission of an amendment to the act by President [[Andrzej Duda]], which was to soften the controversial provisions in the act. Additionally, thanks to the march, the opposition's popularity increased by about 5 percentage points.

A second protest was held on 1 October under the name "March of a Million Hearts" ("Marsz Miliona Serc"), as a reminder of the first protest just before the [[2023 Polish parliamentary election|parliamentary elections, that was held on 15th October]]. The protest was organised by democtatic opposition ([[Civic Coalition (Poland)|Civic Coalition]], [[Third Way (Poland)|Third Way]] and [[New Left (Poland)|New Left]]), and gathered between 600 000 to 1 100 000 people. This protest was one of the main reasons for the opposition's victory in the parliamentary elections.
|<ref name="ShaunWalker2023">{{cite web | last=Walker | first=Shaun | title=Poland's opposition hopes huge rally in Warsaw will swing election | website=the Guardian | date=2023-10-01 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/01/polands-opposition-hopes-huge-rally-in-warsaw-will-swing-election | access-date=2025-02-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Polish opposition rally draws 'a million' protesters to Warsaw |date=October 2023 |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2023/10/01/polish-opposition-rally-draws-a-million-protesters-to-warsaw_6142279_143.html |publisher=Le Monde |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Mierzyńska |first1=Anna |title=Ile osób na #MarszMilionaSerc? Potwierdzamy – ponad milion! |url=https://oko.press/na-zywo/wybory-na-zywo-oko-press/ile-osob-na-marszu-ponad-milion |publisher=Oko.press |access-date=23 January 2025 |language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Dąbrowska-Cydzik |first1=Justyna |title=Rekordowe 300 mln zasięgu marszu 4 czerwca w social mediach. "PO osiągnęła maksymalny efekt skali" |date=6 June 2023 |url=https://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/marsz-4-czerwca-donald-tusk-rekord-social-media-brak-relacji-tvp |publisher=Wirtualnemedia.pl |access-date=23 January 2025 |language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sondaż: Koalicja Obywatelska po marszu 4 czerwca zbliżyła się do PiS |work=Rzeczpospolita |url=https://www.rp.pl/polityka/art38587281-sondaz-koalicja-obywatelska-po-marszu-4-czerwca-zblizyla-sie-do-pis |access-date=23 January 2025 |language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title="Ten tłum zrobił bum!". Rok temu odbył się "Marsz 4 czerwca" |url=https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/ten-tlum-zrobil-bum-rok-temu-odbyl-sie-marsz-4-czerwca |publisher=Polish Press Agency |access-date=23 January 2025 |page=pl}}</ref>
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| [[Gaza war protests]]
| 8 October 2023 – present
| Worldwide
| A series of protests and anti-war demonstrations held worldwide, focused on a variety of issues related to the conflict, including demands for a [[ceasefire]], an end to the [[October 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip|Israeli blockade]] and [[Israeli-occupied territories|occupation]], return of Israeli [[Gaza war hostage crisis|hostages]], protesting [[War crimes in the Gaza war|war crimes]], ending [[United States support for Israel in the Gaza war|US support for Israel]] and providing [[humanitarian aid]] to [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]]. 
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-palestinians-hamas-photos-dbb56b035cad95b38e6036d6ec4f9512|title=AP PHOTOS: Protests by pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators span the world as war escalates|date=11 October 2023|website=AP News|access-date=13 October 2023|archive-date=13 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013164400/https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-palestinians-hamas-photos-dbb56b035cad95b38e6036d6ec4f9512|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Massive protests seen at U.S. embassies in several countries after Gaza hospital bombing |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/massive-protests-seen-us-embassies-several-countries-gaza-hospital-bom-rcna121412 |website=NBC News |date=20 October 2023 |access-date=23 October 2023 |archive-date=22 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022230146/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/massive-protests-seen-us-embassies-several-countries-gaza-hospital-bom-rcna121412 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| [[2023–2024 European Union farmers' protests]]
* [[2024 French farmers' protests]]
* [[2024 Polish farmers' protests]]
* [[2023–2024 German farmers' protests]]
|December 2023 – present
|{{flag|EU}}:
* {{flag|France}}
* {{flag|Poland}}
* {{flag|Germany}}
| Series of farmers' protests were held across the European Union mostly due to opposing EU green politics, and unregulated trade of agricultural products with non-European Union member states, such as Ukraine and the Mercosur bloc.
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-15 |title=Polish farmers protest against Ukrainian imports and EU Green Deal |url=https://www.euronews.com/2024/03/15/polish-farmers-protest-against-ukrainian-imports-and-eu-green-deal |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=euronews}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-03-20 |title=Farmers' protests: EU to cap some Ukrainian tariff-free imports |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68615476}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Liakos |first=Sophie Tanno, Chris |date=2024-02-03 |title=Farmers' protests have erupted across Europe. Here's why |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/03/europe/europe-farmers-protests-explainer-intl/index.html |website=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-02-26 |title=Farmers clash with riot police in Brussels as EU agriculture leaders meet |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/26/farmers-protests-brussels-eu-agriculture-leaders-riot-police |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
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| [[2024 Venezuelan protests]]
|28 July 2024 – 10 January 2025
|{{flag|Venezuela}}
|A series of protests erupted in response to the results of the 2024 presidential election, citing allegations of [[2024 Venezuelan presidential election#Fraud allegations|voter fraud]] and [[2024 Venezuelan presidential election#Conduct and irregularities|other irregularities during the election process]]. These events unfolded as part of the broader [[2024 Venezuelan political crisis]] and occurred against the backdrop of the ongoing [[crisis in Venezuela]]. Demonstrations to uphold the results of the election, along with vigils for political prisoners, occurred worldwide after the July election. Spontaneous protests broke out immediately after the election, while later rallies were organized by the [[Venezuelan opposition]]. Maduro claimed the opposition was encouraging a [[coup d'état|coup]] and has charged demonstrators with terrorism, while initiating an unprecedented crackdown. Maduro's security forces have gone door-to-door seeking to arrest protesters, poll workers and members of the opposition in what Maduro has referred to as ''[[Operation Tun Tun]]'', and armed bands of Maduro supporters known as ''[[Colectivo (Venezuela)|colectivos]]'' have joined security forces in repressing dissent. As of 14 August 2024, at least 2,200 persons are reported to have been arrested, and 25 killed. Maduro has announced plans to continue to seek the arrest of dissenters, and to rehabilitate two prisons to house those detained.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240828-venezuela-opposition-leader-machado-vows-to-make-maduro-yield-on-election-fraud |work=[[France 24]] |title=Venezuela opposition leader Machado vows to make Maduro 'yield' on election 'fraud' |date=28 August 2024 |access-date=2 December 2024 |archive-date=3 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241003095104/https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240828-venezuela-opposition-leader-machado-vows-to-make-maduro-yield-on-election-fraud |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Phillips |first1=Tom |last2=Torres |first2=Patricia |date=3 August 2024 |title='Maduro has lost the streets': In Venezuela's barrios, former loyal voters risk all in protests |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/03/maduro-has-lost-the-streets-in-venezuelas-barrios-former-loyal-voters-risk-all-in-protests |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |agency=[[The Observer]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first1=Antonio Maria |last1=Delgado |first2=Syra |last2=Ortiz Blanes |title=A hundred thousand Venezuelans are considering leaving the country right now, poll says |newspaper=Miami Herald |publisher=Yahoo News |date=14 August 2024 |url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/hundred-thousand-venezuelans-considering-leaving-093000006.html |access-date=2 December 2024 |archive-date=14 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240914210004/https://ca.news.yahoo.com/hundred-thousand-venezuelans-considering-leaving-093000006.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2024 United Kingdom riots]]
| 30 July – 5 August 2024
| {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| The [[Far-right politics in the United Kingdom|far-right]], [[anti-immigration]] protests and riots began after a [[2024 Southport stabbing|mass stabbing]] in [[Southport]]. The riots were fuelled by false claims circulated by far-right groups that the perpetrator of the attack was a [[Muslims|Muslim]] and an [[asylum seeker]], in addition to broader [[Islamophobia in the United Kingdom|Islamophobic]], racist, and anti-immigrant sentiments that had grown leading up to the protests, it was the largest incident of social unrest in England [[2011 England riots|since 2011]].
| <ref>{{Cite news |last1=McDonald |first1=Andrew |last2=Boycott-Owen |first2=Mason |date=6 August 2024 |title=UK far-right riots: everything we know |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-far-right-britain-lawyer-keir-starmer-violence-liverpool-muslims-cardiff/ |access-date=6 August 2024 |work=[[Politico]] |archive-date=6 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240806174759/https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-far-right-britain-lawyer-keir-starmer-violence-liverpool-muslims-cardiff/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=White |first=Nadine |date=5 August 2024 |title=Street beatings, stabbing and mosques under siege: the horrifying racist attacks carried out by far-right mobs|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/riots-uk-muslim-asians-rotherham-manvers-hotel-b2591159.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805065102/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/riots-uk-muslim-asians-rotherham-manvers-hotel-b2591159.html |archive-date=5 August 2024 |access-date=5 August 2024 |work=[[The Independent]] |quote=A Black man beaten by a mob, an Asian man stabbed at a train station and mosques under siege - just some of the horrifying racist incidents carried out by far-right thugs in England this week. The country has been engulfed by racist riots over the past few days, in the wake of the killings of three young girls in Southport on Monday.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Picheta |first=Rob |date=5 August 2024 |title=Violent, far-right riots overran some UK cities this weekend. What happened, and what comes next? |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/05/uk/uk-far-right-protests-explainer-gbr-intl/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240806000942/https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/05/uk/uk-far-right-protests-explainer-gbr-intl/index.html |archive-date=6 August 2024 |access-date=6 August 2024 |website=CNN}}</ref>
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| [[Southeast Europe protests (2024–present)|Southeast Europe protests]]
* [[2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests]]
* [[2024–2025 Romanian election annulment protests]]
* [[2025 Turkish protests]]
|October 2024 – present
|{{flag|EU}}:
* {{flag|Bulgaria}}
* {{flag|Greece}}
* {{flag|Romania}}
{{flag|North Macedonia}}<br />{{flag|Serbia}}<br />{{flag|Turkey}}
|A series of protest and riots against political corruption, [[2025 Southeast Europe retail boycotts|retail boycotts]], and various problems across Southeast Europe sparked by public anger over corruption, [[Democracy in Europe|democratic backsliding]], and tragic events, the protests are largely student-led and driven by younger generations demanding transparency and accountability.
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Protesters demand arrests over train station roof collapse that killed 14 people in Serbia |url=https://apnews.com/article/serbia-roof-collapse-protest-corruption-241a51e273970d7a8fd85b807210fdf7 |website=Associated Press |access-date=4 November 2024 |date=4 November 2024 |archive-date=17 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241117234340/https://apnews.com/article/serbia-roof-collapse-protest-corruption-241a51e273970d7a8fd85b807210fdf7 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Delauney |first1=Guy |last2=Peter |first2=Laurence |date=17 March 2025 |title=Angry protests after North Macedonia nightclub disaster |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyve1v4z52mo |access-date=18 March 2025 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Romanian far-right AUR party leads protests against annulled presidential election |url=https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/12/tens-of-thousands-of-romanians-protest-against-annulled-presidential-race |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.euronews.com|date=12 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Emin Caliskan |first=Mehmet |date=19 March 2025 |title=Protesters say Istanbul mayor detention is a blow to democracy |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/protesters-say-istanbul-mayor-detention-is-blow-democracy-2025-03-19/ |access-date=20 March 2025 |work=Reuters}}</ref>
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| [[Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump]]
* [[Hands Off protests|2025 "Hands Off" protests]]
* [[No Kings (disambiguation)|No Kings protests]]
* [[June 2025 Los Angeles protests]]
* Global March for Dignity
| January 2025 – present
|Worldwide
|An ongoing series of protests against US President [[Donald Trump]], [[Elon Musk]], and the [[Second presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]], beginning on April 5. Participants, including the involvement of over 150 [[advocacy group]]s, protested Trump's [[Liberation Day tariffs|worldwide implementation of "Liberation Day" Tariffs]] which subsequently lead to the [[2025 stock market crash|stock market crash]], several other endeavors causing economic decline, Musk's cuts to government agencies and the federal government, rollback of [[LGBTQ rights in the United States|LGBTQ rights]] in the United States, [[Deportation in the second presidency of Donald Trump|mass deportations of immigrants and legal citizens]], potential negative effects to [[Social Security (United States)|social security]], and cuts to [[Healthcare in the United States|healthcare]] and related research. Protestors additionally expressed concern in policies favoring [[billionaire]]s, growing [[authoritarianism]] in the Trump administration, and a [[decline in democracy]]. These protests are described as the largest nationwide display of opposition to the second Trump administration across Trump's presidential terms, being held at nationwide and worldwide.
|<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Elassar |first1=Alaa |last2=Shelton |first2=Shania |last3=Allen |first3=Mina |date=2025-04-05 |title='Hands Off!' protesters across US rally against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/05/us/hands-off-protests-trump-musk/index.html |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kim |first=Juliana |date=2025-04-05 |title=Nationwide 'Hands Off!' protests erupt against Trump and Musk |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/04/05/nx-s1-5353388/hands-off-protests-washington-dc |access-date=2025-04-24 |work=NPR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Collins |first=Dave |date=2025-04-05 |title=Angry protesters from New York to Alaska assail Trump and Musk in 'Hands Off!' rallies |url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-protests-hands-off-472c574303260cbac315367cc808960d |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=AP News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz79ewg193ro | title=Anti-Trump protests in cities across US declare 'hands off' | newspaper=[[BBC News]] | date=April 5, 2025 | first1=Robin Levinson | last1=King | first2=Jenna | last2=Moon | first3=Bernd | last3=Debusmann Jr | access-date=April 5, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250405212152/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz79ewg193ro|archive-date=2025-04-05|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Morse |first1=Dan |last2=Munro |first2=Dana |last3=Hermann |first3=Peter |last4=Uber |first4=Emma |last5=Alexander |first5=Keith L. |date=2025-04-05 |title=Thousands rally in D.C. as Trump protesters gather across U.S. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/05/hands-off-protest-trump-washington/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250405180602/https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/05/hands-off-protest-trump-washington/ |archive-date=2025-04-05 |access-date=2025-04-05 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=October 19, 2025 |title='No Kings' protests: where does Democratic opposition go next? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3zemk2j4ro |access-date=October 21, 2025 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Frank |first=BrieAnna J. |title='No Kings' organizers concerned about protests. But 'courage is contagious.' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/17/protest-organizers-concerned-hopeful-no-kings-rallies/86671786007/ |access-date=October 17, 2025 |website=USA Today}}</ref>
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| [[2025 Indonesian protests]] 
| February 2025 – present
| {{flag|Indonesia}}
| Public and student-led anti-government protests and riots are being held throughout several cities in Indonesia. They were launched starting on 17 February 2025 by the [[All-Indonesian Students' Union]] (BEM SI), together with individual students' unions against the alleged controversial policies of President [[Prabowo Subianto]]. It is the most violent protests and riots in the country since [[May 1998 Indonesia riots|May 1998]].
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 February 2025 |title='Dark Indonesia' for Prabowo amid major protests against costly policies |url=https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3299353/most-deadly-100-days-indonesias-prabowo-faces-major-student-protests-against-costly-policies |access-date=22 February 2025 |website=South China Morning Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=28 August 2025 |title=3,000 Workers Will Stage Protest at DPR Building Today |url=https://en.tempo.co/read/2043802/3000-workers-will-stage-protest-at-dpr-building-today |access-date=28 August 2025 |website=[[Tempo English]]}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=https://jakartaglobe.id/news/one-piece-anime-flags-pose-threat-to-national-unity-says-deputy-speaker-dasco|publisher=Jakarta Globe|title='One Piece' Anime Flags Pose Threat to National Unity, Says Deputy Speaker Dasco|author1=Ilham Oktafian|author2=Juan Ardya Guardiola|date= 1 August 2025}}</ref>
|-
| Petrotazo
| August 2025 – present
| {{flag|Colombia}}
| The anti-government protests and riots began after the [[assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay]] and several political violence such as the [[August 2025 FARC dissidents clashes]], ahead of the [[2026 Colombian presidential election]]. The riots were fueled by student movements and citizens across [[Bogotá]] against the ongoing [[Colombian conflict]] and President [[Gustavo Petro]] declared [[martial law]] for six months, the protests held again in neighboring countries of Venezuela and Peru.
| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Guzmán |first=Sergio |date=June 5, 2023 |title=Gustavo Petro's Biggest Crisis Yet |url=https://americasquarterly.org/article/gustavo-petros-biggest-crisis-yet/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162731/https://americasquarterly.org/article/gustavo-petros-biggest-crisis-yet/ |archive-date=7 July 2023 |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=Americas Quarterly}}</ref><ref name="Driver">{{Cite web |last=Driver |first=Tom |date=2023-05-08 |title=Gustavo Petro's approval rating drops to lowest point yet at 30% |url=https://www.latinamericareports.com/gustavo-petros-approval-rating-drops-to-lowest-point-yet-at-30/8075/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162626/https://www.latinamericareports.com/gustavo-petros-approval-rating-drops-to-lowest-point-yet-at-30/8075/ |archive-date=7 July 2023 |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=Latin America Reports}}</ref><ref name="Assassination">{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombian-presidential-hopeful-uribe-dies-two-months-after-shooting-2025-08-11/ |title=Colombian presidential hopeful Uribe dies two months after shooting |work=Reuters |date=11 August 2025 |access-date=11 August 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-08-13 |title=Drones laden with explosives kills three Colombian soldiers |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwypn46k1l5o |access-date=2025-08-28 |website=www.bbc.com |archive-date=22 August 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250822040540/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwypn46k1l5o |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2025 Philippine anti-corruption protests]]
| 4 September 2025 – present
| {{flag|Philippines}}
| A series of widespread protests began in the [[Philippines]], including [[Metro Manila]]. They involved several anti-corruption protests stemming from the ongoing [[Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines|flood control projects controversy]] that largely involved the [[Department of Public Works and Highways]] and the [[Congress of the Philippines|legislative branch]] of the Philippine government. Several cities and municipalities across different provinces also held local demonstrations.
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sampang |first1=Dianne |date=September 15, 2025 |title=Sept. 21 rallies against corruption set on two Metro Manila locations |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2109394/sept-21-rallies-against-corruption-set-on-two-metro-manila-locations |access-date=September 18, 2025 |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ratcliffe |first1=Rebecca |date=September 21, 2025 |title=Protesters flood streets of Philippines over state corruption |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/21/protests-philippines-corruption-state-flood |access-date=September 21, 2025 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Malasig |first=Jeline |date=2025-09-15 |title=Protester checklist for Sept. 21 anti-corruption march, according to Bayaw |url=https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2025/09/15/302180/bayaw-checklist-september-21-protesters/ |access-date=2025-09-15 |website=Interaksyon}}</ref>
|-
| [[2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests]]
| 8–16 September 2025
| {{flag|Nepal}}
| Large-scale protests and riots are taking place across Nepal, predominantly organized by Gen Z students and young citizens against government corruption which resulted the resignation of Prime Minister [[K. P. Sharma Oli]] and replaced by [[Sushila Karki]] was appointed as interim prime minister, as well as allegations of mismanagement of public funds and a state-terrorist designation.
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-09-09 |title=Nepal PM Oli resigns after violent anti-corruption protests, his aide says |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/nepal-pm-oli-resigns-after-violent-anti-corruption-protests-his-aide-says-2025-09-09/ |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=[[Reuters]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Scarr |first1=Charlotte |last2=Fraser |first2=Simon |last3=Ethirajan |first3=Anbarasan |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0m4vjwrdwgo |title=Nepal parliament set on fire after PM resigns over anti-corruption protests |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=9 September 2025 |access-date=9 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Walker |first1=Amy |last2=Dahal |first2=Phanindra |date=2025-09-08 |title=At least 19 dead after protests against Nepal social media ban |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78nd2zy9jgo |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=BBC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-09 |title=Nepal's prime minister resigns as protests against the government and corruption rage on |url=https://apnews.com/article/nepal-protest-social-media-ban-89cf500969536cf2a35c3fb884cfa620 |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=AP News}}</ref>
|-
| [[2025 Peruvian protests]]
| 20 September 2025 – present
| {{flag|Peru}}
| Anti-government protests began in [[Peru]] against the unpopular administration of [[Dina Boluarte]] and the [[Congress of the Republic of Peru|Congress of Peru]]. This followed the previous protests that [[Peruvian protests (2022–2023)|occurred in 2022 and 2023]] against the removal of her predecessor, [[Pedro Castillo]]; the protests part of the ongoing [[Peruvian political crisis (2016–present)|Peruvian political crisis]] and prelude to the [[2026 Peruvian general election]].
| <ref>{{Cite news |last1=Aquino |first1=Marco |last2=Villegas |first2=Alexander |date=2025-09-27 |title=Peru's Gen Z rallies against President Boluarte, protesting over pensions and corruption |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-gen-z-rallies-against-president-boluarte-protesting-over-pensions-2025-09-27/ |access-date=2025-09-29 |work=Reuters}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-29 |title=Young Peruvians clash with police in anti-government protests |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2dk735nzlo |access-date=2025-09-29 |website=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Photos: Peru's Gen Z rallies against President Boluarte |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/9/29/perus-gen-z-rallies-against-president-boluarte |access-date=2025-09-29 |website=Al Jazeera}}</ref>
|-
| [[2025 Malagasy protests]]
| 25 September–15 October 2025
| {{flag|Madagascar}}
| Anti-government protests have occurred across [[Madagascar]] since September 2025, focused on the capital of [[Antananarivo]]. On 11 October, units of the [[Madagascar Armed Forces]] carried out [[2025 Malagasy coup d'état|a coup]] in support of the protests, which made president [[Andry Rajoelina]] flee the country and formation of a provisional military junta led by Colonel [[Michael Randrianirina]].
| <ref>{{cite news |last1=Tétaud |first1=Sarah |last2=Imray |first2=Gerald |title=Madagascar's president says a coup is underway after soldiers joined anti-government demonstrations |url=https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-protests-attempted-coup-e6dd29a429e06362efd238cfac7270d0 |work=AP News |date=12 October 2025 |access-date=12 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20251013-france-evacuates-madagascar-president-amid-protests-and-army-revolt|title=France evacuates Madagascar president amid protests and army revolt|date=Oct 13, 2025|website=RFI}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cqxr3y3788pt|title=Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina faces impeachment threat amid reports he has fled|date=13 October 2025|website=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=16 October 2025 |title=AU suspends Madagascar as military leader to be sworn in as president |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/15/au-suspends-madagascar-as-military-leader-to-be-sworn-in-as-president |work=[[Al Jazeera]] |access-date=16 October 2025}}</ref>
|-
| [[2025 Moroccan Gen Z protests]]
| 27 September 2025 – present
| {{flag|Morocco}}
| A series of ongoing youth-led protests in [[Morocco]] demanded with significant improvements to [[Education in Morocco|public education]] and [[Health in Morocco|healthcare]], while criticizing government spending on international sporting events like the [[2030 FIFA World Cup]] and the [[2025 Africa Cup of Nations]]. They were the largest protests since the [[2011–2012 Moroccan protests]].
| <ref>{{cite news |date=1 October 2025 |title=Violence breaks out in Morocco as anti-government protests rage for fourth day |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/violence-morocco-anti-government-protests-gen-z |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251002055340/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/violence-morocco-anti-government-protests-gen-z |archive-date=2 October 2025 |access-date=2 October 2025 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |publication-place=[[Rabat]], Morocco }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Farge |first=Elodie |date=2 October 2025 |title=What is GenZ 212, the group behind the protests in Morocco? |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/what-genz-212-group-behind-protests-morocco |access-date=2025-10-02 |website=[[Middle East Eye]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Oubachir |first=Akram |date=28 September 2025 |title=Young Moroccans clash with police while protesting stadium spending and health system decline |url=https://apnews.com/article/morocco-protests-youth-corruption-912ca1a9dbc42e6d3d2f8a1067eb12f9 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250928232837/https://apnews.com/article/morocco-protests-youth-corruption-912ca1a9dbc42e6d3d2f8a1067eb12f9 |archive-date=28 September 2025 |access-date=6 October 2025 |work=[[Associated Press]] |publication-place=[[Casablanca]], Morocco}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Eljechtimi |first1=Ahmed |last2=Dziadosz |first2=Alexander |date=6 October 2025 |title=Youth-led unrest exposes cracks in Morocco's economic model |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/youth-led-unrest-exposes-cracks-moroccos-economic-model-2025-10-06/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251006114544/https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/youth-led-unrest-exposes-cracks-moroccos-economic-model-2025-10-06/ |archive-date=6 October 2025 |access-date=7 October 2025 |work=[[Reuters]] |location=[[Rabat]], Morocco and [[Cairo]], Egypt}}</ref>
|-
| [[2025 Mexican protests]]
| 2 November 2025 – present
| {{flag|Mexico}}
| Large-scale protests against government corruption and a proposed [[martial law]] declaration over the [[Mexican drug war]] took place across Mexico following the assassination of [[Uruapan]] mayor [[Carlos Manzo]]. Protests were held in major cities across Mexico and varied in size and character, ranging from peaceful marches and vigils to incidents of vandalism and clashes with security forces.
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=15 November 2025 |title=Protest inspired by 'Gen Z' movement draws few young people in Mexico and many government critics |url=https://apnews.com/article/mexico-generation-z-protest-9b0a8b1461a1ec47cce696d25e04feb5 |access-date=18 November 2025 |website=AP News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Irrumpen con violencia en Palacio de Gobierno de Michoacán tras marcha por la paz (Videos) |url=https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/estados/2025/11/2/irrumpen-con-violencia-en-palacio-de-gobierno-de-michoacan-tras-marcha-por-la-paz-videos-362014.html |access-date=2025-11-16 |website=Proceso |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-11-16 |title=Thousands protest crime and corruption in Mexico City as ‘Gen Z’ protests gain momentum |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/americas/genz-protests-mexico-sheinbaum-latam-intl |access-date=2025-11-16 |website=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=3 November 2025 |title=Viuda de Carlos Manzo pide que no haya violencia en manifestaciones en Uruapan, Michoacán |trans-title=Carlos Manzo's widow calls for peaceful demonstrations in Uruapan, Michoacán |url=https://www.milenio.com/policia/carlos-manzo-viuda-pide-que-no-haya-violencia-en-manifestaciones |access-date=3 November 2025 |language=es |newspaper=[[Milenio]] |location=Michoacán}}</ref>
|}

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File:Minneapolis 05-28-20 (49947863357).jpg|Protesters in&nbsp;[[Minneapolis]]&nbsp;where [[Murder of George Floyd|George Floyd was murdered]] and the [[George Floyd protests|unrest]] began on 26 May 2020.
File:02020 0097 (2) Protest against abortion restriction in Bielsko-Biała, November 2020.jpg|[[2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland|Protest against abortion restriction]] in [[Bielsko-Biała]], [[Poland]]
File:2021 Myanmar Protest in Hleden.jpg|[[2021 Myanmar coup d'état]] culminated an [[2021–2022 Myanmar protests|ongoing protests]], thousands of protesters participating in an anti-junta rally in [[Yangon]] in February 2021.
File:2022 Kazakhstan protests — Aqtobe, January 4 (01).jpg|Protesters in [[Aktobe]] during a period of [[2022 Kazakh unrest|unrest]] in [[Kazakhstan]], 4 January 2022.
File:Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka 2022.jpg|[[2022 Sri Lankan protests|Sri Lankans protesting]] in front of the [[Presidential Secretariat (Sri Lanka)|Presidential Secretariat]] in [[Colombo]], 13 April 2022.
File:Amir Kabir University uprising September 2022 (3).jpg|[[Mahsa Amini protests|Iranians protesting]] at [[Amirkabir University of Technology]] in [[Tehran]] following the [[death of Mahsa Amini]], 20 September 2022.
File:Ataque bolsonarista ao Congresso Nacional do Brasil.png|Protesters [[2023 Brazilian Congress attack|attack the Brazilian Congress]] to [[2022–2023 Brazilian election protests|protest and attempt to overturn the results]] of the [[2022 Brazilian election]], 8 January 2023.
File:8 march protest in Tbilisi (cropped).jpg|Pro-Western protesters and rioters during the [[2023–2024 Georgian protests|anti-government protests]] in [[Tbilisi]], Georgia
File:Warszawa - Marsz Miliona Serc (1).jpg|"[[2023 Polish protests|March of a Million Hearts]]" in [[Warsaw]], Poland
File:John Deere 6320 Saint-Etienne-de-Fontbellon manifestations agriculteurs janvier 2024.jpg|Tractors at [[Saint-Étienne-de-Fontbellon|Saint-Etienne-de-Fontbellon]] ([[France]]) during the [[2023–2024 European Union farmers' protests|EU farmers' protests]].
File:People cheering in front of the Prime Minister's Office after Sheikh Hasina's resignation.jpg|People cheering in front of the [[Prime Minister's Office (Bangladesh)|Prime Minister's Office]] after [[Sheikh Hasina]]'s resignation, ending the [[July Revolution (Bangladesh)|July Revolution]] in Bangladesh.
File:2024 Venezuela protests 01.jpg|Venezuelans [[2024 Venezuelan protests|taking to the streets to protest]] the [[2024 Venezuelan presidential election|2024 presidential election results]] in Caracas, 3 August 2024.
File:2025 Indonesia Gelap protests 21 February (cropped).jpg|Damn Indonesia protesters near the [[National Monument (Indonesia)|National Monument]], [[Central Jakarta]], during the [[2025 Indonesian protests]] in February 2025.
File:Hands off protest in Minnesota.jpg|A group of [[Hands Off protests|"Hands-Off"]] protestors on the [[Minnesota State Capitol]] in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]] since the [[George Floyd protests]] in 2020.
File:CA Guard and protestors, June 2025.jpg|[[California National Guard]] and protestors during [[June 2025 Los Angeles protests]].
File:Oyane-ring southeast.jpg|Anti-government protests disrupted the [[Expo 2025]] in Osaka since the [[assassination of Shinzo Abe]] three years earlier, part of the Raging Years movement.
File:2025 Nepalese Gen Z protesters infront of Bharatpur mahanagarpalika office.jpg|Angry protesters and rioters in [[Kathmandu]] during the [[2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests]].
File:Trillion Peso March - EDSA.jpg|Trillion Peso March at [[EDSA Shrine]], [[Quezon City]] during the [[2025 Philippine anti-corruption protests]].
File:Generacionz laser.jpg|The Petrotazo and Boluartzo protests led by Gen Z protesters in Colombia and Peru, in response to the ongoing [[Colombian conflict]] and the [[Peruvian political crisis (2016–present)|Peruvian political crisis]].
File:No Kings protest 2 in Chicago 124655.jpg|[[October 2025 No Kings protests]] made one of the largest single-day protests in the United States and worldwide.
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===Terrorist attacks===
{{Main|List of terrorist incidents#1970–present}}

''Note: To be included, entries must be [[Notability in the English Wikipedia|notable]] (have a stand-alone article) and described by a consensus of [[WP:Reliable sources|reliable sources]] as "terrorism."''

The most prominent [[List of terrorist incidents|terrorist attacks]] committed against civilian populations during the decade include, but are not limited to:
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
!Event
!Date
!Country
!Deaths
!Injuries
!{{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
|[[Koshebe massacre]]
|28 November 2020
|{{flag|Nigeria}}
|110
|6
|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55120638 |title=Dozens of farm workers killed in 'insane' Nigeria attack |newspaper=BBC News |date=30 November 2020 |access-date=1 December 2020 |archive-date=17 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117004442/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55120638 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2021 Kabul school bombing]]
|8 May 2021
|{{flag|Afghanistan|2013}}
|90
|240
|<ref>{{Cite web |first1=Jennifer |last1=Deaton |first2=Sheena |last2=McKenzie |title=Death toll rises to 85 in Afghanistan girls' school bomb attack |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/asia/afghanistan-girls-school-attack-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=2021-06-02 |website=CNN |date=10 May 2021 |archive-date=10 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510013930/https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/asia/afghanistan-girls-school-attack-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2021 Kabul airport attack]]
|26 August 2021
|{{flag|Afghanistan}}
|183
|200+
|<ref>{{cite web |last=Pasko |first=Simcha |date=26 August 2021 |title=Suicide bombing kills, injures several at Kabul airport |url=https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/large-explosion-at-abbey-gate-at-the-kabul-airport-report-677790 |access-date=26 August 2021 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |archive-date=26 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826134530/https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/large-explosion-at-abbey-gate-at-the-kabul-airport-report-677790 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2022 Peshawar mosque attack]]
|4 March 2022
|{{flag|Pakistan}}
|64+
|196+
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-03-04 |title=JUST IN: Multiple people feared dead after terrorist attack in Peshawar, Pakistan |url=https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/03/04/terrorist-attack-peshawar-pakistan/ |access-date=2022-03-04 |website=Euro Weekly News |archive-date=4 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304151431/https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/03/04/terrorist-attack-peshawar-pakistan/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2022 Somali Ministry of Education bombings]]
|29 October 2022
|{{flag|Somalia}}
|121+
|300+
|<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Mukhtar |first1=Idris |last2=Tawfeeq |first2=Mohammed |last3=Yamour |first3=Heather |date=2022-10-30 |title=Explosions near Somalia's education ministry kill 100 people |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/africa/explosions-somalia-education-ministry-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=[[CNN]] |archive-date=30 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030064747/https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/africa/explosions-somalia-education-ministry-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2023 Peshawar mosque bombing]]
|30 January 2023
|{{flag|Pakistan}}
|101
|220+
|<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Saifi |first1=Sophia |last2=Mogul |first2=Rhea |last3=Mehsud |first3=Saleem |date=2023-01-31 |title=Death toll from blast in Pakistan mosque rises to at least 100 as country faces 'national security crisis' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/asia/pakistan-peshawar-mosque-blast-tuesday-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=2023-03-03 |website=[[CNN]] |archive-date=2 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202025049/https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/asia/pakistan-peshawar-mosque-blast-tuesday-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Re'im music festival massacre]]
|7 October 2023
|{{flag|Israel}}
|364
|Unknown
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 November 2023 |title=TV: Police probe of Re'im massacre shows terrorists didn't know about party in advance |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/tv-police-probe-of-reim-massacre-shows-terrorists-didnt-know-about-party-in-advance/ |website=The Times of Israel |access-date=11 January 2024 |archive-date=29 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129145235/https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/tv-police-probe-of-reim-massacre-shows-terrorists-didnt-know-about-party-in-advance/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2024 Kerman bombings]]
|3 January 2024
|{{flag|Iran}}
|103
|284
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 January 2024 |title=Iran identifies alleged bomb-maker behind last week's IS twin suicide attack that killed dozens |url=https://apnews.com/article/iran-bombing-ringleader-tajikistan-4dec3cf4b1479a0222b2853bbb2f72bb |access-date=11 January 2024 |website=[[AP News]] |archive-date=11 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111100234/https://apnews.com/article/iran-bombing-ringleader-tajikistan-4dec3cf4b1479a0222b2853bbb2f72bb |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Crocus City Hall attack]]
|22 March 2024
|{{flag|Russia}}
|145
|551
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Steve |title=Why is Russia trying to frame Ukraine for concert massacre? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68759150 |access-date=10 April 2024 |work=BBC |date=8 April 2024 |archive-date=10 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240410031004/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68759150 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2024 Barsalogho attack]]
|24 August 2024
|{{flag|Burkina Faso}}
|600+
|300+
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 27, 2024 |title=Suspected jihadists kill hundreds in Burkina Faso attack |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/suspected-jihadists-kill-hundreds-burkina-faso-attack-2024-08-27/ |access-date=September 1, 2024 |publisher=[[Reuters]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[2024 Magdeburg car attack]]
|20 December 2024
|{{flag|Germany}}
|5
|200+
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/21/magdeburg-mourns-christmas-market-dead |title=Magdeburg mourns Christmas market dead |last=Connolly |first=Kate |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=21 December 2024}}</ref>
|-
|[[2025 New Orleans truck attack]]
|1 January 2025
|{{Flag|United States}}
|14
|59
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|<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Hussain |first1=Shaiq |last2=Noack |first2=Rick |date=11 November 2025 |title=12 killed in deadliest attack on Pakistan's heartland in almost a decade |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/11/pakistan-capital-islamabad-suicide-bombing/ |url-status=live |archive-url=http://archive.today/2025.11.11-131203/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/11/pakistan-capital-islamabad-suicide-bombing/ |archive-date=11 November 2025 |access-date=11 November 2025 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>
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===Political trends===
{{Further|2020s in politics}}
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| caption1          = The 2024 ''[[The Economist Democracy Index|Democracy Index]]'' map by the [[Economist Intelligence Unit]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-27 |title=EIU's 2024 Democracy Index: trend of global democratic decline and strengthening authoritarianism continues through 2024 |url=https://www.eiu.com/n/democracy-index-2024/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=Economist Intelligence Unit |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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| caption2          = The 2025 ''[[World Press Freedom Index]]'' by [[Reporters Without Borders]] (RSF)<ref>{{Cite web |title=RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025: economic fragility a leading threat to press freedom |url=https://rsf.org/en/rsf-world-press-freedom-index-2025-economic-fragility-leading-threat-press-freedom |access-date=May 3, 2025 |website=Reporters Without Borders}}</ref>
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The 2020s marked the end of the [[Post-Cold War era]], particularly in [[Post-communism|post-communist]] [[Eastern Europe]], east of the former [[Iron Curtain]].<ref name="Ghodsee2017">{{cite book |last=Ghodsee |first=Kristen |date=2017 |title=Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism |url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/red-hangover |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |pages=xix–xx, 134, 197–99 |isbn=978-0822369493 |author-link=Kristen Ghodsee}}</ref> [[Centre-right politics|Center-right politics]] underwent a decline throughout the western world in the early 2020s, led by demographic changes such as increased [[tertiary education]] and ethnic diversity as well as the waning influence of religion and the rise of [[identity politics]]. At this time, center-right parties drifted rightward towards [[right-wing populism]], [[national conservatism]], or were supplanted by new far-right parties.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cliffe |first=Jeremy |date=2023-02-15 |title=The Strange Death of the Centre Right |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2023/02/strange-death-centre-right-moderate-conservatism |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230225082048/https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2023/02/strange-death-centre-right-moderate-conservatism |archive-date=2023-02-25 |website=New Statesman}}</ref> [[Centre-left politics|Center-left politics]] has not declined to the same extent, but center-left politicians have faced significant challenges, most notably [[Joe Biden]] (particularly [[Age and health concerns about Joe Biden|age and health concerns]]).<ref>{{cite news|last1=De Pinto |first1=Jennifer |last2=Salvanto |first2=Anthony |last3=Backus |first3=Fred |last4=Khanna |first4=Kabir |date=January 19, 2025 |title=Biden's presidency viewed negatively by most Americans — CBS News poll |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-presidency-opinion-poll-2025-01-19/ |access-date=March 14, 2025 |publisher=[[CBS News]]}}</ref> [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]] in [[Ukraine]] is also struggling, with the [[next Ukrainian presidential election]] indefinitely postponed due to the ongoing [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]].<ref name="no term end">{{Cite news |last=d'Istria |first=Thomas |date=23 May 2024 |title=Volodymyr Zelensky, a president with no term end |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/05/23/volodymyr-zelensky-a-president-with-no-term-end_6672475_4.html |access-date=2 June 2024 |work=Le Monde}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Oliynyk |first1=Tetyana |title=Zelenskyy to decide on second term based on war's outcome |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/01/2/7491800/ |access-date=4 January 2025 |work=Ukrainska Pravda |date=2 January 2025}}</ref>

A deep political divide has arisen in the [[United States]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/new-statesman-view/2025/01/strange-death-of-centre-right|title=The strange death of the centre right: Moderate conservatives have allowed themselves to be marginalized by their populist rivals.|date=March 15, 2025|access-date=January 15, 2025|quote=Before Labour entered power, shadow cabinet ministers spoke of the prospect of a "progressive moment". The hope was that Keir Starmer and other centre-left leaders would unite in a quasi-reenactment of the late 1990s. That dream died on 6 November 2024 when Donald Trump comfortably defeated Kamala Harris. But it is not only Mr. Trump's victory that is evocative of a reactionary moment. Germany's Olaf Scholz – a close ally of Mr Starmer – lost a vote of confidence last year and [was] defeated by the Christian Democrats in next month's general election. The Social Democrats are not only polling behind their traditional rival but also the far-right AfD.|website=The New Statesman}}</ref> which has seen acute [[Political polarization in the United States|political polarization]], with stark divides along [[Race and ethnicity in the United States|race and ethnicity]], [[Educational attainment in the United States|educational attainment]],<ref name="gap within the gender gap">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/steve-kornacki-white-men-white-women-gap-gender-gap-rcna196791|title=Steve Kornacki: White men, white women, and the gap within the gender gap|quote=New NBC News polling data illustrates the cultural and political gulf separating white men without college degrees and white women with college degrees. ... On one end are white men without four-year college degrees. This is a generally blue-collar demographic that is now deeply aligned with Trump and opposed to progressive politics. On the other end are white women with at least four-year college degrees. This is a more affluent demographic that has been racing leftward, particularly on cultural issues, and is squarely opposed to Trump. ... It also raises the question of whether these are mutually reinforcing trends - that a GOP fueled by blue-collar men will simply turn off more and more white-collar women, just as a Democratic Party fueled by white-collar women will continue to lose more ground among blue-collar men.|first1=Steve|last1=Kornacki|publisher=NBC News|date=March 18, 2025|access-date=March 19, 2025}}</ref> and [[Blue states and red states|political polarization among states]].<ref>{{cite news|date=November 6, 2024|title=Exit poll results 2024|url=https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/exit-polls/national-results/general/president/0|access-date=November 6, 2024|publisher=CNN|archive-date=November 5, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241105154934/https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/exit-polls/national-results/general/president/0|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[2024 United States presidential election]] was decided by 1.5% (49.8-48.3%), in [[List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin|one of the closest presidential elections in American history]]. In 2024, [[Donald Trump]] defeated [[Kamala Harris]] after Harris previously defeated Trump in [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]] as the [[Vice President of the United States|Vice presidential]] candidate, in a quasi-rematch.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Trump wins the US Presidency|publisher=AP News|date=2024-11-06|url=https://apnews.com/live/trump-harris-election-updates-11-5-2024|access-date=2024-11-06|archive-date=November 8, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241108182720/https://apnews.com/live/trump-harris-election-updates-11-5-2024|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Western Europe]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://luskin.ucla.edu/understanding-europes-political-turmoil|date=July 12, 2024|website=UCLA Luskin|access-date=June 12, 2025|title=Understanding Europe's Political Turmoil|quote=News organizations covering political upheaval in Europe have turned to the 2024 Berggruen Governance Index (BGI) for a deeper understanding of nations’ capacity to meet the needs of their people. PA Media cited the index’s finding that “long-term scars” caused by austerity and Brexit have stifled economic growth and undermined social cohesion in Britain.}}</ref> [[Canada]],<ref name="Canada 2025">{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/04/30/canadas-new-conservative-movement-resembles-donald-trumps|date=April 30, 2025|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=May 1, 2025|title=Canada's new Conservative movement resembles Donald Trump's|quote=Just as in the United States, working-class and immigrant voters swung right. ... The two best predictors of the margin shift between the major parties are education and immigration. Holding all else constant, the Liberals gained ground relative to the Conservatives in ridings with more university graduates and native-born voters. Conversely, they fell back in places with more foreign-born residents and voters who lack degrees.}}</ref> and [[Oceania]] ([[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]]) have largely avoided democratic backsliding and the rise of far-right politics,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/politics/414503/left-materialism-far-right-trump-economic-anxiety|title=Why the left gets the far right wrong|date=May 28, 2025|website=Vox|quote=This is not to deny that voters care about material concerns. It’s obvious that inflation was a central reason for Trump’s 2024 victory. … This is a fundamentally post material account of far-right politics. It argues that the right wins not by channeling people’s displaced economic anger, but by articulating ideas that match their deeply held beliefs, values, and identities.|access-date=November 18, 2025|first1=Zack|last1=Beauchamp}}</ref> but even there political instability and polarization has increased.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/09/11/is-british-politics-broken-its-centre-is-cracking|title=Is British politics broken? Its centre is cracking|date=September 11, 2025|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=September 12, 2025|quote=In fact, the Brexit referendum of 2016 accelerated a trend in which age and education, rather than class, are the best predictors of voting behavior. … This is splitting left-leaning young graduates from right-leaning pensioners.}}</ref> [[Keir Starmer]] of the [[United Kingdom]] has seen his approval ratings fall precipitously,<ref name="Starmer CNBC">{{Cite web |last=Ellyatt |first=Holly |date=25 May 2025 |title=Starmer has delivered some key wins for the UK recently, so why is he so unpopular? |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/25/starmer-has-delivered-key-wins-for-the-uk-so-why-is-he-so-unpopular.html |access-date=9 August 2025 |work=CNBC}}</ref> and [[Emmanuel Macron]] of [[France]] has faced a [[2024–2025 French political crisis|French political crisis]] due to a hung parliament.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-10-06 |title=France's political crisis: How did we get here and what comes next? |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/why-is-france-mired-rolling-political-crisis-2025-10-06/ |access-date=2025-10-06 |work=Reuters}}</ref><ref name="German GC"/> However, in the [[2025 Dutch general election]] the liberal [[Democrats 66]] party won the most seats.<ref name="NLD">{{Cite news |last=Krupa |first=Jakub |date=29 October 2025 |title=Centrist D66 party expected to win most seats in Netherlands election – as it happened |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/29/netherlands-parliamentary-election-geert-wilders-europe-latest-news-updates |access-date=30 October 2025 |work=the Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In [[East Asia]], political instability has also increased, particularly in [[Japan]] and [[South Korea]]. South Korea had a [[2024 South Korean martial law crisis|martial law crisis in 2024]],<ref name="South Korea 2024"/> while in Japan the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] lost its majority in both houses of the [[National Diet]].<ref name="Japan 2025">{{Cite news |title=Japan's Komeito to leave ruling coalition with LDP under Takaichi, NHK reports|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japans-komeito-leave-ruling-coalition-with-ldp-under-takaichi-nhk-reports-2025-10-10/ |access-date=2025-10-10 |work=Reuters |language=en-US}}</ref> The [[Gen Z protests in Asia]] began in 2024, with the [[July Revolution (Bangladesh)|July Revolution in Bangladesh]] being described as the world's first [[Generation Z]] revolution.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sarkar |first=Alisha Rahaman |date=7 August 2024 |title=How Bangladesh’s students carried out world’s first Gen Z revolution |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/bangladesh-protesters-gen-z-sheikh-hasina-overthrown-b2591824.html |work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref> [[Zohran Mamdani]] was [[2025 New York City mayoral election|elected mayor of New York City in 2025]] at the age of 34, becoming the first Muslim, [[Indians in Uganda|Indian-Ugandan]], and [[Millennials|millennial]] mayor of New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zurcher |first=Anthony |date=2025-11-05 |title=Mamdani seals remarkable victory - but real challenges await |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly4kr8gzr2o |access-date=2025-11-05 |website=BBC News |language=en-gb}}</ref> 

====Political economic trends====
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| caption1          = Median annual salaries across educational levels varied by a factor of about 3.<ref name=salary>{{cite web |last1=Conte |first1=Niccolo |title=Charted: Salary by Education Level in the United States |url=https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-us-salary-by-education-level/ |publisher=Visual Capitalist |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250924183655/https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-us-salary-by-education-level/ |archive-date=September 24, 2025 |date=September 15, 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| image2            = 2021 Median household wealth, by highest educational attainment - US.svg
| caption2          = Median accumulated household wealth across educational levels varied by a factor of over 50.<ref name=wealth>Fig. 2 of {{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Briana |title=Wealth of Households: 2023 (P70BR-211) |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p70br-211.pdf |publisher=US Census Bureau |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250726021914/https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p70br-211.pdf |archive-date=July 26, 2025 |date=July 2025 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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The [[2021-2023 inflation surge]] discredited or weakened nearly all governing parties and leaders during the early 2020s, across ideological lines.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.semafor.com/article/11/08/2024/the-democrats-join-a-long-list-of-global-parties-wrecked-by-post-pandemic-backlash|title=The Democrats join a long list of global parties wrecked by post-pandemic backlash|first1=Brad|last1=Glasser|quote=Four years after the pandemic, governing dysfunction is the story of almost every democracy on the planet, with few examples defying the trend. On nearly every continent, opposition movements have charged ahead in polls, unseated incumbents or lodged in-some-cases historic election gains against a global backdrop of inflation and agitation.|website=Semafor|date=November 8, 2024}}</ref> In 2025, Trump [[Tariffs in the second Trump administration|triggered a global trade war]], repudiating [[neoliberalism]] and [[free trade]],<ref name="Gerstle2022">{{cite book |last=Gerstle |first=Gary |author-link=Gary Gerstle |date=2022 |title=The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-neoliberal-order-9780197519646 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |quote=The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. |isbn=978-0197519646 |access-date=August 1, 2024 |archive-date=June 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626220259/https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-neoliberal-order-9780197519646?cc=us&lang=en& |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Aime|date=August 6, 2025 |title=Donald Trump's new tariff regime deepens global trade war|work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/9f642686-d9bf-4d16-a2f6-2d2ab8fb43d2|url-access=subscription|access-date=August 8, 2025|quote=Donald Trump's global tariffs took effect at 12.01am in Washington on Thursday, pushing American import duties to their highest level in a century as the US president launched a new era of trade rivalry.}}</ref> in favor of [[mercantilism]] and [[protectionism]]. This was a sea change in [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] ideology, raising tariffs to the highest levels since the [[Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act]] of 1930.<ref>{{cite news |last=Goldman |first=David |date=August 1, 2025 |title=Trump's new tariffs have no precedent in the modern era |work=[[CNN]] |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-policy-trump-trade |access-date=August 8, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Romm |first=Tony |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/business/economy/trump-tariffs-trade-war.html |title=Staggering U.S. Tariffs Begin as Trump Widens Trade War |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 7, 2025 |access-date=August 9, 2025}}</ref>

Despite being a [[Capitalism|capitalist]] country, the relationship between income and voter support in the United States inverted in 2024, because of educational polarization. Kamala Harris won voters making over $100,000 and $200,000 a year, but lost the election.<ref name="Well-to-Do"/> Similar trends have occurred in Canada and the United Kingdom, as [[Centre-left politics|center-left parties]] lose the support of those without college degrees, including many with lower incomes.<ref name="Canada 2025"/> The right-wing populist [[Reform UK]] party has attracted lower-income voters who tend to be older, did not graduate from university, and male.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/09/11/labour-has-become-the-party-of-britains-rich|title=Labour has become the Party of Britain's rich|date=September 11, 2025|newspaper=The Economist|quote=This is the first such study conducted since [the] hard-right Reform UK party surged into first place in polls earlier this year. ... The party is particularly popular with older voters and those who did not attend university. Less than one in 20 supporters are non-white ... and 57% are men.}}</ref> As early as 2018, French economist [[Thomas Piketty]] had predicted that center-left parties would come to represent women, the highly educated and high-income,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-us-expansion-talk-canada-greenland-politics-desk-rcna186713|title=The parts of the country that have seen the biggest political shifts during the Trump era|quote=Here are the 25 counties that have moved toward the Republican Party by the largest margins during the Trump era. ... Starr and Elliott both embody one of the two demographic features common to all 25 of those GOP-trending counties. [Ten] counties on the list also have majority-Hispanic populations, with concentrations from 51% to 95%. That basic profile also fits [fifteen] other counties on the list — heavily white and blue-collar. ... At the other end of the spectrum, there are the 25 areas that have moved the most decisively toward Democrats during the Trump era. ... The remaining 16 counties on the list stand out for two reasons. One is their wealth. Eleven of them feature six-figure median household incomes. ... Those 16 places also have large populations of white residents with four-year college degrees.|website=NBC News|first1=Steve|last1=Kornacki|date=January 7, 2025|access-date=November 13, 2025}}</ref> and ethnic minorities, instead of those with low incomes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018PSEPoliticalConflict.pdf|quote=High-education & high-income voters might also unite in the future, giving rise to a complete realignment of the party system: globalists (high-education, high-income) vs nativists (low-education, low-income). Like in post-communist Europe?|date=20 March 2018|access-date=13 November 2025|first1=Thomas|last1=Piketty|title=Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict}}</ref>
*The Republican Party's core demographics changed to becoming a party primarily of [[Blue-collar worker|men without college degrees]], including [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]] men.<ref name="gap within the gender gap"/><ref name="Hispanic men, white women">{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-gains-with-hispanic-men-harris-up-with-white-women-reutersipsos-polls-show-2024-10-25/ |title=Trump gains with Hispanic men, Harris up with white women, Reuters/Ipsos polls show|date=October 28, 2024|website=Reuters|access-date=October 28, 2024|first1=Jason|last1=Lange|first2=Bo|last2=Erickson}}</ref> The Democratic Party's core demographics changed to becoming a party primarily of [[White-collar worker|women with college degrees]] and [[Black women in American politics|Black women]].<ref name="gap within the gender gap"/> Hispanic men voted to the right of White women in 2024.<ref name="Hispanic men, white women"/> Kamala Harris's strongest voters were women with [[Postgraduate education|graduate degrees]] and Black women, herself a Black woman with a [[Juris Doctor]].<ref name="Well-to-Do">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/opinion/democrats-rich-poor.html|quote=By 2024, the realignment of income and political party was complete. Americans with more money voted for Kamala Harris while Donald Trump won among the working class.|date=October 23, 2025|access-date=October 23, 2025|title=How Democrats Became the Party of the Well-to-Do|website=The New York Times|first1=Brody|last1=Williams}}</ref>

Former [[Communism|communist]] countries, particularly in the former [[Eastern Bloc]], have pivoted towards [[national conservatism]] and [[far-right politics]]. This includes [[Russia]] itself under the authoritarian dictatorship of [[Vladimir Putin]]. Putin launched [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|an invasion of Ukraine in 2022]] with [[Russian irredentism|irredentist motives]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Michael |last=Hirsch |authorlink=Michael Hirsh (journalist) |title = Putin's Thousand-Year War |url = https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/12/putins-thousand-year-war/ |work = [[Foreign Policy]] |date = 12 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title = The cocktail of ideologies behind Vladimir Putin |url = https://www.dw.com/en/the-cocktail-of-ideologies-behind-vladimir-putin/a-61242466 |website = [[Deutsche Welle]] |date = 24 March 2022}}</ref> The [[Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)]] represents the deadliest war in Eastern Europe since the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front of World War II]] and the [[Russian Civil War]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=McFaul |first1=Michael |last2=Person |first2=Robert |editor1-last=Brands |editor1-first=Hal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0n72EAAAQBAJ&dq=On+February+24,+2022,+Russian+president+Vladimir+Putin+launched+a+full-+scale+invasion+of+Ukraine,+expanding+dramatically+the+war+against+Ukraine+he+be+gan+in+2014+and+starting+the+largest+war+in+Europe+since+World+War+II.&pg=PA34 |title=War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World |date=2 April 2024 |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]] |isbn=978-1-4214-4985-2 |page=34 |language=en |quote=On February 24, 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, expanding dramatically the war against Ukraine he began in 2014 and starting the largest war in Europe since World War II.}}</ref> But the trend was broader, also including [[Viktor Orbán]] in [[Hungary]], the [[Law and Justice]] party in [[Poland]], and the far-right [[Alternative for Germany]] party, which is strongest in the [[New states of Germany]] that once comprised [[East Germany]].<ref name="Global Divide">{{Cite web |last1=Higgins |first1=Andrew |date=June 2, 2025 |title=Caught Between Two Wests: New Global Divide Runs Straight Through Poland |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/world/europe/poland-president-election-results.html |access-date=July 23, 2025 |website=The New York Times |quote=The country's government is centrist, with deep ties to Brussels. Its new president is a Trump-backed nationalist. That reflects a broader struggle. ... Battles have raged over divisive issues like migration, abortion, and LGBT rights. ... No longer united by faith in a single model, Poland and other countries on the European Union's eastern flank now find themselves caught between the populist nationalism of Mr. Trump and defenders of the old post-Cold War liberal order.}}</ref>

====Electoral trends====
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| footer            = {{center|'''Left to right:'''}}National conservative and 45th & 47th [[President of the United States]] [[Donald Trump]] (2017-2021, 2025-present); Liberal and 49th [[Vice President of the United States]] [[Kamala Harris]] (2021-2025). They defeated each other in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]] and [[2024 United States presidential election]]s since [[Hillary Clinton]] in [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]].
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[[File:U.S. Presidential Election Swing by County from 2020 to 2024.svg|thumb|300px|In the [[2024 United States presidential election|2024 U.S. presidential election]], all 50 states and [[District of Columbia|D.C.]] swung rightward, as did around 90% of counties.<ref name="Red Shift">{{Cite news |last1=Bloch |first1=Matthew |last2=Collins |first2=Keith |last3=Gebeloff |first3=Robert |last4=Hernandez |first4=Marco |last5=Khurana |first5=Malika |last6=Levitt |first6=Zach |date=November 6, 2024 |title=Election Results Show a Red Shift Across the U.S. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/06/us/politics/presidential-election-2024-red-shift.html |access-date=November 10, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>]]

Having suffered decline in the years after the [[Great Recession]], the [[centre-left politics]] and the [[1990s#Political trends|1990s political model]] (like [[progressivism]], [[liberalism]], and [[social democracy]] policies) experienced a resurgence across [[Europe]] and the [[Anglosphere]] in the early 2020s, with ''[[New Statesman]]'' suggesting various causes, including natural shifts in the electoral cycle and conservatives' unpopularity among university graduates and voters under the age of 40.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Eaton |first=George |date=22 May 2022 |title=Why is the right losing everywhere? |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022/05/why-is-the-right-losing-everywhere |access-date=22 May 2022 |website=New Statesman |archive-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522094829/https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022/05/why-is-the-right-losing-everywhere |url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[2020 United States presidential election]] saw the election of [[Kamala Harris]] as vice president was widely regarded as a historic milestone, as the first woman and multicultural (African American and Asian American) to hold the office, reflecting broader trends toward increased diversity and representation in American politics, culture and society.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53739323 |title=Biden VP pick: Kamala Harris chosen as running mate |website=BBC News |date=August 11, 2020 |access-date=August 11, 2020 |archive-date=October 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010223842/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53739323 |url-status=live}}</ref> She was conceded defeat as a presidential candidate at the [[2024 United States presidential election]] to  Donald Trump.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=November 6, 2024 |title=Read Vice President Kamala Harris' Full Concession Speech |url=https://time.com/7173617/kamala-harris-concession-speech-full-transcript/ |access-date=2024-11-07 |magazine=TIME |archive-date=December 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241217205936/https://time.com/7173617/kamala-harris-concession-speech-full-transcript/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Following the election of [[Donald Trump]] in the [[2024 United States presidential election]], the mid-2020s saw the resurgence of [[right-wing populism]] and the [[1980s#Politics and wars|1980s political model]] (like [[Trumpist]] ideologies of [[conservatism]], [[social conservatism]], and [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] policies).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Corey |first=Elizabeth |date=9 September 2024 |title=The Future of Conservatism |url=https://www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/future-of-conservatism-traditional-vs-populist-new-right-by-elizabeth-corey-et-al-2024-09 |access-date=9 September 2024 |website=Project Syndicate |archive-date=9 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909101324/https://www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/future-of-conservatism-traditional-vs-populist-new-right-by-elizabeth-corey-et-al-2024-09 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jill |first=Colvin |date=30 January 2025 |title=President Trump sounds the same. His White House — so far — couldn't be more different |url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-second-term-emboldened-policies-staff-drama-5720d654e953a39303c38a0513b35f57 |access-date= |website=AP News |archive-date=30 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250130075755/https://apnews.com/article/trump-second-term-emboldened-policies-staff-drama-5720d654e953a39303c38a0513b35f57 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Political polarization]] has risen in other Western countries, not just the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doherty |first=Carroll |date=June 17, 2014 |title=Which party is more to blame for political polarization? It depends on the measure |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/06/17/which-party-is-more-to-blame-for-political-polarization-it-depends-on-the-measure/ |access-date=August 14, 2022 |website=Pew Research Center}}</ref> while those who have very unfavorable opinions of the opposing party are at record highs as of 2022.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 17, 2022 |title=How Democrats and Republicans see each other |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/08/17/how-democrats-and-republicans-see-each-other |access-date=August 18, 2022 |issn=0013-0613}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' characterized this as part of a "new global divide", between [[national conservatism]], [[social conservatism]], and [[right-wing populism]] versus [[social democracy]], [[liberalism]], and [[pro-Europeanism]] (in Europe) or ethnic minorities such as [[African Americans]] (in the United States).<ref name="Global Divide"/> The 2020s saw rise of [[far-right politics|far-right]], [[ultranationalism|ultranationalist]], [[libertarianism|libertarian]], and right-wing populist political parties in the [[Western Bloc]], such as the [[People's Party of Canada]], [[Liberal Party (Brazil, 2006)|Liberal Party of Brazil]], [[National Rally]] (France), [[Alternative for Germany]], [[Reform UK]], [[Reform Party (South Korea)|Reform Party]] (South Korea), [[Sanseitō]] (Japan), and the Trump-faction of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]].<ref name="Beauchamp 2024">{{Cite web |last=Beauchamp |first=Zack |date=17 July 2024 |title=Why the far right is surging all over the world |url=https://www.vox.com/politics/361136/far-right-authoritarianism-germany-reactionary-spirit |access-date=8 August 2025 |website=Vox |archive-date=17 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717102105/https://www.vox.com/politics/361136/far-right-authoritarianism-germany-reactionary-spirit |url-status=live|quote=But its rise illustrates something vitally important: That Germany, of all countries, could fail to prevent a surge in reactionary and antidemocratic politics suggests there's something eternal and enduring about the reactionary spirit.}}</ref> Incumbent parties in all 10 major counties that held elections in [[2024]] lost, the first time this has ever happened since 1905. All 50 states and the [[District of Columbia]] shifted towards the Republican Party in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.<ref name="graveyard">{{cite news |last=Burn-Murdoch |first=John |date=November 7, 2024 |title=Democrats join 2024's graveyard of incumbents |url=https://www.ft.com/content/e8ac09ea-c300-4249-af7d-109003afb893 |access-date=November 8, 2024 |work=Financial Times |quote=That different politicians, different parties, different policies and different rhetoric deployed in different countries have all met similar fortunes suggests that a large part of Tuesday's American result was locked in regardless of the messenger or the message. The wide variety of places and people who swung towards Trump also suggests an outcome that was more inevitable than contingent.}}</ref>

====Deaths====
Sitting leaders that died such as [[Qaboos bin Said]] of Oman, [[Pierre Nkurunziza]] of Burundi, [[Amadou Gon Coulibaly]] of the Ivory Coast, [[Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah]] of Kuwait, [[Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa]] of Bahrain, [[John Magufuli]] of Tanzania, [[Idriss Déby]] of Chad, [[Jovenel Moïse]] of Haiti, [[Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan]] of the United Arab Emirates, [[Elizabeth II]] of the United Kingdom, [[Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah]] of Kuwait, [[Hage Geingob]] of Namibia, [[Ebrahim Raisi]] of Iran, [[Nguyễn Phú Trọng]] of Vietnam, [[Didier Guillaume]] of Monaco and [[Pope Francis]].

===Prominent political events===

====Coups====
{{Main|List of coups and coup attempts since 2010}}

''[[Coup d'état|Coups d'état]]'' against ruling governments during the decade include:

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|-
! Event
! Date
! Country
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
| [[2020 Malian coup d'état]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2020|8|18}}
| {{flag|Mali}}
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Mali coup: Military promises elections after ousting president |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53833925 |access-date=19 August 2020 |website=[[BBC News]] |date=19 August 2020 |archive-date=19 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819181937/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53833925 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2021 Myanmar coup d'état]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2021|2|1}}
| {{flag|Myanmar}}
| <ref>{{cite web |last1=Chappell |first1=Bill |last2=Diaz |first2=Jaclyn |title=Myanmar Coup: With Aung San Suu Kyi Detained, Military Takes Over Government |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/02/01/962758188/myanmar-coup-military-detains-aung-san-suu-kyi-plans-new-election-in-2022 |website=NPR |access-date=8 February 2021 |date=1 February 2021 |archive-date=8 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208000452/https://www.npr.org/2021/02/01/962758188/myanmar-coup-military-detains-aung-san-suu-kyi-plans-new-election-in-2022 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Strangio |first1=Sebastian |title=Protests, Anger Spreading Rapidly in the Wake of Myanmar Coup |url=https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/protests-anger-spreading-rapidly-in-the-wake-of-myanmar-coup/ |website=The Diplomat |access-date=8 February 2021 |date=8 February 2021 |archive-date=8 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208065928/https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/protests-anger-spreading-rapidly-in-the-wake-of-myanmar-coup/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2021 Malian coup d'état]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2021|5|24}}
| {{flag|Mali}}
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-57236104 |title=UN calls for immediate release of Mali President Bah Ndaw |work=BBC News |date=24 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524232247/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57236104 |archive-date=2021-05-24 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210524-mali-soldiers-arrest-president-prime-minister-after-govt-reshuffle |title=UN mission in Mali calls for immediate release of detained president and PM |work=[[France 24]] |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |date=24 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524210824/http://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210524-mali-soldiers-arrest-president-prime-minister-after-govt-reshuffle |archive-date=2021-05-24 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2021 Tunisian self-coup]]
| 25 July 2021
| {{flag|Tunisia}}
| <ref>{{Cite news |last1=Amara |first1=Tarek |last2=Mcdowall |first2=Angus |date=26 July 2021 |title=Tunisian democracy in turmoil after president sacks government |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/tunisian-democracy-crisis-after-president-ousts-government-2021-07-26/ |access-date=23 October 2021 |archive-date=26 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726151030/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/tunisian-democracy-crisis-after-president-ousts-government-2021-07-26/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2021 Guinean coup d'état]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2021|9|5}}
| {{flag|Guinea}} 
| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/heavy-gunfire-heard-guinea-capital-conakry-reuters-witness-2021-09-05/ |title=Elite Guinea army unit says it has toppled president |date=5 September 2021 |website=Reuters |access-date=5 September 2021 |archive-date=5 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905165127/https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/heavy-gunfire-heard-guinea-capital-conakry-reuters-witness-2021-09-05/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2021 Sudan coup d'état]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2021|10|25}}
| {{flag|Sudan}} 
| <ref>{{citation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/25/sudan-coup-fears-amid-claims-military-have-arrested-senior-government-officials |title=Sudan's PM and other leaders detained in apparent coup attempt |date=25 October 2021 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=Sudan |access-date=25 October 2021 |archive-date=25 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025061119/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/25/sudan-coup-fears-amid-claims-military-have-arrested-senior-government-officials |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2022|01|23}}
| {{flag|Burkina Faso}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=25 January 2022 |title=Burkina Faso's writer-colonel coup leader starts a new chapter in country's history |url=https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20220125-burkina-faso-s-writer-colonel-coup-leader-starts-a-new-chapter-in-country-s-history |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=France 24 |archive-date=25 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125221347/https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20220125-burkina-faso-s-writer-colonel-coup-leader-starts-a-new-chapter-in-country-s-history |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2022 Ukrainian coup d'état attempt]]
| January – February 2022
| {{flag|Ukraine}} 
|<ref name="fsb">{{cite web |date=13 February 2022 |title=Russia's FSB agency tasked with engineering coups in Ukrainian cities, UK believes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/13/russias-fsb-agency-engineering-coups-ukrainian-cities |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |access-date=6 April 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026233904/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/13/russias-fsb-agency-engineering-coups-ukrainian-cities |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2022|09|30}}
| {{flag|Burkina Faso}}
| <ref name="Ndiaga Mimault">{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/heavy-gunfire-heard-burkina-faso-capital-reuters-witnesses-2022-09-30/ |title=Burkina Faso army captain announces overthrow of military government |first1=Thiam |last1=Ndiaga |first2=Anne |last2=Mimault |work=Reuters |date=30 September 2022 |access-date=30 September 2022 |archive-date=1 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001004302/https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/heavy-gunfire-heard-burkina-faso-capital-reuters-witnesses-2022-09-30/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="France24">{{cite web |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220930-%F0%9F%94%B4-burkina-faso-army-captain-on-state-tv-announces-overthrow-of-military-government |title=Burkina Faso army captain announces overthrow of military government |work=France24 |date=30 September 2022 |access-date=30 September 2022 |archive-date=1 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001221350/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220930-%F0%9F%94%B4-burkina-faso-army-captain-on-state-tv-announces-overthrow-of-military-government |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2022 German coup d'état plot]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2022|12|07}}
| {{flag|Germany}}
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kirby |first1=Paul |date=7 December 2022 |title=Germany arrests 25 accused of plotting coup |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63885028 |access-date=8 December 2022 |archive-date=8 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208001921/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63885028 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2022 Peruvian self-coup attempt]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2022|12|07}}
| {{flag|Peru}}
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=7 December 2022 |title=Presidente Pedro Castillo disuelve temporalmente el Congreso de Perú |url=https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2022/12/07/presidente-pedro-castillo-cierra-temporalmente-el-congreso-de-peru/ |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=[[CNN]] |language=es |archive-date=14 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214071711/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2022/12/07/presidente-pedro-castillo-cierra-temporalmente-el-congreso-de-peru/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |first=Rodrigo |last=Chillitupa Tantas |title=Presidente de Perú disuelve Congreso, declara "gobierno de excepción" y llama a elecciones |date=7 December 2022 |url=https://www.vozdeamerica.com/a/presidente-de-peru-pedro-castillo-disuelve-el-congreso-/6866334.html |access-date=8 December 2022 |website=Voz de América |language=es |archive-date=7 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207224453/https://www.vozdeamerica.com/a/presidente-de-peru-pedro-castillo-disuelve-el-congreso-/6866334.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Garzón |first=Aníbal |date=2023-01-01 |title=Peru's permanent coup |url=https://mondediplo.com/2023/01/13peru |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=[[Le Monde diplomatique]] |archive-date=29 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129193707/https://mondediplo.com/2023/01/13peru |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2022 Brazilian coup plot]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2022|12|15}}
| {{flag|Brazil}}
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Phillips |first1=Tom |title=Bolsonaro allies nearly launched military coup in 2022, police report says |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/26/brazil-almost-suffered-far-right-military-coup-police-report-claims |access-date=14 December 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=26 November 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[2023 Nigerien coup d'état]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2023|07|26}}
| {{flag|Niger}}
|<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66320895 |title=Niger soldiers declare coup on national TV |work=BBC News |date=July 26, 2023 |access-date=27 July 2023 |archive-date=27 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230727000929/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66320895 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2023 Gabonese coup d'état]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2023|08|30}}
| {{flag|Gabon}}
|<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gabonese-military-officers-announce-they-have-seized-power-2023-08-30/ |title=Gabon officers declare military coup, President Ali Bongo detained |work=BBC News |date=August 30, 2023 |access-date=30 August 2023 |archive-date=30 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230830051446/https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gabonese-military-officers-announce-they-have-seized-power-2023-08-30/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup attempt]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2024|05|19}}
| {{flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 May 2024 |title=Congolese army says shootout in the capital is failed coup, perpetrators arrested |url=https://apnews.com/article/congo-kinshasa-gunfire-1a148e35f0cbbae14b2101413f788708 |access-date=19 May 2024 |website=[[AP News]] |first1=Christina |last1=Malkia |first2=Chinedu |last2=Asadu |archive-date=19 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519105259/https://apnews.com/article/congo-kinshasa-gunfire-1a148e35f0cbbae14b2101413f788708 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2024 Bolivian coup attempt]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2024|06|26}}
| {{flag|Bolivia}}
|<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bolivia-military-capital-1.7247637 |title=Military coup attempt in Bolivia fails, president urges people to mobilize against democracy threat |website=CBC News |date=June 26, 2024 |access-date=27 June 2024 |archive-date=27 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627000700/https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bolivia-military-capital-1.7247637 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2024 South Korean martial law crisis]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2024|12|03}}
| {{flag|South Korea}}
| <ref name="South Korea 2024">{{Cite news |date=3 December 2024 |title=South Korea lawmakers defy president and block martial law as crowds protest |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn38321180et |access-date=3 December 2024 |work=[[BBC News]] |archive-date=3 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203140230/https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn38321180et |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2025 Malagasy coup d'état]]
| {{dts|format=dmy|2025|10|12}}
| {{flag|Madagascar}}
|<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-protests-rajoelina-ab1e1eb1aca45fe7e80e81314ebdb0c6 |title=Madagascar's president is ousted in a military coup after weeks of youth-led protests |website=AP News |date=October 14, 2025 |access-date=16 October 2025 |archive-date=15 October 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251015034428/https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-protests-rajoelina-ab1e1eb1aca45fe7e80e81314ebdb0c6 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|}

====Africa====
{{Further|Category:2020s in Africa|2020 in West Africa|2020 in North Africa|2020 in Middle Africa|2020 in East Africa|2020 in Southern Africa}}
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
|-
! style="width:130px;"| Event
! style="width:60px;"| Country
! style="width:100px;"| Date
! Description
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
|[[Western Saharan clashes (2020–present)]]
|{{flag|Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic}}<br />{{flag|Morocco}} 
|8 November 2020 – ongoing
|Following protests in the border town of [[Guerguerat]] in the disputed [[Western Sahara]] region, the [[Royal Moroccan Armed Forces|Moroccan armed forces]] captured the town to ensure traffic could resume through the area. Since then, fighting and bombardments across the [[Moroccan Western Sahara Wall|Moroccan Berm]] have taken place, with the [[Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic]] declaring war against [[Morocco]]. It is the largest escalation in the conflict since the end of the [[Western Sahara War]] in 1991.
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 November 2020 |title=Moroccan army launches operation in Western Sahara border zone |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/1762466/middle-east |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114141349/https://www.arabnews.com/node/1762466/middle-east |archive-date=14 November 2020 |access-date=13 November 2020 |work=[[Arab News]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[2021–2022 Somali political crisis]]
|{{flag|Somalia}}
|8 February 2021 – 10 January 2022
|[[President of Somalia|President]] of [[Somalia]] [[Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed]] stayed in power past the end of his term and postponed elections scheduled for 2021. [[List of prime ministers of Somalia|Prime Minister]] [[Mohamed Hussein Roble]] then called for the president to immediately step down. The president later dismissed Roble for alleged corruption. Protests were reported across the country in favor and opposed to the president. A deal to hold [[2022 Somali presidential election|elections in May 2022]] was reached in January which resulted in the incumbent president losing his bid for reelection.
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Somalia's leaders agree to hold delayed election by February 25 |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/9/somalias-leaders-agree-to-hold-delayed-election-by-february-25 |access-date=2022-01-10 |website=aljazeera.com |archive-date=9 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509164555/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/9/somalias-leaders-agree-to-hold-delayed-election-by-february-25 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Nigerien crisis (2023–2024)]]
| {{flag|Niger}}<br />[[ECOWAS]]
|26 July 2023 – 24 February 2024
|The [[2023 Nigerien coup d'état]] led to a severe diplomatic crisis between the [[National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland|putschists]] in [[Niger]] and the member states of [[ECOWAS]].
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====Americas====
{{Further|Category:2020s in North America|Category:2020s in South America}}

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! style="width:130px;"| Event
! style="width:60px;"| Country
! style="width:100px;"| Date
! Description
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
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| [[First impeachment of Donald Trump]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 24 September 2019 – 5 February 2020
| Under [[Article One of the United States Constitution#Clause 6: Trial of Impeachment|Article I, Section 3, Clause 6]], of the U.S. Constitution, [[President of the United States|President]] [[Donald Trump]] was impeached for [[abuse of power]] and [[Contempt of Congress|obstruction of Congress]] on 18 December 2019 by the [[United States House of Representatives]]. The [[United States Senate]] trial began on 16 January 2020 and ended on 5 February 2020, concluding with an acquittal on both charges.
| <ref>{{citation |website=Politico |date=5 February 2020 |title=Trump acquitted on impeachment charges, ending gravest threat to his presidency |first1=Kyle |last1=Cheney |first2=Andrew |last2=Desiderio |first3=John |last3=Breshahan |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/05/trump-impeachment-vote-110805 |access-date=8 February 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617023326/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/05/trump-impeachment-vote-110805 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2020 Salvadoran political crisis]]
| {{flag|El Salvador}}
| 9 February 2020
|During a political crisis, Salvadoran President [[Nayib Bukele]] sent forty soldiers of the [[Salvadoran Army]] into the [[Legislative Assembly of El Salvador|Legislative Assembly]] building in an effort to coerce politicians to approve a loan request of $109 million from the [[United States]] for Bukele's security plan for the country.
The event has been condemned by foreign governments, the political opposition, and human rights organizations and is considered the first major political crisis in the country since the conclusion of the [[Salvadoran Civil War]] in 1992 and has been referred to as a [[coup d'état|coup attempt]].
| <ref name="BBC English Aftermath">{{cite web |date=11 February 2020 |title=El Salvador Parliament Denounces President's 'Attempted Coup' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51458947 |access-date=9 February 2021 |website=BBC News |archive-date=5 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200905170253/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51458947 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2020 United States presidential election]] and [[January 6 United States Capitol attack|subsequent]] [[Second impeachment of Donald Trump|events]]
|{{flag|United States}}
|3 November 2020 – 13 February 2021
|The 59th United States presidential election was held on 3 November 2020. [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] and former [[Vice President of the United States|Vice-president]] [[Joe Biden]] defeated [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] and then-incumbent [[President of the United States|President]] [[Donald Trump]], with the [[United States Electoral College|Electoral College]] formally declaring Biden the winner on 14 December 2020. Trump refused to concede, and filed lawsuits challenging the results in several states,<ref name="Lawsuits">{{cite news |first=Miles |last=Parks |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/11/10/933112418/the-trump-campaign-has-had-almost-no-legal-success-this-month-heres-what-they-ve |title=Trump Election Lawsuits Filed So Far |publisher=NPR |date=2020-11-10 |access-date=2021-01-20 |archive-date=16 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116052241/https://www.npr.org/2020/11/10/933112418/the-trump-campaign-has-had-almost-no-legal-success-this-month-heres-what-they-ve |url-status=live}}</ref> though most of the legal challenges were either dismissed or dropped, with judges citing lack of evidence to suggest voter fraud occurred. Trump had also unsuccessfully attempted to [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|undo the election results]] by forcing government officials to stop [[Pennsylvania]], [[Nevada]], [[Arizona]], [[Wisconsin]], [[Michigan]], and [[Georgia (U.S. State)|Georgia]] from certifying Biden as the winner, and urging his supporters to "walk" to the United States Capitol to demand Trump be declared the winner of the election.<ref name="Speech">{{cite news |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-13/transcript-of-trumps-speech-at-rally-before-us-capitol-riot |title=Transcript of Trump's Speech at Rally Before US Capitol Riot |date=13 January 2021 |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=2021-01-20 |archive-date=9 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209013727/https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-13/transcript-of-trumps-speech-at-rally-before-us-capitol-riot |url-status=live}}</ref> This was one of the reasons for the decision of a group of his supporters to gather in [[Washington, D.C.]], on 6 January 2021 and break into the [[United States Capitol|Capitol building]] during a Joint session of Congress. The [[January 6 United States Capitol attack]] disrupted Congress while [[2021 United States Electoral College vote count|certifying the election]], forcing both chambers to undergo lockdown lasting for four hours. On the same day, Trump coerced then-incumbent Vice President [[Mike Pence]] to overturn the election results to which Pence refused. During the attack, Trump tweeted directly to his supporters falsely claiming Congress was attempting to assist in stealing the election. [[Twitter]] responded by suspending Trump's account permanently following Trump's tweet. [[Facebook]], [[Instagram]], [[YouTube]], and [[Snapchat]] all also suspended Trump from using their platforms worrying his posts may incite additional violence to the Capitol attacks. In relation to this, Trump was [[Second impeachment of Donald Trump|impeached for the second time]] by the House of Representatives and became the first U.S. president to be impeached twice. Meanwhile, Joe Biden was sworn in as the United States President on 20 January 2021. The [[United States Senate|Senate]] [[Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump|impeachment trial]] ended on 13 February 2021, one month after its start, resulting in Trump being found [[Plea|not guilty]] of inciting the [[January 6 United States Capitol attack|attack on the Capitol]]. On 1 August{{nbsp}}2023, a [[grand jury]] [[Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (election obstruction case)|indicted]] Trump in the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia|U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia]] on four charges: [[conspiracy to defraud the United States]], [[obstructing an official proceeding]] related to the certification of the election results on 6 January 2021, conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, and [[conspiracy against rights]].
|<ref>{{cite news |date=2020-12-15 |title=Electoral College makes it official: Biden won, Trump lost |publisher=Associated Press |url=https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-270-electoral-college-vote-d429ef97af2bf574d16463384dc7cc1e |access-date=2021-01-20 |archive-date=22 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622003344/https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-270-electoral-college-vote-d429ef97af2bf574d16463384dc7cc1e |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Lawsuits" /><ref>{{cite news |date=2020-11-10 |title=Trump faces long odds in challenging state vote counts |publisher=Associated Press |url=https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-campaigns-pennsylvania-michigan-861506f10960504bcdc7e854705c8ef1 |access-date=2021-01-20 |archive-date=1 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201183621/https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-campaigns-pennsylvania-michigan-861506f10960504bcdc7e854705c8ef1 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Berenson |first=Tessa |date=2020-11-20 |title=In Court, Trump's Lawyers Aren't Claiming 'Massive' Fraud |magazine=Time |url=https://time.com/5914377/donald-trump-no-evidence-fraud/ |access-date=2021-01-20 |archive-date=28 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128085329/https://time.com/5914377/donald-trump-no-evidence-fraud/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Roebuck |first=Jeremy |date=2020-11-09 |title=Trump campaign moves to bar Pennsylvania from certifying election results in new lawsuit |website=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |url=https://www.inquirer.com/news/trump-lawsuit-pennsylvania-election-results-philadelphia-monitors-ballots-mail-boockvar-20201109.html |access-date=2021-01-20 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126164050/https://www.inquirer.com/news/trump-lawsuit-pennsylvania-election-results-philadelphia-monitors-ballots-mail-boockvar-20201109.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=23 October 2020 |title=Trump campaign sues in Nevada to stop Vegas-area vote count |publisher=Associated Press |url=https://apnews.com/article/barbara-cegavske-lawsuits-carson-city-elections-las-vegas-8684039e3b82e379591cc745834c952e |access-date=11 April 2021 |archive-date=16 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116052246/https://apnews.com/article/barbara-cegavske-lawsuits-carson-city-elections-las-vegas-8684039e3b82e379591cc745834c952e |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=8 November 2020 |title=Factbox: Trump Sues in Arizona, Court Battles Continue as Biden Wins U.S. Election |website=U.S. News & World Report |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2020-11-08/factbox-trump-sues-in-arizona-court-battles-continue-as-biden-wins-us-election |access-date=2021-04-18 |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525154813/https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2020-11-08/factbox-trump-sues-in-arizona-court-battles-continue-as-biden-wins-us-election |url-status=live}}</ref><br /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Breuninger |first1=Kevin |last2=Mangan |first2=Dan |date=1 December 2020 |title=Trump sues to reverse Biden win in Wisconsin |publisher=CNBC |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/trump-campaign-files-election-lawsuit-in-wisconsin-after-state-declares-biden-won-.html |access-date=11 April 2021 |archive-date=2 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202075218/https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/trump-campaign-files-election-lawsuit-in-wisconsin-after-state-declares-biden-won-.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=11 November 2020 |title=Trump campaign sues Michigan to prevent certification of Biden win |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-legal-challenges-michigan-idUSKBN27R2FL |access-date=18 April 2021 |archive-date=18 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418031127/https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-legal-challenges-michigan-idUSKBN27R2FL |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Martina |first=Michael |date=5 December 2020 |title=Trump campaign files election lawsuit in Georgia, suffers more legal defeats |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-idUSKBN28E37D |access-date=18 April 2021 |archive-date=18 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418031129/https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-idUSKBN28E37D |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="CNBC1">{{cite news |date=2021-01-06 |title=Mike Pence rejects Trump's call to overturn Biden election |publisher=CNBC |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/mike-pence-rejects-trumps-call-to-overturn-biden-election.html |access-date=2021-01-20 |archive-date=14 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114111953/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/mike-pence-rejects-trumps-call-to-overturn-biden-election.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Speech" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Peñaloza |first=Marisa |date=6 January 2021 |title=Trump Supporters Clash With Capitol Police At Protest |publisher=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/06/953616207/diehard-trump-supporters-gather-in-the-nations-capital-to-protest-election-resul |access-date=6 January 2021 |archive-date=6 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106151035/https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/06/953616207/diehard-trump-supporters-gather-in-the-nations-capital-to-protest-election-resul |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Amenabar |first1=Teddy |last2=Zauzmer |first2=Julie |last3=Davies |first3=Emily |last4=Brice-Saddler |first4=Michael |last5=Ruane |first5=Michael E. |last6=Chason |first6=Rachel |last7=Tan |first7=Rebecca |last8=Olivo |first8=Antonio |last9=Hermann |first9=Peter |display-authors=5 |date=6 January 2021 |title=Live updates: Hundreds storm Capitol barricades; two nearby buildings briefly evacuated; Trump falsely tells thousands he won |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/06/dc-protests-trump-rally-live-updates/ |access-date=6 January 2021 |archive-date=6 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106194011/https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/06/dc-protests-trump-rally-live-updates/ |url-status=live}}</ref><br /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension |title=Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump |website=blog.twitter.com |access-date=9 July 2021 |archive-date=29 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129141251/https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="cnn.com">{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/tech/snapchat-trump-ban/index.html |title=Snapchat permanently bans President Trump |first=Brian |last=Fung |website=CNN |date=14 January 2021 |access-date=9 July 2021 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224163737/https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/tech/snapchat-trump-ban/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2021/01/26/youtube-ban-former-president-trumps-channel-remain-suspended/4265336001/ |title=YouTube ban: Google extends suspension of former President Trump's channel |first=Mike |last=Snider |website=USA Today |access-date=9 July 2021 |archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709190435/https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2021/01/26/youtube-ban-former-president-trumps-channel-remain-suspended/4265336001/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Reichert |first=Corinne |date=2021-01-14 |title=Donald Trump impeached a second time |publisher=CNET |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/donald-trump-impeached-following-deadly-riot-at-us-capitol/ |access-date=2021-01-20 |archive-date=13 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113222450/https://www.cnet.com/news/donald-trump-impeached-following-deadly-riot-at-us-capitol/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=20 January 2021 |title=Biden inauguration: New president sworn in amid Trump snub |publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55736856 |access-date=20 January 2021 |archive-date=20 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120145011/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55736856 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-02-14 |title=Donald Trump acquitted in second impeachment trial |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/13/donald-trump-acquitted-impeachment-trial |access-date=2021-06-10 |website=Guardian |archive-date=13 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213205340/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/13/donald-trump-acquitted-impeachment-trial |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="nyt-8-1">{{Cite news |last1=Feuer |first1=Alan |last2=Haberman |first2=Maggie |author-link2=Maggie Haberman |date=August 1, 2023 |title=Trump Indictment: Trump 'Spread Lies' in Effort to Cling to Power, Indictment Says |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/01/us/trump-indictment-jan-6 |access-date=August 1, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=1 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801213542/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/01/us/trump-indictment-jan-6 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="cnnaug1">{{Cite news |last1=Sneed |first1=Tierney |last2=Lybrand |first2=Holmes |last3=Cohen |first3=Marshall |last4=Cohen |first4=Zachary |last5=Cole |first5=Devan |last6=Rabinowitz |first6=Hannah |last7=Polantz |first7=Katelyn |date=August 1, 2023 |title=Donald Trump has been indicted in special counsel's 2020 election interference probe |publisher=[[CNN]] |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/politics/donald-trump-indictment-grand-jury-2020-election/index.html |access-date=August 1, 2023 |archive-date=1 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801220818/https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/politics/donald-trump-indictment-grand-jury-2020-election/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba|8th Congress of the Communist Party]]
| {{flag|Cuba}}
| 16–19 April 2021
| At the [[Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba|8th Congress of the Communist Party]], [[Raúl Castro]] officially resigned as the [[First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba|First Secretary]], the most powerful position in [[Cuba]]. [[President of Cuba|Cuban President]] [[Miguel Díaz-Canel]] is officially named First Secretary of the Communist Party following the resignation of [[Raúl Castro]]. He is the first person not of the Castro family to hold the top position since the 1959 [[Cuban Revolution]].
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Cuba's Raul Castro confirms he's stepping down, says he's 'fulfilled his mission' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/cubas-raul-castro-confirms-stepping-head-communist-party-rcna689 |publisher=NBC News |access-date=2021-04-19 |archive-date=21 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421060718/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/cubas-raul-castro-confirms-stepping-head-communist-party-rcna689 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Cuba leadership: Díaz-Canel named Communist Party chief |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56802129 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=2021-04-20 |archive-date=13 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231113101216/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56802129 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2021 Salvadoran political crisis]]
| {{flag|El Salvador}}
| 1 May 2021
|The [[Legislative Assembly of El Salvador]] voted to remove several judges from the [[Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador|Supreme Court]] and remove the [[Attorney General of El Salvador|Attorney General]], both of which had been vocal opponents to the presidency of [[Nayib Bukele]].
|<ref name="CNN2">{{cite web |last=Pozzebon |first=Stefano |date=5 May 2021 |title=What to Know About the Political Drama Raising Fears over El Salvador's Democracy |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/05/americas/el-salvadors-political-crisis-intl-latam/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517185336/https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/05/americas/el-salvadors-political-crisis-intl-latam/index.html |archive-date=17 May 2021 |access-date=17 May 2021 |website=CNN}}</ref>
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| [[Canadian Indian residential school gravesites|2021 Media Reporting on Canadian Indian Residential School Cemeteries]]
| {{flag|Canada}}
| 28 May 2021 –
| ''[[The New York Times]]'' broke the story on a [[Canadian Indian residential school gravesites|Canadian Indian Residential School Cemeteries]] announcement, incorrectly reporting [[Canadian Indian residential school gravesites|a discovery]] of "[[mass grave]]s" of Indigenous children at a former school site. Further purported "discoveries" would follow throughout the summer. The reporting sparked international attention and national reckoning, and would help "spawn a new holiday, [[National Day for Truth and Reconciliation|Truth and Reconciliation Day]], [[Visit by Pope Francis to Canada|prompt an official visit by Pope Francis]], and result in Canadian flags being kept at half-mast for a record-breaking five consecutive months."
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Horowitz |first=Jason |date=July 30, 2022 |title=Francis Calls Abuse of Indigenous People in Canada a 'Genocide' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/world/americas/pope-francis-canada-genocide.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107101356/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/world/americas/pope-francis-canada-genocide.html |archive-date=November 7, 2023 |access-date=October 7, 2023 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":hopper">{{Cite news |last=Hopper |first=Tristin |date=September 6, 2023 |title=FIRST READING: Who started calling residential school burial sites mass graves? |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-nations-graves |work=National Post}}</ref><ref name="Glavin-2022">{{Cite news |last=Glavin |first=Terry |date=May 26, 2022 |title=The year of the graves: How the world's media got it wrong on residential school graves |work=[[National Post]] |url=https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-year-of-the-graves-how-the-worlds-media-got-it-wrong-on-residential-school-graves |access-date=May 28, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-02-28 |title=Justin Trudeau's biggest scandal? The 215 Indigenous children's graves that were never found |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/justin-trudeaus-biggest-scandal-the-215-indigenous-childrens-graves-that-were-never-found/articleshow/118629063.cms |access-date=2025-04-04 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Kevin |title=Canada bishops address ongoing search for Indigenous graves amid calls for greater accuracy |url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255374/canada-s-bishops-address-ongoing-search-for-indigenous-graves-amidst-calls-for-accuracy |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=Catholic News Agency}}</ref>
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| [[Republicanism in Barbados|Barbados's transition to a republic]]
| {{flag|Barbados}}
| 30 November 2021
|[[Barbados]] became the newest republic in the world on 30 November 2021, its 55th Independence Day, when the already [[2021 Barbadian presidential election|elected]], previous [[Governor-General of Barbados]], [[Sandra Mason]], was sworn into office as the first [[President of Barbados|president]] of the Caribbean country. This ended [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s 55-year tenure as monarch of an independent Barbados, prior to her death in a following year.
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 September 2021 |title=In Barbados, parliament votes to amend constitution, paving the way to republican status |url=http://constitutionnet.org/news/barbados-parliament-votes-amend-constitution-paving-way-republican-status#:~:text=republican%20status%20%7C%20ConstitutionNet-,In%20Barbados%2C%20parliament%20votes%20to%20amend%20constitution%2C%20paving,the%20way%20to%20republican%20status&text=Parliament%20voted%20by%20a%2025,into%20force%20by%20November%2030 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008170938/http://constitutionnet.org/news/barbados-parliament-votes-amend-constitution-paving-way-republican-status#:~:text=republican%20status%20%7C%20ConstitutionNet-,In%20Barbados%2C%20parliament%20votes%20to%20amend%20constitution%2C%20paving,the%20way%20to%20republican%20status&text=Parliament%20voted%20by%20a%2025,into%20force%20by%20November%2030 |archive-date=8 October 2021 |access-date=9 October 2021 |publisher=ConstitutionNet}}</ref>
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|[[2022 Colombian presidential election]]
|{{flag|Colombia}}
|19 June 2022
|Former [[19th of April Movement]] [[Guerrilla warfare|guerrilla fighter]] and incumbent Senator [[Gustavo Petro]] defeats businessman and former mayor of [[Bucaramanga]], [[Rodolfo Hernández Suárez]], in the second round of the [[2022 Colombian presidential election|presidential election]] and becomes the first [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] [[President of Colombia|President]] in [[Colombia]]n history.
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Marelen Castillo thanks Rodolfo Hernández voters: "their votes have not been in vain" |url=https://www.infobae.com/america/colombia/2022/06/20/marelen-castillo-agradece-a-votantes-de-rodolfo-hernandez-sus-votos-no-han-sido-en-vano/ |access-date=20 June 2022 |work=Infobae |date=20 June 2022 |language=es |archive-date=20 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620074316/https://www.infobae.com/america/colombia/2022/06/20/marelen-castillo-agradece-a-votantes-de-rodolfo-hernandez-sus-votos-no-han-sido-en-vano/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title="Seré opositora si no se le cumple al pueblo colombiano": Marelen Castillo irá a la Cámara |url=https://www.semana.com/nacion/articulo/sere-opositora-si-no-se-le-cumple-al-pueblo-colombiano-marelen-castillo-ira-a-la-camara/202218/ |access-date=20 June 2022 |work=Semana |date=20 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815030826/https://www.semana.com/nacion/articulo/sere-opositora-si-no-se-le-cumple-al-pueblo-colombiano-marelen-castillo-ira-a-la-camara/202218/ |archive-date=15 August 2022 |url-status=live |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pozzebon |first1=Stefano |title=Left-wing candidate and former guerrilla Gustavo Petro wins Colombian presidential race |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/17/americas/gustavo-petro-profile-intl-latam/index.html |access-date=22 June 2022 |work=CNN |date=20 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930114305/https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/17/americas/gustavo-petro-profile-intl-latam/index.html |archive-date=30 September 2022 |url-status=live |location=[[Bogotá]]}}</ref>
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|[[2022 Brazilian general election]]
|{{flag|Brazil}}
|3–30 October 2022
|Former president [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] defeats the incumbent president of [[Jair Bolsonaro]] in the second round of the [[2022 Brazilian general election|presidential election]]; he becomes the first elected to three terms and the oldest president in [[Brazil]]ian history.
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ellsworth |first1=Brian |last2=Paraguassu |first2=Lisandra |date=30 October 2022 |title=Lula narrowly defeats Bolsonaro to win Brazil presidency again |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-votes-heated-bolsonaro-vs-lula-presidential-runoff-2022-10-30/ |access-date=31 October 2022 |archive-date=30 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030230629/https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-votes-heated-bolsonaro-vs-lula-presidential-runoff-2022-10-30/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lu |first=Christina |date=31 October 2022 |title=Lula Narrowly Defeats Bolsonaro |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/31/brazil-election-lula-bolsonaro-result/ |access-date=31 October 2022 |magazine=Foreign Policy |archive-date=31 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031101337/https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/31/brazil-election-lula-bolsonaro-result/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Camilo Rocha |first1=Vasco |last2=Cotovio |first2=Tara John |date=30 October 2022 |title=Brazil's Lula da Silva wins fiercely contested presidential run-off vote |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/americas/brazil-election-polls-open-intl/index.html |access-date=20 October 2022 |work=CNN |archive-date=30 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030143409/https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/americas/brazil-election-polls-open-intl/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Nugent |first=Ciara |date=30 October 2022 |title=Here's How Lula Won Brazil's Most Crucial Vote in Decades |url=https://time.com/6226269/how-lula-won-brazil-election/ |access-date=31 October 2022 |magazine=Time |archive-date=13 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113081444/https://time.com/6226269/how-lula-won-brazil-election/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2024 Mexican general election]]
| {{flag|Mexico}}
| 2 June 2024
| [[Claudia Sheinbaum]] of the ruling [[Morena (political party)|Morena]] party becomes the first woman to be elected president in Mexican history.
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| [[2024 Venezuelan presidential election]] and [[2024 Venezuelan political crisis|political crisis]]
| {{flag|Venezuela}}
| 28 July 2024
| Presidential elections were held on 28 July 2024 to choose a [[President of Venezuela|president]] for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025. The election was politically contentious, with international monitors calling it neither [[Free and fair election|free nor fair]], citing the incumbent [[Cabinet of Venezuela#Cabinet of Nicolás Maduro|Maduro administration]] having controlled most institutions and repressed the [[Venezuelan opposition|political opposition]] before, during, and after the election. Widely viewed as having won the election, former diplomat [[Edmundo González Urrutia]] fled to asylum in Spain amid repression of dissent and a national and international political crisis that resulted when Venezuelan electoral authorities announced—without presenting any evidence—that [[Nicolás Maduro]] won. Maduro ran for a third consecutive term, while González represented the [[Unitary Platform]] ({{langx|es|Plataforma Unitaria Democrática|italic=no}}; PUD), the main opposition political alliance. In June 2023, the Venezuelan government had barred leading candidate [[María Corina Machado]] from participating. This move was regarded by the opposition as a violation of political human rights and was condemned by international bodies such as the [[Organization of American States]] (OAS), the [[European Union]], and [[Human Rights Watch]], as well as numerous countries. Academics, news outlets and the opposition provided "strong evidence" to suggest that González won the election by a wide margin with the opposition releasing copies of official tally sheets collected by [[poll watchers]] from a majority of polling centers showing a landslide victory for González. The government-controlled [[National Electoral Council (Venezuela)|National Electoral Council]] (CNE) announced [[election fraud|falsified]] results claiming a narrow Maduro victory on 29 July; vote tallies were not provided. The CNE's results were rejected by the [[Carter Center]] and by the OAS, and the [[United Nations]] declared that there was "no precedent in contemporary democratic elections" for announcing a winner without providing tabulated results. Analyses by media sources found the CNE results statistically improbable and lacking in credibility. Protests occurred across the country and internationally, as the Maduro administration initiated [[Operation Tun Tun]], a crackdown on dissent. Some world leaders rejected the CNE's claimed results and recognized González as the election winner, while some other countries, including Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and Cuba recognized Maduro as the winner. Maduro did not cede power, and instead asked the [[Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Venezuela)|Supreme Tribunal of Justice]] (TSJ), composed of justices loyal to Maduro, to audit and approve the results. On 22 August 2024, as anticipated, the TSJ described the CNE's statement of Maduro winning the election as "validated". The supreme court ruling was rejected by [[the United States]], [[the European Union]] and ten Latin American countries. An arrest warrant was issued on 2 September 2024 for González for the alleged crimes of "usurpation of functions, falsification of public documents, instigation to disobey the law, conspiracy and association." After seeking asylum in the Spanish Embassy in Caracas, González left for Spain on 7 September 2024.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/07/26/nx-s1-5051813/venezuela-election-nicolas-maduro-opposition-edmundo-gonzalez |publisher=[[NPR]] |title=What to know about Venezuela's election, as Maduro faces stiff opposition |date=26 July 2024 |first1=John |last1=Otis |first2=Carrie |last2=Kahn |access-date=29 July 2024 |archive-date=28 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240728210202/https://www.npr.org/2024/07/26/nx-s1-5051813/venezuela-election-nicolas-maduro-opposition-edmundo-gonzalez |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Barrons.com">{{Cite web |title=Venezuela Will Hold Presidential Elections On July 28: Official |url=https://www.barrons.com/news/venezuela-will-hold-presidential-elections-on-july-28-official-fdbedc52 |access-date=15 March 2024 |website=Barrons.com |archive-date=11 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611051359/https://www.barrons.com/news/venezuela-will-hold-presidential-elections-on-july-28-official-fdbedc52 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Glatsky-2024">{{Cite news |last=Glatsky |first=Genevieve |date=31 July 2024 |title=Venezuela's Election Was Deeply Flawed. Here's How. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/world/americas/venezuela-election-vote-flaws.html |access-date=2 August 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |quote=It had already been clear for months that Venezuela's presidential election on Sunday, would not be free or fair, as the government jailed opposition leaders or disqualified them from running for office, and prevented millions of Venezuelans abroad from voting. |archive-date=2 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802012211/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/world/americas/venezuela-election-vote-flaws.html |url-status=live}}</ref> 
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|[[2024 United States presidential election]]
|{{flag|United States}}
|5 November 2024
|The 60th United States presidential election was held on 5 November 2024. [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] and former [[Vice President of the United States|Vice-president]] [[Joe Biden]] initially planned to run against [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] and former [[President of the United States|President]] [[Donald Trump]], in a rematch of the [[2020 United States presidential election]]. In the aftermath of a much-criticised debate performance against Trump in June 2024, and far behind Trump in the polls, Biden was pressured to drop out of the race. Vice President [[Kamala Harris]] took his place as the Democratic nominee, bypassing the usual primary process. Polling narrowed in the months leading up to election day, with the race too close to call across swing states and the country at large. Trump emerged the clear winner on election night, winning the popular vote and a clear majority of electoral college votes. Harris refused to concede on election night after it had become clear Trump had won the electoral college and popular vote. However, the following day, she conceded and acknowledged that Trump had won the election. This was the second of two elections won by Trump, the first being in [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]] against [[Hillary Clinton]], preceding his defeat by Biden in 2020.
|<ref name="Peoples & Barrow 2024">{{cite web |last1=Peoples |first1=Steve |last2=Barrow |first2=Bill |date=November 6, 2024 |title=Election takeaways: Trump's decisive victory in a deeply divided nation |url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-presidential-election-takeaways-d0e4677f4cd53b4d2d8d18d674be5bf4 |access-date=November 11, 2024 |website=AP News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=November 10, 2024 |title=Trump wins Arizona, sweeping all seven battleground states, Edison Research says |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-wins-arizona-sweeping-all-seven-battleground-states-edison-research-says-2024-11-10/ |access-date=November 11, 2024 |work=Reuters}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/states-trump-won-flipped-2024/ |title=See which states Trump won in the 2024 election that he didn't win in 2020 |last1=Maguire |first1=Patrick |date=November 9, 2024 |access-date=November 16, 2024 |work=CBS News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Manchester |first=Julia |date=January 29, 2023 |title=Republicans see education as winning issue in 2024 |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3833724-republicans-see-education-as-winning-issue-in-2024/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129170545/https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3833724-republicans-see-education-as-winning-issue-in-2024/ |archive-date=January 29, 2023 |access-date=July 9, 2023 |work=The Hill}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Wolf |first=Zachary B. |date=November 9, 2024 |title=Analysis: Trump's win was real but not a landslide. Here's where it ranks |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/09/politics/donald-trump-election-what-matters/index.html |access-date=November 12, 2024 |website=CNN}}</ref>
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|[[2024–2025 Canadian political crisis]] and [[2025 Canadian federal election|federal election]]
|{{flag|Canada}}
|16 December 2024 – 28 April 2025
|A [[political crisis]] emerged in Canada after [[Chrystia Freeland]], the [[Minister of Finance (Canada)|minister of finance]] and [[Deputy Prime Minister of Canada|deputy prime minister]], resigned from [[Cabinet of Canada|Cabinet]] on 16 December 2024. [[Justin Trudeau]], the Prime Minister of Canada, announced his resignation on 6 January 2025. Former [[Governor of the Bank of Canada]] [[Mark Carney]] won twice in the [[2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election|Liberal Party leadership election]] and the [[2025 Canadian federal election|federal election]]. He became Prime Minister five days later, succeeded Trudeau after nine years of premiership. Despite threats from US President Donald Trump, he was re-elected in the federal election, defeating his [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]] opponent [[Pierre Poilievre]].
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Major |first=Darren |date=16 December 2024 |title=Chrystia Freeland's unexpected resignation sparks stunned reactions from all sides |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/politicians-react-freeland-resignation-1.7411497 |website=CBC News |access-date=16 December 2024 |archive-date=16 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241216195841/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/politicians-react-freeland-resignation-1.7411497 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chowdhury |first=Sana Noor Haq, Maureen |date=2025-01-06 |title=Canada's PM Justin Trudeau announces resignation |url=https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/canada-justin-trudeau-resignation-01-06-25/index.html |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=CNN}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/liberal-leadership-race-mark-carney-elected-in-a-landslide-9.6678061|title=Liberal leadership race: Mark Carney elected in a landslide|publisher=[[CBC News]]|date=March 9, 2025|access-date=March 9, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tunney |first=Catharine |date=March 9, 2025 |title=In landslide win, Liberal Party chooses Mark Carney as new leader and next PM |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-pary-leadership-winner-1.7476359 |website=[[CBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Cecco |first=Leyland |date=April 29, 2025 |title=Canada's liberal party, led by Mark Carney, secures election victory after dramatic reversal of fortune |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/29/canada-election-result-liberal-win-mark-carney-anti-trump |access-date=May 1, 2025 |website=The Guardian}}</ref>
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| [[2025 Bolivian general election]]
| {{flag|Bolivia}}
|17 August – 19 October 2025
| [[Rodrigo Paz Pereira]] won over [[Jorge Quiroga]], marking the first time in Bolivian history that the presidency changed hands through a runoff election and ending two decades of [[Movimiento al Socialismo|MAS]] dominance. The MAS party suffered major historic losses, retaining only two seats in the Chamber of Deputies and losing all seats in the Senate.
| <ref name="ap-20250818">{{cite news |last=DeBre |first=Isabel |date=18 August 2025 |title=Bolivia heads to a presidential runoff as 2 decades of left-wing dominance ends |url=https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-elections-right-wing-274e22ad9f493f60669a01615d3fef65 |access-date=18 August 2025 |work=AP News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ramos |first1=Daniel |title=Bolivia Centrist Rodrigo Paz wins presidential runoff, early official count shows |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivia-centrist-rodrigo-paz-wins-presidential-runoff-early-official-count-shows-2025-10-20/ |access-date=20 October 2025 |website=[[Reuters]]}}</ref><ref name="ap-20250818"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=20 October 2025 |title=Rodrigo Paz wins presidential runoff, becoming Bolivia's first conservative leader in decades |url=https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-runoff-election-jorge-quiroga-rodrigo-paz-ef7643d07d8968452cdce784e75a7810 |access-date=20 October 2025 |website=[[AP News]]}}</ref>
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| [[2025 United States federal government shutdown]] 
| {{flag|United States}}
| 1 October 2025 – 12 November 2025
| The [[federal government of the United States]] entered a [[Government shutdowns in the United States|shutdown]] at midnight{{nbsp}}[[Eastern Time Zone|EDT]] after Congress failed to pass [[Appropriations bill (United States)|appropriations legislation]] for [[2026 United States federal budget|the 2026 fiscal year]], which began that day. The shutdown has continued for 39 days as [[United States Congress|Congress]] has been unable to pass a [[continuing resolution]] to fund the government. The [[United States House of Representatives|House]] has advanced a continuing resolution, but the [[United States Senate|Senate]] has rejected it 14 times. [[Senate Democratic Caucus|Senate Democrats]] have opposed the Republican appropriations bill because it does not include an extension of the [[Affordable Care Act]] subsidies previously extended by the [[Inflation Reduction Act]]. The shutdown was the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, lasting 43 days.
| <ref>{{Cite web |last1=Digital |first1=Kaia Hubbard Politics Reporter Kaia Hubbard is a politics reporter for CBS News |last2=Washington |first2=based in |last3=Hubbard |first3=D. C. Read Full Bio Kaia |date=2025-11-04 |title=Government shutdown becomes longest in U.S. history after failed Senate vote |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/government-shutdown-latest-record-history-trump-senate-votes/ |access-date=2025-11-05 |publisher=CBS News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Weaver |first=Al |date=4 November 2025 |title=Senate spurns GOP spending bill for 14th time amid bipartisan talks to end shutdown |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5588295-spending-bill-government-shutdown-vote/ |access-date=4 November 2025 |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-11-04 |title=Some senators predict the government shutdown, now the longest in history, could end this week |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senators-predict-government-shutdown-end-this-week-rcna241823 |access-date=2025-11-05 |publisher=NBC News |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":23">{{Cite web |last1=Mascaro |first1=Lisa |last2=Jalonick |first2=Mary Clare |date=2025-11-05 |title=Government shutdown becomes the longest on record as fallout spreads nationwide |url=https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-longest-trump-republican-senators-democrats-9712df6c11ef19c5df8f18c8a4f7b341 |access-date=2025-11-05 |website=AP News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-11-07 |title=Why has the US government shut down and what does it mean? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrj1znp0pyo |access-date=2025-11-07 |publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref>
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|''[[Learning Resources v. Trump]]''
|{{flag|United States}}
|5 November 2025
|The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] will hear a case deciding the legality of [[Tariffs in the second Trump administration|Trump's second term tariffs]] imposed under the [[International Emergency Economic Powers Act]] (IEEPA). This case has major implications for the entire world economy, given Trump imposed tariffs on nearly all countries at the highest level since the [[Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act]] of 1930.
|<ref name="tariff case">{{cite news|last=Breuninger|first=Kevin|date=October 15, 2025|title=Trump says he might attend Supreme Court tariff case arguments next month|publisher=CNBC|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/trump-supreme-court-tariffs-trade.html|access-date=October 18, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Whitehurst|first=Lindsay|date=September 3, 2025|title=Trump asks Supreme Court to quickly take up tariffs case and reverse ruling finding them illegal|publisher=Associated Press|url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-emergency-powers-law-3c71bfeeeb0f9fe56652d9dc23c1991c|access-date=September 3, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Doherty|first=Erin|date=September 3, 2025|title=Trump asks Supreme Court to quickly hear appeal to save his tariffs|publisher=CNBC|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/trump-tariffs-trade-supreme-court.html|access-date=September 3, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Schonfeld|first=Zach|date=September 9, 2025|title=Supreme Court agrees to speedily review Trump's tariffs|work=The Hill|publisher=Nexstar Media Group|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5494684-supreme-court-trump-tariffs/|access-date=September 9, 2025}}</ref>
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| [[2025 Chilean general election]]
| {{flag|Chile}}
| 16 November – 14 December 2025
| Left-wing candidate [[Jeannette Jara]] won a [[Plurality (voting)|plurality vote share]] in the first round on a broadly [[Centre-left politics|center-left]] and [[Pragmatism|pragmatic]] platform, while right-wing candidate [[José Antonio Kast]]'s positions and defense of [[Military dictatorship of Chile|Pinochet-era]] and strong supporter of [[right-wing populism]], both candidates led in the second round. It is the first general election to occur after [[compulsory voting]] was reintroduced in 2022.
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-11-16 |title=Trump-Style Candidate Heads to Runoff in Chile's Election |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/world/americas/chile-presidential-election-on-sunday.html |access-date=2025-11-17 |language=en |quote=Many observers say her proposals are more in line with the center-left, reformist agenda embraced by Mr. Boric. She has promised to make pensions more generous, lower electricity bills and build tens of thousands of new homes.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nugent |first=Ciara |date=2025-11-26 |title=Far right poised to win Chile's presidency |url=https://www.ft.com/content/4d9abd84-b792-4b60-a59a-390192a8c8c5 |access-date=2025-11-16 |website=Financial Times |language=en-us |quote=Veteran far-right politician José Antonio Kast is the favourite to win Chile’s presidency after 70 per cent of voters backed right-leaning candidates in a first-round election}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Palacios |first=Cristóbal |date=2022-12-19 |title=Se repone voto obligatorio: Congreso aprueba reforma que dejará atrás el sufragio voluntario a 10 años de su implementación |url=https://www.latercera.com/politica/noticia/se-repone-voto-obligatorio-congreso-aprueba-reforma-que-dejara-atras-el-sufragio-voluntario-a-10-anos-de-su-implementacion/BG47J7ZH6ZGQTODHYCYVAJ5I6E/ |access-date=2025-11-16 |website=La Tercera |language=es}}</ref>
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File:2021 storming of the United States Capitol DSC09254-2 (50820534063) (retouched).jpg|On 6 January 2021, the [[6 January United States Capitol attack|U.S. Capitol attack]] occurred two weeks before [[Joe Biden]] was sworn into office. The event resulted in the [[Second impeachment of Donald Trump]] and a group of [[Public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack|televised public hearings]].

File:P20241113CS-0503 (cropped).jpg|The 2020s saw the U.S. presidency alternate from [[Donald Trump]] to [[Joe Biden]] in [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]], followed by Trump's successful re-election in [[2024 United States presidential election|2024]]; both the [[List of presidents of the United States by age|oldest presidents]] served during the decade. Trump is the second president elected to nonconsecutive terms (following [[Grover Cleveland]] in [[1884 United States presidential election|1884]] and [[1892 United States presidential election|1892]]).

File:Former President Donald Trump paying respect to Corey Comperatore (53887491621).jpg|[[Donald Trump]], who survived an attempted assassination in [[Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] in July 2024. This image shows Donald Trump paying respect to Corey Comperatore's firefighter uniform; he lost his life in the assassination attempt.

File:Machado y González protestando contra el fraude presidencial en Venezuela de 2024.jpg|[[María Corina Machado]] and [[Edmundo González]] along with his wife, addressing supporters in Caracas following the [[2024 Venezuelan political crisis|2024 presidential election results]]. Incumbent [[Nicolás Maduro]] secured a third term in an election widely criticized as neither [[Free and fair election|free or fair]], given the [[Cabinet of Venezuela#Cabinet of Nicolás Maduro|Maduro administration]] having controlled most institutions and repressed the [[Venezuelan opposition|political opposition]] before and during the election.

File:Jimmy Carter lay-in state at U.S. Capitol.jpg|Former US president [[Jimmy Carter]] lay in repose at the [[United States Capitol|U.S. Capitol]], [[Washington D.C.]] He was the [[List of presidents of the United States by age|longest-lived U.S. president in history]] and the first president to reach the [[Centenarian|age of 100]].

File:Starmer and Carney 2025-03-17-18-44.jpg|[[Mark Carney]] became [[Prime Minister of Canada]], after he won a landslide victory at the [[2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election]] and re-elected at the [[2025 Canadian federal election|federal election]], since [[Justin Trudeau]] resigned after nine years of premiership.
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====Asia====
{{Further|Category:2020s in Asia}}
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| [[2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis]]
| {{flag|Iran}}<br />{{flag|United States}}
| 5 May 2019
| The [[Persian Gulf]] region saw tensions between the [[United States]] and the [[Islamic Republic of Iran]] escalate in mid-2019. The crisis saw [[oil tanker]]s in the [[Strait of Hormuz]] sabotaged and seized, drone shootdowns, and efforts by the U.S. and [[United Kingdom]] to pursue military patrols to protect shipping in the gulf, known as the [[International Maritime Security Construct]]. On 31 December 2019 tensions reached a breaking point as Iranian-backed Shiite militia stormed into the [[Embassy of the United States, Baghdad|U.S. Embassy in Baghdad]], [[Iraq]], leading to the targeted killing of Iranian General [[Qasem Soleimani]] in a U.S. drone strike on 3 January 2020.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/05/uk-joins-us-in-mission-to-protect-oil-tankers-in-gulf |title=UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf |date=5 August 2019 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 January 2020 |archive-date=30 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191130162619/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/05/uk-joins-us-in-mission-to-protect-oil-tankers-in-gulf |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/31/us-embassy-stormed-in-baghdad |title=Trump accuses Iran over storming of US embassy compound in Baghdad |date=31 December 2019 |work=The Guardian |access-date=8 January 2020 |archive-date=31 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231145300/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/31/us-embassy-stormed-in-baghdad |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/column-what-the-killing-of-qassem-soleimani-could-mean-for-iran |title=Column: What the killing of Qassem Soleimani could mean |date=3 January 2020 |work=[[PBS NewsHour]] |access-date=8 January 2020 |archive-date=7 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200107214212/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/column-what-the-killing-of-qassem-soleimani-could-mean-for-iran |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2020–2022 Malaysian political crisis]]
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|22 February 2020 – 24 November 2022
|Political infighting and party switching within [[Pakatan Harapan]] and [[Perikatan Nasional]] led to the inability to form a stable majority government. After the collapse of 2 successive governments and a [[2022 Malaysian general election|snap general election]] held, the [[Anwar Ibrahim cabinet]] was formed, the first [[National unity government|unity government]] in the history of [[Malaysia]].
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Malaysia's Muhyiddin resigns after troubled 17 months in power |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/16/malaysias-muhyiddin-resigns-after-troubled-17-months-in-power |access-date=2021-08-16 |website=aljazeera.com |archive-date=2 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702060011/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/16/malaysias-muhyiddin-resigns-after-troubled-17-months-in-power |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2020–2021 China–India skirmishes]]
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| 5 May 2020 – 20 January 2021
| Since 5 May 2020, Chinese and Indian troops have engaged in aggressive melee, face-offs, and skirmishes at locations along the [[Sino-Indian border]], including near the disputed [[Pangong Lake]] in [[Ladakh]] and the [[Tibet Autonomous Region]], and near the border between [[Sikkim]] and the Tibet Autonomous Region. Additional clashes also took place at locations in eastern Ladakh along the [[Line of Actual Control]] (LAC).
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://theprint.in/defence/chinese-troops-challenge-india-at-multiple-locations-in-eastern-ladakh-standoff-continues/428304/ |title=Chinese troops challenge India at multiple locations in eastern Ladakh, standoff continues |date=24 May 2020 |work=The Print |access-date=2 September 2020 |archive-date=27 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527163514/https://theprint.in/defence/chinese-troops-challenge-india-at-multiple-locations-in-eastern-ladakh-standoff-continues/428304/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2021 Kyrgyz-Tajik clashes]]
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|28 April – 1 May and 9 July 2021
|A 3-day border conflict with clashes occurred in late April 2021 between the two [[Central Asian]] countries [[Kyrgyzstan]] and [[Tajikistan]]. The reason why the fighting broke out is disputed, but it is due either to an old [[Water conflict|water dispute]] or to local people's dissatisfaction with the installation of [[surveillance cameras]] near the border. After 3 days of intense clashes, that left more than 50 people dead and also more than 40,000 displaced civilians, the two countries agreed on a ceasefire. After the ceasefire, however, there was a fatal incident on 9 July.
|<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Imanaliyeva |first1=Ayzirek |last2=Ibragimova |first2=Kamila |last3=Leonard |first3=Peter |date=29 April 2022 |title=Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan forces exchange gunfire in worst border flareup in years |url=https://eurasianet.org/kyrgyzstan-tajikistan-forces-exchange-gunfire-in-worst-border-flareup-in-years |access-date=29 April 2021 |website=eurasianet.org |archive-date=2 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502035804/https://eurasianet.org/tempers-flaring-as-kyrgyzstan-tajikistan-come-to-deadly-blows |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2021 Israel–Palestine crisis]]
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|6–21 May 2021
|Clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem lead to eleven days of fighting between Israel and [[Hamas]] in Gaza.
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=21 May 2021 |title=Israel-Gaza ceasefire holds despite Jerusalem clash |publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57195537 |access-date=1 October 2021 |archive-date=25 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210525215311/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57195537 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2021 Taliban offensive]]
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|1 May – 15 August 2021
|Beginning on 1 May 2021, the [[Taliban]] and allied militant groups made a final offensive against the [[Islamic Republic of Afghanistan]] and its allies, coinciding with the withdrawal of most United States and allied troops from Afghanistan. It resulted in the ''de facto'' takeover of the country and the reinstatement of the [[Afghanistan|Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]], [[Fall of Kabul (2021)|ending]] the twenty-year-long [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|War in Afghanistan]] on 15 August 2021.
|<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Seir |first1=Ahmed |last2=Faiez |first2=Rahim |last3=Akghar |first3=Tameem |last4=Gambrell |first4=John |date=15 August 2021 |title=Official: Taliban negotiators head to presidential palace |url=https://apnews.com/article/taliban-e1ed33fe0c665ee67ba132c51b8e32a5 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815031639/https://apnews.com/article/taliban-e1ed33fe0c665ee67ba132c51b8e32a5 |archive-date=15 August 2021 |access-date=15 August 2021 |website=Associated Press}}</ref>
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|[[2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis]]
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|5 November 2021 – 28 October 2022
|The [[2021 Iraqi parliamentary election|parliamentary election in October 2021]] resulted in deadlock as members of the [[Council of Representatives of Iraq]] were unable to form a stable government or elect a new president. Ended in the election of [[Abdul Latif Rashid]] as [[President of Iraq|president]] and [[Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani]] as [[Prime Minister of Iraq|prime minister]].
|<ref>{{cite web |date=2022-10-27 |title=Iraqi parliament approves new government headed by Mohammed Shia al-Sudani |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iraq-lawmakers-approve-government-prime-minister-designate-sudani-2022-10-27/ |access-date=23 February 2023 |website=Reuters |archive-date=2 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102111708/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iraq-lawmakers-approve-government-prime-minister-designate-sudani-2022-10-27/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2022 Kyrgyz-Tajik clashes]]
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|27 January – 20 September 2022
|The sporadic fighting between [[Kyrgyzstan]] and [[Tajikistan]], which had started in [[2021 Kyrgyz-Tajik clashes|2021]], began again in late January 2022 and the bloody clashes resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries on 27 January, 10 March, 3 June and 14 June. In September, the fighting escalated and the 6 days of fighting between 14 and 20 September, which resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries, finally ended on 20 September when the two countries signed a peace deal.
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Miner |first=Louise |date=20 September 2022 |title=Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan sign peace deal after deadly border clashes |work=Euronews |url=https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/20/tajikistan-and-kyrgyzstan-sign-peace-deal-after-deadly-border-clashes |url-status=live |access-date=21 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922024137/https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/20/tajikistan-and-kyrgyzstan-sign-peace-deal-after-deadly-border-clashes |archive-date=22 September 2022}}</ref>
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|[[2022–2024 Pakistan political unrest]]
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|3 April 2022 – 24 November 2024
|The events began with a [[2022 Pakistani constitutional crisis|constitutional crisis]] in April 2022 after a [[No-confidence motion against Imran Khan|no-confidence motion]] against [[Imran Khan]] was dismissed by the deputy speaker, made the first [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] to be removed from office by [[Motion of no confidence|a vote of no confidence]]. Khan would call for general elections to be held, but soon after he was the target of [[Attempted assassination of Imran Khan|an assassination attempt]] and [[Arrest of Imran Khan|two arrests]]. [[2023 Pakistani protests|Nationwide protests]] in support of Khan erupted after his arrests, culminating in the [[May 9 riots]] and a crackdown by the government. The events were a major event in the lead up to the [[2024 Pakistani general election|2024 general election]].
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chaudhry |first=Fahad |date=9 April 2022 |title=Imran Khan loses no-trust vote, prime ministerial term set for unceremonious end |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1684168 |access-date=9 April 2022 |website=Dawn |archive-date=13 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220413200934/https://www.dawn.com/news/1684168 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1742311/with-leas-at-the-gates-imran-says-hope-lies-with-establishment-in-ending-this-farce | title=PTI claims Zaman Park 'under extreme attack' by law enforcement personnel | date=15 March 2023 | access-date=15 March 2023 | archive-date=15 March 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315075331/https://www.dawn.com/news/1742311/with-leas-at-the-gates-imran-says-hope-lies-with-establishment-in-ending-this-farce | url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news18.com/breaking-news/today-breaking-news-live-updates-may-12-2023-7788637.html|title=Breaking News Live Updates – 12 May 2023: Islamabad HC Grants Ex-PM Imran Khan 2-Week Bail In Graft Case|website=News18.com|access-date=5 August 2023}}</ref>
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|[[2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash]]
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|19 May 2024
|An [[Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force|Iranian Air Force]] helicopter crashed near the village of [[Uzi, Varzaqan|Uzi]], [[East Azerbaijan province|East Azerbaijan]], [[Iran]], killing [[President of Iran]] [[Ebrahim Raisi]] along with other political officials. 
|<ref name="bbcknow">{{Cite web |date=20 May 2024 |title=Ebrahim Raisi: What we know about deadly Iran helicopter crash |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nnd23d505o |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520151854/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nnd23d505o |archive-date=20 May 2024 |access-date=22 May 2024 |website=[[BBC]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/19/israel-gaza-war-live-people-killed-in-strike-nuseirat-refugee-camp-gaza |title=The dispatched rescue teams will reach the probable coordinates of president Raisi's helicopter within half an hour, state media is reporting. |date=19 May 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=19 May 2024 |archive-date=19 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519175307/https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/19/israel-gaza-war-live-people-killed-in-strike-nuseirat-refugee-camp-gaza |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Makoii |first1=Akhtar |last2=Abrahams |first2=Jessica |last3=Smith |first3=Benedict |last4=Zagon |first4=Chanel |name-list-style=and |date=19 May 2024 |title=Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi 'missing' after helicopter makes hard landing |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/19/helicopter-carrying-iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-hard-land/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519150754/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/19/helicopter-carrying-iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-hard-land/ |archive-date=19 May 2024 |access-date=19 May 2024 |work=The Telegraph |issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
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| 2024–2025 Japanese political crisis
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| 27 October 2024 – 22 October 2025
| The [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]], led by prime minister [[Shigeru Ishiba]], after the resignation of [[Fumio Kishida]] as party leader due to his low approval rating amid the [[2023–2024 Japanese slush fund scandal|party-wide slush fund corruption scandal]] and several troubled events, the "Summer of Discontent" that led to the election. Both the [[Liberal Democratic Party–Komeito coalition|LDP-KM coalition]] lost its majority in the [[2024 Japanese general election]] and the [[2025 Japanese House of Councillors election]], which resulted his resignation and triggered a [[2025 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election|snap presidential election]] within the LDP resulted the election of [[Sanae Takaichi]] and 26 years of a coalition government.
|<ref>{{cite news|title=Japan's ruling coalition loses majority, election outcome in balance|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-votes-election-expected-punish-pm-ishibas-coalition-2024-10-26/|work=Reuters|date=2024-10-26|archive-date=13 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113125520/https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-votes-election-expected-punish-pm-ishibas-coalition-2024-10-26/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date= 21 July 2025 |title= Voter turnout rises to 58.51% in Japan's Upper House poll |url= https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/21/japan/politics/2025-upper-house-election-record-early-voting/ |work= The Japan Times |access-date= 21 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-07 |title=Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba resigns |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98edpz2yn9o |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=www.bbc.com |archive-date=7 September 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250907105311/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98edpz2yn9o|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Japan 2025"/>
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|[[2024 South Korean martial law crisis|2024–2025 South Korean political crisis]] and [[2025 South Korean presidential election|presidential election]]
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|3 December 2024 – 4 June 2025
|[[Yoon Suk Yeol]], the [[president of South Korea]], declared [[martial law]] during a televised address which triggered to a political crisis. The [[Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol|impeachment]] occurred against president by the [[National Assembly (South Korea)|National Assembly]] following the impeachment motion raised against him on 14 December 2024, making the second president to be impeached since [[Impeachment of Park Geun-hye|Park Geun-hye in 2016]]. Later [[Prime minister of South Korea|Prime Minister]] [[Han Duck-soo]] was [[Impeachment of Han Duck-soo|impeached]] two weeks later and replaced by Deputy Prime minister [[Choi Sang-mok]], later he was reinstated three months later. South Korean government organizations and the [[Interpol]] prompted the agency to file an [[Arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol|arrest warrant]] for Yoon on 30 December and on 15 January 2025 became the first sitting president arrested, later triggered into a [[2025 South Korean presidential election|snap presidential election]] following the removal of an impeached president and [[Lee Jae Myung]] elected as president over [[Kim Moon-soo (politician)|Kim Moon-soo]].
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wong |first1=Tessa |last2=Mackenzie |first2=Jean |last3=Kwon |first3=Jake |last4=Choi |first4=Leehyun |title=South Korea's president impeached by parliament after mass protests over short-lived martial law |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1wq025v421t |access-date=14 December 2024 |work=BBC News |date=14 December 2024 |archive-date=14 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241214051854/https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1wq025v421t |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ng |first1=Kelly |last2=Mackenzie |first2=Jean |date=14 December 2024 |title=South Korean MPs impeach president over martial law attempt |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c140xjv31lxo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241214201249/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c140xjv31lxo |archive-date=14 December 2024 |access-date=15 December 2024 |work=BBC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Haye-ah |date=27 December 2024 |title=(4th LD) Nat'l Assembly votes to impeach acting President Han |url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20241227001254315 |access-date=27 December 2024 |website=[[Yonhap News Agency]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=South Korean authorities seek warrant to detain impeached President Yoon in martial law probe |url=https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-yoon-martial-law-detain-rebellion-d00aa71be342df39b9775e49f90f5756 |last=Kim |first=Tong-hyung |work=[[AP News]] |date=30 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wong |first1=Tessa |date=23 March 2025 |title=South Korea court reinstates PM as acting leader |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c625jkyrx6do |archive-date=24 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250324041549/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c625jkyrx6do |url-status=live |access-date=24 March 2025 |work=BBC News}}</ref>
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| [[Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte]]
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| 11 March 2025
| Former [[President of the Philippines|Philippine president]] [[Rodrigo Duterte]] was arrested by the [[Philippine National Police|PNP]] ([[Criminal Investigation and Detection Group|CIDG]]), [[Interpol]], and PCTC, under an [[International Criminal Court|ICC]] warrant charging him with [[crimes against humanity]] related to the [[Philippine drug war]] as the "act of [[terrorism]]". Duterte arrived at [[Ninoy Aquino International Airport]] in Metro Manila on 11 March after attending a political rally in [[Hong Kong]] and transferred to [[the Hague]] for a face trial. He is the first leader from Asia to face trial before the ICC.
| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/3/11/dozens-of-cops-at-naia-ahead-of-rodrigo-duterte-s-expected-arrival-0951 |title=Ex-President Duterte arrested on ICC warrant |publisher=ABS-CBN News |date=March 11, 2025 |access-date=March 11, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9ykn85401o |title=Philippines ex-leader Duterte arrested on ICC warrant over drug killings |publisher=BBC |last1=Guinto |first1=Joel |date=March 11, 2025 |access-date=March 11, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ratcliffe |first1=Rebecca |title=Rodrigo Duterte's lawyers demand he is returned to the Philippines after ICC arrest |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/12/rodrigo-duterte-philippines-former-president-arrest-update |website=The Guardian |date=March 12, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/12/philippine-vp-sara-duterte-travels-to-the-hague-to-help-father-at-icc|title=Philippine VP Sara Duterte travels to The Hague to help father at ICC|publisher=Al Jazeera |date=March 12, 2025 |access-date=March 12, 2025}}</ref>
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| [[2025 India–Pakistan crisis]]
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| 23 April – 10 May 2025
| India and Pakistan fell into a military and diplomatic crisis began after the [[2025 Pahalgam attack]], a [[Islamic terrorist|terrorist]] attack in the [[Baisaran Valley]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]] by [[The Resistance Front]] (TRF), which killed 26 people. A direct [[2025 India–Pakistan conflict|conflict]] broke out on 7 May 2025, after India launched missile strikes on Pakistan, codenamed Operation Sindoor. However, on 10 May 2025, Pakistan launched their retaliatory operation codenamed Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos and military hostilities continued until a ceasefire made as a short-lived conflict.
|<ref>{{cite news |title=What is The Resistance Front, the militant group linked to Pahalgam attack? |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/india/kashmir-resistance-group-that-claimed-attack-tourists-indian-kashmir-2025-04-23/ |access-date=24 April 2025 |work=[[Reuters]] |publisher=Shilpa Jamkhandikar}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Crisis Deepens for India and Pakistan Over Kashmir Attack |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/world/asia/pakistan-india-kashmir-attack.html |access-date=24 April 2025 |agency=[[The New York Times]] |last1=Masood |first1=Salman |date=24 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hadid |first=Diaa |date=2025-04-25 |title=After deadly Kashmir attack, India reports exchange of fire with Pakistani soldiers |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/04/25/g-s1-62677/india-pakistan-kashmir-line-of-control-firing |access-date=2025-04-25 |work=NPR}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=6 May 2025 |title=India says it has launched strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyneele13qt |access-date=6 May 2025 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=India and Pakistan accuse each other of 'violations' after ceasefire deal |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwy3jnl3nvwt |access-date=10 May 2025 |website=[[BBC News]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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| [[2025 Thai political crisis]] and [[2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis|Cambodia–Thai border crisis]]
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| 28 May – 26 October 2025
| Thailand and Cambodia fell into a military and diplomatic crisis, began the discontent of the [[Shinawatra family]] escalated culminated by the suspension of the Prime Minister [[Paetongtarn Shinawatra]] by the Constitutional Court and replaced by [[Anutin Charnvirakul]] two months later. A direct conflict broke out on 24 July 2025, after Thailand launched missile strikes on Cambodian border as a potential war. The [[Kuala Lumpur Peace Accord]] signed a ceasefire on 26 October 2025 on the sidelines of the [[2025 ASEAN Summits|47th ASEAN Summit]] in [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Malaysia]].
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Thai veteran politician set for single day as acting prime minister |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thailand-acting-prime-minister-suriya-jungrungreangkit-paetongtarn-shinawatra-5215501 |access-date=2025-07-02 |website=CNA |archive-date=3 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250703142029/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thailand-acting-prime-minister-suriya-jungrungreangkit-paetongtarn-shinawatra-5215501 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Wongcha-um |first1=Panu |last2=Thepgumpanat |first2=Panarat |date=2025-07-01 |title=Thai court suspends PM from duty pending case seeking her dismissal |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thai-constitutional-court-weigh-petition-seeking-pms-dismissal-2025-07-01/ |access-date=2025-07-01 |work=Reuters |archive-date=4 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250704010550/https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thai-constitutional-court-weigh-petition-seeking-pms-dismissal-2025-07-01/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lukiv |first=Jaroslav |date=25 July 2025 |title=Cambodia calls for immediate ceasefire with Thailand as death toll rises |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9x99n79v8o |access-date=26 July 2025 |website=[[BBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=3 September 2025 |title=Anutin signs PM nomination agreement |url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/3098024/anutin-signs-pm-nomination-agreement |access-date=13 September 2025 |work=Bangkok Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dy2kk7vzo|work=BBC|date=26 October 2025|title=Trump presides over Thai-Cambodia 'peace deal' - but what does it mean?}}</ref>
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| [[July Declaration]] and [[July Charter|Charter]]
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| 4 August – 17 October 2025
| The July Declaration and Charter was officially recognized document of the [[July Revolution]]. It was formally announced by Chief Adviser [[Muhammad Yunus]], marking the first anniversary of the revolution. The declaration, which was prepared under strict confidentiality, outlined 28 points addressing political, constitutional, and governance issues.
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-08-05 |title=The 'July Declaration': Full Official Text of Bangladesh's Uprising Statement |url=https://southasia.politics.blog/2025/08/05/july-declaration-full-text-of-bangladeshs-uprising-statement/ |access-date=2025-08-05 |website=South Asia Politics |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-08-05 |title=July Declaration grants 2024 uprising constitutional recognition |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/july-declaration-grants-2024-uprising-constitutional-recognition-3956101 |access-date=2025-08-05 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Sarkar |first=Alisha Rahaman |date=7 August 2024 |title=How Bangladesh's students carried out world's first Gen Z revolution |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/bangladesh-protesters-gen-z-sheikh-hasina-overthrown-b2591824.html |work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-10-17 |title=Declaration of independence not being dropped, what is in July Charter |url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/4jeyxcy98d |access-date=2025-11-03 |website=Prothomalo |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=28 July 2025 |title=The July Charter draft contains 7 commitments |url=https://www.kalerkantho.com/online/national/2025/07/28/1553871 |work=[[Kaler Kantho]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[2025 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election]] and the formation of [[Takaichi Cabinet]]
| {{flag|Japan}}
| 4 – 22 October 2025
| [[Sanae Takaichi]] was elected the first female president of the [[Liberal Democratic Party of Japan]]. She is expected to become Japan's first female prime minister and focused on [[Abenomics]] and fixing political problems. Some sources have described her as [[Ultraconservatism|ultraconservative]] or [[Right-wing populism|right-wing populist]] and pro-[[Donald Trump]] relationship in the US. She became the first prime minister in history, the Kansai-based [[Japan Innovation Party|JIP]] joined as a conservative coalition, and the formation of [[Takaichi Cabinet]] three weeks later.
| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/04/japan/politics/ldp-election-voting-president/|title=Takaichi and Koizumi head to runoff in LDP leadership race|publisher=[[The Japan Times]]|date=4 October 2025|accessdate=4 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/04/japan/politics/ldp-election-winner-takaichi/|title=Takaichi poised to become Japan's first female PM after winning LDP poll|publisher=[[The Japan Times]]|date=4 October 2025|accessdate=4 October 2025|first1=Himari|last1=Semans|first2=Gabriele|last2=Ninivaggi|first3=Kanako|last3=Takahara}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/china/global-reaction-sanae-takaichi-winning-japan-leadership-race-2025-10-04/|title=Global reaction to Sanae Takaichi winning Japan leadership race|publisher=[[Reuters]]|date=4 October 2025|accessdate=4 October 2025}}</ref><ref name=":SanaeBBC">{{cite news |date=4 October 2025 |title=Who is Japan's 'Iron Lady' Sanae Takaichi?|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkj5e73xkmo |access-date=4 October 2025 |work=[[BBC News]]|archive-date=4 October 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251004224105/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkj5e73xkmo|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=19 October 2025 |title=Japan's LDP, Ishin agree to form coalition government, Kyodo says |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japans-ldp-ishin-agree-form-coalition-government-kyodo-says-2025-10-19/ |accessdate=19 October 2025 |publisher=Reuters}}</ref> 
|}
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File:Imran Khan and 2 Chief Ministers of Pakistan.jpg|Former Pakistani prime minister [[Imran Khan]] was arrested twice during the [[2022–2024 Pakistan political unrest|political unrest]], and PTI-led independents were lost the [[2024 Pakistani general election|2024 election]].

File:Shigeru Ishiba was designated as the 102nd Prime Minister 4.jpg|A political crisis began with [[Shigeru Ishiba]] is elected as [[Prime Minister of Japan]] by the [[National Diet]], succeed [[Fumio Kishida]] and reelected in October 2024 following the [[2024 Japanese general election|election]], he was resigned and replaced by [[Sanae Takaichi]] in a following year.

File:2024년 대한민국 계엄 반대 시위대 깃발.jpg|Protests erupted during the [[2024 South Korean martial law crisis|2024–2025 South Korean political crisis]] on 3 December 2024.

File:Duterte and Medialdea flying to The Hague in 2025.jpg|Former [[President of the Philippines|Philippine president]] [[Rodrigo Duterte]] was arrested by several organizations under an [[International Criminal Court]] (ICC) warrant charging him with [[crimes against humanity]] and [[abuse of power]] related to the [[Philippine drug war]] and [[2024 South Korean martial law crisis|declaration of martial law]] are the "act of [[terrorism]]".

File:The Inauguration Ceremony of the 21th President of Republic of Korea (54566787254).jpg|[[Lee Jae-myung]] becomes President of South Korea following the victory at the [[2025 South Korean presidential election|snap election]] since 2017.

File:20251021 shimei 01.jpg|[[Sanae Takaichi]] became the first female [[Prime Minister of Japan]], as well as longtime [[Kansai region|Kansai]]-based politician; the formation of the [[Takaichi Cabinet]] and the [[Conservatism|conservative]] LDP-[[Japan Innovation Party|JIP]] coalition since the withdrawal of [[Komeito]] after 26 years.

File:President Donald Trump, Malaysian Prime Minister Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, and Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul sign the Kuala Lumpur Accord (54882714117).jpg|The [[Kuala Lumpur Peace Accord]] signing ceremony during the [[2025 ASEAN Summits|47th ASEAN Summit]] in [[Kuala Lumpur]], ending a five-month [[2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis]].
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====Europe====
{{Further|Category:2020s in Europe}}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
|-
! style="width:130px;"| Event
! style="width:60px;" | Country
! style="width:100px;"| Date
! Description
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
| [[Brexit]]
| {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| 31 January 2020
| The [[United Kingdom]] and [[Gibraltar]] formally withdrew from the [[European Union]] at 11PM (GMT).
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51287430 |title=Brexit: European Parliament overwhelmingly backs terms of UK's exit |access-date=1 February 2020 |archive-date=29 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129175943/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51287430 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Eighth [[Enlargement of NATO#Adriatic Charter|NATO enlargement]]
| {{flag|North Macedonia}}
| 27 March 2020
| [[North Macedonia]] became a member state of [[NATO]] after the 2018 [[Prespa Agreement]].
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 March 2020 |title=North Macedonia's Leader Inks Final Accession Document |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/03/20/us/politics/ap-eu-north-macedonia-nato.html |access-date=21 March 2020 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=21 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321031941/https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/03/20/us/politics/ap-eu-north-macedonia-nato.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2021–2025 Bulgarian political crisis]]
| {{flag|Bulgaria}}
|4 April 2021 – 16 January 2025
|A series of unstable governments and a gridlock resulted in seven elections occurring over four years.
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-01-24 |title=Bulgaria gears for its fifth election in two years on April 2 |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bulgaria-hold-early-elections-april-2-president-2023-01-24/ |access-date=2023-01-26 |archive-date=27 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127213534/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bulgaria-hold-early-elections-april-2-president-2023-01-24/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bulgaria-hold-another-snap-parliamentary-election-oct-27-says-president-2024-08-26/|title=Bulgaria to hold another snap parliamentary election on Oct. 27, says president|website=[[Reuters]]|date=26 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Central Election Commission Adopts Schedule for October 27 Snap Parliamentary Elections |url=https://www.bta.bg/en/news/bulgaria/732377-central-election-commission-adopts-schedule-for-october-27-snap-parliamentary-el |access-date=2024-08-27 |website=www.bta.bg}}</ref>
|-
|[[Belarus–European Union border crisis]]
| {{flag|Belarus}} {{flag|European Union}}
|7 July 2021
|A [[migrant crisis]] and humanitarian disaster involving an influx of coordinated groups of immigrants, primarily from [[Iraq]] and elsewhere in the [[Middle East]] and [[North Africa]], to [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]] and [[Latvia]] via their borders with [[Belarus]]. The crisis was triggered by the severe deterioration in [[Belarus–European Union relations]] following the [[2020 Belarusian presidential election]], the [[2020–2021 Belarusian protests]], the [[Ryanair Flight 4978]] incident and subsequent sanctions on Belarus, as well as the [[Belarus 2020 Summer Olympics scandal|attempted forced repatriation]] of Olympic sprinter [[Krystsina Tsimanouskaya]] from the [[2020 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]. Belarusian [[President of Belarus|president]] [[Alexander Lukashenko]] deliberately had immigrants from the [[Middle East]] flown into Belarus in order to "flood [[Europe]] with migrants and drugs."
|<ref>{{cite news |date=8 November 2021 |title=Hundreds Of Migrants Gather At Belarusian-Polish Border |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-migrants-poland-border-incident/31551118.html |newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |access-date=29 July 2024 |archive-date=23 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123181240/https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-migrants-poland-border-incident/31551118.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Pancevski |first1=Bojan |last2=Hinshaw |first2=Drew |date=2021-11-11 |title=Europe Weighs Border Walls as Migrants Mass in Belarus at Poland's Frontier |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-weighs-border-walls-as-migrants-mass-in-belarus-at-polands-frontier-11636649364 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115030315/https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-weighs-border-walls-as-migrants-mass-in-belarus-at-polands-frontier-11636649364 |archive-date=15 November 2021 |access-date=2021-11-15 |work=Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660}}</ref>
|-
| [[2022 United Kingdom government crisis (disambiguation)|2022 United Kingdom government crisis]]
| {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| 5 July – 25 October 2022
| Two government crises occurred between [[July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis|July]] and [[October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis|October]] 2022: Several officials resigned from their positions in [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Boris Johnson]]'s [[second Johnson ministry|second ministry]], culminating in Johnson announcing his resignation on 7 July and two [[July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election|leadership election]]s after new Prime Minister [[Liz Truss]] lost in public confidence following her [[September 2022 United Kingdom mini-budget|September mini-budget]]. [[Chancellor of the Exchequer|Chancellor]] [[Rishi Sunak]] became prime minister three months after the crisis.
| <ref>{{cite news |date=6 July 2022 |title=Government resignations: Who has gone, who is staying? |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62058278 |access-date=6 July 2022 |archive-date=6 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706124253/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62058278 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Mason |first=Rowena |date=6 June 2022 |title=Boris Johnson wins no-confidence vote despite unexpectedly large rebellion |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/06/boris-johnson-wins-no-confidence-vote-despite-unexpectedly-large-rebellion |access-date=15 July 2022 |work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=20 October 2022 |title=Liz Truss resigns as prime minister |work=Sky News |url=https://news.sky.com/story/liz-truss-to-resign-as-prime-minister-sky-news-understands-12723236 |url-status=live |access-date=20 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020124052/https://news.sky.com/story/liz-truss-to-resign-as-prime-minister-sky-news-understands-12723236 |archive-date=20 October 2022}}</ref>
|-
|[[Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II|Death and state funeral]] of [[Elizabeth II]] and [[Proclamation of accession of Charles III|accession of Charles III]]
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|8 September 2022
|Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, the longest-living and longest-reigning British monarch, reigning since 6 February 1952, died at the age of 96. Her son Charles acceded to the throne as King Charles III immediately, after serving as heir apparent for 70 years, the longest in British history.
|<ref name="BBCNewsInfo">{{Cite news |date=8 September 2022 |title=Queen Elizabeth II has died, Buckingham Palace announces |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61585886 |url-status=live |access-date=8 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908173308/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61585886 |archive-date=8 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62857578|title=Charles III to be proclaimed king at historic ceremony|publisher=BBC News|first=Joseph|last=Lee|date=10 September 2022|accessdate=10 September 2022|archive-date=10 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910074953/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62857578|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2022 Italian general election]]
|{{flag|Italy}}
|25 September 2022
|The [[Centre-right coalition (Italy)|right-wing coalition]] led by [[Giorgia Meloni]]'s [[Brothers of Italy]] won an absolute majority in both houses. On 22 October, Meloni was appointed prime minister, becoming the first woman to hold the office.
|<ref>{{cite news |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=21 October 2022 |title=Presidential palace says Giorgia Meloni forms government, giving Italy first far-right-led coalition since World War II |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/presidential-palace-giorgia-meloni-forms-government-giving-italy-91866408 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022000948/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/presidential-palace-giorgia-meloni-forms-government-giving-italy-91866408 |archive-date=22 October 2022 |access-date=21 October 2022 |website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=21 October 2022 |title=Far-right Meloni set to become Italy's first woman PM |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221021-far-right-meloni-set-to-become-italy-s-first-woman-pm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021100236/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221021-far-right-meloni-set-to-become-italy-s-first-woman-pm |archive-date=21 October 2022 |access-date=21 October 2022 |website=[[France 24]] |publisher=[[Agence France-Presse]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[2023 Montenegrin presidential election]]
|{{flag|Montenegro}}
|2 April 2023
|[[Europe Now!]] candidate [[Jakov Milatović]] wins the 2nd round of the presidential election against incumbent [[President of Montenegro|president]] [[Milo Đukanović]] of the [[Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro|DPS]]. Đukanović, who had ruled the country almost continuously since [[1991]] either as president or [[Prime Minister of Montenegro|prime minister]], thus lost power for the first time after more than 32 years. Milatović's victory was also the first time that the DPS lost a presidential election since [[1990 Montenegrin general election|1990]].
|<ref>{{cite news|date=2 April 2023|url=https://rtcg.me/predsjednickiizbori/413500/jakov-milatovic-ubjedljivo-pobijedio-dobio-601-odsto-glasova-djukanovic-399-.html|title=Jakov Milatović ubjedljivo pobijedio: Dobio 60,1 odsto glasova, Đukanović 39,9 %|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403063242/https://www.rtcg.me/predsjednickiizbori/413500/jakov-milatovic-ubjedljivo-pobijedio-dobio-601-odsto-glasova-djukanovic-399-.html |archive-date=3 April 2023|newspaper=RTCG|language=Montenegrin}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Vasovic |first1=Aleksandar |last2=Filipovic |first2=Branko |last3=Vasovic |first3=Aleksandar |date=2023-06-11 |title=Montenegro's pro-EU Europe Now Movement claims victory in snap vote |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/montenegro-holds-parliamentary-vote-secure-reforms-eu-path-2023-06-11/ |access-date=2023-06-12}}</ref>
|-
| Ninth and tenth [[Enlargement of NATO#Finland and Sweden|NATO enlargement]]s
| {{flag|Finland}}<br />{{flag|Sweden}}
| 4 April 2023 – 7 March 2024
|[[Finland]] and [[Sweden]] applied to join NATO in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and were formally accepted the following years. This ended their neutralities existing more than two centuries, becoming the latest Nordic countries to join the alliance.
|<ref name="fastest">{{Cite web |last=Laverick |first=Evelyn |date=2023-04-04 |title=Finland joins NATO in the alliance's fastest-ever accession process |url=https://www.euronews.com/2023/04/04/finland-joins-nato-in-the-alliances-fastest-ever-accession-process |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404135547/https://www.euronews.com/2023/04/04/finland-joins-nato-in-the-alliances-fastest-ever-accession-process |archive-date=4 April 2023 |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=[[Euronews]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite press release |title=Sweden officially joins NATO |date=7 March 2024 |url=https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_223446.htm?selectedLocale=en |access-date=7 March 2024 |archive-date=7 March 2024 |publisher=NATO |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240307165659/https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_223446.htm?selectedLocale=en |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Coronation of Charles III and Camilla]]
| {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| 6 May 2023
|The [[coronation]] of [[Charles III]] and his wife, [[Queen Camilla|Camilla]], as [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|king]] and [[List of British royal consorts|queen of the United Kingdom]] and the other [[Commonwealth realm]]s, took place on 6 May. Charles III acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022, following the death of his mother, Elizabeth II. This was the first [[Coronation of the British monarch|coronation of a British monarch]] since Elizabeth II was crowned 70 years earlier in [[Coronation of Elizabeth II|1953]].
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=21 April 2023 |title=King Charles: Your essential guide to the Coronation weekend |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65254834 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505174904/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65254834 |archive-date=5 May 2023 |access-date=5 May 2023 |work=BBC News}}</ref>
|-
|[[2023 Polish parliamentary election]]
|{{flag|Poland}}
|15 October 2023
||The [[United Right (Poland)|United Right]] secured the highest number of seats in the election, but failed to achieve a majority in the [[Sejm]]. Meanwhile, the opposition, headed by [[Donald Tusk]], successfully garnered a parliamentary majority. This represents a shift in the Sejm's majority for the first time in eight years in Poland.
|<ref>{{cite web |author=Easton, Adam |date=10 November 2023 |title=Poland's Tusk-led pro-EU opposition signs deal and waits to govern |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67381267.amp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110171740/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67381267.amp |archive-date=10 November 2023 |access-date=10 November 2023 |work=[[BBC]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[2023–2024 French government crisis|2023–2024 French government]] and [[2024-2025 French political crisis|political crises]] 
|{{flag|France}}
|11 December 2023 – present
|In December 2023, the [[Borne government]] faced a governability and credibility crisis. It was caused mainly by the difficult passage of the 2023 immigration and asylum bill, resulted the short-lived [[Attal government]] formed for eight months. The [[2024 French legislative election]] organized and held in June 2024, which resulted in a hung parliament with the left-wing [[New Popular Front]] (NFP) leading a plurality. The fragile political context resulted in the formation of two short-lived [[minority government]]s, headed by [[Michel Barnier]], [[François Bayrou]], and [[Sébastien Lecornu]] respectively, both of which ended up collapsing over budgetary disputes.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-gerald-darmanin-immigration-bill-defeat/ |title='End of reign': Macron faces ungovernable France after shock immigration loss |newspaper=Politico |date=12 December 2023 |access-date=23 November 2024 |archive-date=13 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213121049/https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-gerald-darmanin-immigration-bill-defeat/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-french-reshuffle-gabriel-attal-prime-minister/ |title=Macron appoints rising star as PM, leaves presidential hopefuls stunned |newspaper=Politico |date=9 January 2024 |access-date=23 November 2024 |archive-date=10 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110123815/https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-french-reshuffle-gabriel-attal-prime-minister/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tidey |first=Alice |date=9 June 2024 |title=French President Macron dissolves parliament, calls snap elections |url=https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/09/french-president-emmanuel-macron-announces-anticipated-elections-after-stinging-eu-electio |access-date=9 June 2024 |website=euronews |archive-date=9 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240609194328/https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/09/french-president-emmanuel-macron-announces-anticipated-elections-after-stinging-eu-electio |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1 October 2024 |title=5 things to watch for in French PM Barnier's first parliamentary address |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/michel-barnier-big-day-lawmakers-speech-france-coalition-government-debt-tax-rate-migration-labor/ |access-date=1 October 2024 |newspaper=Politico |archive-date=1 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241001042033/https://www.politico.eu/article/michel-barnier-big-day-lawmakers-speech-france-coalition-government-debt-tax-rate-migration-labor/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-09 |title=Macron names ally Sébastien Lecornu as new French PM |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmenp1k0mjo |access-date=2025-09-09 |website=BBC News}}</ref>
|-
|[[Abdication of Margrethe II]] and accession of [[Frederik X]]
|{{flag|Denmark}}
|14 January 2024
|In the first voluntary abdication of a [[Danish monarch]] since that of [[Eric III of Denmark|King Eric III]] in 1146, [[Margrethe II|Queen Margrethe II]] abdicated the throne and was succeeded by her elder son, [[Frederik X|King Frederik X]], bringing an end to her 52-year reign.
|<ref name="CNNAbdication">{{Cite news |title=Denmark's King Frederik X takes the throne after abdication of Queen |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/14/europe/denmark-royals-frederik-mary-proclamation-king-queen-intl/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=29 July 2024 |archive-date=16 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116094607/https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/14/europe/denmark-royals-frederik-mary-proclamation-king-queen-intl/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Denmark's new King Frederik X appears before parliament |website=[[Reuters]] |date=15 January 2024 |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/denmarks-new-king-frederik-x-appears-before-parliament-2024-01-15/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |last1=Gronholt-Pedersen |first1=Jacob |last2=Jacobsen |first2=Stine |last3=Gronholt-Pedersen |first3=Jacob}}</ref>
|-
|[[2024 European Parliament election]]
|{{flag|European Union}}
|6–9 June 2024
||[[European People's Party]] led by [[President of the European Commission]] [[Ursula von der Leyen]] win the most seats in the European Parliament. The right-wing [[European Conservatives and Reformists Group|European Conservatives and Reformists]] and the [[Europe of Sovereign Nations Group|Europe of Sovereign Nations]] parties made gains than pro-EU [[centrist]], [[Liberalism|liberal]], [[social democrat]] and [[environmentalist]] parties in history.
|<ref name="re-election">{{Cite web |date=18 July 2024 |title=Parliament re-elects Ursula von der Leyen as Commission President |url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240710IPR22812/parliament-re-elects-ursula-von-der-leyen-as-commission-president |access-date=18 July 2024 |website=European Parliament |archive-date=10 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241110000739/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240710IPR22812/parliament-re-elects-ursula-von-der-leyen-as-commission-president |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Joyner |first=Ella |date=June 11, 2024 |title=Europe's far right won ground in the EU elections. Can they unite to wield power? |url=https://apnews.com/article/european-parliament-election-far-right-b9339cf1a7d2067bf6fa1941c166936d# |work=AP News}}</ref>
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|2024–2025 Dutch political crisis and [[2025 Dutch general election|2025 general election]]
|{{flag|Netherlands}}
|2 July 2024 – 29 October 2025
|In July 2024, the [[Schoof cabinet]] faced a governing crisis since the [[2023 Dutch general election]], with the longest government formation in modern Dutch history. It was caused mainly by the difficult passage of the immigration and asylum bill, and the cabinet fell after the far-right [[Party for Freedom]] (PVV) left the coalition and cabinet on 3 June 2025 due to a public discontent. A [[2025 Dutch general election|snap election]] was held in October 2025. The liberal and centrist [[Christian Democratic Appeal|CDA]]-[[Democrats 66|D66]] coalition made gains and PVV became the two largest parties, each winning 44 and 26 seats and about 17% of the vote. 
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Kabinet gevallen, alle PVV-bewindslieden stappen op |trans-title=Cabinet collapsed, all PVV ministers resign |url=https://nos.nl/collectie/13996/liveblog/2569753-kabinet-gevallen-alle-pvv-bewindslieden-stappen-op-schoof-naar-de-koning#UPDATE-container-86554991 |work=NOS |date=3 June 2025 |language=nl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/dutch-government-coalition-collapses-over-migration-clash/|title=Dutch government coalition collapses over migration clash|work=[[Euractiv]]|date=3 June 2025|last=Ionta|first=Nicoletta|access-date=3 June 2025|archive-date=3 June 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250603080037/https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/dutch-government-coalition-collapses-over-migration-clash/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.rd.nl/a/1109808-hoe-verder-na-val-kabinet-schoof |website=[[Reformatorisch Dagblad]] |language=nl |access-date=6 June 2025 |last=Hermenet |first=Coen |title=Hoe verder na val kabinet-Schoof? |trans-title=How to continue after the collapse of the Schoof cabinet? |date=4 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=30 October 2025 |title=PVV en D66 met 26 zetels op gelijke hoogte in laatste prognose |trans-title=PVV and D66 are level on 26 seats in the latest forecast |url=https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/politiek/artikel/5536236/nek-aan-nek-laatste-prognose-26-zetels-pvv-d66-vvd-en-cda-1-zetel |website=[[RTL Nieuws]] |language=nl |access-date=1 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=29 October 2025 |title=Jetten: coalitie met GroenLinks-PvdA is logische optie |trans-title=Jetten: coalition with GroenLinks-PvdA is a logical option |url=https://nos.nl/collectie/14006/liveblog/2588440-d66-en-pvv-nek-aan-nek-verschil-minder-dan-2000-stemmen |access-date=30 October 2025 |website=nos.nl |language=nl}}</ref><ref name="NLD"/>
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|[[2024 German government crisis]] and [[2025 German federal election|2025 federal election]]
|{{flag|Germany}}
|6 November 2024 – 23 February 2025
|[[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]] [[Olaf Scholz]] announced the dismissal of the then-[[Finance Minister of Germany|finance minister]] [[Christian Lindner]], and leader of the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]] (FDP), from [[Scholz cabinet|his cabinet]] due to the ongoing [[German economic crisis (2022–present)|economic crisis]]. The government crisis led to a [[2025 German federal election|snap election]] being called for February 2025. The conservative [[CDU/CSU]] won over the far-right [[Alternative for Germany]] and [[Friedrich Merz]] became Chancellor after the government formation.
|<ref name="German GC">{{Cite web |title=Kanzler Scholz entlässt Finanzminister Lindner |trans-title=Chancellor Scholz dismisses Finance Minister Lindner |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/eilmeldung-ampelregierung-scholz-entlaesst-lindner-100.html |access-date=6 November 2024 |website=[[Tagesschau (German TV programme)|Tagesschau]] |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |trans-title=How New Elections Could Occur |title=Wie es zu Neuwahlen kommen könnte |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/ampelkoalition-neuwahlen-100.html |access-date=6 November 2024 |website=[[Tagesschau (German TV programme)|Tagesschau]] |language=de |archive-date=6 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241106205347/https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/ampelkoalition-neuwahlen-100.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/germany-election-far-right-surge-friedrich-merz-warning|title=Germany election: Merz says it's 'five to midnight' for Europe|date=25 February 2025|website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/24/german-election-who-won-who-lost-and-whats-next|title=German election: Who won, who lost and what's next?|date=24 February 2025|website=[[Al Jazeera]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-merzs-cdu-wins-election-afd-second/live-71700729|title=German election: Merz's CDU wins election, AfD second|date=23 February 2025|website=[[Deutsche Welle]]}}</ref>
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|[[2024 Romanian presidential election|2024]] and [[2025 Romanian presidential election]]s
|{{flag|Romania}}
|24 November 2024 – 18 May 2025
|A series of two presidential elections held in Romania, began with the annulation of the first election following the result of a controversial first round with [[Romanian nationalism|nationalist]] candidate [[Călin Georgescu]] achieving a [[relative majority]] of votes. The second election began in February 2025, with the arrest and rejection of Georgescu as the candidate after [[Ilie Bolojan]] became acting president for three months until the election. The centrist candidate [[Nicusor Dan]] won the election over nationalist [[George Simion]].
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Madalin Necsutu and Anthony Faiola |date=6 December 2024 |title=Romanian court annuls presidential vote after Russian interference claims |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/06/romania-court-annuls-presidential-election/ |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=8 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tanno |first=Sophie |date=6 December 2024 |title=Romania's top court annuls presidential election result |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/06/europe/romania-annuls-presidential-election-intl/index.html |access-date=6 December 2024 |website=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=12 February 2025 |title=Romania's Iohannis steps down, leaving caretaker president in charge until election rerun in spring |url=https://apnews.com/article/romania-president-europe-eu-klaus-iohannis-elections-a42440317c1ac55926789f4664656f60 |access-date=12 February 2025 |website=AP News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250212112811/https://apnews.com/article/romania-president-europe-eu-klaus-iohannis-elections-a42440317c1ac55926789f4664656f60|archive-date=12 February 2025|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=28 February 2025 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/romania-the-controversy-over-far-right-politician-calin-georgescu/a-71790360 |title=Controversy over far-right Romanian politician Georgescu |access-date=26 February 2025 |website=Deutsche Welle |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250309120605/https://www.dw.com/en/romania-the-controversy-over-far-right-politician-calin-georgescu/a-71790360 |archive-date=9 March 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2025 London Summit on Ukraine]]
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|2 March 2025
|A meeting of international leaders in [[London]] on 2 March 2025, called by British [[Prime Minister of United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Keir Starmer]] to draft a [[Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine|peace plan]] for the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] to take to the United States. The summit followed the [[2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting|meeting]] of [[President of Ukraine|Ukrainian President]] [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]] at the [[White House]] in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] on 28 February 2025 with [[President of the United States|President]] [[Donald Trump]] and [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[JD Vance]].
|<ref>{{cite news |title=UK's Starmer calls on Europe to step up to secure Ukraine peace |first1=Elizabeth |last1=Piper |first2=Kate |last2=Holton |first3=Andrew |last3=Macaskill |date=2 March 2025 |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/uks-starmer-tries-revive-hope-ukraine-peace-summit-2025-03-01/ |access-date=2 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Baker |first=Peter |date=28 February 2025|title=Tempers flare before Zelensky abruptly departs the White House without signing a minerals deal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/28/us/trump-news/trump-zelensky-ukraine-russia-putin?smid=url-share |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 March 2025|work=New York Times|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2025-03-02 |title=Starmer: Coalition of willing to guarantee Ukraine peace |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vygkzkkrvo |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=bbc.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=UK to defend Ukraine peace deal with 'coalition of willing', Starmer says |url=https://news.sky.com/story/uk-to-defend-ukraine-peace-deal-with-coalition-of-willing-starmer-says-13320159 |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Sky News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Starmer and Macron to work on Ukraine peace as leaders meet for London summit |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/france-and-u-k-to-step-in-to-heal-trump-zelenskyy-rift/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Politico}}</ref>
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|[[Death and funeral of Pope Francis]] and the [[2025 papal conclave]]
|{{flag|Vatican City}}
|21 April – 8 May 2025
|[[Pope Francis]] died on [[Easter Monday]] at the age of 88 in his residence in [[Domus Sanctae Marthae]] after 12 years of papacy, and just following the 20th anniversary of the [[death and funeral of Pope John Paul II]]. His death triggered a [[Sede vacante|papal interregnum]] and a nine-day period of mourning. The pope's funeral, by tradition, takes place within four to six days of the pope's death; he was buried at [[Santa Maria Maggiore]] in [[Rome]]. His successor [[Pope Leo XIV]] was elected as pontiff in the [[2025 papal conclave]] two weeks later; he became the first pope from the [[Catholic Church in the United States|United States]] and the second from the Americas.
|<ref>{{cite news|title=Pope Francis has died, Vatican says in video statement |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-francis-has-died-vatican-says-video-statement-2025-04-21 |website=Reuters |access-date=21 April 2025 |first=Joshua |last=McElwee|date=21 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html|title=Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday at age of 88|date=21 April 2025|publisher=[[Vatican News]]|accessdate=21 April 2025|first=Devin |last=Watkins}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=21 April 2025 |title=Pope Francis dies at age 88 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pope-francis-dies-rcna192559 |access-date=21 April 2025 |website=NBC News |first=Astha |last=Rajvanshi}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88 |author=Nicole Winfield |url=https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-francis-dead-01ca7d73c3c48d25fd1504ba076e2e2a |access-date=21 April 2025 |work=AP News |date=21 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rich |first1=Motoko |last2=Dias |first2=Elizabeth |last3=Horowitz |first3=Jason |date=May 8, 2025 |title=Pope Leo XIV, the First American Pontiff, Took a Global Route to the Top Post |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/pope-leo-xiv-robert-francis-prevost.html |access-date=May 9, 2025 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=McElwee |first=Joshua |date=May 8, 2025 |title=Prevost, first U.S. pope, supported Francis and shunned spotlight |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/prevost-first-us-pope-supported-francis-shunned-spotlight-2025-05-08/ |access-date=May 8, 2025 |work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref>
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|[[2025 Moldovan parliamentary election]]
|{{flag|Moldova}}
|28 September 2025
|The ruling pro-European [[Party of Action and Solidarity]] (PAS) retained the parliamentary election over pro-Russian [[Patriotic Electoral Bloc]] (BEP) suffered minor losses, the election was described as potentially determining the fate of Moldova's [[Accession of Moldova to the European Union|accession bid]] into the [[European Union]] (EU) with President [[Maia Sandu]] calling it "the most important election in the history of the country".
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://tvpworld.com/89082562/moldova-election-2025-us-retreat-europe-braces-for-test |title=Analysis: As US retreats, Europe braces for Moldova's make-or-break election |first=Stuart |last=Dowell |publisher=[[TVP World]] |date=23 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Peleschuk |first=Dan |title=Moldova faces key parliamentary election, with EU bid at stake |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date=2025-09-25 |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moldova-faces-key-parliamentary-election-with-eu-bid-stake-2025-09-25/ |access-date=2025-09-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Rainsford |first1=Sarah |title=Pro-EU party in Moldova wins election mired in claims of Russian interference |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rdlj8ejgo |website=[[BBC]] |date=29 September 2025 |access-date=29 September 2025}}</ref> 
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|[[2025 Irish presidential election]]
|{{flag|Ireland}}
|24 October 2025
|[[Catherine Connolly]] is elected [[President of Ireland]] in a [[Landslide victory|landslide]]. Connolly is characterized in the press as a [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] [[socialism|socialist]] politician. Connolly's [[landslide victory]] was seen as a rebuke to the centre-right [[Government of the 34th Dáil|Irish governing coalition]] and stauch supporter of [[Irish neutrality]].
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carroll |first=Rory |date=23 October 2025 |title=Catherine Connolly: the outspoken leftwinger set to be Ireland's next president |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/23/catherine-connolly-the-outspoken-leftwinger-set-to-be-irelands-next-president |access-date=25 October 2025 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lqmmp2lg2o|publisher=[[BBC News]]|title=Humphreys congratulates Connolly in Irish presidential election|first=Gabija|last=Gataveckaite|date=25 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Carroll |first=Rory |date=25 October 2025 |title=Leftwinger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/25/catherine-connolly-ireland-presidential-election-leftwing |access-date=25 October 2025 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Halpin |first=Padraic |date=26 October 2025 |title=Independent left-wing politician Connolly wins Irish presidency in landslide.|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/left-wing-connolly-set-win-irish-presidency-opponents-concede-2025-10-25/ |website=Reuters}}</ref>
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|[[Operation Midas]]
|{{flag|Ukraine}}
|13 November 2025
|The Operation Midas is the name of the currently ongoing anti-corruption investigation of the [[National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine]] (NABU) and the [[Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office]] (SAP), launched in 2024. The investigation concerns large-scale defenses in the energy sector of Ukraine, committed during the [[Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)|Russo-Ukrainian war]], it is considered one of the most high-profile anti-corruption investigations in Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Свобода |first=Радіо |date=2025-11-10 |title=Операція «Мідас»: викриття «масштабної корупції» в енергетиці, і обшук у Міндіча. Це пов'язано? |url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/vidklyuchennya-kuruptsiya-v-enerhetytsi-halushchenko-mindich/33586003.html |access-date=2025-11-12 |work=Радіо Свобода |language=uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-11-10 |title=НАБУ оприлюднило частину записів у масштабній корупційній справі в енергетиці |url=https://tsn.ua/ukrayina/nabu-opryliudnylo-chastynu-zapysiv-u-masshtabniy-koruptsiyniy-spravi-v-enerhetytsi-2953649.html |access-date=2025-11-12 |website=ТСН.ua |language=uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Корупція в енергетиці: НАБУ та САП вилучили вже понад $4 млн під час обшуків |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2025/11/11/8006782/ |access-date=2025-11-12 |website=Українська правда |language=uk}}</ref>
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File:Suomen ja Ruotsin suurlähettiläät jättävät kiinnostuksenosoituksensa Natoon liittymisestä - 52082038874.jpg|Finnish and Swedish ambassadors submit their applications to join [[NATO]] to then-secretary general [[Jens Stoltenberg]].

File:20220908-Buckingham Palace Elizabeth II death reactions (07).jpg|Crowds at [[Buckingham Palace]] following the [[death and state funeral of Elizabeth II]], shortly after the [[Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Platinum Jubilee]] celebration which marked the 70th anniversary of her accession.

File:Ratzinger funeral (09).jpg|Crowds at [[St. Peter's Square]] following the [[death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI]].

File:Waving from Buckingham Palace Balcony (52877352018) (cropped).jpg|[[King Charles III]] and [[Queen Camilla]] on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following their [[Coronation of Charles III and Camilla|coronation]] in 2023.

File:Securing Our Future (EC pic) 2025-03-02-15-13.jpg|NATO leaders and participants at the [[2025 London Summit on Ukraine]].

File:Procesija, pok. papa Franjo (5).jpg|Crowds at [[Domus Sanctae Marthae]] following the [[death and funeral of Pope Francis]] after 12 years of papacy, marked the 20th anniversary of [[death and funeral of Pope John Paul II]] in 2005.

File:2024-08-21 Event, CDU, Wahlkampf mit Friedrich Merz in Erfurt 2024 STP 3111 by Stepro.jpg|The [[2025 Dutch general election|Netherlands]], [[2024–2025 French political crisis|France]], and [[2024 German government crisis|Germany]] faced political crises which resulted the downfall of their cabinets due to a public discontent such as the economy, immigration, and defense since June 2024. 
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====Oceania====
{{Further|Category:2020s in Oceania}}

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! style="width:100px;"| Date
! Description
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
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|[[2021 Samoan constitutional crisis]]
|{{flag|Samoa}}
|22 May – 23 July 2021
|Following [[2021 Samoan general election|a general election]], the results were in stasis while incumbent prime minister [[Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi|Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi]] refused to step down. The [[Supreme Court of Samoa]] decided the matter, and the [[Faʻatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi|FAST party]] and its leader [[Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa]] was declared the winner.
|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-you-need-to-know/443472/samoa-election-crisis-what-you-need-to-know |title=Samoa election crisis: What you need to know |first=Russel |last=Palmer |publisher=[[RNZ]] |date=27 May 2021 |access-date=29 May 2021 |archive-date=30 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210530013925/https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-you-need-to-know/443472/samoa-election-crisis-what-you-need-to-know |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2021 Solomon Islands unrest]]
|{{flag|Solomon Islands}}
|24–27 November 2021
|A period of unrest began due to a variety of factors, notably the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the decision to retract [[Foreign relations of Taiwan#Types of relations|diplomatic recognition]] of [[Taiwan]] and instead recognize [[China]].
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Australia sends police and troops to Honiara as violent protests continue in Solomon Islands |newspaper=The Guardian |date=25 November 2021 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/25/honiaras-chinatown-targeted-as-violent-protests-break-out-for-second-day-in-solomon-islands |access-date=25 November 2021 |archive-date=8 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108191638/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/25/honiaras-chinatown-targeted-as-violent-protests-break-out-for-second-day-in-solomon-islands |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2022 Kiribati constitutional crisis]]
|{{flag|Kiribati}}
|May – October 2022
|A crisis began when [[Judiciary of Kiribati|High Court Judge]] [[David Lambourne]] was suspended in May 2022 and Chief Justice [[Bill Hastings (judge)|Bill Hastings]] was suspended on 30 June 2022, both over allegations of misconduct. In October 2022, the [[President of Kiribati|President]] [[Taneti Maamau]] appointed Attorney General Tetiro Semilota as Acting Chief Justice.
|<ref>{{Cite news |date= |title=Kiribati suspends all remaining senior judges after row over Australian justice's deportation |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-05/kiribati-suspends-court-of-appeal-judges/101407060 |access-date=6 September 2022 |archive-date=2022-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906003705/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-05/kiribati-suspends-court-of-appeal-judges/101407060 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1 July 2022 |title=Kiribati faces constitutional crisis after government suspends both high court justices |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/kiribati-faces-constitutional-crisis-after-government-suspends-both-high-court-justices |access-date=12 August 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |archive-date=12 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812140947/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/kiribati-faces-constitutional-crisis-after-government-suspends-both-high-court-justices |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2022 Fijian general election]]
|{{flag|Fiji}}
|14 December 2022
|16-year incumbent [[Prime Minister of Fiji|prime minister]] [[Frank Bainimarama]] of the [[FijiFirst]] party was unable to form a government after winning a plurality of seats. Former prime minister and leader of the [[1987 Fijian coups d'état|1987 military coups]] [[Sitiveni Rabuka]] of the newly established [[People's Alliance (Fiji)|People's Alliance]] returned to the position.
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 December 2022 |title=Sitiveni Rabuka is Fiji's new prime minister |work=Radio New Zealand |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/481392/sitiveni-rabuka-is-fiji-s-new-prime-minister |access-date=13 April 2023 |archive-date=2022-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224070042/https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/481392/sitiveni-rabuka-is-fiji-s-new-prime-minister |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2022 Australian federal election]]
|{{flag|Australia}}
|21 May 2022
|The [[Australian Labor Party]] led by [[Anthony Albanese]] won over the [[Morrison government|Liberal–National Coalition government]], led by Prime Minister [[Scott Morrison]], The Labor Party achieved a [[majority government]] for the first time since 2007, winning 77 seats in the House of Representatives. Albanese was sworn in as Prime Minister on 23 May 2022, becoming the fourth Labor leader to win government from opposition since [[World War II]] and he claimed victory and acknowledged Morrison's concession.
|<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-23/anthony-albanese-sworn-in-as-31st-prime-minister/13894004|title=Video: Anthony Albanese sworn in as 31st Prime Minister of Australia|publisher=Australia Broadcasting Corporation|date=23 May 2022|access-date=23 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Nicholas |first1=Josh |last2=Evershed |first2=Nick |date=28 May 2022 |title=Votes for Labor and the Coalition plummet to all-time low as Australia swings away from major parties |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2022/may/28/votes-for-labor-and-the-coalition-plummet-to-all-time-low-as-australia-swings-away-from-major-parties |access-date=2022-06-01 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2022-05-21 |title=Australian election 2022: Anthony Albanese claims victory for Labor as Scott Morrison stands down as Liberal leader – live updates |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2022/may/21/australian-election-2022-live-news-today-australia-federal-anthony-albanese-scott-morrison-who-won-winning-opinion-polls-polling-vote-labor-coalition-liberals-greens-independents-candidates-seats-odds-results-politics-latest-updates |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=The Guardian}}</ref>
|-
|[[2023 New Zealand general election]]
|{{flag|New Zealand}}
|14 October 2023
|The incumbent centre-left [[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour Party]], led by [[Chris Hipkins]], were defeated at the polls, with the centre-right [[New Zealand National Party|National Party]], led by [[Christopher Luxon]], becoming the largest party in the new parliament. [[Christopher Luxon]] became prime minister on 27 November 2023, ending six years of the [[Sixth Labour Government of New Zealand|Sixth Labour Government]] under [[Jacinda Ardern]] and [[Chris Hipkins]].
|<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/133123290/devastating-defeat-how-the-world-reacted-to-the-new-zealand-election-result|title='Devastating defeat': How the world reacted to the New Zealand election result|first=Troels|last=Sommerville|date=15 October 2023|work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |access-date=22 October 2023|archive-date=16 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016071552/https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/133123290/devastating-defeat-how-the-world-reacted-to-the-new-zealand-election-result|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Watch: Christopher Luxon, new ministers sworn in at Government House |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/503352/watch-christopher-luxon-new-ministers-sworn-in-at-government-house |access-date=27 November 2023 |work=[[Radio New Zealand]] |date=27 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231127054606/https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/503352/watch-christopher-luxon-new-ministers-sworn-in-at-government-house |archive-date=27 November 2023}}</ref>
|}

===World leaders===
{{Main|List of state leaders in the 2020s}}

==Assassinations and attempts==
{{further|List of assassinations}}

[[File:Qasem Soleimani with Zolfaghar Order (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|upright|right|[[Qasem Soleimani]]]]
[[File:Kelly Craft poses a photo with Haitian President Moise (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|upright|right|[[Jovenel Moïse]]]]
[[File:Shinzō Abe 20120501 (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|upright|right|[[Shinzo Abe]]]]
[[File:Ayman al-Zawahiri portrait.JPG|thumb|120px|upright|right|[[Ayman al-Zawahiri]]]]
[[File:Donald Trump (52250930172) (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|upright|right|[[Donald Trump]]]]
[[File:Ismail Haniyeh 2024 portrait 3x4.jpg|thumb|120px|upright|right|[[Ismail Haniyeh]]]]
[[File:Sayyid Nasrallah.jpg|thumb|120px|upright|right|[[Hassan Nasrallah]]]]
[[File:Yahya Sinwar portrait 3x4.jpg|thumb|120px|upright|right|[[Yahya Sinwar]]]]
[[File:Paetongtarn Shinawatra June 2025.jpg|thumb|120px|upright|right|[[Paetongtarn Shinawatra]]]]
[[File:Melissa Hortman at One Minnesota Budget Bill Signing (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|upright|right|[[Melissa Hortman]]]]
[[File:Charlie Kirk (54670526319) (cropped 2).jpg|thumb|120px|upright|right|[[Charlie Kirk]]]]

Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include:

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Description
! Reference(s)
|-
| 3 January 2020
| [[Qasem Soleimani]], Iranian general, and leader in the [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard]], is killed in an [[2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike|airstrike]] conducted by the United States near [[Baghdad International Airport]].
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/rockets-baghdad-airport-injuries-reported |title=Trump orders attack that kills Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, other military officials in Baghdad, Pentagon says |access-date=24 February 2020 |archive-date=24 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224000443/https://www.foxnews.com/world/rockets-baghdad-airport-injuries-reported |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 27 November 2020
| [[Mohsen Fakhrizadeh]], a senior official in the [[Nuclear program of Iran|nuclear program in Iran]], is [[Mohsen Fakhrizadeh#Assassination|killed]] in an ambush against his motorcade in [[Absard]].
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Alleged head of Iran's nuclear weapons program is assassinated near Tehran |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-irans-nuclear-weapons-program-said-assassinated-near-tehran/ |work=[[The Times of Israel]] |date=27 November 2020 |access-date=27 November 2020 |archive-date=27 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127140146/https://www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-irans-nuclear-weapons-program-said-assassinated-near-tehran/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 22 February 2021
| [[Luca Attanasio]], Italian ambassador to the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], is [[Killing of Luca Attanasio|killed]] by gunmen while traveling in [[North Kivu]].
| <ref>{{Cite news |last1=Specia |first1=Megan |last2=Pianigiani |first2=Gaia |date=22 February 2021 |title=Italian Ambassador Among Three Killed in Attack on U.N. Convoy in Congo |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/world/africa/italy-ambassador-killed-congo-ambush.html |access-date=22 February 2021 |archive-date=23 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223015443/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/world/africa/italy-ambassador-killed-congo-ambush.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 20 April 2021
| [[Idriss Déby]], 6th President of Chad, is [[2021 Northern Chad offensive|killed]] while commanding forces against [[Front for Change and Concord in Chad|rebels]] during the [[Insurgency in Northern Chad]], and is succeeded by transitional president and military general, [[Mahamat Déby|Mahamat Kaka]].
| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210420-chadian-president-idriss-d%C3%A9by-has-died-of-injuries-suffered-on-the-frontline-army |title=Chadian President Idriss Deby dies on frontline, rebels vow to keep fighting |date=20 April 2021 |website=France 24 |access-date=8 November 2022 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420104844/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210420-chadian-president-idriss-d%C3%A9by-has-died-of-injuries-suffered-on-the-frontline-army |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 6 May 2021
| [[Mohamed Nasheed]], Speaker of the [[Maldives|Maldivian]] [[People's Majlis]], is [[Attempted assassination of Mohamed Nasheed|wounded]] in an explosion alleged by Maldivian authorities to have been conducted by religious extremists.
| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://avas.mv/en/99833 |title=May 6 blast suspects remanded into custody |website=avas.mv |access-date=19 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511055446/https://avas.mv/en/99833 |archive-date=11 May 2021 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| 7 July 2021
| [[Jovenel Moïse]], 43rd President of Haiti, is [[Assassination of Jovenel Moïse|killed]] by gunmen at his private residence. [[First Ladies and Gentlemen of Haiti|First Lady]] [[Martine Moïse]] is severely wounded.
| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/07/americas/haiti-president-jovenel-moise-attack-intl/index.html |title=Haiti President Jovenel Moise assassinated in attack on his residence |website=CNN |date=7 July 2021 |access-date=13 October 2022 |archive-date=7 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707132610/https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/07/americas/haiti-president-jovenel-moise-attack-intl/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 15 October 2021
| [[David Amess]], British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] MP, is [[Murder of David Amess|killed]] by an Islamic terrorist during a constituency surgery.
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58930593 |title=Sir David Amess: Conservative MP stabbed to death |work=BBC News |date=15 October 2021 |access-date=13 October 2022 |archive-date=18 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018145228/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58930593 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 7 November 2021
| |[[Mustafa Al-Kadhimi]], Prime Minister of Iraq, survives a [[Attempted assassination of Mustafa Al-Kadhimi|drone attack]] that injures six in his security detail.
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/drone-attack-targets-iraq-pm-who-escapes-unhurt-iraq-military-2021-11-07/ |title=Iraqi PM safe after drone attack on residence, military says |newspaper=Reuters |date=7 November 2021 |last1=Davison |first1=John |last2=Rasheed |first2=Ahmed |access-date=13 October 2022 |archive-date=7 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107110616/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/drone-attack-targets-iraq-pm-who-escapes-unhurt-iraq-military-2021-11-07/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|3 February 2022
| [[Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi]], 2nd [[Caliph]] of the [[Islamic State]], is [[Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi#Death|killed]] in [[Atme]] during a counter-terrorism raid by [[United States|U.S.]] special forces in north-western [[Syria]].
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-60246129 |title=Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Qurayshi killed in Syria, US says |work=BBC News |date=3 February 2022 |access-date=30 November 2022 |archive-date=7 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207103806/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-60246129 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|8 June 2022
| [[Brett Kavanaugh]], a United States [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court Justice]], is the target of an [[Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot|assassination plot]] in which the alleged assassin was motivated by a [[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization#Leaked draft opinion|leaked Supreme Court decision]] that was poised to overrule ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'', the 1973 decision that guaranteed abortion as a right.
| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/calif-man-indicted-attempting-assassinate-brett-kavanaugh-arrest/story?id=85423002 |title=Calif. man indicted for allegedly attempting to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh at his home |website=ABC News |access-date=7 May 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526194407/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/calif-man-indicted-attempting-assassinate-brett-kavanaugh-arrest/story?id=85423002 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|8 July 2022
| [[Shinzo Abe]], former prime minister of Japan, is [[Assassination of Shinzo Abe|killed]] while giving a campaign speech by a former navy sailor who held a grudge against the South Korean-based [[Unification Church]].
| <ref name="NHKWorld">{{cite news |date=8 July 2022 |title=Man taken into custody after former Japanese PM Abe Shinzo collapses |work=[[NHK World]] |url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220708_19/ |url-status=live |access-date=8 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708032135/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220708_19/ |archive-date=8 July 2022}}</ref>
|-
|31 July 2022
| [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]], the leader of the [[Salafi jihadism|Salafi-jihadist]] group [[al-Qaeda]], is [[Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri|killed]] by a drone strike conducted by the US-based [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] in [[Kabul]], Afghanistan.
| <ref name="NYTimesInfo">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/us/politics/al-qaeda-strike-afghanistan.html |title=U.S. Drone Strike Kills Ayman al-Zawahri, Top Qaeda Leader |date=1 August 2022 |last1=Baker |first1=Peter |last2=Cooper |first2=Helene |last3=Barnes |first3=Julian |last4=Schmitt |first4=Eric |work=The New York Times |access-date=1 August 2022 |archive-date=1 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801215209/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/us/politics/al-qaeda-strike-afghanistan.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|12 August 2022
| [[Salman Rushdie]], an Indian-born British-American novelist, is [[Stabbing of Salman Rushdie|stabbed multiple times]] as he is about to give a public lecture at the [[Chautauqua Institution]] in [[Chautauqua, New York]], United States. Rushdie has been the subject of a [[fatwā]] written by Supreme Leader of Iran [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] calling for his death since 1989.
| <ref>{{cite news |last=Goodman |first=Joshua |date=12 August 2022 |title=Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York |url=https://apnews.com/article/salman-rushdie-attacked-9eae99aea82cb0d39628851ecd42227a |access-date=12 August 2022 |publisher=Associated Press |archive-date=12 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812152059/https://apnews.com/article/salman-rushdie-attacked-9eae99aea82cb0d39628851ecd42227a |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Staniszewski |first=Eugene J. |date=12 August 2022 |title=State Police are investigating an attack on author Salman Rushdie |url=https://www.nyspnews.com/state-police-are-investigating-an-attack-on-author-salman-rushdie.htm |access-date=12 August 2022 |publisher=New York State Police Newsroom |archive-date=12 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812214959/https://www.nyspnews.com/state-police-are-investigating-an-attack-on-author-salman-rushdie.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|1 September 2022
| [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]], then vice president and former president of Argentina, survives an [[Attempted assassination of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner|attempt]] on her life after the assailant's weapon malfunctions.
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/world/americas/cristina-kirchner-attack.html |title=Argentina's Vice President Unharmed After Assassination Attempt |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2 September 2022 |last1=Nicas |first1=Jack |last2=Alcoba |first2=Natalie |access-date=13 October 2022 |archive-date=2 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902023016/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/world/americas/cristina-kirchner-attack.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|15 October 2022
|[[Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi]], 3rd Caliph of the [[Islamic State]], is killed by wearing and detonating a [[suicide vest]] during battle against [[Free Syrian Army]] rebels in the city of [[Jasim]] in [[Daraa Governorate]], [[Syria]]. He is succeeded by [[Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi]].
| 
|-
|28 October 2022
| [[Nancy Pelosi]], Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, is the [[Attack on Paul Pelosi|target of a failed assassination attempt]] when a man armed with a hammer breaks into her residence. He instead assaults [[Paul Pelosi|her husband]], causing serious injuries as she was not home at the time of the attempt.
| <ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Suspect-in-Paul-Pelosi-attack-was-looking-for-17545493.php |title=Suspect in Paul Pelosi attack was looking for wife Nancy in S.F. home, D.A. Jenkins confirms |first=Nora |last=Mishanec |date=30 October 2022 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=31 October 2022 |archive-date=31 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031111029/https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Suspect-in-Paul-Pelosi-attack-was-looking-for-17545493.php |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 3 November 2022
| [[Imran Khan]], former prime minister of Pakistan, is [[Attempted assassination of Imran Khan|shot]] in the leg while traveling in a convoy in [[Wazirabad]] amid [[2022 Azadi March-II|anti-government protests]].
| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/03/imran-khan-shot-in-assassination-attempt-in-pakistan |title=Imran Khan wounded in 'assassination attempt' in Pakistan |date=3 November 2022 |website=The Guardian |access-date=3 November 2022 |archive-date=10 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010002335/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/03/imran-khan-shot-in-assassination-attempt-in-pakistan |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 15 April 2023
| [[Fumio Kishida]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]], is alleged to have been the target of an [[Attempted assassination of Fumio Kishida|assassination attempt]] and survived by a bomb explosion in the fishing port of [[Saikazaki]], [[Wakayama (city)|Wakayama]], [[Wakayama Prefecture]], in the [[Kansai region]] to give a campaign [[stump speech]] for the [[2023 Wakayama 1st district by-election]].
| <ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/world/asia/japan-prime-minister-blast-fumio-kishida.html |title=Japan's Prime Minister Safely Evacuated After Blast |access-date=15 April 2023 |date=14 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |first1=Mike |last1=Ives |first2=Hikari |last2=Hida |archive-date=15 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415032145/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/world/asia/japan-prime-minister-blast-fumio-kishida.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/04/16/national/kishida-bomb-security-concerns/ |title=Kishida incident shows protecting VIPs from lone wolves remains a tall order |date=16 April 2023}}</ref>
|-
| 9 August 2023
| [[Fernando Villavicencio]], Ecuadorian politician and candidate for [[President of Ecuador]], is [[Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio|shot to death]] following a campaign event in [[Quito]].
| <ref>{{Cite web |last1=Hallam |first1=Jonny |last2=Cañizares |first2=Ana Maria |last3=Suarez |first3=Karol |last4=Regan |first4=Helen |date=2023-08-10 |title=Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio assassinated at campaign event |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/americas/ecuador-presidential-candidate-fernando-villavicencio-assassinated-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=CNN |archive-date=10 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810011245/https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/americas/ecuador-presidential-candidate-fernando-villavicencio-assassinated-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 23 August 2023
| Key figures in the Russian paramilitary organization [[Wagner Group]], including its founder and leader [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]], are killed in a plane [[2023 Wagner Group plane crash|crash]] widely believed to have been an assassination carried out by the Russian government after an attempted [[Wagner Group rebellion|rebellion]] by Prigozhin earlier in the summer.
| <ref>{{cite news |date=24 August 2023 |last=Fornusek |first=Martin |title=Zelensky: 'Everyone understands' who is behind Prigozhin's reported death |url=https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-everyone-understands-who-is-related-to-prigozhins-death/ |access-date=24 August 2023 |website=[[The Kyiv Independent]] |archive-date=24 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230824145620/https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-everyone-understands-who-is-related-to-prigozhins-death/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://dev-isw.bivings.com/ |title=Institute for the Study of War |website=Institute for the Study of War |access-date=13 September 2023 |archive-date=25 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325065358/https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-24 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| 9 November 2023
| [[Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca]] is shot in the face in Madrid by a person on a motorbike.
| <ref>{{cite news |date=9 November 2023 |last=Fahey |first=Ryan|title=Alejo-Vidal Quadras: Politician shot in the face in Madrid by gunman on motorbike|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-alejo-vidal-quadras-spanish-31401002}}</ref>
|-
| 2 January 2024
|[[South Korea]]n opposition leader-turned president [[Lee Jae-myung]] is [[Attempted assassination of Lee Jae-myung|stabbed]] in the neck during a visit to [[Busan]].
| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Han-joo |first=Kim |date=2 January 2024 |title=(LEAD) Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung attacked during visit to Busan |url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240102003451315 |access-date=2 January 2024 |website=Yonhap News Agency |archive-date=2 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240102053946/https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240102003451315 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|3 March 2024
|A convoy carrying [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]], President of Ukraine, and [[Kyriakos Mitsotakis]], Prime Minister of Greece, in the city of Odesa are [[6 March 2024 Odesa strike|targeted by a Russian missile strike]] that kills at least five people with at least one missile reportedly missing them by 150 meters.
| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Edwards |first=Christian |date=6 March 2024 |title=Russian missile strike hits near Zelensky and Greek PM in Odesa |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/06/europe/russia-missile-odesa-greece-russia-zelensky-intl/index.html |access-date=6 March 2024 |website=[[CNN]] |archive-date=6 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240306193525/https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/06/europe/russia-missile-odesa-greece-russia-zelensky-intl/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|15 May 2024
|[[Robert Fico]], [[Prime Minister of Slovakia|Prime Minister]] of [[Slovakia]] is [[Shooting of Robert Fico|shot]] while meeting with supporters at an event in [[Handlová]].
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=15 May 2024 |title=Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico shot in head and chest, reports say |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/slovakia-prime-minister-robert-fico-shot-head-chest/ |access-date=15 May 2024 |website=[[Politico]] |archive-date=15 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515171305/https://www.politico.eu/article/slovakia-prime-minister-robert-fico-shot-head-chest/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|13 July 2024
|[[Donald Trump]], former president of the United States, is [[Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania|shot]] at a [[Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign|presidential campaign]] rally he held near [[Butler, Pennsylvania|Butler]], [[Pennsylvania]].
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trump survives assassination attempt at campaign rally, as it unfolded |url=https://apnews.com/live/election-biden-trump-campaign-updates-07-13-2024 |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=AP News}}</ref>
|-
|31 July 2024
|[[Ismail Haniyeh]], Palestinian political leader of [[Hamas]], is [[Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh|assassinated]] in [[Tehran]] in an attack widely believed to have been conducted by [[Israel]].
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|15 September 2024
|[[Donald Trump]], former President of the United States and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] nominee in the [[2024 United States presidential election]], is the subject of a [[Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida|second assassination attempt]] at his [[Mar-a-Lago]] estate in [[Florida]], after nearly being killed in [[Butler, Pennsylvania]] two months prior.
| <ref>{{Cite news |title=2nd apparent assassination attempt on Trump: Everything we know so far |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/g-s1-23232/up-first-newsletter-second-apparent-assassination-attempt-trump-emmy-awards-recap |access-date=2025-04-18 |work=NPR}}</ref>
|- 
|27 September 2024
| [[Hassan Nasrallah]], leader of [[Hezbollah]], is killed in an [[Assassination of Hassan Nasrallah|airstrike]] by the [[Israeli Air Force]] in [[Beirut]].
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Several explosions in Beirut as Israel says it attacked Hezbollah HQ |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/several-explosions-in-beirut-as-israel-says-it-attacked-hezbollah-hq |access-date=27 September 2024 |website=Al Jazeera |archive-date=27 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240927195724/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/several-explosions-in-beirut-as-israel-says-it-attacked-hezbollah-hq |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|16 October 2024
|[[Yahya Sinwar]], Palestinian political leader of [[Hamas]], is [[Killing of Yahya Sinwar|killed]] in [[Rafah]] in a military operation conducted by [[Israel]], two months after the assassination of his predecessor Ismail Haniyeh.
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|4 December 2024
|[[Brian Thompson (businessman)|Brian Thompson]], American businessman and CEO of [[UnitedHealthcare]], is [[Killing of Brian Thompson|shot and killed]] outside the [[New York Hilton Midtown]] hotel in [[Manhattan|Manhattan, New York City]]. The suspected assassin, [[Luigi Mangione]], received support and was celebrated, by many online, as a [[folk hero]].
| <ref>{{Cite news |last=Halpert |first=Madeline |date=December 4, 2024 |title=Brian Thompson: United Healthcare CEO fatally shot outside Manhattan hotel |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnv3dnm64vlo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241204154011if_/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnv3dnm64vlo |archive-date=December 4, 2024 |access-date=December 5, 2024 |work=[[BBC News]] |location=New York City}}</ref><ref name="nbc-merch">{{cite news |last=Tenbarge |first=Kat |date=December 10, 2024 |title=Merch sellers cash in on UnitedHealthcare CEO killing |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/united-healthcare-ceo-killer-suspect-merch-luigi-mangione-rcna183444 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241212123113/https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/united-healthcare-ceo-killer-suspect-merch-luigi-mangione-rcna183444 |archive-date=December 12, 2024 |access-date=December 10, 2024 |website=NBC News}}</ref>
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|16 December 2024
|[[Igor Kirillov (general)|Igor Kirillov]], [[Russian NBC Protection Troops]] commander Lieutenant-General, is [[Igor Kirillov (general)#Assassination|assassinated]] by a scooter bombing in Moscow.
| <ref>{{Cite web |first1=Pjotr |last1=Sauer |first2=Luke |last2=Harding |title=Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov: Russian general killed in Moscow explosion |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/17/lieutenant-general-igor-kirillov-russian-general-killed-moscow-explosion-chemical-weapons |newspaper=The Guardian |date=17 December 2024 |access-date=18 December 2024}}</ref>
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|18 March 2025
|[[Hassan Sheikh Mohamud]], the [[President of Somalia]], narrowly survives an [[Attempted assassination of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud|assassination attempt]] by the militant group [[Al-Shabaab (militant group)|Al-Shabaab]] at his [[Villa Somalia|presidential palace]] in [[Mogadishu]] while his entourage headed for [[Aden Adde International Airport]].
| <ref>{{cite news|date=18 March 2025|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/somali-militants-target-presidential-convoy-bomb-attack-president-safe-2025-03-18/|title=Somali militants target presidential convoy in bomb attack, president safe|newspaper=[[Reuters]]}}</ref>
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|12 April 2025
|[[Paetongtarn Shinawatra]], [[Prime Minister of Thailand]], survives an assassination attempt and a bomb plot by an angry man while providing relief to [[2025 Myanmar earthquake|Myanmar earthquake]] victims during the [[Songkran (Thailand)|Songkran festival]] in [[Bangkok]].
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|7 June 2025
|[[Miguel Uribe Turbay]], Colombian senator and presidential candidate, is [[Assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay|shot]] at a campaign event in [[Bogotá]], later pronounced dead from his injuries on 11 August.
| <ref name="Assassination"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Glatsky |first1=Genevieve |last2=Turkewitz |first2=Julie |title=Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Is Shot at Campaign Event |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/world/americas/colombia-senator-shot.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=7 June 2025 |access-date=8 June 2025}}</ref>
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|14 June 2025
|[[Melissa Hortman|Melissa]] and Mark Hortman, a political couple, are [[2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators|assassinated]] during a series of home invasions and manhunts in [[Brooklyn Park, Minnesota|Brooklyn Park]], [[Minnesota]], while State Senator [[John Hoffman (Minnesota politician)|John Hoffman]] survives an assassination attempt in [[Champlin, Minnesota|Champlin]].
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bogel-Burroughs |first=Nicholas |date=June 14, 2025 |title=The assailant fired at police officers when they arrived at the home of State Representative Melissa Hortman in a Minneapolis suburb around 3:35&nbsp;a.m. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/us/minnesota-shootings/1b16ea8e-c310-56df-a7dd-2d886ff0d7d6 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=June 14, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Mitch |last2=Wolfe |first2=Jonathan |date=June 14, 2025 |title=Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of 'Targeted Political Violence' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/us/minnesota-shootings/minnesota-shootings-politicians |access-date=June 14, 2025 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kim |first=Sam |date=June 14, 2025 |title=Two Minnesota Democrats Shot In 'Targeted' Attack |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/two-minnesota-democrats-shot-one-fatally-in-targeted-attack |access-date=June 14, 2025 |publisher=[[Bloomberg News]]}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite news |date=June 16, 2025 |title=Read the Federal Complaint Against the Man Charged in the Minnesota Assassination |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/16/us/minnesota-suspect-federal-murder-charges.html |url-access=limited |access-date=June 17, 2025 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 16, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250616233945/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/16/us/minnesota-suspect-federal-murder-charges.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|30 August 2025
|[[Andriy Parubiy]], member and former [[Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada|chairman]] of the [[Verkhovna Rada|Ukrainian parliament]], is [[Assassination of Andriy Parubiy|shot and killed]] in [[Lviv]] by a gunman disguised as a delivery driver, who flees on an [[electric bicycle|e-bike]].
|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/former-ukrainian-parliamentary-speaker-parubiy-killed-lviv-zelenskiy-says-2025-08-30/|title=Former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Parubiy killed in Lviv, Zelenskiy says|website=[[Reuters]]|date=30 August 2025|access-date=30 August 2025|first=Anastasiia|last=Malenko}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw6ep37469o|title=Prominent Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lviv|date=30 August 2025|access-date=30 August 2025|first=Tom|last=Bennett|website=[[BBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/30/former-ukrainian-parliament-speaker-andrii-parubii-shot-dead-in-lviv|title=Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lviv|website=[[Euronews]]|first=Evelyn|last=Ann-Marie Dom|date=30 August 2025|access-date=30 August 2025}}</ref>
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|10 September 2025
|[[Charlie Kirk]], American conservative political activist, is [[assassination of Charlie Kirk|assassinated]] during a [[Turning Point USA]] event at [[Utah Valley University]].
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Charlie Kirk Shot During Utah Valley University Event |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah |website=The New York Times |date=10 September 2025 |access-date=10 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=September 10, 2025 |title=Charlie Kirk shot during event at Utah university |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/charlie-kirk-shot-utah |access-date=September 10, 2025 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>
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==Disasters==
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===Non-natural disasters===
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| [[Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752]]
| 8 January 2020
| {{flag|Iran}}
| [[Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752]] was shot down shortly after take-off from [[Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport]], [[Tehran]], by the [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]], who claimed to have mistaken it for a cruise missile. All 176 people on board were killed.
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/middleeast/missile-iran-plane-crash.html |title=Iran Says It Unintentionally Shot Down Ukrainian Airliner |date=10 January 2020 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url-status=live |access-date=10 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111072451/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/middleeast/missile-iran-plane-crash.html |archive-date=11 January 2020}}</ref>
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| [[Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303]]
| 22 May 2020
| {{flag|Pakistan}}
| [[Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303]] crashed into a neighborhood in [[Karachi]] while attempting to land, killing 97 of the 99 people on board plus 1 person on the ground.
| <ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ellis-Petersen |first1=Hannah |last2=Baloch |first2=Shah Meer |date=22 May 2020 |title=Dozens killed as passenger plane crashes near Karachi airport |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/22/pakistan-passenger-plane-crashes-near-karachi |access-date=22 May 2020 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=22 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522111215/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/22/pakistan-passenger-plane-crashes-near-karachi |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Sriwijaya Air Flight 182]]
| 9 January 2021
| {{flag|Indonesia}}
| [[Sriwijaya Air Flight 182]] crashed into the [[Java Sea]] shortly after take-off from [[Soekarno–Hatta International Airport]], [[Jakarta]], killing all 62 people on board.
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-crash/indonesia-halts-search-for-victims-of-sriwijaya-air-crash-idUSKBN29Q1ER |title=Indonesia halts search for victims of Sriwayaja Air crash |date=21 January 2021 |work=Reuters |access-date=21 January 2021 |archive-date=23 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923081420/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-crash/indonesia-halts-search-for-victims-of-sriwijaya-air-crash-idUSKBN29Q1ER |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ramzy |first1=Austin |title=Indonesia Crash: What to Know About the Boeing Plane |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/business/boeing-737-indonesia-plane.html |access-date=11 January 2021 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=10 January 2021 |archive-date=13 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113120622/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/business/boeing-737-indonesia-plane.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735]]
| 21 March 2022
| {{flag|China}}
| [[China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735]] crashed into the ground near [[Wuzhou]] mid-flight, killing all 132 people on board.
| <ref>{{Cite news |first1=Catherine |last1=Larkin |first2=Keith |last2=Laing |date=2022-05-17 |title=China Eastern Plane Crash Data Suggest Intentional Dive, WSJ Says |work=Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-17/boeing-rises-on-report-that-china-plane-crash-looks-intentional/ |access-date=2022-05-17 |archive-date=6 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706080418/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-17/boeing-rises-on-report-that-china-plane-crash-looks-intentional |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last= |date=2022-05-17 |title=Flight data from China Eastern jet points to intentional nosedive -WSJ |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/china/flight-data-china-eastern-jet-points-intentional-nosedive-wsj-2022-05-17/ |access-date=2022-05-17 |archive-date=18 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518065305/https://www.reuters.com/world/china/flight-data-china-eastern-jet-points-intentional-nosedive-wsj-2022-05-17/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Yeti Airlines Flight 691]]
| 15 January 2023
| {{flag|Nepal}}
| [[Yeti Airlines Flight 691]] crashed into a gorge while attempting to land in [[Pokhara]], killing all 72 people on board.
| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/asia/nepal-plane-crash-yeti-airlines-video-intl-hnk/index.html |title=Video inside cabin purportedly shows moments before Nepal plane crash |website=[[CNN]] |date=17 January 2023 |access-date=30 January 2023 |archive-date=30 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130224200/https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/asia/nepal-plane-crash-yeti-airlines-video-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283]]
| 9 August 2024
| {{flag|Brazil}}
| [[Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283]] crashed in a residential area near [[Vinhedo]], [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]], killing all 62 people on board.
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Brazilian plane crash outside São Paulo killed 61, says airline |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/09/americas/brazil-plane-crash-intl-latam/index.html |website=CNN |date=9 August 2024 |access-date=9 August 2024 |archive-date=21 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921053215/https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/09/americas/brazil-plane-crash-intl-latam/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243]]
| 25 December 2024
| {{flag|Kazakhstan}}
| [[Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243]] crashed while attempting an emergency landing near [[Aqtau International Airport]], killing 38 of the 67 people on board.
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Azerbaijani airliner crashes in Kazakhstan, killing 38 with 29 survivors, officials say |url=https://apnews.com/article/azerbaijan-airliner-crash-kazakhstan-aktau-a655474030a347a5a7ddda3a77bbeddc |website=[[AP News]] |date=25 December 2024 |access-date=25 December 2024}}</ref>
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|[[Jeju Air Flight 2216]]
| 29 December 2024
| {{flag|South Korea}}
| [[Jeju Air Flight 2216]] crashed into a fence while attempting to land at [[Muan International Airport]], killing 179 of the 181 people on board.
| <ref>{{cite web |title=A plane crashes and bursts into flames while landing in South Korea, killing 179 |url=https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-plane-fire-68da9b0bd5196feed6e7d2db849f461a |website=[[AP News]] |date=29 December 2024 |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref>
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|[[2025 Potomac River mid-air collision|American Eagle Flight 5342]]
|29 January 2025
|{{Flag|United States}}
|[[2025 Potomac River mid-air collision|American Eagle Flight 5342]] collides with a [[Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk|Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk]] mid-air while approaching [[Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport]], killing all 67 people on board both aircraft.
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-30 |title=What is known about the deadly collision between a passenger jet and Army helicopter |url=https://apnews.com/article/ronald-reagan-national-airport-aircraft-crash-9d79051a9e535bd855df5a4e5553b2e9 |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=AP News}}</ref>
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| [[Air India Flight 171]]
| 12 June 2025
| {{flag|India}}
| [[Air India Flight 171]] crashes shortly after takeoff from [[Ahmedabad Airport]], killing 241 of the 242 people on board plus 28 people on the ground.
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Live Updates: Over 200 Dead in Air India Crash, Official Says |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/world/india-plane-crash-ahmedabad |website=The New York Times |date=12 June 2025 |access-date=12 June 2025}}</ref>
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[[File:Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 (10).jpg|thumb|Wreckage of [[Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752]] in [[Shahriar County]], Iran]]
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[[File:The Union Minister of Home Affairs & Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah visits the crash site of Air India Flight 171.jpg|thumb|Destroyed buildings aftermath of [[Air India Flight 171]] in [[Ahmedabad]], India]]
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| [[2020 Beirut explosion]]
| {{dts|4 August 2020}}
| {{flag|Lebanon}}
| A massive explosion occurred in the [[port of Beirut]]. The blast was so loud that it was even reported to be heard in [[Cyprus]], which is approximately 240&nbsp;km from the location of the explosion. The windows of major buildings in a 6-mile radius were shattered and roads were filled with debris. According to initial findings, it was estimated that a warehouse with 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded, which was confiscated by the Lebanese government from the abandoned ship MV ''Rhosus'' and then stored in the port without proper safety measures for six years. 220 deaths were confirmed, more than 110 people were missing and at least 7,000 were reported injured. Beirut governor [[Marwan Abboud]] estimated that up to 300,000 people were left homeless by the explosions and there was $10–15 billion USD in property damage.
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/impact-of-beirut-blast-massive-shockwaves-felt-240-km-away-in-cyprus-reports-1707846-2020-08-05 |title=Impact of Beirut blast massive, shockwaves felt 240 km away in Cyprus: Reports |access-date=5 August 2020 |archive-date=5 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805035401/https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/impact-of-beirut-blast-massive-shockwaves-felt-240-km-away-in-cyprus-reports-1707846-2020-08-05 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/lebanon-pm-hassan-diab-on-beirut-blasts-2-750-tonnes-of-ammonium-nitrate-exploded-2274291 |title=2,750 Tonnes Of Ammonium Nitrate Exploded: Lebanon PM On Beirut Blasts |access-date=5 August 2020 |archive-date=5 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805030139/https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/lebanon-pm-hassan-diab-on-beirut-blasts-2-750-tonnes-of-ammonium-nitrate-exploded-2274291 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/04/huge-explosion-beirut-lebanon-shatters-windows-rocks-buildings |title=Lebanon: at least 78 killed as huge explosion rocks Beirut |access-date=5 August 2020 |archive-date=4 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804160549/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/04/huge-explosion-beirut-lebanon-shatters-windows-rocks-buildings |url-status=live}}</ref> 
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| [[Surfside condominium collapse]]
| {{dts|24 June 2021}}
| {{flag|United States}}
|A 12-story beachfront condominium in the [[Miami]] suburb of [[Surfside, Florida]], partially collapsed. As of 22 July 2021, a total of 98 people are confirmed to have died, while 11 were injured. One person was rescued from the rubble, and about 35 people were rescued on 24 June from the uncollapsed portion of the building, which was demolished 11 days later as a safety precaution due to the approach of [[Hurricane Elsa]]. On 7 July, authorities announced that the objective of the search was transitioning from rescue to recovery and that the missing victims are presumed dead.
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=26 July 2021 |title=Condo building collapse last victim ID'd: family |url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/family-last-victim-id-florida-condo-building-collapse |access-date=26 July 2021 |website=Associated Press |archive-date=26 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726210724/https://www.foxnews.com/us/family-last-victim-id-florida-condo-building-collapse |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2022 Yerevan explosion]]
| {{dts|14 August 2022}}
| {{flag|Armenia}}
|A large explosion took place in the Surmalu [[Shopping center|shopping centre]] in the [[Armenia]]n capital of [[Yerevan]]. It caused widespread destruction and fire, leaving dozens of dead and injured. The explosion killed 16 people and injured 63, with nine missing as of 20 August.
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Death toll in fireworks depot blast in Armenia reaches 7 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/death-toll-fireworks-depot-blast-armenia-reaches-88390635 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815171518/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/death-toll-fireworks-depot-blast-armenia-reaches-88390635 |archive-date=15 August 2022 |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=ABC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Число жертв взрыва в ТЦ "Сурмалу" достигло 16: без вести пропали 9 граждан |url=https://www.panorama.am/ru/news/2022/08/16/%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE-%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B2-17/2719511 |website=panorama.am |access-date=17 August 2022 |language=ru |archive-date=1 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001183722/https://www.panorama.am/ru/news/2022/08/16/%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE-%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B2-17/2719511 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Yerevan market explosion: Search and rescue operations resume |url=https://news.am/eng/news/716738.html |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=news.am |archive-date=1 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001131952/https://news.am/eng/news/716738.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Tempi train crash|2023 Tempi train crash]]
|28 February 2023
|{{flag|Greece}}
|Two trains collide near the south of the [[Vale of Tempe|Tempe Valley]] in Greece killing at least 57 people. It is the [[List of rail accidents in Greece|deadliest rail disaster in Greek history]]. As a result, [[Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (Greece)|Transport Minister]] [[Kostas Karamanlis (politician, born 1974)|Kostas Karamanlis]] [[resign]]ed, while various protests took place across the country.
| <ref>{{Cite news |title=A year after Greece's worst train disaster, railway safety fears persist |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/year-after-greeces-worst-train-disaster-railway-safety-fears-persist-2024-02-28/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240714130525/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/year-after-greeces-worst-train-disaster-railway-safety-fears-persist-2024-02-28/ |archive-date=2024-07-14 |access-date=2025-02-04 |work=Reuters}}</ref>
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| [[Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam]]
| {{dts|6 June 2023}}
| {{flag|Ukraine}}
|[[Russian invasion of Ukraine]]: The [[Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant|Nova Kakhovka dam]] in the [[Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast|Russian-controlled]] [[Oblasts of Ukraine|region]] of [[Kherson Oblast|Kherson]] is [[Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam|destroyed]], threatening the region with devastating floodwaters.
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=6 June 2023 |title=Russia has blown up major Ukrainian dam, says Kyiv |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-65816109 |access-date=6 June 2023 |archive-date=6 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606064453/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-65816109 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=6 June 2023 |title=Russia-Ukraine war live: evacuations under way near Kherson after destruction of dam prompts flooding |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jun/06/russia-ukraine-war-live-dam-near-kherson-blown-up-by-russian-forces-ukrainian-military-says |access-date=6 June 2023 |archive-date=6 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606042021/https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jun/06/russia-ukraine-war-live-dam-near-kherson-blown-up-by-russian-forces-ukrainian-military-says |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Titan submersible implosion|Titan Submersible Implosion]]
|18 June 2023
|{{Flag|Canada}}
|A submersible by [[OceanGate|Ocean Gate]], carrying five occupants, notably, [[Shahzada Dawood]], [[Hamish Harding]], [[Paul-Henri Nargeolet]], and [[Stockton Rush]], imploded, after an expedition to explore the Titanic's ruins. The incident was widely reported in the news and caused multiple investigations and one lawsuit. Ocean Gate suspended all its commercial operations after the implosion.
| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Sanchez |first=Ramon |date=2024-09-22 |title=A haunting final message and other takeaways from the Coast Guard inquiry into the Titan submersible implosion |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/22/us/titan-submersible-hearing-takeaways/index.html |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-16 |title=Titan crew said 'all good here' before submersible imploded |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kk1g66n7o |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=www.bbc.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tan |first=Kwan Wei Kevin |title=OceanGate tried to scrub the internet clean of traces that it ever existed, taking down its Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/oceangate-take-down-website-social-media-suspend-commercial-operations-2023-7 |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=Business Insider}}</ref>
|-
|[[Derna dam collapses]]
| 10 – 11 September 2023
| {{flag|Libya}}
|The Derna dam collapses were the catastrophic failures of two dams in [[Derna, Libya|Derna]], [[Libya]] on the night of 10–11 September 2023, in the aftermath of [[Storm Daniel]]. The dam collapses released an estimated {{convert|30|e6m3|e6yd3|abbr=unit}} of water, causing flooding downstream as the [[Wadi Derna]] overflowed its banks. The floods partially destroyed the city of [[Derna, Libya|Derna]]. Estimates for the number of casualties range from 5,300 to 20,000 people. The event was the second-deadliest dam failure in history, after the [[1975 Banqiao Dam failure]] in [[China]].
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Libya floods: Warning over shortage of body bags as fears of disease rise in Derna |url=https://news.sky.com/story/libya-warning-over-shortage-of-body-bags-as-disease-may-compound-deaths-in-flood-hit-city-12960801 |access-date=2023-09-26 |website=Sky News |archive-date=2023-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230915082015/https://news.sky.com/story/libya-warning-over-shortage-of-body-bags-as-disease-may-compound-deaths-in-flood-hit-city-12960801 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-13 |title=Why did Derna's dams break when Storm Daniel hit Libya? |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/13/why-did-dernas-dams-break-when-storm-daniel-hit-libya |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230914105531/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/13/why-did-dernas-dams-break-when-storm-daniel-hit-libya |archive-date=14 September 2023 |access-date=2023-09-26 |website=Aljazeera}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Magdy |first=Samy |date=12 September 2023 |title=10,000 people are missing and thousands are feared dead as eastern Libya is devastated by floods |url=https://apnews.com/article/derna-libya-floods-storm-daniel-95379b164871d97fb74b1cd1bcb5640c |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230912202455/https://apnews.com/article/derna-libya-floods-storm-daniel-95379b164871d97fb74b1cd1bcb5640c |archive-date=12 September 2023 |access-date=26 September 2023 |work=[[AP News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=12 September 2023 |title=Libya: Flash Floods In Derna |url=https://www.barrons.com/news/libya-flash-floods-in-derna-5752f323 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230912212740/https://www.barrons.com/news/libya-flash-floods-in-derna-5752f323 |archive-date=12 September 2023 |access-date=26 September 2023 |publisher=Barron's}}</ref>
|}

===Natural disasters===
{{See also|Category:2020s natural disasters}}

====Earthquakes and tsunamis====
{{Main|List of earthquakes in 2020|List of earthquakes in 2021 {{!}} 2021|List of earthquakes in 2022 {{!}} 2022|List of earthquakes in 2023 {{!}} 2023|List of earthquakes in 2024 {{!}} 2024|List of earthquakes in 2025 {{!}} 2025}}

''Note: This table is a chronological list of earthquakes reported with 7.5{{M|W}} or greater or that have reported at least 100 fatalities.''
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;"| Event
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Country
! Description
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
| [[2020 Caribbean earthquake]]
| {{dts|28 January 2020}}
| {{flag|CARICOM}}, multiple countries
| A 7.7{{M|W}} struck in the Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and Cuba at 14:10 local time on 28 January 2020. The earthquake was also felt in the United States, Mexico, Honduras, Dominican Republic, and the Cayman Islands. No damages were reported. A small (12.2&nbsp;cm) tsunami was reported in the Cayman Islands.
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Large M7.7 Caribbean Quake Felt as Far Away as Florida |url=https://www.usgs.gov/news/large-m77-caribbean-quake-felt-far-away-florida |website=USGS |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=28 January 2020 |archive-date=29 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129041029/https://www.usgs.gov/news/large-m77-caribbean-quake-felt-far-away-florida |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Almasy |first1=Steve |last2=Miller |first2=Brandon |last3=Eshchenko |first3=Alla |title=Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes off the coast of Jamaica and is felt as far away as Miami |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/28/americas/earthquake-caribbean-sea/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=29 January 2020 |archive-date=31 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131232755/https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/28/americas/earthquake-caribbean-sea/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2020 Aegean Sea earthquake]]
| {{dts|30 October 2020}}
| {{flag|Greece}}<br />{{flag|Turkey}}
| A 7.0 {{M|W}} earthquake occurred about {{convert|14|km|mi|abbr=on}} northeast of the Greek island of Samos, causing 119 deaths.
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Earthquake hits Greece and Turkey, bringing deaths and floods |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54749509 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=30 October 2020 |date=30 October 2020 |archive-date=30 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030135240/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54749509 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2021 West Sulawesi earthquake]]
| {{dts|15 January 2021}}
| {{flag|Indonesia}}
| A 6.2 {{M|W}} earthquake struck the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi, killing a minimum of 105 people.
| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/asia/indonesia-sulawesi-earthquake-intl-hnk/index.html |title=Powerful earthquake in Indonesia's Sulawesi kills dozens, injures hundreds |last1=Jamaluddin |first1=Masrur |last2=Gan |first2=Nectar |website=[[CNN]] |date=15 January 2021 |access-date=16 January 2021 |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116012240/https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/asia/indonesia-sulawesi-earthquake-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2021 Haiti earthquake]]
| {{dts|14 August 2021}}
| {{flag|Haiti}}
| A 7.2 {{M|W}} earthquake struck Haiti on 14 August 2021, resulting in at least 2,207 deaths.
| <ref>{{cite news |agency=Agence France-Presse |title=Haiti quake death toll surges to nearly 2,000, survivors clamor for aid |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/hopes-quake-survivors-dwindle-storm-lashes-haiti-2021-08-17/ |access-date=18 August 2021 |work=Reuters |date=17 August 2021 |archive-date=17 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817102927/https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/hopes-quake-survivors-dwindle-storm-lashes-haiti-2021-08-17/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake]]
| {{dts|22 June 2022}}
| {{flag|Afghanistan}}<br />{{flag|Pakistan}}
| A 6.2 {{M|W}} earthquake struck southeastern Afghanistan, killing at least 1,163 people, with 1,150 in Afghanistan and 13 in Pakistan. The earthquake was so deadly because it hit a densely populated area with buildings too weak to resist earthquakes.
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Earthquake of magnitude 6.1 shakes Afghanistan, Pakistan |website=Reuters |date=22 June 2022 |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/earthquake-magnitude-61-shakes-afghanistan-pakistan-usgs-2022-06-21/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |archive-date=2022-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622081448/https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/earthquake-magnitude-61-shakes-afghanistan-pakistan-usgs-2022-06-21/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2022 West Java earthquake]]
| {{dts|21 November 2022}}
| {{flag|Indonesia}}
| A 5.6 {{M|W}} earthquake struck Indonesia in West Java, near Cianjur, killing 335–635 people, despite its moderate magnitude.
| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/strong-tremors-felt-in-indonesian-capital-after-quake-in-west-java-witnesses |title=At least 103 dead, hundreds injured after 5.6 earthquake hits Indonesia |newspaper=[[The Straits Times]] |date=22 November 2022 |access-date=26 November 2022 |archive-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125115328/https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/strong-tremors-felt-in-indonesian-capital-after-quake-in-west-java-witnesses |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake]]
| {{dts|6 February 2023}}
| {{flag|Syria|1980}}<br />{{flag|Turkey}}
| A 7.8 {{M|W}} earthquake struck the Border Region of [[Turkey]] and [[Syria]], killing more than 60,000 people and injuring more than 180,000 people. It is also one of the [[List of earthquakes in Turkey|strongest earthquake]]s ever recorded in Turkey since the [[1999 İzmit earthquake]].
| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2023/feb/06/destruction-strikes-at-night-as-huge-earthquake-rocks-turkey-and-syria-in-pictures |title=Destruction strikes at night as huge earthquake rocks Turkey and Syria – in pictures |newspaper=The Guardian |date=6 February 2023 |access-date=7 February 2023 |archive-date=6 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206082434/https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2023/feb/06/destruction-strikes-at-night-as-huge-earthquake-rocks-turkey-and-syria-in-pictures |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/06/photos-show-aftermath-of-massive-earthquakes-in-turkey-and-syria.html |title=Photos show aftermath of two massive earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria |website=CNBC |date=6 February 2023 |access-date=7 February 2023 |archive-date=6 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206212715/https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/06/photos-show-aftermath-of-massive-earthquakes-in-turkey-and-syria.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=6 February 2023 |title=Turkey reports at least 120 aftershocks following Monday's powerful earthquake |publisher=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/turkey-earthquake-latest-020623/index.html |access-date=6 February 2023 |archive-date=6 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206082318/https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/turkey-earthquake-latest-020623/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake]]
| {{dts|8 September 2023}}
| {{flag|Morocco}}
|A 6.8 M<sub>ww</sub> – 6.9 {{M|W}} earthquake struck the [[Marrakesh-Safi]] region of [[Morocco]]. 2,960 people killed and 5,674 injured.
| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Kottasová |first=Ivana |date=2023-09-10 |title=Rescuers scramble to find survivors in Morocco after powerful earthquake kills more than 2,000 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/10/africa/morocco-earthquake-day-two-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=CNN |archive-date=11 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230911015258/https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/10/africa/morocco-earthquake-day-two-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2023 Herat earthquakes]]
| 7–15 October 2023
| {{flag|Afghanistan}}
| Four 6.3 M<sub>ww</sub> earthquakes struck [[Herat Province]] in western [[Afghanistan]] between 7–15 October 2023, killing 1,489 people and injuring 1,853 others, while 485 remain missing.
| <ref>{{cite news |author1=World Health Organization |title=Afghanistan Earthquakes in Herat Province, Health Situation Report No. 8, 15–16 October 2023 |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-earthquakes-herat-province-health-situation-report-no-8-15-16-october-2023 |access-date=17 October 2023 |publisher=ReliefWeb |date=16 October 2023 |archive-date=18 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018093801/https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-earthquakes-herat-province-health-situation-report-no-8-15-16-october-2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2024 Noto earthquake]]
| 1 January 2024
| {{flag|Japan}}
| A 7.5 M<sub>w</sub> (7.6 M<sub>JMA</sub>) earthquake struck the [[Noto Peninsula]] of [[Japan]], killing at least 202 people and injuring at least 665 others.
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=8 January 2024 |trans-title=[Damage situation: 8th] 168 people died in Ishikawa Prefecture, safety of 323 people unknown (as of 2:00 p.m.) |script-title=ja:【被害状況 8日】石川県で168人死亡 安否不明者323人（14時） |title=[Higai jōkyō 8-ka] Ishikawa ken de 168-nin shibō anpi fumei-sha 323-nin (14-ji) |url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240108/k10014313221000.html |access-date=8 January 2024 |work=[[NHK]] |language=ja |archive-date=19 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119085722/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240108/k10014313221000.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2024 Hualien earthquake]]
| 3 April 2024
| {{flag|Taiwan}}
| A 7.4 M<sub>w</sub> earthquake struck {{convert|18|km|mi|abbr=on}} south-southwest of [[Hualien City]], [[Taiwan]], leaving 10 dead and 1,011 injured.
| <ref>{{cite news |author1=Focus Taiwan |title=Taiwan earthquake island's strongest in 25 years |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202404030007 |access-date=3 April 2024 |publisher=Focus Taiwan |date=3 April 2024 |archive-date=3 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240403042800/https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202404030007 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2025 Myanmar earthquake]]
| 28 March 2025
| {{flag|Myanmar}}<br />{{flag|Thailand}}
| A 7.7 M<sub>w</sub> earthquake struck [[Sagaing Region]] of Myanmar, with an epicenter close to [[Mandalay]] and in neighboring [[Thailand]], leaving more than 5,700 deaths, 630 missing, and 12,300 injured, it became one of the worst earthquakes in Southeast Asia since the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami]].
| <ref>{{cite news |last1=Farrell |first1=Stephen |last2=Suleiman |first2=Farouq |last3=Maclellan |first3=Kylie |title=Myanmar Earthquake Live: Strong tremor felt in Yangon and Bangkok |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/myanmar-earthquake-live-strong-tremor-felt-yangon-bangkok-2025-03-28/ |access-date=28 March 2025 |work=Reuters |date=28 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=28 March 2025 |title=Myanmar at a glance: Embroiled in civil war, now facing more devastation after powerful earthquake |url=https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-earthquake-civil-war-junta-thailand-cbf36685881ea890202256d4607a02ed |access-date=28 March 2025 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>
|-
| [[2025 Istanbul earthquake]]
| 23 April 2025
| {{flag|Turkey}}
| A 6.4 M<sub>w</sub> earthquake struck the [[Marmara region]] including [[Istanbul]], at least 360 injuries and moderate damage was recorded. It was the biggest one to strike the [[North Anatolian Fault]] since the [[1999 Düzce earthquake]], and the most powerful in the [[Sea of Marmara]] region since the [[1999 İzmit earthquake]].
| <ref>{{cite news|title=Istanbul rocked by 6.2-magnitude earthquake |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9djn06l9z2o |date=23 April 2025|access-date=23 April 2025|work=BBC News}}</ref> 
|-
| [[2025 Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake]]
| 30 July 2025
| {{flag|Russia}}
| A 8.8 M<sub>w</sub> megathrust earthquake struck off the eastern coast of the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]] in Russia. It is the most powerful earthquake recorded since the [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake]] in Japan.
| <ref>{{Cite web|date=30 July 2025|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c3r4x9yrrg4t|title=Evacuations in Japan and US as major earthquake off Russia triggers widespread tsunami warnings|website=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=30 July 2025 |url=https://apnews.com/article/japan-russia-kamchatka-earthquake-tsunami-warning-a88cbe8a1e985cff54dc0ad849ea5ddb|title=Evacuations in Japan and US as major earthquake off Russia triggers widespread tsunami warnings|website=AP News}}</ref>
|-
| [[2025 Kunar earthquake]]
| 31 August 2025
| {{flag|Afghanistan}}
| A 6.0 M<sub>w</sub> earthquake struck the [[Nangarhar Province|Nangarhar]] and [[Kunar Province|Kunar]] provinces of Afghanistan, near the border with [[Pakistan]]. At least 1,124 people were killed with more than 3,500 others injured.
| <ref>{{cite news|title=More than 800 killed after strong quake hits Afghanistan |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ezgy1zlvwo |date=1 September 2025|access-date=1 September 2025|work=BBC News}}</ref> 
|-
| [[2025 Cebu earthquake]]
| 30 September 2025
| {{Flag|Philippines}}
| A 6.9 M<sub>w</sub> earthquake struck the northern [[Visayas]] archipelago, including [[Bogo, Cebu|Bogo City]], [[San Remigio, Cebu|San Remigio]], and other provinces in the [[Philippines]]. 79 deaths and 1,271 injuries were recorded.
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-10-01 |title='State of calamity' as earthquake kills 69 in Philippines province |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced5pyjzej3o |access-date=2025-10-01 |website=www.bbc.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=October 1, 2025 |title=Magnitude 6.9 earthquake strongest in northern Cebu history —PHIVOLCS |url=https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/scitech/science/960974/magnitude-6-9-earthquake-strongest-in-northern-cebu-history-phivlocs/story/ |access-date=October 2, 2025 |work=GMA News Online |language=en }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 2, 2025 |title=Earthquake death toll rises to 72 in the Philippines as survivors recall moment when tragedy struck |url=https://apnews.com/article/philippines-earthquake-bogo-cebu-province-d959b0fe70099f3439baff2ecc1b1805 |access-date=October 2, 2025 |work=AP News }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 1, 2025 |title=Strong earthquake kills 31 people in a central Philippine region hit by deadly storm just days ago |url=https://apnews.com/article/philippines-earthquake-cebu-daanbantayan-1544d688be8e6c966aaa7afb64338b28 |access-date=October 2, 2025 |work=AP News }}</ref>
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align:top" |
[[File:A damaged building in Antakya.jpg|thumb|An earthquake-damaged building in [[Antakya]], Turkey in February 2023.]]
| style="vertical-align:top" |
[[File:Amerzeggan ⴰⵎⵔⵣⴳⴳⴰⵏ viyaedje distrût hosmint tere Hawse.jpg|thumb|The [[Imi N'Tala]] village was heavily destroyed by the Marrakesh-Safi earthquake in September 2023.]]
| style="vertical-align:top" |
[[File:R6 noto earthquake wajima burned-out-asaichi-area 2024-02-17 10.jpg|thumb|Aftermath of the earthquake at [[Wajima, Ishikawa|Wajima]] morning market in January 2024.]]
| style="vertical-align:top" |
[[File:2025 Myanmar earthquake damage in Mandalay (1).png|thumb|An earthquake-damaged buildings in [[Mandalay]], Myanmar in March 2025.]]
| style="vertical-align:top" |
[[File:Search Retrieval Cebu Quake, 2025.png|thumb|The [[Philippine Army]] joined the rescue efforts after the earthquake in Cebu in October 2025.]]
|}

====Tropical cyclones====
{{Main|Tropical cyclones in 2020|Tropical cyclones in 2021 {{!}} 2021|Tropical cyclones in 2022 {{!}} 2022|Tropical cyclones in 2023 {{!}} 2023|Tropical cyclones in 2024 {{!}} 2024|Tropical cyclones in 2025 {{!}} 2025}}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;"| Event
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Country
! Description
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
| [[Cyclone Amphan]]
| 16–21 May 2020
|{{flag|Bangladesh}}<br />{{flag|Bhutan}}<br />{{flag|India}}<br />{{flag|Sri Lanka}}<br />{{flag|Myanmar}}
| 128 people were killed and millions made homeless in the strongest storm in two decades. Damage was estimated at US$13.2 billion.
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Recovery begins after storm ravages Indian, Bangladesh coast |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/recovery-begins-storm-ravages-indian-bangladesh-coast-70851741 |work=ABC News |access-date=24 May 2020 |archive-date=24 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524000510/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/recovery-begins-storm-ravages-indian-bangladesh-coast-70851741 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Hurricane Laura]]
|20–29 August 2020
|{{flag|United States}}<br />{{flag|Haiti}}<br />{{flag|Dominican Republic}}<br />{{flag|Cuba}}<br />{{flag|Cayman Islands}}<br />{{flag|Guadeloupe}}<br />{{flag|Saba}}<br />{{flag|Sint Eustatius}}<br />{{flag|Sint Maarten}}
|Hurricane Laura was a deadly and destructive [[Saffir–Simpson scale#Category 4|Category 4]] [[hurricane]] that, along with [[1856|1856's]] [[1856 Last Island hurricane|Last Island]] and [[2021|2021's]] [[Hurricane Ida|Ida]], was the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[U.S. state|state]] of [[Louisiana]], based on [[Maximum sustained wind|maximum wind strength]]. "Laura" first hit the [[Lesser Antilles]] as a tropical storm, striking [[Puerto Rico]], then moved across the island of [[Hispaniola]], killing 31 people in [[Haiti]] and nine in the [[Dominican Republic]]. "Laura" caused widespread devastation along most of its track: Tropical-storm-force winds passed over nearly all of the [[Antilles|Antilles islands]]; hurricane-force and tropical-storm-force winds struck parts of [[Florida]], Louisiana, [[Texas]], [[Mississippi]], and [[Arkansas]]; and much of the storm's track was affected by flooding rain and storm surge. Damage is estimated at more than $19.1 billion, and at least 81 people were killed, including 30 in Louisiana and 10 in Texas alone, making "Laura" the 16th costliest hurricane ever. With estimated agricultural losses of $1.6 billion, "Laura" caused more agricultural damage in Louisiana than Hurricanes [[Hurricane Katrina|Katrina]] and [[Hurricane Rita|Rita]] combined.
| <ref name="NOAA billion dollar disasters">{{cite web |title=Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Events |url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/events |publisher=NOAA |access-date=11 January 2020 |archive-date=25 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121225015735/http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/events |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Global Catastrophe Recap November 2020 |url=http://thoughtleadership.aonbenfield.com//Documents/20201210_analytics-if-november-global-recap.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://thoughtleadership.aonbenfield.com//Documents/20201210_analytics-if-november-global-recap.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Aon (company)|Aon]] |date=10 December 2020 |access-date=10 December 2020}}</ref>
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|[[Tropical Storm Linfa]]
|6–12 October 2020
|{{flag|Vietnam}}<br />{{flag|Cambodia}}<br />{{flag|Laos}}<br />{{flag|Philippines}}<br />{{flag|Myanmar}}<br />{{flag|Thailand}}
|Tropical Storm Linfa was a weak, short-lived, but deadly and destructive [[tropical cyclone]]. It was the [[List of wettest tropical cyclones|12th wettest tropical cyclone on record]] and the second of nine consecutive tropical cyclones to strike [[Vietnam]] in [[2020]], barely a month after the less damaging [[Tropical Storm Noul (2020)|Tropical Storm Noul]]. "Linfa" brought record-breaking rainfall totals to much of the [[Mainland Southeast Asia|Indochinese peninsula]]. 112 people died in Vietnam, and 24 are missing. Another 25 people died in [[Cambodia]], and [[Laos]] had one death and three missing.
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|[[Typhoon Vamco|Typhoon Vamco (Ulysses)]]
|8–15 November 2020
|{{flag|Philippines}}<br />{{flag|Vietnam}}<br />{{flag|Laos}}<br />{{flag|Thailand}}<br />{{flag|Cambodia}}
|102 people were killed, and the typhoon contributed to the [[2020 Central Vietnam floods|2020 Central Vietnam Floods]]. Damages totaled up to US$440.8 million.
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|[[Hurricane Eta]] and [[Hurricane Iota]]
|31 October – 18 November 2020
|{{flag|Nicaragua}}<br />{{flag|Honduras}}
|A total of 278+ people were killed during both Hurricane Eta and Hurricane Iota in [[Nicaragua]] and [[Honduras]]. Damages totaled up to US$9.3 billion from both hurricanes.
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|[[Cyclone Seroja]]
|3–12 April 2021
|{{flag|Indonesia}}<br />{{flag|East Timor}}<br />{{flag|Australia}}
|Severe tropical cyclone Seroja was the third deadliest [[tropical cyclone]] in the [[Australian region tropical cyclone|Australian region]], after [[Cyclone Mahina]] in [[1899]] and the [[1973 Flores cyclone|Flores Cyclone]] in [[1973]]. Seroja caused flooding and landslides on a historic scale in parts of southern [[Indonesia]] and [[East Timor]], and later made landfall in the [[Mid West (Western Australia)|Mid West region]] of [[Western Australia]] – the first cyclone to make landfall since [[Cyclone Elaine]] in [[1999]]. At least 272 people were killed by the storm, including 183 in Indonesia, 42 in East Timor and one in [[Australia]]. At least 72 people from Indonesia and 30 from East Timor are missing.
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|[[Cyclone Tauktae]]
|14–19 May 2021
|{{flag|India}}<br />{{flag|Pakistan}}<br />{{flag|Sri Lanka}}<br />{{flag|Maldives}}
|This category-4 cyclone hit the western coast of [[India]]. 174 total fatalities recorded (all countries). Damages totaled up to US$2.12 billion. Other countries affected were [[Pakistan]], [[Sri Lanka]] and [[Maldives]].
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|[[Hurricane Ida]]
|26 August – 4 September 2021
|{{flag|United States}}<br />{{flag|Venezuela}}<br />{{flag|Cuba}}<br />{{flag|Colombia}}<br />{{flag|Jamaica}}<br />{{flag|Canada}}<br />{{flag|Cayman Islands}}
|107 people were killed by "Ida", of which 87 people were killed in the [[United States of America|United States]] and 20 people were killed in [[Venezuela]]. The damage amounted to up to $50 billion.
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|[[Typhoon Rai|Typhoon Rai (Odette)]]
|12–22 December 2021
|{{flag|Philippines}}<br />{{flag|Vietnam}}<br />{{flag|Indonesia}}<br />{{flag|Micronesia}}<br />{{flag|Palau}}<br />{{flag|Hong Kong}}<br />{{flag|Macau}}<br />{{flag|China}}<br />{{flag|Taiwan}}
|Typhoon Rai, known in the [[Philippines]] as Super Typhoon Odette, was the second most severe [[typhoon]] in Philippine history after [[Typhoon Haiyan]] in 2013. Rai was a strong, rare [[tropical cyclone]] that struck the Philippines in December 2021. Rai was the first [[Saffir–Simpson scale#Category 5|category 5]] super typhoon since [[Typhoon Nock-ten|Nock-ten]] in 2016 to develop in December, and the third category 5 super typhoon recorded in the [[South China Sea]], following [[1954 Pacific typhoon season#Typhoon Pamela|Pamela]] in 1954 and [[Typhoon Rammasun|Rammasun]] in [[2014]].
Several southern [[Provinces of the Philippines|provinces]] in the Philippines were inundated and devastated by the typhoon. A total of 410 people died + 80 missing, of which a full 409 died in the Philippines and only 1 died in [[Vietnam]]. The damage amounts to up to $720 million.
| <ref>{{Cite web |first=Rhea |last=Mogul |title=Philippines' typhoon death toll rises further as areas remain cut off |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/asia/typhoon-rai-philippines-deaths-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=2021-12-23 |website=CNN |date=21 December 2021 |archive-date=21 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221094513/https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/asia/typhoon-rai-philippines-deaths-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Tropical Storm Ana (2022)|Tropical Storm Ana]]
|20–25 January 2022
|{{flag|Madagascar}}<br />{{flag|Malawi}}<br />{{flag|Mozambique}}<br />{{flag|Mauritius}}<br />{{flag|South Africa}}<br />{{flag|Zambia}}<br />{{flag|Zimbabwe}}
|Moderate Tropical Storm Ana was a deadly [[tropical cyclone]] that struck the [[Africa]]n nations of [[Madagascar]], [[Malawi]], [[Mozambique]] + others and was the [[Tropical cyclones in 2022|third deadliest tropical cyclone of 2022]]. It resulted in 142 deaths, with Madagascar being the hardest hit with 58 deaths due to [[2022 Antananarivo floods|flooding]] caused by "Ana", Malawi with 37 deaths + 22 missing, and Mozambique with 20 deaths.
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|[[Cyclone Batsirai]]
|24 January – 11 February 2022
|{{flag|Madagascar}}<br />{{flag|Mauritius}}<br />{{flag|Réunion}}
|Intense Tropical Cyclone Batsirai was a deadly [[tropical cyclone]] that hit [[Madagascar]] hard in February [[2022]] and was the strongest tropical cyclone to hit Madagascar since [[Cyclone Enawo]] in [[2017]]. It hit the country two weeks after [[Tropical Storm Ana (2022)|Tropical Storm Ana]] brought deadly [[2022 Antananarivo floods|flooding]] to the island nation in late January. The storm also caused damage in [[Mauritius]] and [[Réunion]], but the damage was relatively minor. 123 deaths – 121 in Madagascar and 2 in Mauritius – were reported as a result of Batsirai. Batsirai brought severe damage that significantly affected power supply and communications in the affected areas. Entire towns were devastated, and thousands of buildings were damaged or destroyed. At least 112,000 people were displaced and 124,000 homes damaged by Batsirai. The same areas were hit by an even stronger [[Cyclone Freddy]] less than a year later.
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|[[Tropical Storm Megi|Tropical Storm Megi (Agaton)]]
|8–12 April 2022
|{{flag|Philippines}}
|Tropical Storm Megi, known in the [[Philippines]] as Tropical Storm Agaton, was a weak but deadly [[tropical cyclone]] that struck the Philippines in April 2022. Heavy rains and storms led to the sinking of two [[ships]]. Large landslides pushed mud over villages in [[Leyte]], burying about 210 homes. The Philippines' [[National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council|National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC)]] reported 214 dead, 132 missing, and 8 injured.
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|[[Hurricane Ian]]
|23 September – 2 October 2022
|{{flag|Cuba}}<br />{{flag|United States}}
|157 people killed with 16 unaccounted for across both the United States and Cuba. The entire nation of Cuba lost power and millions lost power in the United States. The [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]] estimated total damage to be US$113 billion.
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|[[Tropical Storm Nalgae|Tropical Storm Nalgae (Paeng)]]
|26 October – 3 November 2022
|{{flag|Philippines}}<br />{{flag|Hong Kong}}<br />{{flag|Macau}}<br />{{flag|China}}
|Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae, known in the [[Philippines]] as Severe Tropical Storm Paeng, was a very large and deadly [[tropical cyclone]] that wreaked havoc in the Philippines and later hit [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]]. 160 people were killed, 141 others were wounded, and 29 people are still missing as a result of the landslides and flooding caused by Nalgae in the Philippines. Meanwhile, there was only 1 person injured in Hong Kong.
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|[[Cyclone Freddy]]
|4 February – 15 March 2023
|{{flag|Eswatini}}<br />{{flag|Madagascar}}<br />{{flag|Malawi}}<br />{{flag|Mauritius}}<br />{{flag|Mozambique}}<br />{{flag|Réunion}}<br />{{flag|South Africa}}<br />{{flag|Zambia}}<br />{{flag|Zimbabwe}}
|Cyclone Freddy was the longest-lasting [[tropical cyclone]] in history, surpassing the previous record set by [[Hurricane John (1994)|Hurricane John]] in [[1994]]. In total, more than 1,434 people died + 556 went missing, with [[Malawi]] worst hit with 1,216 dead + 537 missing, followed by [[Mozambique]] with 198 dead, [[Madagascar]] with 17 dead + 3 missing, [[Zimbabwe]] with 2 dead, and [[Mauritius]] with 1 dead + 16 missing. Overall, "Freddy" was the second deadliest tropical cyclone in the southwestern [[Indian Ocean]] and third deadliest in the [[Southern Hemisphere]].
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|[[Cyclone Mocha]]
|9–15 May 2023
|{{flag|Myanmar}}<br />{{flag|Bangladesh}}<br />{{flag|Sri Lanka}}<br />{{flag|India}}<br />{{flag|China}}
|Cyclone Mocha was a powerful and deadly [[tropical cyclone]] that caused between 152 and 463 deaths and widespread destruction, primarily in [[Myanmar]] and [[Bangladesh]].
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|[[Storm Daniel]]
|4–12 September 2023
|{{flag|Libya}}<br />{{flag|Greece}}<br />{{flag|Turkey}}<br />{{flag|Bulgaria}}<br />{{flag|Egypt}}<br />{{flag|Israel}}
|Storm Daniel, also known as Cyclone Daniel, was the deadliest and costliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone in recorded history. "Storm Daniel" resulted in thousands of Deaths, most notably in the [[Libya]]n city of [[Derna, Libya|Derna]], where torrential rains caused two dams near the city of Derna to [[Derna dam collapses|fail]].
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|[[Hurricane Helene]]
|24-29 September 2024
|{{flag|Mexico}}<br />{{flag|Honduras}}<br />{{flag|Cuba}}<br />{{flag|United States}}
|Hurricane Helene was a deadly and extremely destructive tropical cyclone which devastated parts of the southeastern United States, causing at least 252 deaths and US$78.7 billion in damage, this was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since [[Hurricane Maria]] in 2017, and the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in the U.S. mainland since [[Hurricane Katrina]] in 2005.
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|[[Hurricane Milton]]
|5–12 October 2024
|{{flag|Mexico}}<br />{{flag|Cuba}}<br />{{flag|The Bahamas}}<br />{{flag|United States}}
|Hurricane Milton was an extremely powerful and devastating tropical cyclone which became the most intense [[Atlantic hurricane]] ever recorded over the Gulf of Mexico, tied with [[Hurricane Rita]] in 2005. Total damage was estimated to be US$34.3 billion.
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|[[Typhoon Ragasa]]
|17 September 2025
|{{flag|Philippines}}<br />{{flag|Vietnam}}<br />{{flag|China}}<br />{{flag|Hong Kong}}<br />{{flag|Taiwan}}
|Typhoon Ragasa made a powerful and active [[tropical cyclone]] that severely affected [[Extreme points of the Philippines|the northernmost portions]] of [[Luzon]] in the Philippines and [[Hualien County]] in Taiwan, and is currently affecting [[South China]], [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]]. It is also, so far, the most intense tropical cyclone recorded [[tropical cyclones in 2025|in 2025]].
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|[[Hurricane Melissa (2025)|Hurricane Melissa]]
|21 October 2025
|{{flag|Cayman Islands}}<br />{{flag|Cuba}}<br />{{flag|Jamaica}}<br />{{flag|The Bahamas}}<br />{{flag|Dominican Republic}}
|Hurricane Melissa was an extremely powerful and devastating tropical cyclone which became the most intense [[Atlantic hurricane]] of the year, it is tied with the [[1935 Labor Day hurricane]] as the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane on record in terms.
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|[[Typhoon Kalmaegi]]
|31 October – 7 November 2025
|{{flag|Philippines}}<br />{{flag|Vietnam}}<br />{{flag|Cambodia}}<br />{{flag|Laos}}<br />{{flag|Thailand}}
|Typhoon Kalmaegi was a powerful, deadly, and highly destructive [[tropical cyclone]] that devastated portions of the central [[Philippines]], particularly in [[Cebu]], and later struck central [[Vietnam]] as one of the strongest typhoons on record in the area during early November 2025, at least 232 people dead, 543 injured and 112 others missing in the Philippines, mostly in [[Cebu]], with 13 additional deaths in Thailand and six more in Vietnam.

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====Tornadoes====
{{Main|Tornadoes of 2020|Tornadoes of 2021 {{!}} 2021|Tornadoes of 2022 {{!}} 2022|Tornadoes of 2023 {{!}} 2023|Tornadoes of 2024 {{!}} 2024|Tornadoes of 2025 {{!}} 2025}}

{{see also|List of F4 and EF4 tornadoes (2020–present)}}
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
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! style="width:120px;"| Event
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Country
! Description
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
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| [[2021 South Moravia tornado]]
| {{dts|24 June 2021}}
| {{flag|Czech Republic}}
| A small but significant tornado outbreak swept across the Czech Republic on 24 June, resulting in the strongest ever documented tornado in modern Czech history and the deadliest European tornado since 2001.
|<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/silnejsi-nez-samotne-tornado-moravu-pustosily-i-save-viry-rika-odbornik-168280 |title="Silnější než samotné tornádo." Moravu pustošily i savé víry, říká odborník |date=2021-06-25 |website=Seznam zprávy |access-date=2 July 2021 |archive-date=28 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628050928/https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/silnejsi-nez-samotne-tornado-moravu-pustosily-i-save-viry-rika-odbornik-168280 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Korosec |first=Marko |date=2021-06-25 |title=The most powerful tornado on record hit the Czech Republic, leaving several fatalities and 200+ injured across the Hodonin district |url=https://www.severe-weather.eu/weather-report/europe-severe-weather-tornado-hodonin-czech-republic-mk/ |access-date=2021-06-26 |website=Severe Weather Europe |archive-date=7 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807025630/https://www.severe-weather.eu/weather-report/europe-severe-weather-tornado-hodonin-czech-republic-mk/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021]]
| 10—11 December 2021
| | {{flag|United States}}
| Tornado activity swept the southern and midwestern United States in the evening of 10 December through the following morning. Arkansas, Missouri, and Kentucky suffered extensive damage.
|<ref name="Calicchio">{{cite news |first1=Dom |last1=Calicchio |title=Arkansas tornado damage kills at least 2; other states struck as well: reports |url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/arkansas-tornado-damage-monette-manor-nursing-home-tennessee-illinois |access-date=11 December 2021 |agency=[[Fox News]] |date=11 December 2021 |archive-date=11 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211032740/https://www.foxnews.com/us/arkansas-tornado-damage-monette-manor-nursing-home-tennessee-illinois |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Tornado outbreak of March 13–16, 2025]]
|13—16 March 2025
|{{flag|United States}}
|43 people were killed across the Midwestern and southern United States as 116 tornadoes moved through the regions. The tornado was the largest ever in March and one of the deadliest in the 2020s. It was also one of the costliest in United States history.
|<ref>{{cite news |date=15 March 2025 |title=Tornado threat moves to southern U.S. after severe storms kill at least 18, unleashes winds and fans wildfires |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/weather-tornado-threat-southern-u-s-severe-storm-winds-fans-wildfires/ |work=CBS News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://assets.aon.com/-/media/files/aon/reports/2025/q1-2025-global-catastrophe-recap.pdf?utm_source=slipcase&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=slipcase|title=q1-2025-global-catastrophe-recap}}</ref>
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====Floods, avalanches, and mudslides====
''Note: This section reports only floods with 200 or more deaths and avalanches and landslides involving 30 or more deaths.''
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
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! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Country
! Description
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
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| [[2020 Neelum Valley avalanche]]
| January 2020
| | {{flag|Pakistan}}
|At least 74 people were killed and several others injured in the [[Neelum Valley]] in [[Azad Kashmir]], [[Pakistan]], after a series of [[avalanche]]s triggered by heavy [[snowfall]] destroyed and buried 84 homes and 17 shops, while dozens of other buildings were damaged.
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| [[2020 Van avalanches]]
| 4–5 February 2020
| {{flag|Turkey}}
| Two avalanches in [[Turkey]]'s eastern [[Van Province]] resulted in 41 deaths and 84 injuries.
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|[[2020 East Africa floods]]
|March – May 2020
|{{flag|Kenya}}<br />{{flag|Rwanda}}<br />{{flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}<br />{{flag|Ethiopia}}<br />{{flag|Somalia}}<br />{{flag|Uganda}}<br />{{flag|Djibouti}}<br />{{flag|Burundi}}<br />{{flag|Tanzania}}
|Severe flooding in 9 [[Africa]]n countries caused more than 450 deaths and affected more than 700,000 people, mainly in [[Kenya]] and [[Rwanda]].
|<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-021-00195-3 |journal=Nature Reviews Earth & Environment|year=2021 |doi=10.1038/s43017-021-00195-3 |last1=Merz |first1=Bruno |last2=Blöschl |first2=Günter |last3=Vorogushyn |first3=Sergiy |last4=Dottori |first4=Francesco |last5=Aerts |first5=Jeroen C. J. H. |last6=Bates |first6=Paul |last7=Bertola |first7=Miriam |last8=Kemter |first8=Matthias |last9=Kreibich |first9=Heidi |last10=Lall |first10=Upmanu |last11=MacDonald |first11=Elena |volume=2 |issue=9 |pages=592–609 |s2cid=236972361 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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|[[2020 Nepal floods]]
|June – September 2020
| {{flag|Nepal}}
|The rainy season and associated flooding, which has killed more than 400 people, has been described by some in [[Nepal]] as the deadliest in recent memory.
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| [[2021 European floods]]
| 12–25 July 2021
| {{flag|European Union}}
| Heavy flooding, particularly in river basins of western and central Europe, killed some 243 people and left €10 billion in damage.
| <ref>{{cite news |title=More flooding for Europe |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/av/57849597 |website=BBC Weather |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 July 2021 |archive-date=16 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716110928/https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/57849597 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ajit Niranjan|date=2021-08-23|title=German floods: Climate change made heavy rains in Europe more likely|url=https://www.dw.com/en/german-floods-climate-change/a-58959677|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Deutsche Welle|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823225415/https://www.dw.com/en/german-floods-climate-change/a-58959677 |archive-date=23 August 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Germany Flooding Explained: What to Know About the Devastating Downpour |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-flooding-bernd-whats-happening-11626446298 |last1=Benoit |first1=Bertrand |last2=Pancevski |first2=Bojan |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=16 July 2021 |access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref>
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| [[2021 Henan floods]]
| 17–31 July 2021
| {{flag|China}}
|Following the highest-ever recorded rainfall in [[Zhengzhou]], [[Henan]] Province in [[China]], between 300 and 400 deaths along with over 800,000 people having to evacuate.
| <ref>{{Cite web |author=Nectar Gan and Jessie Yeung |title=Record-breaking rains devastated central China, but there is little talk of climate change |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/23/china/china-flood-climate-change-mic-intl-hnk/index.html|access-date=2021-07-23 |website=CNN|date=23 July 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC World Service - The Real Story, What's China doing to fight climate change? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1hsp|access-date=2021-07-23 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-22 |title=From China to Germany, floods expose climate vulnerability |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/china-germany-floods-expose-climate-vulnerability-2021-07-22/|access-date=2021-07-23 |website=Reuters}}</ref>
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| [[2021 Maharashtra floods]]
| 22 July 2021 – August 2021
| {{flag|India}}
|Over 250 deaths were reported in the Indian [[States and union territories of India|state]] of [[Maharashtra]] after heavy rainfall in the area.
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|[[2022 Petrópolis floods]]
|15 February 2022
| {{flag|Brazil}}
|Intense rainfall led to mudslides and flooding on 15 February, that destroyed parts of the city of [[Petrópolis]] in the [[Brazil]]ian [[Federative units of Brazil|state]] of [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]] and killed more than 230 people.
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|[[2022 KwaZulu-Natal floods]]
|8–21 April 2022
| {{flag|South Africa}}
|Flooding in the [[Provinces of South Africa|province]] of [[KwaZulu-Natal|KwaZuku-Natal]] in [[South Africa]] leads to over 400 deaths.
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|[[2022 Afghanistan floods]]
|5 May 2022 – August 2022
| {{flag|Afghanistan}}
|Several [[Provinces of Afghanistan|provinces]] of [[Afghanistan]] were affected by severe flooding beginning in May, which claimed more than 600 lives.
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|[[2022 India–Bangladesh floods|2022 India-Bangladesh floods]]
|23 May 2022 – present
| {{flag|India}}<br />{{flag|Bangladesh}}
|Deadly floods have been hitting [[Northeast India|northeastern India]] and [[Bangladesh]] since May 2022, killing more than 250 people and affecting 9 million people in both countries.
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|[[2022 Pakistan floods]]
|14 June 2022 – October 2022
| {{flag|Pakistan}}
|Floods in [[Pakistan]] have killed more than 1,000 people since June.
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|[[2022 Nigeria floods]]
|May – October 2022
| {{flag|Nigeria}}
|With more than 600 dead, the 2022 floods were the worst in the [[Nigeria|country]] since the [[2012 Nigeria floods|floods in 2012]].
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|[[2023 Africa floods]]
|March 2023 – December 2023
|{{flag|Angola}}<br />{{flag|Cameroon}}<br />{{flag|Democratic Republic of Congo}}<br />{{flag|Ethiopia}}<br />{{flag|Kenya}}<br />{{flag|Madagascar}}<br />{{flag|Rwanda}}<br />{{flag|Sierra Leone}}<br />{{flag|Somalia}}<br />{{flag|South Africa}}<br />{{flag|Tanzania}}<br />{{flag|Uganda}}
|Since March, more than 776 people have died in severe [[flood]]s in several [[Africa]]n countries. The worst hit was the [[Democratic Republic of Congo]], with over 440 dead + over 2,500 missing, and [[Rwanda]], with at least 135 dead.
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=3 May 2023 |title=Rwanda floods and landslides kill more than 100 people |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65469374 |access-date=3 May 2023 |archive-date=9 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230509084725/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65469374 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=3 May 2023 |title=Floods from heavy rainfall kill at least 129 in Rwanda |url=https://apnews.com/article/rwanda-deadly-floods-109-killed-868f117db85661a73f6d0f532e2b8451 |access-date=3 May 2023 |website=[[Associated Press]] |first=Ignatius |last=Ssuuna |language=en |archive-date=11 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511203230/https://apnews.com/article/rwanda-deadly-floods-109-killed-868f117db85661a73f6d0f532e2b8451 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|[[2024 Spanish floods]]
|29 October – 3 November 2024
| {{flag|Spain}}
|A [[cold drop]] causes torrential rains in eastern [[Spain]], causing flooding in the [[Valencian Community]], [[Castilla-La Mancha]], and [[Andalusia]]. Over a year of [[precipitation]] amounts was dropped over Spain, causing 219 deaths with 93 people still missing and widespread substantial damage to buildings and streets.
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=2 November 2024 |first1=Holly |last1=Evans |first2=Tara |last2=Cobham |first3=Alex|last3=Croft |title=Spain floods latest: 5,000 more soldiers deployed as satellite photos show extent of devastation |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spain-floods-latest-valencia-map-rain-huelva-deaths-b2640194.html |access-date=2 November 2024 |work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref><ref name="TG211">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/02/spain-floods-disaster-5000-more-troops-drafted-in-to-deal-with-aftermath|title=Spain floods: 10,000 troops and police drafted in to deal with disaster|first=Sam|last=Jones|date=2 November 2024|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=2 November 2024}}</ref>
|-
|[[October 2025 Mexico floods and landslides]]
|October 2025 – present
| {{flag|Mexico}}
|Severe floods and landslides caused by heavy rains attributed to remnants of storms occurred in several [[Administrative divisions of Mexico|Mexican states]], leaving at least 64 people dead, at least 257 missing, and about 100,000 houses destroyed.
|
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| [[File:Henan floods 2021-07-20 CNS.webm|thumb|right|200px|[[China News Service|CNS]] video report of the floods depicting Henan Province, China]]
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[[File:2024-11-02 Voluntaris per netejar camí de Sedaví 05.jpg|thumb|Aftermath of the [[2024 Spanish floods|Spanish floods]] at [[Sedaví]], [[Horta Sud]] in October 2024.]]
|}

====Volcanic eruptions====
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;"| Event
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Country
! Description
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
| [[2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions]]
| January 2020; July 2021; November 2021; March 2022
| {{flag|Philippines}}
| On 12 January the [[Taal Volcano]] in the Philippines erupted at [[VEI]] 4 intensity, bringing intense ashfall to the surrounding areas and killing at least 3 people.
| <ref>{{cite news|url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1211934/list-class-suspensions-due-to-taal-volcano-eruption|title=LIST: Class suspensions due to Taal Volcano eruption|date=January 12, 2020|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer|access-date=January 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114132427/https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1211934/list-class-suspensions-due-to-taal-volcano-eruption|archive-date=January 14, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="GMA News">{{cite news|url=https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/721897/taal-eruption-puts-naia-flights-on-hold/story/|title=Taal eruption puts NAIA flights on hold|date=January 12, 2020|work=GMA News|access-date=January 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114023833/https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/721897/taal-eruption-puts-naia-flights-on-hold/story/|archive-date=January 14, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption]]
| {{dts|19 September 2021}} – {{dts|13 December 2021}}
| {{flag|Spain}}
| On 19 September the [[Cumbre Vieja]] volcano located in the La Palma island erupted.
| <ref name="ElPaisVolcanoLaPalma">{{cite web |url=https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-09-19/entra-en-erupcion-el-volcan-en-la-palma.html |title=Entra en erupción el volcán en La Palma |date=19 September 2021 |publisher=[[El País]] |access-date=2021-09-19 |archive-date=20 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920220102/https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-09-19/las-autoridades-han-evacuado-ya-a-5000-personas-por-la-erupcion-del-volcan-en-la-palma.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2021 Semeru eruption]]
| {{dts|4 December 2021}}
| {{flag|Indonesia}}
| The collapse of an unstable [[lava dome]] on the summit of Semeru due to heavy rainfall triggered large pyroclastic flows, killing 48, injuring over 100 and leaving 23 missing.
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=4 December 2021 |title=Indonesia's Semeru volcano erupts, spews huge ash cloud |url=https://www.cp24.com/world/indonesia-s-semeru-volcano-erupts-spews-huge-ash-cloud-1.5693688 |url-status=live |access-date=4 December 2021 |website=[[CP24]] |archive-date=4 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204141318/https://www.cp24.com/world/indonesia-s-semeru-volcano-erupts-spews-huge-ash-cloud-1.5693688}}</ref>
|-
| [[2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami]]
| {{dts|15 January 2022}}
| {{flag|Tonga}}
| The [[Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai]] volcano in the South Pacific erupted violently on 15 January, causing tsunamis to hit Hawaii, Japan and Tonga's largest island, Tongatapu, and sent waves flooding into [[Nukuʻalofa]]. [[Tonga]] finally disqualified in the [[FIFA World Cup]]. It was the largest volcanic eruption of the 21st century.
| <ref>{{cite news |author1= |title=5 Tsunami advisories lifted in US after waves hit Tonga following volcanic eruption |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/15/asia/tsunami-warning-tonga-volcano-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=15 January 2022 |website=[[CNN]] |date=15 January 2022 |archive-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115080720/https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/15/asia/tsunami-warning-tonga-volcano-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|}

====Droughts, heat waves, and wildfires====
{{Main|Category:2020s wildfires|Wildfires in 2020|Wildfires in 2021 {{!}} 2021|Wildfires in 2022 {{!}} 2022|Wildfires in 2023 {{!}} 2023|Wildfires in 2024 {{!}} 2024|Wildfires in 2025 {{!}} 2025}}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;"| Event
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Region
! Description
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
| [[2018–2021 Southern African drought]]
| October 2018 – October 2021
| {{flag|South Africa}}
| An ongoing period of [[drought]] began in the country of South Africa in late October 2018 and continued into early 2021, negatively affecting [[food security]] in the region.
| 
|-
| [[2019–20 Australian bushfire season]]
| {{dts|June 2019}} – {{dts|May 2020}}
| {{flag|Australia}}
| Unusually intense [[bushfires]] in [[Australia]] continued into 2020, having started in September 2019.
| <ref>{{cite news |last1=Leister |first1=Eric |title='Apocalyptic' fires turn day into night as thousands evacuate in Australia |url=https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/apocalyptic-fires-turn-day-into-night-as-thousands-evacuate-in-australia/653764 |work=AccuWeather |date=1 January 2020 |access-date=1 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101003224/https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/apocalyptic-fires-turn-day-into-night-as-thousands-evacuate-in-australia/653764 |archive-date=1 January 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|[[2020 Western United States wildfire season|2020 Western U.S. Wildfires]]
|March – December 2020
| {{flag|United States}}
|Record-breaking [[wildfires]] began in several Western American states.
| 
|-
|[[2020 Córdoba wildfires|2020 Argentine wildfires]] ([[2020 Delta del Paraná wildfires|Delta del Paraná]])
|July 2020 – October 2020
| {{flag|Argentina}}
|Sudden wildfires started in [[Córdoba Province, Argentina|Córdoba]] and extended into several Northern provinces.
| 
|-
|[[2021 heat waves#Eurasia|2021 Russian heatwave]]
|May – June 2021
| {{flag|Russia}}
|Parts of Russia and eastern Europe were hit by a record-breaking [[heat wave]] in May and June 2021, with temperatures in the Arctic Circle above 30&nbsp;°C and the highest temperatures recorded in [[Moscow]] and [[St. Petersburg]].
| 
|-
|[[2021 Western North America heat wave]]
|June – July 2021
|{{flag|United States}}<br />{{flag|Canada}}
|Extreme temperatures caused by a prolonged [[heat dome]] over western Canada and the western United States killed over 613 people including over 480 people in British Columbia alone. The village of [[Lytton, British Columbia]], which recorded the highest temperatures in Canada, was destroyed by a [[Lytton wildfire|large wildfire]] as over 200 other ones devastated wide areas of the province. Wildfires in parts of the western coastal states of the US such as [[2021 Washington wildfires|Washington]], [[2021 Oregon wildfires|Oregon]] and [[2021 California wildfires|California]] were also greatly worsened by the heatwave.
| 
|-
|[[2021 Turkey wildfires]]
|July – August 2021
| {{flag|Turkey}}
|Over a hundred wildfires began in the [[Mediterranean Region]] of the [[forest in Turkey]], the worst in the country for at least a decade. The wildfires started in [[Manavgat, Antalya]] on 28 July 2021, with the temperature around {{convert|37|°C|°F|abbr=on}}.
| 
|-
|[[2020–2023 North American drought]]
|August 2020 – October 2023
|{{flag|United States}}<br />{{flag|Canada}}<br />{{flag|Mexico}}
|Drought developed in the [[Western United States|Western]], [[Midwestern United States|Midwestern]] and [[Northeastern United States|Northeastern]] United States in the summer of 2020. Over the course of 2021, conditions improved in the Northeast but worsened in the Western US. As of June 2021, 97% of the region was facing abnormally dry conditions. By August 2021, parts of the upper Midwestern US were experiencing some of the worst drought spells since the 1980s. Drought also affected a wide area of Mexico as of 2021, as well as the [[prairies]] of Canada.
| 
|-
|[[2022 European heat waves]]
|June – September 2022
| {{flag|European Union}}
|From mid-June through most of the summer, heat waves affected most of Europe, with western and central Europe the worst hit. Temperatures in excess of {{Cvt|40|C}} were recorded in places, breaking records. Over 24,000 deaths were attributed to the event, most in France, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Portugal. The heat waves contributed to wildfires and drought also seen in Europe.
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=8 September 2022 |title=Climate change: Europe's warm summer shatters records |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62833937 |access-date=20 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328055204/https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62833937 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2022 European and Mediterranean wildfires]]
|May – September 2022
| {{flag|European Union}}<br />{{flag|Algeria}}<br />{{flag|Morocco}}<br />{{flag|Tunisia}}
|Wildfires across Europe, North Africa and the Mediterranean region.
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-17 |title=Forest fires rage across Europe as heatwave sends temperatures soaring |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/17/forest-fires-rage-across-europe-as-heatwave-sends-temperatures-soaring |access-date=2022-09-05 |website=The Guardian |archive-date=17 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717105026/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/17/forest-fires-rage-across-europe-as-heatwave-sends-temperatures-soaring |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2022 European drought]]
|July – September 2022
| {{flag|European Union}}
|Europe's worst drought year in 500 years. A report from the Global Drought Observatory confirmed this.
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Europe's drought on course to be worst for 500 years, European Commission researcher warns |url=https://news.sky.com/story/europes-drought-on-course-to-be-worst-for-500-years-european-commission-researcher-warns-12669153 |access-date=10 August 2022 |website=Sky News |archive-date=9 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809205152/https://news.sky.com/story/europes-drought-on-course-to-be-worst-for-500-years-european-commission-researcher-warns-12669153 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-08-23 |title=Europe's drought the worst in 500 years – report |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62648912 |access-date=2022-08-24 |archive-date=5 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220905095314/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62648912 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2023 Canadian wildfires]]
|March – November 2023
| {{flag|Canada}}
|The 2023 wildfire season is the worst wildfire season in [[Canada]]'s modern history.
| <ref>{{cite news |date=June 26, 2023 |title=Forest fire centre declares 2023 worst year ever for Canadian wildfires  |work=[[The Globe and Mail]] |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-quebec-wildfire-smoke-causes-widespread-smog-warnings-grounds-some/ |access-date=June 28, 2023 |archive-date=June 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627021311/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-quebec-wildfire-smoke-causes-widespread-smog-warnings-grounds-some/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Dion |first=Mathieu |date=June 7, 2023 |title=Hundreds of Fires Are Out of Control in Canada's Worst-Ever Season  |publisher=[[Bloomberg News]] |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-07/hundreds-of-fires-are-out-of-control-in-canada-s-worst-ever-season |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=June 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230607200733/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-07/hundreds-of-fires-are-out-of-control-in-canada-s-worst-ever-season |archive-date=June 7, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.propertycasualty360.com/2014/07/23/the-7-largest-wildfires-in-north-american-history/|title=The 7 largest wildfires in North American history|website=PropertyCasualty360|access-date=June 28, 2023|archive-date=December 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201215150/https://www.propertycasualty360.com/2014/07/23/the-7-largest-wildfires-in-north-american-history/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2023 Hawaii wildfires]]
|8 – 16 August 2023
| {{flag|United States}}
|Wind-driven fires caused widespread damage on the island of [[Maui]], and killed at least 111 people in the town of [[Lahaina, Hawaii|Lāhainā]].
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-17 |title=Maui wildfire miracle with 60 survivors found in single home as death toll hits 111 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/maui-fires-update-cause-death-toll-travel-advisory-b2394447.html |access-date=2023-08-17 |website=The Independent |archive-date=17 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230817091643/https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/maui-fires-update-cause-death-toll-travel-advisory-b2394447.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2023 Greece wildfires]]
|17 July – 9 September 2023
| {{flag|Greece}}
|Over 80 fires in Greece led to the deaths of at least 28 and the evacuation of 20,000 people.
| 
|-
|[[January 2025 Southern California wildfires]]
|7 – 31 January 2025
| {{flag|United States}}
|Wildfires have affected [[Greater Los Angeles]] and surrounding regions.
| <ref>{{cite news |last1=Lynch |first1=Sarah N. |date=8 October 2025 |title=Suspect charged with igniting deadly Los Angeles Palisades Fire |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/man-arrested-suspect-setting-californias-deadly-palisades-fire-official-says-2025-10-08/ |access-date=8 October 2025 |work=Reuters}}</ref><ref name="Tchekmedyian 2025">{{cite web |last1=Tchekmedyian |first1=Alene |last2=Fry |first2=Hannah |last3=Winton |first3=Richard |title=LAFD thought the fire in the Palisades on Jan. 1 was out. It didn't use thermal imaging to confirm |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-09/lafd-did-not-use-thermal-imaging-to-check-for-hotspots-in-lachman-fire-chief-says |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=10 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="Hamilton LA Times 2025">{{cite news |last1=Hamilton |first1=Matt |last2=Solis |first2=Nathan |last3=Castleman |first3=Terry |last4=Hernandez |first4=Salvador |last5=Wick |first5=Julia |last6=Sheets |first6=Connor |title=Son of missionaries accused of setting destructive Palisades fire |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-08/who-is-the-uber-driver-accused-of-intentionally |access-date=2025-10-22 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2025-10-08}}</ref>
|-
|[[Ōfunato wildfire]]
|26 February – 10 March 2025
| {{flag|Japan}}
|Wildfires have affected [[Iwate Prefecture]] and surrounding regions.
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=26 February 2025 |script-title=ja:岩手・大船渡市で山火事 住宅など少なくとも84棟に被害 消防や自衛隊が消火活動 |url=https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/society/5bec72c2a43947528ccc875d45b6fc71 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250226181222/https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/society/5bec72c2a43947528ccc875d45b6fc71 |archive-date=26 February 2025 |access-date=5 March 2025 |work=[[NTV News24]] |language=ja |author1=日本テレビ }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Young |first1=Jin Yu |last2=Ueno |first2=Hisako |date=2 March 2025 |title=Japan Fights Its Largest Wildfire in More Than 30 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/world/asia/japan-wildfire.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303031537/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/world/asia/japan-wildfire.html |archive-date=3 March 2025 |access-date=4 March 2025 |work=[[The New York Times]] |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1 March 2025 |title=Japan battles biggest wildfire in decades |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/01/japan/iwate-wildfire-battle/ |access-date=4 March 2025 |work=[[The Japan Times]] |issn=0447-5763}}</ref>
|-
|[[2025 South Korea wildfires]]
|21 March – 18 May 2025
| {{flag|South Korea}}
|Wildfires have affected central and southern locations, it has been worst wildfires in history.
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=March 26, 2025 |title=At least 24 dead in South Korea's 'worst ever fires' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lp365pd1go.amp |access-date=March 26, 2025 |website=BBC |language=en |archive-date=March 26, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250326090410/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lp365pd1go.amp |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=16 May 2025|script-title=ko:'역대 최악' 피해 남기고…봄철 산불조심기간 종료 |trans-title= Spring wildfire season has ended after leaving the worst damage ever |url=https://www.khan.co.kr/article/202505161526001#c2b |work= [[Kyunghyang Shinmun]] |access-date= 19 May 2025 |language=ko}}</ref>
|-
|2025 Northeast Thailand wildfires
|26 March – 6 May 2025
| {{flag|Thailand}}
|Wildfires have affected [[Isan]] regional provinces such as [[Udon Thani province|Udon Thani]], [[Nong Bua Lamphu province|Nong Bua Lamphu]], [[Kalasin province|Kalasin]], and [[Khon Kaen province]]s.
| 
|-
| [[2025 Israel–West Bank fires]]
| 30 April – 3 May 2025
| {{flag|Israel}}
| Wildfires have affected around [[Jerusalem]], in at least 100 different locations through the [[Judean Mountains]] area.
| <ref>{{Cite news |last=Scheer |first=Steven |date=April 30, 2025 |title=Israeli wildfires force evacuations, road closures on Memorial Day |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-wildfires-force-evacuations-road-closures-memorial-day-2025-04-30/ |url-status= |access-date=April 30, 2025 |work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-04-30 |title=Firefighters battle to extinguish massive fires across Jerusalem area - watch |url=https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-852084 |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-04-30 |title=Israel deploys troops to control massive wildfires near Jerusalem |url=https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250430-israel-deploys-troops-to-control-massive-wildfires-near-jerusalem |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=[[France 24]] |language=en}}</ref>
|}

====Biological disasters====
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;" | Event
! style="width:120px;" | Date
! Country
! Description
|-
| [[2022 Oder environmental disaster]]
| July – August 2022
| {{flag|Poland}}<br />{{flag|Germany}}
|A mass fish kill occurs in the river [[Oder]] in Poland and Germany attributed to an [[algal bloom]].
|}

====Other natural events====
Beginning in 2019 until 2022, a [[2019–2022 locust infestation|huge swarm]] of [[desert locust]]s threatened to engulf massive portions of the [[Middle East]], [[Africa]] and [[Asia]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Irfan |first1=Umair |last2=Kirby |first2=Jen |title=The other plague: Locusts are devouring crops in East Africa and the Middle East |url=https://www.vox.com/2020/5/20/21158283/locust-plague-swarm-outbreak-africa-asia-2020 |website=Vox |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=20 May 2020 |archive-date=12 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612232942/https://www.vox.com/2020/5/20/21158283/locust-plague-swarm-outbreak-africa-asia-2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ahmed |first1=Kaamil |title='Rolling emergency' of locust swarms decimating Africa, Asia and Middle East |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/08/rolling-emergency-of-locust-swarms-decimating-africa-asia-and-middle-east |website=The Guardian |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=8 June 2020 |archive-date=12 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612232943/https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/08/rolling-emergency-of-locust-swarms-decimating-africa-asia-and-middle-east |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ogema |first1=Nelson |last2=Broom |first2=Fiona |title=Famine risk for millions in second locust wave |url=https://phys.org/news/2020-05-famine-millions-locust.html |website=phys.org |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=28 May 2020 |archive-date=31 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531054921/https://phys.org/news/2020-05-famine-millions-locust.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Why are swarms of locusts invading the UAE and neighbouring countries? |url=https://www.esquireme.com/brief/news/46258-why-are-there-swarms-of-locusts-invading-the-uae-and-neighbouring-countries |newspaper=Esquire Middle East – the Region's Best Men's Magazine |date=27 May 2020 |access-date=19 November 2021 |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525154806/https://www.esquireme.com/news/46258-why-are-there-swarms-of-locusts-invading-the-uae-and-neighbouring-countries |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Snouwaert |first1=Jessica |title=Locust swarms devour fields of crops in a single day that would feed 35,000 people — and COVID-19 threatens to make the pest problem even worse |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-makes-fighting-locust-swarms-that-ruin-crops-even-harder-2020-5 |website=Insider |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=19 May 2021 |archive-date=12 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612232940/https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-makes-fighting-locust-swarms-that-ruin-crops-even-harder-2020-5 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gronewold |first1=Nathanial |publisher=E&E News |title=To Track Massive Locust Swarms, Officials Use Tool that Forecasts Smoke Plumes |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-track-massive-locust-swarms-officials-use-tool-that-forecasts-smoke-plumes/ |website=Scientific American |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=15 May 2020 |archive-date=12 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612232942/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-track-massive-locust-swarms-officials-use-tool-that-forecasts-smoke-plumes/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Economics==
{{Main|2020s in economic history}}

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| footer            = {{center|'''Left to right:'''}}[[Elon Musk]], [[Larry Ellison]], and [[Jensen Huang]]. Musk and Ellison have been the [[The World's Billionaires|wealthiest persons in the world]], since 2021, with estimated net worths over $500 billion and $300 billion in October 2025. Huang is the wealthiest person of [[Asian Americans|Asian descent]] in the world, and leads [[Nvidia]], the most valuable company in the world. In October 2025, Nvidia had a [[market capitalization]] of $5 trillion.<ref name="Nvidia">{{Cite web|last=Berkowitz|first=Ben|title=Nvidia becomes the world's first $5 trillion company|url=https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/nvidia-5-trillion/|access-date=2025-10-29|website=Axios}}</ref>
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The 2020s were marked by economic troubles, beginning from the [[COVID-19 recession]] was a major global economic crisis which has caused both a [[recession]] in some nations, and in others a [[Depression (economic)|depression]]. The economic crisis began due to the [[Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic|economic consequences]] of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. The first major sign of a recession was the collapse of markets during the [[2020 stock market crash]], which began in late February and lasted through March.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Islam|first=Faisal|date=20 March 2020|title=Coronavirus recession not yet a depression|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51984470|access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Hawkins|first=John|title=How will the coronavirus recession compare with the worst in Australia's history?|url=http://theconversation.com/how-will-the-coronavirus-recession-compare-with-the-worst-in-australias-history-136379|access-date=16 April 2020|website=The Conversation|date=15 April 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Stewart|first=Emily|date=21 March 2020|title=The coronavirus recession is already here|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/21/21188541/coronavirus-news-recession-economy-unemployment-stock-market-jobs-gdp|access-date=16 April 2020|website=Vox}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Islam|first=Faisal|date=20 March 2020|title=Coronavirus recession not yet a depression|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51984470|access-date=26 March 2020}}</ref> As of September 2020, every advanced economy is in a recession or depression, whilst all emerging economies are in recession.<ref>{{Cite web|title=World Economic Outlook Update, June 2020: A Crisis Like No Other, An Uncertain Recovery|url=https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2020/06/24/WEOUpdateJune2020|access-date=2020-09-11|website=IMF|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression|url=https://blogs.imf.org/2020/04/14/the-great-lockdown-worst-economic-downturn-since-the-great-depression/|access-date=16 April 2020|website=IMF Blog|date=14 April 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=COVID-19 to Plunge Global Economy into Worst Recession since World War II|url=https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/06/08/covid-19-to-plunge-global-economy-into-worst-recession-since-world-war-ii|access-date=2020-09-11|publisher=World Bank|language=en}}</ref> Modeling by the [[World Bank]] suggests that in some regions a full recovery will not be achieved until 2025 or beyond.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Great Recession Was Bad. The 'Great Lockdown' Is Worse.|url=https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/global-great-lockdown-will-dwarf-the-great-recession|access-date=15 April 2020|website=BloombergQuint|date=14 April 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Elliot, Larry|title='Great Lockdown' to rival Great Depression with 3% hit to global economy, says IMF &#124; Business|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/14/great-lockdown-coronavirus-to-rival-great-depression-with-3-hit-to-global-economy-says-imf|access-date=27 April 2020|newspaper=The Guardian|date=14 April 2020 }}</ref>

A worldwide increase in [[2021–2023 inflation surge|inflation]] began in mid-2021, with many countries seeing their highest inflation rates in decades. It has been attributed to various causes, including [[List of COVID-19 pandemic legislation|pandemic-related]] economic dislocation; the [[Fiscal policy|fiscal]] and monetary [[Stimulus (economics)|stimulus]] provided in 2020 and 2021 by governments and [[central bank]]s around the world in response to the pandemic were also instrumental.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Van Dam |first1=Andrew |date=January 13, 2022 |title=2021 shattered job market records, but it's not as good as it looks |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/01/08/2021-shattered-records-but/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415193954/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/01/08/2021-shattered-records-but/ |archive-date=April 15, 2022 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref name="auto3">{{cite news |last1=Lynch |first1=David |date=October 9, 2022 |title=Biden's rescue plan made inflation worse but the economy better |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/10/09/inflation-economy-biden-covid/ |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> In early 2022, the effect of the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] on global [[Price of oil|oil prices]], [[natural gas]], [[fertilizer]], and [[2022 food crises|food prices]] further exacerbated the situation.<ref name="auto3"/> Higher gasoline prices were a major contributor to inflation as oil producers saw record profits.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sanicola |first1=Laura |title=U.S. gasoline prices are finally falling. Why? |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-gasoline-prices-are-finally-falling-why-2022-07-14/ |publisher=Reuters |date=July 14, 2022}}</ref> Debate arose over whether inflationary pressures were transitory or persistent, and to what extent price gouging was a factor.<ref>{{cite web |author=Christopher Rugaber |date=July 13, 2022 |title=As the causes of US inflation grow, so do the dangers |url=https://apnews.com/article/why-is-us-inflation-so-high-4b603a7fff0503360d5cc17a82f17ab1 |website=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Peter |title=Biden Accuses Oil Companies of 'War Profiteering' and Threatens Windfall Tax |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/us/politics/biden-oil-windfall-tax.html |work=The New York Times |date=October 31, 2022}}</ref>

American technology billionaires are largely the wealthiest individuals in the world, including [[Elon Musk]], [[Larry Ellison]], [[Mark Zuckerberg]], [[Jeff Bezos]], and [[Jensen Huang]]. Jensen Huang is the CEO of [[Nvidia]], the most valuable company in the world, and the wealthiest person of Asian descent. [[Alice Walton]] is the wealthiest woman in the world. Elon Musk became the first person to reach a net worth of $500 billion,<ref name="auto">{{cite news |title=Bloomberg Billionaires Index |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/elon-r-musk/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250329142838/https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/elon-r-musk/ |archive-date=March 29, 2025 |access-date=May 16, 2025 |publisher=[[Bloomberg L.P.]]}}</ref> becoming the wealthiest person in human history, and may become the first trillionaire by 2030. [[Tesla, Inc.|Tesla]] shareholders approved a $1 trillion pay plan for Musk in November 2025, provided Tesla achieves certain financial milestones.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/tesla-shareholders-musk-pay.html|title=Tesla says shareholders approve Musk's $1 trillion pay plan with over 75% voting in favor|website=CNBC|date=November 6, 2025|access-date=November 6, 2025|first1=Lora|last1=Kolodny}}</ref>

===Trade===
[[File:Map of countries by total tariffs in the second Trump administration.svg|thumb|upright=1.35|A map of countries by total baseline tariffs (includes tariffs not yet implemented)
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The [[World Trade Organization]] reported that trade growth had stagnated and that [[trade restriction]]s were increasing as the decade began. The [[Business sector|sectors]] most affected by [[Protectionism|import restrictions]] were [[Ore|mineral]] and [[fuel oil]]s (17.7%), [[Machine industry|machinery]] and mechanical appliances (13%), [[Electric machine|electrical machinery]] and parts (11.7%), and [[precious metal]]s (6%).<ref>{{cite web |title=Report shows trade restrictions by WTO members at historically high levels |url=https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news19_e/dgra_12dec19_e.htm |website=World Trade Organization |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=12 December 2019 |archive-date=7 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207052520/https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news19_e/dgra_12dec19_e.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Trade agreement|Regional trade agreements]] were also found to be increasing.<ref>{{cite web |title=Regional trade agreements |url=https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/region_e/region_e.htm |website=World Trade Organization |access-date=19 November 2021 |archive-date=9 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200109160244/https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/region_e/region_e.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>

United States President [[Donald Trump]] announced 2 April 2025 to be "[[Liberation Day tariffs|liberation day]]", beginning to enforce [[tariff]]s on numerous nations in the following week. This triggered an ongoing [[Trade war|economic trade war]] as well as the [[2025 stock market crash]]. It is currently the largest decline in the global stock market since the [[2020 stock market crash]], which was part of a recession caused by the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Harithas |first1=Barath |last2=Meng |first2=Kyle |last3=Brown |first3=Evan |last4=Mouradian |first4=Catharine |date=2025-04-03 |title="Liberation Day" Tariffs Explained |url=https://www.csis.org/analysis/liberation-day-tariffs-explained |journal=[[Center for Strategic & International Studies]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Picchi |first=Aimee |date=2025-04-02 |title=Trump reveals these 2 new types of tariffs on what he calls "Liberation Day," April 2 - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/liberation-day-trump-tariffs-explained/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=www.cbsnews.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Brian |last2=Melloy |first2=John |last3=Singh |first3=Pia |date=April 2, 2025 |title=Dow nosedives 1,600 points, S&P 500 and Nasdaq drop the most since 2020 after Trump's tariff onslaught |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/stock-market-today-live-updates-trump-tariffs.html |access-date=April 4, 2025 |publisher=[[CNBC]]}}</ref> From January to April 2025, the average applied US tariff rate rose from 2.5% to an estimated 27%—the highest level in over a century.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Irwin |first=Neil |title=Trump's incredibly volatile tariff landscape, in one chart |url=https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/trump-tariff-rate-volatility |work=[[Axios (website)|Axios]] |date=June 5, 2025}}</ref> The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] heard the case ''[[Learning Resources v. Trump]]'' on 5 November 2025 to determine the legality of some of Trump's tariffs.<ref name="tariff case"/>

Trump's tariffs represented a repudiation of [[neoliberalism]] and [[free trade]], instead returning to [[mercantilism]] and [[protectionism]].<ref name="Gerstle2022"/> Tariffs have [[History of tariffs in the United States|a long history in the United States]], dating back to the [[Import-Export Clause]] of the U.S. Constitution and even the [[Navigation Acts]] when the United States was a British colony.<ref name="ARE">{{cite journal |last=Irwin |first=Douglas A. |title=Trade policy in American economic history |journal=Annual Review of Economics |volume=12 |issue=1 |year=2020 |pages=23–44 |url=https://ccd.ucsd.edu/_files/papers/paper_irwin_annurev-economics.pdf}}</ref>

==Health==
===Epidemics/Outbreaks===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! style="width:200px;"| Event
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Infections and deaths
! Description
|-
||[[2022–2023 mpox outbreak]]
|6 May 2022 – 11 May 2023
|86,494 confirmed cases and 280 deaths in 109 countries and territories reported by 26 March 2023.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/monkeypox?tab=table&time=2022-05-24..latest&facet=none&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Frequency=Cumulative&Shown+by=Date+of+confirmation&country=~OWID_WRL |title=Monkeypox Data Explorer (Live) |access-date=30 May 2022 |archive-date=28 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628125406/https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/monkeypox?tab=table&time=2022-05-24..latest&facet=none&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Frequency=Cumulative&Shown+by=Date+of+confirmation&country=~OWID_WRL |url-status=live}}</ref>
|First international outbreak cluster detected on 6 May 2022 in [[London]], [[United Kingdom|UK]]. Declared a [[public health emergency of international concern]] by [[World Health Organization|WHO]] from 23 July 2022 to 11 May 2023.
|}

===Pandemics===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|-
! style="width:200px;"| Event
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Infections and deaths
! Description
|-
||[[COVID-19 pandemic]]
| 2019 – 2023<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-05 |title=End of the Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) Declaration {{!}} CDC |url=https://archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/end-of-phe.html#:~:text=May%2011,%202023,%20marks%20the,federal%20COVID-19%20PHE%20declaration. |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=archive.cdc.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-05 |title=WHO chief declares end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency {{!}} UN News |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136367 |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=news.un.org}}</ref>
| 678.1 million+ confirmed cases and 6.7 million+ deaths with more than 240 countries and territories reported by 16 February 2023.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries |title=Coronavirus Update (Live) |access-date=24 January 2022 |archive-date=29 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129195657/https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries |url-status=live}}</ref>
|First confirmed case detected on 17 November 2019 in [[Wuhan]], [[China]]. Declared a [[public health emergency of international concern]] by [[World Health Organization|WHO]] from 30 January 2020 to 5 May 2023.
|-
|[[HIV/AIDS]]
| 1981 – present
| 37.9 million people living with HIV (end of 2018), 24.5 million people accessing antiretroviral therapy (end of June 2019), 32.0 million deaths from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic (end 2018).<ref>{{cite web |publisher=UNAIDS |title=Global HIV & AIDS statistics — 2019 fact sheet |url=https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet |access-date=28 March 2020 |archive-date=4 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204021652/https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet |url-status=live}}</ref>
|
|}

==Science and technology==
{{Science decade nav|{{currentyear}}}}
{{Main|2020s in science and technology}}

Below are the most significant scientific developments of each year, based on the annual Breakthrough of the Year award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science journal Science.

* 2020: [[COVID-19 vaccine]], developed and tested at record speed<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cohen |first=Jon |date=17 December 2020 |title=Shots of hope |url=https://vis.sciencemag.org/breakthrough2020/ |journal=Science |volume=370 |issue=6523 |pages=1392–1394 |publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science |doi=10.1126/science.370.6523.1392 |pmid=33335045 |bibcode=2020Sci...370.1392C |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* 2021: [[AlphaFold|An AI]] brings [[Protein structure prediction|protein structures]] to all<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 December 2021 |title=Protein structures for all |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-2021 |website=Science |publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science}}</ref>
* 2022: [[James Webb Space Telescope]] debut<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 December 2022 |title=2022 BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-2022 |website=Science |publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science}}</ref>
* 2023: [[GLP-1 receptor agonist|GLP-1 Drugs]] anorectic drugs<ref>{{cite web |last1=Couzin-Frankel |first1=Jennifer |title=2023 BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-of-the-year-2023 |website=Science |publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science |access-date=19 December 2023}}</ref>
* 2024: [[Lenacapavir]] antiretroviral medication used to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS<ref>{{Cite web |title=Science's 2024 Breakthrough of the Year: Opening the door to a new era of HIV prevention |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-2024 |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=www.science.org}}</ref>

===Artificial intelligence===
[[File:Timeline-of-AI-generated-faces.png|thumb|120px|upright|right|The [[AI boom]] emerged in the 2020s. Generative AI such as [[Text-to-image model]]s and [[ChatGPT|AI chatbots]] released publicly. Machine learning systems that took minute(s) to produce blurry images in mid 2022 were able to produce more realistic imagery in seconds by mid 2023. English text would appear as [[gibberish]] in earlier AI text-to-image builds, although this was fixed to an extent with newer AI models such as DALL-E 3.]]

The [[AI boom]]<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Knight |first=Will |title=Google's Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-generative-ai-boom/ |access-date=2023-12-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Meredith |first=Sam |date=2023-12-06 |title=A 'thirsty' generative AI boom poses a growing problem for Big Tech |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/06/water-why-a-thirsty-generative-ai-boom-poses-a-problem-for-big-tech.html |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=CNBC}}</ref> is an ongoing period of rapid [[Progress in artificial intelligence|progress in]] the field of [[artificial intelligence]] (AI) that started in the late 2010s before gaining international prominence in late 2022 with the public release of [[ChatGPT]] and [[DeepSeek]] in early 2025.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Milmo |first1=Dan |last2=Hawkins |first2=Amy |last3=Booth |first3=Robert |last4=Kollewe |first4=Julia |date=2025-01-28 |title='Sputnik moment': $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/27/tech-shares-asia-europe-fall-china-ai-deepseek |access-date=2025-04-26 |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Examples include [[large language model]]s and [[generative AI]] applications developed by [[OpenAI]] as well as [[Protein structure prediction|protein folding prediction]] led by [[Google DeepMind]]. This period is sometimes referred to as an '''AI spring''', to contrast it with previous [[AI winter]]s.<ref>{{cite web | last=Bommasani | first=Rishi | date=March 17, 2023 |url=https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-spring-four-takeaways-major-releases-foundation-models | title=AI Spring? Four Takeaways from Major Releases in Foundation Models | publisher=Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence | access-date=May 16, 2023 | archive-date=May 7, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507165115/https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-spring-four-takeaways-major-releases-foundation-models | url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The coming of AI Spring |url=https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/overview/in-the-news/the-coming-of-ai-spring |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=www.mckinsey.com}}</ref>

* [[DeepMind]] solves the [[protein folding problem]] to 90 percent accuracy, a 50-year-old grand challenge, at [[CASP]]14 in 2020.<ref>{{cite journal |title='It will change everything': DeepMind's AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4 |journal=Nature |year=2020 |doi=10.1038/d41586-020-03348-4 |access-date=17 January 2021 |last1=Callaway |first1=Ewen |volume=588 |issue=7837 |pages=203–204 |pmid=33257889 |bibcode=2020Natur.588..203C |s2cid=227243204|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=AlphaFold: A Solution to a 50 Year Old Grand Challenge in Biology |url=https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology |website=Deepmind.com |date=30 November 2020 |access-date=17 January 2021}}</ref>
* [[Prompt engineering#Text-to-image|Text-to-image AI art systems]] such as [[DALL-E]] (1, 2, and 3) and [[Stable Diffusion]] are capable of generating highly detailed and realistic images from text prompts.
* [[Large language model]]s, like [[OpenAI]]'s [[ChatGPT]], [[Anthropic]]'s [[Claude (language model)|Claude]] and [[Meta Platforms|Meta's]] [[Llama (language model)|Llama]] became widely adopted in 2023 and 2024.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Milmo |first=Dan |date=2023-02-02 |title=ChatGPT reaches 100 million users two months after launch |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/02/chatgpt-100-million-users-open-ai-fastest-growing-app |access-date=6 November 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]] |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* In early 2024, OpenAI released a new technology called [[Sora (text-to-video model)]], a video model [[Generative artificial intelligence|generates]] short video clips based on user [[Prompt engineering|prompts]], and can also extend existing short videos. Sora was released publicly for ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Pro users in December 2024. This has revolutionized the video industry, since this machine generates videos in shorter time, leading to more companies adopting AI videos, with [[Coca-Cola]] Christmas commercial being the first one to do so.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Di Placido|first=Dani|date=November 16, 2024|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2024/11/16/coca-colas-ai-generated-ad-controversy-explained/|title=Coca Cola's AI-Generated Ad Controversy, Explained|magazine=[[Forbes]]|access-date=November 19, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Horvath|first=Bruna|date=November 18, 2024|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/coca-cola-causes-controversy-ai-made-ad-rcna180665|title=Coca-Cola causes controversy with AI-made ad|publisher=[[NBC News]]|access-date=November 19, 2024}}</ref>

===Communications and electronics===
* [[5G]] became increasingly widespread during the decade.
* By 2020, [[3D printing]] had reached decent quality and affordable pricing which allowed many people to own 3D printers.
* [[8K resolution]] and [[4K resolution]] becomes prevalent in consumer electronics.

===Spaceflight===
{{See also|2020s in spaceflight}}

The trend towards cost reduction in access to orbit is expected to continue. [[Vulcan Centaur|Vulcan]] is replacing its more expensive predecessors. Since 2023, [[SpaceX]] is testing its fully reusable [[SpaceX Starship|Starship]] with orbital missions. In 2024, [[Blue Origin]] plans the maiden flight of [[New Glenn]] with a reusable first stage and [[Ariane 6]] is expected to replace the retired more expensive [[Ariane 5]].

Mars stays a focus for missions to other planets, with three missions launched in 2020 (by China, the United Arab Emirates and the United States) and at least one mission planned for [[EscaPADE|2024]], [[Martian Moons eXploration|2026]] and [[Rosalind Franklin (rover)|2028]].

In 2028, as part of the [[NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return]] mission, NASA plans to launch a Sample Retrieval Lander. In 2027, ESA plans to launch the Earth Return Orbiter, which will transport the retrieved samples from Mars to Earth by 2033. China is also planning to [[Mars sample-return mission#China|retrieve samples from Mars]] by 2031.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Andrew |date=2022-06-20 |title=China aims to bring Mars samples to Earth 2 years before NASA, ESA mission |url=https://spacenews.com/china-aims-to-bring-mars-samples-to-earth-2-years-before-nasa-esa-mission/ |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=SpaceNews}}</ref>

NASA plans a return of humans to the Moon by 2026. The [[Artemis 1|first uncrewed launch]] of the [[Space Launch System]] happened in 2022.<ref>{{cite web |title=We Are Going: Artemis I Launches |url=https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/we-are-going-artemis-i-launches |publisher=NASA |access-date=18 November 2022 |date=16 November 2022}}</ref> [[Artemis 2|The first crewed launch]] is planned for February 2026.<ref name="sn-20240109">{{cite web |last=Foust |first=Jeff |url=https://spacenews.com/nasa-delays-artemis-2-and-3-missions/ |title=NASA delays Artemis 2 and 3 missions |work=[[SpaceNews]] |date=9 January 2024}}</ref> In addition NASA plans to assemble the [[Lunar Gateway]] in lunar orbit. A crewed exploration of Mars could follow in the mid-2030s. SpaceX, a private company, has also announced plans to land humans on Mars in the 2020s, with the long-term goal of enabling the [[colonization of Mars]].

India plans to launch its first crewed flight with a spacecraft called ''[[Gaganyaan]]'' on a home-grown [[GSLV Mark III]] rocket in 2025. The mission would make India the fourth nation to launch a crewed spaceflight after Russia, the US and China. India also plans to launch its second Mars probe, [[Mars Orbiter Mission 2]] (''Mangalyaan 2'').

The [[James Webb Space Telescope]] was launched in 2021. NASA plans to launch the [[Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope]], which will have a field of view 100 times larger than that of the [[Hubble Space Telescope]], between October 2026 and May 2027.<ref name="nasa-20220719">{{cite press release |url=https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-roman-space-telescope |title=NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Roman Space Telescope |work=[[NASA]] |date=19 July 2022 |access-date=19 July 2022}}</ref><ref name="sn-20210930">{{cite web |last=Foust |first=Jeff |url=https://spacenews.com/pandemic-causes-delay-and-cost-increase-for-nasas-roman-space-telescope/ |title=Pandemic causes delay and cost increase for NASA's Roman Space Telescope |work=[[SpaceNews]] |date=30 September 2021 |access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref><ref name="sn20200520">{{cite web |last=Foust |first=Jeff |url=https://spacenews.com/nasa-renames-wfirst-space-telescope-after-pioneering-woman-astronomer/ |title=NASA renames WFIRST space telescope after pioneering woman astronomer |work=[[SpaceNews]] |date=20 May 2020 |access-date=20 May 2020}}</ref>

NASA's [[NEO Surveyor]], scheduled to launch no later than June 2028,<ref name="sn-20221207">{{cite web |last=Foust |first=Jeff |url=https://spacenews.com/nasa-confirms-neo-surveyor-for-2028-launch/ |title=NASA confirms NEO Surveyor for 2028 launch |work=[[SpaceNews]] |date=7 December 2022 |access-date=8 December 2022}}</ref> is expected to be capable of detecting at least 90% of [[near-Earth object]]s larger than {{convert|140|m|ft|sp=us}}, a goal mandated by the US Congress in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/hr1022/text/rh |title=H.R. 1022 (109th): George E. Brown, Jr. Near-Earth Object Survey Act - Original text |work=[[GovTrack]] |date=27 June 2005 |access-date=31 October 2018}}</ref>

The number of [[small satellites]] launched annually was expected to grow to around one thousand (2018 estimate), mainly [[Satellite constellation#Communications satellite constellations|communication satellites in large constellations]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nsr.com/smallsat-growth-on-shaky-foundations/ |title=Smallsat Growth On Shaky Foundations |work=[[Northern Sky Research]] |date=19 February 2019 |access-date=22 February 2019}}</ref> but launches quickly exceeded this estimate, mainly due to the rapid deployment of the [[Starlink]] and [[OneWeb]] constellations. From 2020 to 2022, around 3500 Starlink satellites<ref>{{cite web|url=https://planet4589.org/space/con/star/stats.html|title=Starlink Statistics|access-date=24 January 2023}}</ref> and 500 satellites by OneWeb<ref>{{cite web|url=https://planet4589.org/space/con/ow/stats.html|title=OneWeb Statistics|access-date=24 January 2023}}</ref> were launched.

The number of total satellites reached 10,000 for the first time in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Look Up Space Reports More Than 10,000 Active Satellites in Orbit |date=21 June 2024 |url=https://spacewatch.global/2024/06/look-up-space-reports-more-than-10000-active-satellites-in-orbit/}}</ref>

===Software and electronic platforms===
* Support for [[Adobe Flash Player]] ended on 31 December 2020.
* [[Windows 11]] is released on 5 October 2021, succeeding [[Windows 10]].
* Support for [[Internet Explorer]] on [[Windows 10]] Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) ended on 15 June 2022.
* ESU support for [[Windows 7]] and extended support for [[Windows 8.1]] and [[Windows RT]] ended on 10 January 2023. Some versions of [[Windows 10]], such as Windows 10 2106 LTSB are already out of ''mainstream'' support, some versions <!-- e.g. all Mobile --> are out of all support, and others soon on, i.e. October 14, 2025, while some Enterprise versions will be supported longer.

===Technology===
* The [[BBC]] reports that for the "first time someone who has had a complete cut to their spinal cord has been able to walk freely... because of an electrical implant that has been surgically attached to his spine".<ref>{{cite news |first=Pallab |last=Ghosh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60258620 |title=Paralysed man with severed spine walks thanks to implant |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=2022-03-02}}</ref>
* Sales of [[electric vehicle]]s have grown significantly and this is expected to continue through the decade.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iea.org/news/global-electric-car-sales-set-for-further-strong-growth-after-40-rise-in-2020 |title=Global electric car sales set for further strong growth after 40% rise in 2020 – News |date=29 April 2021}}</ref>
* [[Non-fungible token|NFTs]] as a form of digital art emerged in the 2020s, with NFTs such as [[Everydays: the First 5000 Days]]. The NFT market experienced rapid growth during 2020, with its value tripling to {{Currency|250|US}} million.<ref name="Duffy-2021">{{Cite web |title=The NFT Market Tripled Last Year, and It's Gaining Even More Momentum in 2021 |url=https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2021/02/22/nft-market-tripled-last-year-gaining-even-momentum-2021 |access-date=April 8, 2021 |website=Morning Brew}}</ref> In the first three months of 2021, more than {{Currency|200|US}} million were spent on NFTs,<ref name="Time-2021">{{Cite magazine |title=NFTs Are Shaking Up the Art World – But They Could Change So Much More |url=https://time.com/5947720/nft-art/ |magazine=Time |access-date=April 6, 2021}}</ref> and in the early months of 2021, interest in NFTs increased after a number of high-profile sales and art auctions.<ref name="Howcroft-2021">{{Cite news |last=Howcroft |first=Elizabeth |date=March 17, 2021 |title=Explainer: NFTs are hot. So what are they? |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-nft-explainer-idUSKBN2B92MA |access-date=April 6, 2021}}</ref> However, by 2022 this market was in the process of rapid collapse.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vigna |first=Paul |title=NFT Sales Are Flatlining |url=https://www.wsj.com/finance/nft-sales-are-flatlining-11651552616 |access-date=2025-07-15 |website=WSJ |date=3 May 2022 }}</ref> A report in September 2023 concluded that 95% of collected NFTs now possess zero market value, and that "79% of all NFT collections remain unsold".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Yang |first=Maya |date=2023-09-22 |title=The vast majority of NFTs are now worthless, new report shows |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/22/nfts-worthless-price |access-date=2025-07-15 |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

==Society==
{{Main|2020s in social history}}

===Social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic===
{{Main|Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic}}

Medical experts advised, and local authorities often mandated [[stay-at-home order]]s to prevent gatherings of any size. Such gatherings would be [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on science and technology#Telecommunications|replaced by teleconferencing]], or in some cases with unconventional attempts to maintain [[social distancing]] with activities such as a [[balcony]] [[sing-along]] for a concert, or a "birthday parade" for a [[birthday party]]. Replacements for gatherings were seen as significant to [[Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic|mental health during the crisis]]. Social isolation among [[Alcohol drink|alcohol]] users also adopted a trend towards ''Kalsarikänni'' or "[[pantsdrunk]]ing", a Finnish antisocial [[drinking culture]].

Low-income individuals were more likely to contract the coronavirus and to die from it. In both New York City and Barcelona, low-income neighborhoods were disproportionately hit by coronavirus cases. Hypotheses for why this was the case included that poorer families were more likely to live in crowded housing and work in jobs deemed essential during the crisis, such as supermarkets and elder care. In the United States, millions of low-income people may lack access to health care due to being [[uninsured]] or [[underinsured]]. Millions of Americans lost their [[Health insurance in the United States|health insurance]] after losing their jobs. Many low-income workers in service jobs became unemployed.

The coronavirus pandemic was followed by a concern for a potential spike in suicides, exacerbated by social isolation due to quarantine and social-distancing guidelines, fear, and unemployment and financial factors. Many countries reported an increase in [[domestic violence]] and [[intimate partner violence]] attributed to lockdowns amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial insecurity, stress, and uncertainty led to increased aggression at home, with abusers able to control large amounts of their victims' daily life. [[Midlife crisis]] is a major concern in domestic violence, social implications and suicides for middle-aged adults amid the pandemic. UN Secretary-General [[António Guterres]] called for a domestic violence and midlife crisis "ceasefire".

===Population===
* The population of [[Egypt]] reached 100 million in February 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Egypt's population hits 100 million |url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200212-egypts-population-hits-100-million/ |website=Middle East Monitor |date=12 February 2020 |access-date=18 February 2020 |archive-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218220000/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200212-egypts-population-hits-100-million/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* The [[world population]] reached 8 billion in November 2022.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Victor |first=Daniel |date=2022-11-15 |title=World Population Reaches 8 Billion, U.N. Says |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/world/world-population-8-billion.html |access-date=2022-11-16 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[Population growth]], life expectancy and birth rates declined globally in the early 2020s, driven by the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Birthrates are declining globally – here's why it matters |url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/birthrates-declining-globally-why-matters/ |access-date=2022-01-12 |website=World Economic Forum |date=15 June 2021}}</ref>
* [[India]] surpassed [[China]] and became the most-populous country in April 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ellis-Petersen |first=Hannah |date=2023-04-24 |title=India overtakes China to become world's most populous country |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/24/india-overtakes-china-to-become-worlds-most-populous-country |access-date=2 September 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]] |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

===Gender===
[[File:Ruotsin pääministeri Magdalena Andersson vieraili Suomessa 5.3.2022 (51919506636).jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|right|[[Prime Minister of Sweden|Swedish Prime Minister]] [[Magdalena Andersson]] and [[Prime Minister of Finland|Finnish Prime Minister]] [[Sanna Marin]] were two female prime ministers in [[Scandinavia]] who guided their countries' [[Enlargement of NATO|ascensions]] into [[NATO]].]]

{{See also|Women in government}}
24.3% of all national parliamentarians were women as of February 2019. 11 women were serving as [[List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government|head of state]] and 12 as head of government in June 2019. 20.7% of government ministers were women as of January 2019. There are wide regional variations in the average percentages of women parliamentarians. As of February 2019, these were: Nordic countries, 42.5%; Americas, 30.6%; Europe excluding Nordic countries, 27.2%; sub-Saharan Africa, 23.9%; Asia, 19.8%; Arab States, 19%; and the Pacific, 16.3%. [[Rwanda]] has the highest number of women parliamentarians worldwide, 61.3% of seats in the lower house. About 26% of elected local parliamentarians are women.<ref name="un_women">{{cite web |title=Facts and figures: Leadership and political participation |url=https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/leadership-and-political-participation/facts-and-figures |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329170329/https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/leadership-and-political-participation/facts-and-figures |archive-date=29 March 2020 |access-date=28 March 2020 |website=UN Women}}</ref>

Many states swore in their first female leaders during the 2020s, including Presidents [[Katerina Sakellaropoulou]] ([[president of Greece|Greece]]), [[Samia Suluhu Hassan]] ([[President of Tanzania|Tanzania]]), [[Sandra Mason]] ([[President of Barbados|Barbados]]), [[Xiomara Castro]] ([[President of Honduras|Honduras]]), [[Katalin Novák]] ([[President of Hungary|Hungary]]), [[Dina Boluarte]] ([[President of Peru|Peru]]), [[Nataša Pirc Musar]] ([[President of Slovenia|Slovenia]]), [[Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova]] ([[President of North Macedonia|North Macedonia]]) and Prime Ministers [[Rose Christiane Raponda]] ([[Prime Minister of Gabon|Gabon]]), [[Victoire Tomegah Dogbé]] ([[List of prime ministers of Togo|Togo]]), [[Kaja Kallas]] ([[Prime Minister of Estonia|Estonia]]), [[Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa|Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa]] ([[Prime Minister of Samoa|Samoa]]), [[Robinah Nabbanja]] ([[Prime Minister of Uganda|Uganda]]), [[Najla Bouden]] ([[Prime Minister of Tunisia|Tunisia]]), [[Magdalena Andersson]] ([[Prime Minister of Sweden|Sweden]]), [[Giorgia Meloni]] ([[Prime Minister of Italy|Italy]]), [[Judith Suminwa]] ([[President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|DRC]]), Chairwoman [[Borjana Krišto]] ([[Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina]]), and [[Sanae Takaichi]] ([[Prime Minister of Japan|Japan]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sixteen defining moments for gender equality in 2021 |url=https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/feature-story/2021/12/sixteen-defining-moments-for-gender-equality-in-2021 |access-date=2022-03-15 |website=UN Women – Headquarters |date=22 December 2021}}</ref>

Despite this, nearly all of the world's wealthiest individuals (mostly [[Big Tech|American technology]] billionaires) are male, as are the [[List of current heads of state and government|heads of state of most countries]].<ref name="auto"/>

===Environmentalism===
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{{See also|2020s in environmental history}}
The effects of [[climate change]] manifested in 2020 with a record 30 [[Atlantic hurricane|named Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes]]; the highest heat in 80-years recorded at 54.4 Celsius; massive wildfires [[2019–20 Australian bushfire season|in Australia]], the [[2020 Western United States wildfire season|Western United States]], and the Arctic; and the second-lowest annual [[Arctic sea ice decline|Arctic sea ice coverage]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-02|title=UN calls on humanity to end 'war on nature,' go carbon-free|url=https://apnews.com/article/un-calls-end-war-nature-go-carbon-free-d144cda34053abbd0758e22d9ff8f7c6|access-date=2020-12-06|website=AP NEWS}}</ref> The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative—involving 30 fund management companies managing $9 trillion—pledged investment portfolios to be [[Carbon neutrality|carbon-neutral]] by 2050.<ref name=Bloomberg_20201216>{{cite news |last1=Quinson |first1=Tim |title=Money Managers Pledge to Hit Net Zero. Now the Hard Part |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/money-managers-pledge-net-zero-now-the-hard-part-green-insight |work=Bloomberg |date=16 December 2020 }}<!-- Wayback Machine archiving failed --></ref>

In July 2024, in each month in a 12-month period (through June 2024), Earth's average temperature exceeded 1.5&nbsp;°C above the pre-industrial baseline,<ref name=InsideClimateNews_20240709>{{cite news |last1=Berwyn |first1=Bob |title=Average Global Temperature Has Warmed 1.5 Degrees Celsius Above Pre-industrial Levels for 12 Months in a Row |url=https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09072024/average-global-temperatures-above-pre-industrial-levels-for-12-months/ |work=Inside Climate News |date=9 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709182740/https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09072024/average-global-temperatures-above-pre-industrial-levels-for-12-months/ |archive-date=9 July 2024 |url-status=live }} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20240708211659/https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-june-2024-marks-12th-month-global-temperature-reaching-15degc-above-pre-industrial Copernicus graphic])</ref> and the highest daily global average temperature is recorded at {{Convert|17.09|C|F}}, surpassing the previous record of {{Convert|17.08|C|F}} on 6 July 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dickie |first=Gloria |date=2024-07-23 |title=World recorded hottest day on July 21, monitor says |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/world-registers-hottest-day-ever-recorded-july-21-monitor-says-2024-07-23/ |access-date=2024-07-24 |work=Reuters}}</ref>

* [[Team Seas]] is an international collaborative fundraiser founded by YouTubers [[Mark Rober]] and [[MrBeast]] on 29 October 2021, as a follow-up to [[Team Trees]]. The fundraiser's aim was to raise US$30 million to remove 30 million pounds of trash from the ocean by the end of the year. They also partnered with the [[Ocean Cleanup]] and the [[Ocean Conservancy]].
* Members of the United Nations agree on a legal framework for the [[High Seas Treaty]] on 4 March 2023, which aims to protect 30% of the world's [[ocean]]s by 2030.

===LGBTQ rights===
* A law allowing [[third gender]] option on [[driver licenses]] took effect in [[LGBTQ rights in New Hampshire|New Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/Bill_docket.aspx?lsr=763&sy=2019&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2019&txtbillnumber=HB669 |title=Docket of HB669 |access-date=13 January 2019 |url-status=live |archive-date=29 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529190550/http://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/Bill_docket.aspx?lsr=763&sy=2019&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2019&txtbillnumber=HB669}}</ref>
* [[LGBTQ rights in Switzerland|Switzerland]] banned discrimination based on sexuality due to a referendum, putting into effect a law previously introduced in 2018, that was subsequently blocked by the government that requested a referendum to be held on the matter first.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/09/swiss-vote-to-approve-legislation-to-protect-lgbtq-rights |title=Swiss vote to approve legislation to protect LGBTQ+ rights. |access-date=13 February 2019 |url-status=live |archive-date=9 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209174058/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/09/swiss-vote-to-approve-legislation-to-protect-lgbtq-rights}}</ref>
* In [[LGBTQ rights in Northern Ireland|Northern Ireland]], the first [[same-sex marriage]] took place after legalizing legislation took effect in January 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://impactnottingham.com/2020/02/first-same-sex-marriage-takes-place-in-northern-ireland/ |title=First Same-Sex Marriage Takes Place in Northern Ireland |access-date=18 February 2019 |url-status=live |archive-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218042343/https://impactnottingham.com/2020/02/first-same-sex-marriage-takes-place-in-northern-ireland/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1514/contents/made/data.htm |title=The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 |access-date=13 January 2019 |url-status=live |archive-date=31 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131183238/http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1514/contents/made/data.htm}}</ref>
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* In [[LGBTQ rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]], same-sex marriage and joint adoption by same-sex couples became legal on 26 May 2020.
* The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] [[Bostock v. Clayton County|ruled]] that job discrimination against workers for their [[sexual orientation]] or gender identity is illegal.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-06-16 |title=A Landmark Supreme Court Ruling |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/podcasts/the-daily/supreme-court-lgbtq.html |access-date=2022-08-29 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* In [[LGBTQ rights in Argentina|Argentina]], nonbinary [[ID card]]s with an "X" gender marker started to be issued by the [[Ministry of the Interior (Argentina)|Ministry of the Interior]].
* The [[United States Department of State|U.S State Department]] issued its first ever passport with an "X" gender marker in October 2021, intended to support nonbinary people.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Slevin |first1=Colleen |title=United States issues its 1st passport with 'X' gender marker |url=https://apnews.com/article/us-passports-x-gender-designation-2c29e18fc6566d549b9a06fda0857602 |website=Associated Press |date=27 October 2021 |access-date=2 December 2021}}</ref>
* Same-sex marriage became [[LGBTQ rights in Switzerland|legal]] in [[Switzerland]] after a [[2021 Swiss same-sex marriage referendum|2021 referendum]], enforced beginning in July 2022.
* In [[LGBTQ rights in Chile|Chile]], same-sex marriage and joint adoption by same-sex couples became legal on 10 March 2022.
* Same-sex marriage became [[LGBTQ rights in Slovenia|legal]] in [[Slovenia]] on 8 July 2022 after the [[Constitutional Court of Slovenia]] ruled that the ban on same-sex marriages violated the [[Constitution of Slovenia|national constitution]].
* Same-sex marriage became [[LGBTQ rights in Cuba|legal]] in [[Cuba]] on 27 September 2022 after the [[2022 Cuban Family Code referendum|Cuban Family Code referendum]] passed.
* By October 2022, Mexico City and all Mexican states had [[Same-sex marriage in Mexico|legalized same-sex marriage]], either by legislation, executive action, or Supreme Court order.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Digital |first=Milenio |date=2022-10-26 |title=Aprueban matrimonio igualitario en todo México |url=https://www.milenio.com/estados/aprueban-matrimonio-igualitario-en-todo-mexico |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Grupo Milenio |language=es-MX}}</ref>
* On 1 January 2024, [[Same-sex marriage in Estonia|same-sex marriage]] became legal in [[Estonia]].

==Global goals and issues==
Development in [[List of global issues|global goals and issues]]—including goals or progress related to the [[List of causes of death by rate|largest causes of human death]]—during the decade, according to reports that systematically track, quantify or review associated [[progress]].
;As of 2022
* Progress of the [[Paris Agreement]] or [[global issue|global]] [[climate change mitigation]] goals
** The United in Science 2022 report by the [[World Meteorological Organization|WMO]], [[Executive summary|summarizes]] latest climate science-related updates and assesses recent [[climate change mitigation]] [[progress]] as "going in the wrong direction".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dickie |first1=Gloria |author-link1=Gloria Dickie |title=Climate impacts heading to 'uncharted territories of destruction,' U.N. chief says |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/climate-impacts-heading-uncharted-territories-destruction-un-chief-2022-09-13/ |access-date=21 October 2022 |work=Reuters |date=13 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=United in Science 2022 |url=https://public-old.wmo.int/en/resources/united_in_science |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215221742/https://public-old.wmo.int/en/resources/united_in_science |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 December 2023 |website=public.wmo.int |access-date=21 October 2022 |date=19 September 2019}}</ref>
** A report by the [[World Resources Institute]] assesses the state of [[nationally determined contributions]] (NDCs), finding they need to be strengthened by about six times for alignment with what may be enough to reach the Paris Agreement's 1.5&nbsp;°C goal.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gardner |first1=Timothy |title='Massive gaps' seen in countries' plans to tackle climate change -study |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/massive-gaps-seen-countries-plans-tackle-climate-change-study-2022-10-19/ |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=Reuters |date=19 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Fransen |first1=Taryn |last2=Henderson |first2=Christopher |last3=O'Connor |first3=Ryan |last4=Alayza |first4=Natalia |last5=Caldwell |first5=Molly |last6=Chakrabarty |first6=Subrata |last7=Dixit |first7=Aarjan |last8=Finch |first8=Mario |last9=Kustar |first9=Anna |last10=Langer |first10=Paige |last11=Stolle |first11=Fred |last12=Walls |first12=Ginette |last13=Welle |first13=Ben |title=The State of Nationally Determined Contributions: 2022 |url=https://www.wri.org/research/state-nationally-determined-contributions-2022 |access-date=31 October 2022 |date=19 October 2022}}</ref> The [[UNFCCC]]'s NDC synthesis report suggests that based on the latest NDCs the [[carbon budget]] for a 50% likelihood of limiting warming to 1.5&nbsp;°C would be used up by around 2032.<ref name="nytpledges"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Frangoul |first1=Anmar |title=Emissions reductions pledges 'nowhere near' what's needed, UN says |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/26/emissions-reductions-pledges-nowhere-near-whats-needed-un-says-.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=CNBC}}</ref><ref name="cop27">{{cite news |last1=Dickie |first1=Gloria |author-link1=Gloria Dickie |title=COP27: World on track to increase emissions 10.6% by 2030 – UN report |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/cop27-world-track-increase-emissions-106-by-2030-un-report-2022-10-26/ |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=Reuters |date=26 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement. Synthesis report by the secretariat |url=https://unfccc.int/documents/619180 |website=unfccc.int |access-date=31 October 2022 |quote=In the context of the carbon budget consistent with 50 per cent likelihood of limiting warming to 1.5 °C (500 Gt CO2), cumulative CO2 emissions in 2020–2030 based on the latest NDCs would likely use up 86 per cent of the remaining carbon budget, leaving a post-2030 carbon budget of around 70 Gt CO2, which is equivalent to approximately two years of projected total global CO2 emissions by 2030.}}
* Report overview page: {{cite web |title=2022 NDC Synthesis Report |url=https://unfccc.int/ndc-synthesis-report-2022 |website=unfccc.int |access-date=31 October 2022}}</ref>
** A ''[[The Lancet|Lancet]] Countdown'' report publishes data of indicators that show "countries and companies continue to make choices that threaten the health and survival of people in every part of the world". It calls for an immediate, health-centred response at a critical juncture of recovery from crises.<ref name="nytpledges">{{cite news |last1=Bearak |first1=Max |title=Climate Pledges Are Falling Short, and a Chaotic Future Looks More Like Reality |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/climate/un-climate-pledges-warming.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=26 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Romanello |first1=Marina |last2=Napoli |first2=Claudia Di |last3=Drummond |first3=Paul |display-authors=et al. |title=The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels |journal=The Lancet |date=25 October 2022 |volume=400 |issue=10363 |pages=1619–1654 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01540-9 |pmid=36306815 |s2cid=253148997 |issn=0140-6736 |doi-access=free|pmc=7616806}}</ref>
** The [[WMO]] reports atmospheric levels of the three main [[greenhouse gas]]es, carbon dioxide, [[methane emissions|methane]] and [[nitrous oxide]], all reached record highs, with methane concentrations showing a record jump in 2021. The WMO Secretary-General concludes that "we are heading in the wrong direction", with time "running out".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Farge |first1=Emma |title=UN warns 'time is running out' as greenhouse gases surge |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/un-warns-time-is-running-out-greenhouse-gases-surge-2022-10-26/ |access-date=30 October 2022 |work=Reuters |date=27 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=More bad news for the planet: greenhouse gas levels hit new highs |url=https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/more-bad-news-planet-greenhouse-gas-levels-hit-new-highs |website=public.wmo.int |access-date=30 October 2022 |date=21 October 2022}}</ref>
** [[Climate Action Tracker]] systematically [[Climate change mitigation#Monitoring|assesses the state of progress of actions of climate goals]] in an overview, finding that none of the indicators is on track to reach their 2030 targets, with insufficient speed for six indicators, and well below the required pace for 21, five heading in the wrong direction, and data being insufficient to evaluate the remaining eight.<ref>{{cite news |title=Humanity 'nowhere near' goals to reduce emissions that cause Earth to warm, UN says |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/humanity-nowhere-near-goals-to-reduce-emissions-that-cause-earth-to-warm-un-says |access-date=30 October 2022 |work=PBS NewsHour |date=26 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Big gaps in plans to tackle climate change, researchers say |url=https://www.dw.com/en/big-gaps-in-plans-to-tackle-climate-change-researchers-say/a-63567040 |first=Roshni |last=Majumdar |access-date=30 October 2022 |work=Deutsche Welle}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=State of Climate Action 2022 |url=https://climateactiontracker.org/publications/state-of-climate-action-2022/ |publisher=climateactiontracker.org |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref>
** The [[UNEP]]'s Emissions Gap Report finds that no credible "pathway" to the 1.5&nbsp;°C climate goal is in place.<ref>{{cite news |title=Climate crisis: UN finds 'no credible pathway to 1.5C in place' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/climate-crisis-un-pathway-1-5-c |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=27 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kaplan |first1=Sarah |title=World falls 'pitifully short' of meeting climate goals, U.N. report says |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/27/emissions-climate-change-temperature-rise/ |access-date=31 October 2022 |newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Chestney |first1=Nina |title=Every fraction of a degree counts, UN says, as 2.8C warming looms |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/cop27-world-faces-28c-rise-after-woefully-inadequate-climate-pledges-un-says-2022-10-27/ |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=Reuters |date=27 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title="Emissions gap" putting world on course for climate "catastrophe," U.N. chief says |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emissions-gap-climate-catastrophe-un-chief/ |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=CBS News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Emissions Gap Report 2022 |url=https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2022 |website=UNEP – UN Environment Programme |access-date=31 October 2022 |date=21 October 2022}}</ref> Similarly, a [[UNFCCC]] synthesis about "long-term low-emission development strategies" warns that many net-zero targets "remain uncertain and postpone into the future critical action that needs to take place now".<ref>{{cite web |title=UNFCCC Reports Warn About 2.5°C Warming Amid "Glimmers of Hope" {{!}} News {{!}} SDG Knowledge Hub {{!}} IISD |url=https://sdg.iisd.org/news/unfccc-reports-warn-about-2-5c-warming-amid-glimmers-of-hope/ |publisher=IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub |access-date=31 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Long-term low-emission development strategies. Synthesis report by the secretariat |url=https://unfccc.int/documents/619179 |website=unfccc.int |access-date=31 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[Deforestation]] mitigation goals
** An annual report by the [[World Resources Institute]] shows that tropical regions lost 9.3 million acres of primary old-growth forest in 2021, a decline of 11% from 2020, and about equal to both 2018 and 2019.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fountain |first1=Henry |title=Deforestation Remains High, Despite International Pledges |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/climate/deforestation-tree-loss.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=28 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Latest Analysis on Global Forests & Tree Cover Loss {{!}} Global Forest Review |url=https://research.wri.org/gfr/latest-analysis-deforestation-trends |website=research.wri.org |access-date=31 October 2022}}</ref>
** The Forest Declaration Assessment finds that a drop of only 6.3% in deforestation in 2021 is "leaving the world off track from its goals of ending forest loss by 2030".<ref>{{cite news |title='Hollow commitments' mean world is not on track to halt deforestation |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/deforestation-targets-cop26-glasgow-amazon-rewilding-b2209261.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The Independent |date=24 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Plumer |first1=Brad |title=Countries Made Bold Climate Promises Last Year. How Are They Doing? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/climate/glasgow-climate-promises.html |access-date=14 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gilbert |first1=Natasha |title=Deforestation slowed last year — but not enough to meet climate goals |journal=Nature |date=24 October 2022 |volume=611 |issue=7934 |page=22 |doi=10.1038/d41586-022-03372-6 |pmid=36280741 |bibcode=2022Natur.611...22G |s2cid=253108445 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Forest Declaration Assessment: Are we on track for 2030? - Forest Declaration |url=https://forestdeclaration.org/resources/forest-declaration-assessment-2022/ |access-date=31 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[Public health]] goals
** The UN's "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World" report finds that the number of people affected by [[hunger]] globally rose by 46 million to 828 million in 2021. 3.1 billion people could not afford a [[healthy diet]] in 2020, an increase of 112 million from 2019.<ref>{{cite news |title=UN: 828 Million More People Faced Hunger in 2021 |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/un-828-million-more-people-faced-hunger-in-2021/6648012.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=VOA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=UN Report: Global hunger numbers rose to as many as 828 million in 2021 |url=https://www.who.int/news/item/06-07-2022-un-report--global-hunger-numbers-rose-to-as-many-as-828-million-in-2021 |website=who.int |access-date=31 October 2022}}</ref>
** A [[WHO]] report indicates collective progress toward a 15% relative reduction in population levels of physical inactivity by 2030 is insufficient and that about 500 million people will develop [[heart disease]], [[obesity]], [[diabetes]] or [[Non-communicable disease#Global health|other diseases]] if they don't increase their [[physical activity]].<ref>{{cite news |title=United Nations health agency warns world to get active — or risk developing serious illness |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/world-health-organization-report-physical-activity-heart-disease-obseity-diabetes-diseases-risk/ |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=CBS News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Global Status Report on Physical Activity 2022 |url=https://www.who.int/teams/health-promotion/physical-activity/global-status-report-on-physical-activity-2022 |website=who.int |access-date=31 October 2022}}</ref>
* Global [[budget]]s and [[government spending]]
** The [[OECD]] and [[International Energy Agency|IEA]] report that global public [[Fossil fuel subsidies|subsidies for fossil fuels]] almost doubled from 2020 to $700bn in 2021.<ref>{{cite news |title=Global fossil fuel subsidies almost doubled in 2021, analysis finds |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/31/fossil-fuel-subsidies-almost-doubled-in-2021-analysis-finds |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=31 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Support for fossil fuels almost doubled in 2021, slowing progress toward international climate goals, according to new analysis from OECD and IEA – OECD |url=https://www.oecd.org/newsroom/support-for-fossil-fuels-almost-doubled-in-2021-slowing-progress-toward-international-climate-goals-according-to-new-analysis-from-oecd-and-iea.htm |publisher=OECD |access-date=31 October 2022}}</ref>
* General [[well-being]]
** The [[Club of Rome]], authors of the 1972 ''[[The Limits to Growth]]'', and research institutes like the [[Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research]] publish the "Earth for All" report, concluding that to increase the wellbeing of [[humankind|humanity]], addressing rising inequality is key to mitigating related issues such as climate change with many current [[policy|policies]] disproportionately burdening lower income groups.<ref>{{cite news |title=Report says rich must pay bill to avert social collapse |url=https://apnews.com/article/berlin-economic-growth-climate-and-environment-4c54a637e0a2791f00576621b3c26e75 |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=[[AP News]] |date=31 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Increasingly dysfunctional society and climate crisis leading to 'cliff edge' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/uk-news/wealth-inequality-environmental-breakdown-dysfunctional-society-b2155736.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The Independent |date=30 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jessop |first1=Simon |last2=Dickie |first2=Gloria |author-link2=Gloria Dickie |title=Tackling inequality key to climate fight – study |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/tackling-inequality-key-climate-fight-study-2022-09-05/ |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=Reuters |date=5 September 2022}}</ref><ref name="COR_2022">{{cite web |title=Earth for all – A survival guide to humanity |date=2022 |publisher=[[The Club of Rome]] |url=https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/earth4all-book/ |access-date=2022-08-30 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220830203353/https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/earth4all-book/ |archive-date=2022-08-30}}</ref><ref name="EFA_2022">{{cite book |title=Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity |author-first1=Sandrine |author-last1=Dixson-Declève |author-link1=Sandrine Dixson-Declève |author-first2=Owen |author-last2=Gaffney |author-link2= |author-first3=Jayati |author-last3=Ghosh |author-link3=Jayati Ghosh |author-first4=Jørgen |author-last4=Randers |author-link4=Jørgen Randers |author-first5=Johan |author-last5=Rockström |author-link5=Johan Rockström |author-first6=Per |author-last6=Espen Stocknes |author-link6=Per Espen Stoknes |date=2022-09-22 |publisher=[[New Society Publishers]] |isbn=978-0-86571986-6 |id={{ISBN|0-86571986-1}} |url=https://www.earth4all.life/book |access-date=2022-08-30 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220830202446/https://www.earth4all.life/book |archive-date=2022-08-30}} (208 pages)</ref>
* [[Sustainable Development Goals]] (other than the above or in general)
** The only UN report that monitors global progress on the [[2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development]] indicates the agenda is in "grave danger".<ref>{{cite news |title=UN: Global Disasters Put Sustainable Development Goals Out of Reach |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/un-global-disasters-put-sustainable-development-goals-out-of-reach/6652642.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=VOA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 |url=https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2022/ |website=unstats.un.org |access-date=31 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[Gross domestic product|GDP]]-alternative [[progress]] or [[sustainable development]] indices
** [[Human Development Index]] (HDI): the Human Development Report 2021-22 concludes that for the first time, the global HDI value declined for a second year, with [[living standard]]s declining in 90% of countries.<ref>{{cite news |title=Crises Halt Progress in Human Development: UN Report |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/crises-halt-progress-in-human-development-un-report-/6736079.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=VOA}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Living standards declining in 90% of countries — UN – DW – 09/08/2022 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/un-index-shows-living-standards-declining-in-90-of-countries/a-63052023 |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=Deutsche Welle}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Human Development Report 2021-22 |url=https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2021-22 |publisher=United Nations |access-date=31 October 2022 |date=8 September 2022}}</ref>

==Popular culture==
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File:PS5Digitalprerefined.jpg|The [[ninth generation of video game consoles]], like [[PlayStation 5]] (pictured) and [[Xbox Series X]], were both released in 2020. Games for PlayStation 5 such as ''[[EA Sports FC 24|FC 24]]'', ''[[The Matrix Awakens]]'', and ''[[Overwatch 2]]'' used HyperMotion and [[Unreal Engine 5]] to display more realistic graphics. ''[[Grand Theft Auto VI]]'' is planned for release on ninth generation consoles in 2026.
File:TikTok exhibition stand at Gamescom 2022 in Cologne, Germany (52760217055).jpg|The video-sharing site [[TikTok]] became a major influence on pop culture and the music industry in the early 2020s. Short-form videos have increased in viewership through [[TikTok]], [[Instagram#Reels|Instagram Reels]], [[Facebook Reels]] and [[YouTube Shorts]] during the decade. [[TikTok]] is under an [[Restrictions on TikTok in the United States|unenforced ban]] in the United States in 2025, due to national security concerns.
File:Karine Jean-Pierre is joined by the cast of Ted Lasso for a press briefing (52834074267).jpg|During COVID-19 and the [[Streaming media#Streaming wars|streaming wars]], multiple TV shows and films released on [[Streaming media|internet streaming services]] instead of theaters. ''[[Squid Game]]'' was a global success as a result of the streaming wars that began in the early 2020s, involving many new streaming services. Services such as [[Apple TV+]], [[HBO Max]], and [[Paramount+]] were popular. Pictured above is the cast of Apple TV+'s ''Ted Lasso''.
File:Airpods and Airpods Pro being displayed in electronics retail store.jpg|[[AirPods]] have dominated the wireless headphone market in the early 2020s. Pictured are the base and "Pro" model of AirPods respectively. AirPods allow users to be several feet away from their device via [[Bluetooth]], a technology not seen in wired earbuds of previous decades.
File:ALTer EGO 1 18 2020 (50740816801).jpg|Flashy multi-colored clothing became a trend in the early 2020s, as did baggier clothing such as hoodies, modeled here by musician [[Billie Eilish]]. The 2020s revived and built upon [[2000s in fashion#Y2K fashion|Y2K fashion]] trends.
File:Food delivery robots in Espoo.jpg|In the 2020s, multiple online food delivery services such as [[DoorDash]], [[Uber Eats]], [[Postmates]], [[Grubhub]], and [[Just Eat Takeaway]] became popular, becoming popular during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Food [[delivery robot]]s also became popular in the 2020s and were finally to the point they could be used to deliver food around larger areas such as college [[campus]]es.
File:The Weeknd Portrait by Brian Ziff.jpg|Canadian singer [[the Weeknd]] was the first artist of the decade to achieve a [[List of Billboard Year-End number-one singles and albums|''Billboard'' number-one single of the year]] (for the year 2020) with his hit single "[[Blinding Lights]]", which was also performed during the [[Super Bowl LV]] in 2021.
File:President Joe Biden and Olivia Rodrigo.jpg|[[Olivia Rodrigo]] released singles like "[[Deja Vu (Olivia Rodrigo song)|Deja Vu]]" and "[[Good 4 U]]", and her debut studio album, ''[[Sour (album)|Sour]]'', in 2021. ''Sour'' was met with critical and commercial success, winning various accolades including three [[Grammy Awards]].
File:Crypto.com arena drone shot early 2023.jpg|The use of [[cryptocurrency]] became more mainstream in the 2020s, Crypto such as [[Bitcoin]] and others were notable. The Staples Center was even renamed [[Crypto.com Arena]] in 2021. [[Non-fungible token|NFTs]] as a form of digital art emerged in the 2020s, with NFTs such as ''[[Everydays: the First 5000 Days]]''.
File:Galaxy Z series.jpg|[[5G]] was introduced in smartphones during the early part of the decade, with the [[Samsung Galaxy Flip]] and [[iPhone 12]] smartphones having 5G capabilities. [[Foldable smartphone]]s also became more popular, although concern grew about the durability of foldable smartphones, as some foldable smartphones have become crinkled / will crease over time. As well, some foldable smartphones break more easily.
File:Chatgpt-screenshot.png|Advancements in [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] have been rapid and fast-paced in the 2020s. [[Generative artificial intelligence|Generative AI]]s have become mainstream during the decade, with [[synthetic media]] in the form of [[Text-to-image model]]s, [[DeepSeek]], [[ChatGPT]], and [[Audio deepfake]]s. AI techniques have now been used in music, including the Beatles' last song "[[Now and Then (Beatles song)|Now and Then]]" (2023). Additionally, AI has been used for video creation, such as with [[Sora (text-to-video model)|Sora]].
File:Ambassador Burns speaks to a woman in front of a robot.jpg|The [[Fourth Industrial Revolution]] in the 2020s is referred to as industrial change with emerging technologies such as [[artificial intelligence|AI]], [[CRISPR gene editing|gene editing]], and [[Robotics|advanced robotics]] that blur the lines between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. Automation also continues to take over human jobs. Above is a photo of a [[Tesla Bot]], which [[Tesla, Inc.]] hopes to begin selling by 2027.
File:Seattle - Lime Bike - 01.jpg|[[Renewable energy]] sources such as [[electric vehicle]]s as well as solar- and wind-powered devices to combat [[global warming]] became popular during the 2020s. [[Scooter-sharing system]]s have become common in the street scene of the 2020s (especially in downtown areas), with [[Lime (transportation company)|Lime]] becoming popular.
File:French Hill hosts AR teachers on zoom call.jpg|The early 2020s started with a rise in [[videoconferencing]] due to the pandemic, while many educational institutions and workplaces shifted to [[distance education|distance learning]] and [[remote work]] during and after the pandemic. Large-scale video conferencing became a reality and more common during the 2020s.
File:Cosplay of Tanjiro Kamado and Nezuko Kamado from Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba at FanimeCon 2023 (53056120458).jpg|Popular Japanese media franchises such as ''[[Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba]]'', ''[[Chainsaw Man]]'', ''[[Jujutsu Kaisen]]'', ''[[Oshi no Ko]]'', ''[[Frieren]]'', ''[[Attack on Titan]]'', ''[[Spy × Family]]'', ''[[Dr. Stone]]'', ''[[One Piece]]'', ''[[Umamusume: Pretty Derby|Umamusume]]'', ''[[Blue Lock]]'', and ''[[Mashle]]'' reaching large international audiences and fans used for crossover works during the [[Reiwa era]].
File:空から見た大阪・関西万博2025.jpg|The decade saw the rise of eco-friendly wooden architecture, such as the [[Grand Ring]] by [[Sou Fujimoto]] as the symbol of the famous [[Expo 2025]] held between April and October 2025 in [[Osaka]]. 
File:Épreuve Athlétisme Jeux Olympiques 2024 Stade France - Saint-Denis (FR93) - 2024-08-02 - 138.jpg|[[Summer Olympic Games]] of the 2020s include [[2024 Summer Olympics|Paris in 2024]] and [[2028 Summer Olympics|Los Angeles in 2028]], as well as [[2020 Summer Olympics|Tokyo 2020 in 2021]] (the first ever Olympic games to be delayed, taking place in 2021 instead of 2020). [[Winter Olympic Games]] of the decade included the [[Concerns and controversies at the 2022 Winter Olympics|controversial]] [[2022 Winter Olympics|Beijing in 2022]], as well as [[2026 Winter Olympics|Milan-Cortina in 2026]].
File:Super Nintendo World (Universal Studios Japan).png|The 2020s was a more profitable era for movies based on video games. ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' released in 2023 and surpassed $1 billion, and Nintendo plans to open a group of international theme parks called [[Super Nintendo World]] and a Nintendo Museum between 2021 and 2025.
File:AR- Apple Vision Pro (2023).png|[[Apple Vision Pro]], which was released in 2024, marks an advancement in spatial computing and [[mixed reality]] headsets. The device intends to merge physical and digital environments, overlaying computer graphics on each individual user's real-world environments.
File:Monkey in the Matrix (52536941713).jpg|During the 2020s, the idea of [[brain implant]]s existed in an early, limited form. The company [[Neuralink]] and a research group demonstrated the ability for a monkey to move a computer cursor with neural signals, typing coherent sentences.
File:Cloud Logo.png|[[Cloud computing]] has surged in popularity following and during the global pandemic of 2020. Cloud computing allows for data to be stored in [[data center]]s and looked up on any device, rather than the photos, notes, etc. of a device being restricted to just that device.
File:Sustainable Development Goals.svg|The [[Sustainable Development Goals]] promote seventeen interlinked objectives designed to serve as a "shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future". Pictured above is a diagram listing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which are intended to be completed by the end of the 2020s.
File:Meta Headquarters Sign.jpg|Social media rebranding occurred during the 2020s, with Facebook, Inc. and Twitter changing their names to [[Meta Platforms]] and [[Twitter|X]] (though many people continue to call it Twitter). New social platforms such as [[Threads (social network)|Threads]] and [[Bluesky]] also launched.
File:The White House - 54437612258.jpg|Japanese baseball player [[Shohei Otani]] became one of the most popular sports figures during the decade, following the victory of the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] at the [[2024 World Series]].
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===Fashion===
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The fashion of the early 2020s was characterized by a variety of styles and influences from different eras. During this period, the trend towards individuality and self-expression in clothing continued. [[Zillennials|Young millennials]] and [[Generation Z]] has witnessed and enjoyed a notable resurgence of fashion styles from the [[1980s in fashion|1980s]], [[1990s in fashion|1990s]], and [[2000s in fashion|2000s]] in the fashion industry. A prominent example of this is the revival of trends such as [[crop tops]], [[baggy jeans]], and elements from the [[2000s in fashion#Y2K fashion|Y2K]] aesthetic.<ref name="YPulse Bringing Back">{{cite web |title=Gen Z Is Bringing the 2000s Back...Here's How Brands Can Keep Up |url=https://www.ypulse.com/article/2020/02/18/gen-z-is-bringing-the-2000s-back-heres-how-brands-can-keep-up/ |publisher=YPulse |date=18 February 2020 |access-date=25 September 2020 |archive-date=26 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926131858/https://www.ypulse.com/article/2020/02/18/gen-z-is-bringing-the-2000s-back-heres-how-brands-can-keep-up/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=9 Trends From The 2000s That Are Surprisingly Back In Style |work=InStyle |url=https://www.instylemag.com.au/2000s-fashion-trends-back-in-style |editor-first=Diandra |editor-last=Malivindi |publisher=[[InStyle]] |date=27 May 2020 |access-date=25 September 2020 |archive-date=26 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926131900/https://www.instylemag.com.au/2000s-fashion-trends-back-in-style |url-status=live}}</ref>

Sustainable fashion practices gained significance, with an increased awareness of environmentally friendly materials and production processes. Influences from [[social media]] culture were also unmistakable, as influencers and celebrities exerted a strong influence on fashion trends. The popularity of online platforms like [[Instagram]] and [[TikTok]] contributed to the rapid spread of trends, while simultaneously allowing niche styles and subcultures to flourish.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2603275 |title=The Impact of Social Media on Fashion Industry: Empirical Investigation from Karachiites |first1=Nawaz |last1=Ahmad |first2=Atif |last2=Salman |first3=Rubab |last3=Ashiq |date=April 30, 2015 |ssrn=2603275 |via=papers.ssrn.com}}</ref>

===Film===
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[[File:Avatar The Way of Water Tokyo Press Conference Jon Landau, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver & Stephen Lang (52562966421).jpg|thumb|The highest-grossing films of the decade so far are [[James Cameron]]'s ''[[Avatar: The Way of Water]]'' and [[Jiaozi (director)|Jiaozi]]'s ''[[Ne Zha 2]]''.<ref name="BOM">{{Cite Box Office Mojo |id=1630029 |title=Avatar: The Way of Water |access-date=January 29, 2023}}</ref>]]

The [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema|COVID-19 pandemic heavily impacted film releases]] especially early in the decade, resulting in a drastic drop in box office revenue as well as many films postponing their release or shifting it to a [[Streaming media|streaming service]]s. ''[[Avatar: The Way of Water]]'' is the highest-grossing film of the decade so far, and currently the [[List of highest-grossing films|third-highest-grossing film of all time]]. Other financially successful films at the box office include ''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]'', ''[[Dune (2021 film)|Dune]]'' and its sequel ''[[Dune: Part Two]]'', and ''[[Wicked (2024 film)|Wicked]]''. Superhero films mostly continued to do well financially, such as most successes from the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]], continuing with its "[[List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films#The Multiverse Saga|Multiverse Saga]]" (accompanied with a series of [[List of Marvel Cinematic Universe television series#Marvel Studios series|shows]] and [[Marvel Studios Special Presentations|specials]] created exclusively on [[Disney+]] which interconnect with the films). Several successful horror films included ''[[M3GAN]]'', the [[X (film series)|''X'' trilogy]], ''[[Barbarian (2022 film)|Barbarian]]'', and ''[[Sinners (2025 film)|Sinners]]''.

In 2023, the films ''[[Barbie (film)|Barbie]]'' and ''[[Oppenheimer (film)|Oppenheimer]]'' were both released on the same day, which led to the creation of the double feature phenomenon known as "[[Barbenheimer]]". Both films became critically and commercially successful with both receiving a nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] at the [[96th Academy Awards]], and the latter winning both the award and nabbing [[Christopher Nolan]]'s first [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] award.

Critically successful films nominated for awards include ''[[Nomadland]]'', ''[[CODA (2021 film)|CODA]]'', ''[[Everything Everywhere All at Once]]'', ''[[Hundreds of Beavers]]'', ''[[Licorice Pizza]]'', ''[[The Fabelmans]]'', ''[[Killers of the Flower Moon (film)|Killers of the Flower Moon]]'', ''[[Past Lives (film)|Past Lives]]'', ''[[Elvis (2022 film)|Elvis]]'', ''[[Belfast (film)|Belfast]]'', ''[[The Power of the Dog (film)|The Power of the Dog]]'', ''[[Poor Things (film)|Poor Things]]'', ''[[Anora]]'', ''[[The Substance]]'', ''[[RRR]]'', ''[[Better Man (film)|Better Man]]'', ''[[The Brutalist]]'', ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]'', ''[[A Complete Unknown]]'', and ''[[Anatomy of a Fall]]''.

Critically successful animated films include ''[[Wolfwalkers]]'', ''[[Encanto]]'', ''[[Puss in Boots: The Last Wish]]'', ''[[Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse]]'', ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem]]'', ''[[Inside Out 2]]'', ''[[Ne Zha 2]]'', ''[[Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl]]'', ''[[The Boy and the Heron]]'', ''[[Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train]]'', ''[[Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle]]'', ''[[Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio]]'', ''[[Nimona (film)|Nimona]]'', ''[[The Mitchells vs. The Machines]]'', ''[[Luca (2021 film)|Luca]]'', ''[[Once Upon a Studio]]'', ''[[KPop Demon Hunters]]'', ''[[The Wild Robot]]'', ''[[Robot Dreams (film)|Robot Dreams]]'', ''[[The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (film)|The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse]]'', ''[[Memoir of a Snail]]'', ''[[Flow (2024 film)|Flow]]'', ''[[Suzume]]'', ''[[Scarlet (2025 film)|Scarlet]]'', ''[[Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc]]'', ''[[Flee (film)|Flee]]'', ''[[Jumbo (2025 film)|Jumbo]]'' and ''[[Chicken for Linda!]]''.

2025 became the year of [[List of highest-grossing animated films|highest-grossing animated films]] in Asia, such as ''[[Ne Zha 2]]'' and ''[[Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle]]'' to gross $3 billion in a successful box office of the year, [[Cinema of Japan|Japanese anime films]] became dominant for 15 years since ''[[Arrietty]]'' (2010).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tartaglione |first=Nancy |date=2025-03-16 |title='Ne Zha 2' Overtakes 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' To Become No. 5 Highest-Grossing Movie Ever WW – International Box Office |url=https://deadline.com/2025/03/ne-zha-2-top-five-highest-grossing-movies-global-box-office-1236327814/ |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=Deadline}}</ref><ref name="auto2">{{Cite web |last=Harding |first=Daryl |date=September 24, 2025 |title=Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Becomes Highest-Grossing Anime Film Worldwide |url=https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2025/9/23/demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-infinity-castle-highest-grossing-anime-film-worldwide |access-date=2025-09-28 |website=[[Crunchyroll News]]}}</ref><ref name="auto2"/>

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===Television===<!--Avoid favoritism by not mentioning specific TV shows. Keep in mind that this subsection is merely a summary and not an advertising a television show or place to list your favorite television shows. This is mostly for long-term, observed trends and styles.-->
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The 2020s started off with [[streaming services]] like [[Netflix]], [[Amazon Prime Video]], [[Apple TV+]], [[Paramount+]], [[HBO Max]], [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]], [[Crunchyroll]], [[Hayu (streaming service)|Hayu]], [[Peacock (streaming service)|Peacock]], [[DAZN]], and [[Disney+]]. Ad-supported [[streaming television]]s such as [[Pluto TV]] and [[YouTube TV]] also became more popular.

During a live broadcast of the [[94th Academy Awards]] in 2022, audiences across the auditorium and at home watched in shock as actor and musician [[Will Smith]], who was nominated for, and won, [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] that evening for his performance in the biographical film ''[[King Richard (film)|King Richard]]'', [[Chris Rock–Will Smith slapping incident|slapped]] comedian and actor [[Chris Rock]], who was presenting [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature|Best Documentary Feature]], across the face after making a joke about Smith's wife [[Jada Pinkett Smith]]. Following that ceremony's incident, after receiving his Oscar, Smith was suspended from the academy for ten years.

Billions of people watched the [[death and state funeral of Elizabeth II]] in 2022 and the [[2024 Summer Olympics]] coverage in [[Paris]] speculated to be the most watched special television events in history.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62966616 |title=The Queen's funeral watched by 28 million viewers in UK |work=BBC News |date=20 September 2022 |access-date=20 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://olympics.com/ioc/news/around-5-billion-people-84-per-cent-of-the-potential-global-audience-followed-the-olympic-games-paris-2024 |title=Around 5 billion people - 84 per cent of the potential global audience - followed the Olympic Games Paris 2024 |work=IOC Media |date=5 December 2024 |access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref>

==== Animated ====
Japanese [[anime]] continued to rise in global popularity and appeal during the decade,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60865649|title=Anime: How Japanese animation has taken the West by storm|website=[[BBC News]]|date=26 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbesmiddleeast.com/consumer/entertainment/the-rise-of-anime-what-is-the-secret-to-its-skyrocketing-success |title=The Rise Of Anime: What Is The Secret To Its Skyrocketing Success? |website=[[Forbes|Forbes Middle East]] |date=28 April 2024}}</ref> with works such as ''[[Jujutsu Kaisen (TV series)|Jujutsu Kaisen]]'', ''[[Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)|Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba]]'', ''[[Chainsaw Man (TV series)|Chainsaw Man]]'', ''[[Spy × Family (TV series)|Spy × Family]]'', ''[[Cyberpunk: Edgerunners]]'', ''[[Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku]]'', ''[[Oshi no Ko]]'', ''[[Baki the Grappler|Baki]]'', ''[[Delicious in Dungeon]]'', ''[[Frieren]]'', ''[[Dandadan]]'', ''[[Solo Leveling]]'', ''[[Tokyo Revengers]]'', ''[[Suzume]]'', ''[[The Boy and the Heron]]'', ''[[Vinland Saga (TV series)|Vinland Saga]]'', ''[[Witch Watch]]'', ''[[Kaiju No. 8]]'', ''[[Gachiakuta]]'', ''[[Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War]]'', ''[[Sakamoto Days]]'', ''[[Attack on Titan (TV series)|Attack on Titan]]'', ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (TV series)|Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' and ''[[One Piece (1999 TV series)|One Piece]]'' reaching large international audiences.

New and critically acclaimed teen and adult animated shows like ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'', ''[[Hazbin Hotel]]'', ''[[Primal (TV series)|Primal]]'', ''[[Love, Death & Robots]]'', ''[[Blood of Zeus]]'', ''[[Invincible (TV series)|Invincible]]'', ''[[Arcane (TV series)|Arcane]]'', ''[[Devil May Cry (TV series)|Devil May Cry]]'', and ''[[Smiling Friends]]'' launched in the 2020s, along with other animated shows such as ''[[Hilda (TV series)|Hilda]]'', ''[[Bluey (TV series)|Bluey]]'', ''[[The Owl House]]'', ''[[Kiff (TV series)|Kiff]]'', ''[[X-Men '97]]'', ''[[Amphibia (TV series)|Amphibia]]'', and ''[[Star Wars: Visions]]'' .<ref>{{Cite web |title=10 Best Animated TV Shows Since 2020, Ranked |url=https://www.cbr.com/best-animated-tv-shows-2020s/ |date=21 August 2024 |access-date=23 August 2024 |website=CBR |archive-date=23 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240823003413/https://www.cbr.com/best-animated-tv-shows-2020s/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Live-action ====
A variety of shows on streaming services such as ''[[Squid Game]]'', ''[[Severance (TV series)|Severance]]'', ''[[Never Have I Ever (TV series)|Never Have I Ever]]'', ''[[Tulsa King]]'', ''[[Ted Lasso]]'', ''[[Beef (TV series)|Beef]]'', ''[[The Boys (TV series)|The Boys]]'', ''[[Extraordinary Attorney Woo]]'', ''[[Only Murders in the Building]]'', ''[[Wednesday (TV series)|Wednesday]]'', ''[[The Sex Lives of College Girls]]'', ''[[Euphoria (American TV series)|Euphoria]]'', ''[[Abbott Elementary]]'', ''[[The Bear (TV series)|The Bear]]'', ''[[The Pitt]]'', ''[[Shōgun (2024 TV series)|Shōgun]]'', ''[[The Witcher (TV series)|The Witcher]]'', ''[[The White Lotus]]'', ''[[Alice in Borderland (TV series)|Alice in Borderland]]'', ''[[Hacks (TV series)|Hacks]]'', ''[[The Diplomat (American TV series)|The Diplomat]]'', ''[[Yellowstone (American TV series)|Yellowstone]]'', ''[[The Last of Us (TV series)|The Last of Us]]'', ''[[Succession (TV series)|Succession]]'', and ''[[Tiger King]]'' gained popularity. Many different shows on many different competing streaming services resulted in what has been called the "streaming wars" of the early 2020s. Miniseries also gained popularity such as ''[[The Queen's Gambit (miniseries)|The Queen's Gambit]]'', ''[[Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story]]'', ''[[Daisy Jones & the Six]]'', ''[[Beef (TV series)|Beef]]'', ''[[Mr Bates vs The Post Office]]'', ''[[Mrs. America (miniseries)|Mrs. America]]'', ''[[Mare of Easttown]]'', and ''[[Pam & Tommy]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 10 Best TV Dramas of the 2020s So Far, Ranked |url=https://collider.com/best-drama-shows-2020s-ranked/ |date=17 January 2025 |access-date=15 February 2025 |website=Collider |archive-date=15 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250215021527/https://collider.com/best-drama-shows-2020s-ranked/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Also released in the 2020s, the reality game show ''[[The Traitors]]'' achieved popularity and became a global success.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McIntosh |first=Steven |date=22 December 2022 |title=The Traitors: Why viewers became so loyal to the BBC reality series |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63970819 |access-date=22 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/02/the-traitors-us-bbc-three-ratings-peacock-alan-cumming-1235248791/|title='The Traitors' U.S. Premiere Becomes Most-Watched BBC Three Show Since Linear Relaunch|work=[[Deadline (website)|Deadline]]|first=Max|last=Goldbart|date=February 3, 2023|access-date=December 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520024205/https://deadline.com/2023/02/the-traitors-us-bbc-three-ratings-peacock-alan-cumming-1235248791/|archive-date=May 20, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>

Several TV shows based on films include ''[[American Gigolo (TV series)|American Gigolo]]'', ''[[The Penguin (TV series)|The Penguin]]'', [[List of Star Wars television series|live-action ''Star Wars'' series]] (such as ''[[The Mandalorian]]'', ''[[Star Wars: Ahsoka|Ahsoka]]'', and ''[[Andor (TV series)|Andor]]''), ''[[Peacemaker (TV series)|Peacemaker]]'', ''[[Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024 TV series)|Mr. & Mrs. Smith]]'', and ''[[Ted (TV series)|Ted]]''.
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By 2020, [[TikTok]], an [[Online video platform|online video service]], had become extremely popular as a music platform on social media.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/2020-04-22-tiktik-music-viral-drake-toosie-slide-roddy-ricch-old-town-road-24068571.html |title=How TikTok became 2020's most important music platform — from 'Old Town Road' to 'Toosie Slide' |website=Yahoo |date=2020-04-22 |access-date=2021-01-20}}</ref> Users on streaming platforms such as [[Spotify]], [[YouTube Music]], [[Deezer]], [[Amazon Music]], and [[Apple Music]] have increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Festivals such as [[Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival|Coachella]] were cancelled because of the virus. The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the touring business.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-07-09/music-business-streaming-covid-pandemic-nielsen-midyear-report |title=How the music business is faring amid the COVID-19 pandemic |last=Wood |first=Mikael |date=9 July 2020 |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2021-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2020/10/30/youtube-music-subscribers-2020/ |title=YouTube Says It Has 30 Million Premium and Music Subscribers |website=Digital Music News |first=Ashley |last=King |date=2020-10-30 |access-date=2020-10-30}}</ref>

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[[Pop music|Pop]], [[hip-hop]], [[rock music]] including [[pop punk]] and [[shoegaze]], [[Eurodance]], [[indie music|indies]], [[K-pop]], [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Dance Music Waited Until 2020, of All Years, to Get Its Mojo Back |url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/best-dance-disco-songs-2020.html |editor-first=Justin |editor-last=Curto |website=[[Vulture Magazine]] |date=22 December 2020}}</ref> [[Trance music|trance]], and [[synth-pop]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Holden |first=Steve |title=How Dua Lipa and The Weeknd are bringing the 80s back... again |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-52109397 |newspaper=[[BBC News]] |date=1 April 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408020836/https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-52109397 |archive-date=8 April 2020}}</ref> all dominated the early part of the decade, with the most popular artists being [[Ariana Grande]], [[Lizzo]], [[Drake (musician)|Drake]], [[Kendrick Lamar]], [[Nicki Minaj]], [[Dua Lipa]], [[Ice Spice]], [[Charli XCX]], [[the Weeknd]], [[Justin Bieber]], [[Taylor Swift]], [[Chappell Roan]], [[Doja Cat]], [[Olivia Rodrigo]], [[Billie Eilish]], [[Playboi Carti]], [[Morgan Wallen]], [[Beyoncé]], [[Sabrina Carpenter]], and more.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/artist-100 |title=Artist 100 Chart |magazine=Billboard |date=10 July 2014}}</ref> The early 20s also saw the one-off return of [[the Beatles]] and [[the Rolling Stones]] with a new [[Now and Then (Beatles song)|song]] and [[Hackney Diamonds|album]], respectively, which topped out the charts immediately upon release.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Hiatt |first=Brian |date=2023-11-13 |title=New Beatles, New Stones &ndash; Wait, What Year Is It? |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/new-beatles-new-rolling-stones-hackney-diamonds-now-and-then-1234876194/ |access-date=29 January 2024 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> 2022 saw a revival in [[Kate Bush]]'s song, "[[Running Up That Hill]]", due to its appearance in the [[Netflix]] series ''[[Stranger Things]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" re-enters Billboard Hot 100 at No. 8 |url=https://www.thefader.com/2022/06/06/kate-bush-running-up-that-hill-billboard-hot-100 |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=The FADER}}</ref> Starting around 2023, [[country music]] has seen a rise in popularity with artists such as [[Luke Combs]] and [[Morgan Wallen]] topping the charts along with artists such as [[Beyoncé]] and [[Post Malone]] releasing country albums. <!--'''Most popular'''
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===Video games===
{{Main|2020s in video games}}

The [[History of video game consoles#Ninth generation (2020–present)|ninth generation]] of consoles began in 2020. The industry remains dominated by [[Nintendo]], [[Sony]], and [[Microsoft]] with the release of the [[Xbox Series X/S]] and the [[PlayStation 5]], while the [[Nintendo Switch]] continues to be popular from the previous decade. Technological advancements in consoles included support for real-time [[Ray tracing (graphics)|ray tracing graphics]] and output for [[4K resolution|4K]] or even [[8K resolution]]. Physical media continued to be replaced by online distribution of games, with the Xbox Series S and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition lacking an optical drive.<ref name="Queen"/> The [[Steam Deck]] was released in 2022 as [[Valve Corporation|Valve]]'s attempt to bring [[Personal computer|PC]]-level gaming to a Nintendo Switch-style handheld format.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bailey |first=Kat |date=July 23, 2021 |title=Steam Deck: Valve Says It Never Really Compared Its Handheld to Switch |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-switch-comparison-gabe-newell-valve |access-date=July 23, 2021 |website=[[IGN]] |archive-date=July 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726130439/https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-switch-comparison-gabe-newell-valve |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Marks |first=Tom |date=July 19, 2021 |title=Steam Deck: How SteamOS Bridges the Gap Between Console and PC |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-os-ui-system-software-bridges-the-gap-between-console-and-pc |access-date=July 19, 2021 |website=[[IGN]] |archive-date=June 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230619081833/https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-os-ui-system-software-bridges-the-gap-between-console-and-pc |url-status=live}}</ref>

During the decade [[PC game|PC gaming]] would continue growing rapidly with the console gaming market remaining more stagnant.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/new-report-says-pc-games-are-outselling-console-games-calling-pc-gaming-a-bright-spot-in-a-troubled-industry/|title=New report says PC games are outselling console games, calling PC gaming a 'bright spot' in a troubled industry|website=[[PC Gamer]]|date=16 January 2025}}</ref> The growing majority of video game developers would also primarily focus on developing their projects for PC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/pc-development-has-skyrocketed-gdc-survey-finds-80-percent-of-developers-are-now-making-games-for-pc-more-than-double-the-number-working-on-ps5-or-xbox-games/|title='PC development has skyrocketed,' GDC survey finds: 80% of developers are now making games for PC, more than double the number working on PS5 or Xbox games|website=[[PC Gamer]]|date=22 January 2025}}</ref> [[Mobile gaming]] remained the largest sector of the video game industry during the decade, accounting for roughly half of the industry's revenue.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.globaldata.com/store/report/mobile-gaming-theme-analysis/|title=Mobile Gaming Thematic Intelligence Report Overview|website=[[GlobalData]]|date=6 March 2024}}</ref>

Critically successful games such as ''[[Elden Ring]]'', ''[[Ghost of Tsushima]]'', ''[[God of War Ragnarök]]'', ''[[Baldur's Gate 3]]'', ''[[Black Myth: Wukong]]'', ''[[Astro Bot]]'', ''[[Cyberpunk 2077]]'' and ''[[The Last of Us Part II]]'' were released and won multiple [[List of Game of the Year awards|best game of the year awards]], signaling a shift towards narrative-driven and [[Single-player video game|single-played]] focused gaming compared with the end of the [[2010s in video games|2010s]] where popularity of [[multiplayer gaming]] dominated.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 2022 |title=EA criticised for appearing to mock people who 'only like single-player games' |url=https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ea-criticised-for-appearing-to-mock-people-who-only-like-single-play-games/}}</ref> Nonetheless, widely successful multiplayer games includes ''[[Among Us]]'', ''[[EA Sports FC]]'', ''[[Call of Duty: Warzone]]'', ''[[Fall Guys]]'', ''[[Fate/Grand Order]]'', ''[[Fortnite]]'', ''[[Genshin Impact]]'', ''[[Honkai: Star Rail]]'', ''[[It Takes Two (video game)|It Takes Two]]'', ''[[Counter-Strike 2]]'', ''[[Umamusume: Pretty Derby]]'', ''[[Minecraft]]'', ''[[Roblox]]'', ''[[Dead by Daylight]]'', ''[[Overwatch 2]]'', ''[[League of Legends]]'', and ''[[Valorant]]'' surged in popularity in the decade and became a global sensation since the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name="unity" />

===Architecture===
{{Further|Category:2020s architecture}}
There is a revival in [[expressionist architecture]]. The [[SoFi Stadium]] and [[Intuit Dome]] were completed in September 2020 and August 2024, there are a component of [[Hollywood Park Racetrack|Hollywood Park]], a master-planned neighborhood in development in [[Inglewood, California]]. The venue serves as a home to the [[Los Angeles Clippers]], the [[Los Angeles Rams|Rams]], and the [[Los Angeles Chargers|Chargers]]. Both they hosted the [[Super Bowl LVI]] in February 2022, the [[2026 NBA All-Star Game]] in February 2026, and the [[2026 FIFA World Cup]] in June 2026.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/future-super-bowl-locations-2021-2022-2023-and-beyond |title=Future Super Bowl locations detailed |website=RSN |access-date=1 April 2021 |archive-date=1 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401061224/https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/future-super-bowl-locations-2021-2022-2023-and-beyond |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 16, 2024 |title=Los Angeles and LA Clippers to host NBA All-Star 2026 |url=https://www.nba.com/news/2026-nba-all-star-weekend-los-angeles-official-release |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116202807/https://www.nba.com/news/2026-nba-all-star-weekend-los-angeles-official-release |archive-date=January 16, 2024 |access-date=January 16, 2024 |website=[[NBA.com]]}}</ref> The stadium and arena is also set to host the opening and closing ceremonies, aquatic events (swimming and diving), and basketball events for the [[2028 Summer Olympics]], which will be hosted in [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, California]], United States.<ref>{{Cite news |title=2028 Stadium |url=https://la28.org/en/games-plan/venues/2028-stadium.html |access-date=July 23, 2025 |work=LA28.org |publisher=[[Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games]] |archive-date=July 25, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250725023941/https://la28.org/en/games-plan/venues/2028-stadium.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

The developments in [[Port Melbourne]], [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]] of the [[West Gate Tunnel]] continued from 2020, which is designed to provide an alternative to the [[West Gate Bridge]], it is expected to be completed in 2025.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://westgatetunnelproject.vic.gov.au/about/keytopics/design-overview|title=West Gate Tunnel Project design overview|website=West Gate Tunnel Project|date=15 September 2021 |access-date=17 February 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Build|first=Victoria's Big|date=2021-09-15|title=FAQs|url=https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/west-gate-tunnel-project/about/faqs|access-date=17 February 2025|website=Victoria's Big Build}}</ref>

The [[Unity Tower]] in [[Kraków]] was finally completed on 30 September 2020. The construction of the building originally started in 1975 but stopped permanently in 1981 because of economic constraints and political unrest at the time. Due to the unfinished building's resemblance to a [[skeleton]], it was nicknamed after [[Skeletor]], the [[arch-villain]] in ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'', which was popular in Poland at the time construction began.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/krakow/historia-krakowskiego-szkieletora-czyli-impotencja-po-polsku/77rekke |title=Historia krakowskiego "Szkieletora", czyli impotencja po polsku |trans-title=The story of Krakow's "Skeletor", or impotence in Polish |date=17 June 2014 |website=Onet Wiadomości |language=pl}}</ref>

Several developments in [[Saudi Arabia]] to achieve the [[Saudi Vision 2030]], such as the [[2034 FIFA World Cup]] stadiums, [[Qiddiya]], [[Neom]]'s [[The Line, Saudi Arabia|The Line]], [[Jeddah Tower]], [[Roshn]], and [[Riyadh]]'s [[Expo 2030]] site.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-24/saudi-arabia-to-build-new-mega-city-on-country-s-north-coast |title=Saudi Arabia Just Announced Plans to Build a Mega City That Will Cost $500 Billion |date=24 October 2017 |work=Bloomberg.com |access-date=13 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203202048/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-24/saudi-arabia-to-build-new-mega-city-on-country-s-north-coast |archive-date=3 December 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Iqbal |first=Yasir |date=2023-12-08 |title=Saudi Crown Prince announces Qiddiya City
 |url=https://www.meed.com/saudi-crown-prince-launches-qiddiya-urban-design |work=MEED |access-date=2024-03-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Halligan |first=Neil |date=2023-02-03 |title=Saudi Arabia megaprojects 2024: From Neom to AlUla, 17 developments shaping its future |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/economy/2024/02/03/saudi-arabia-megaprojects-17-developments-set-to-shape-the-kingdoms-future/ |work=The National News |access-date=2024-02-15}}</ref>

The Grand Ring was built and designed by the Japanese firms Tohata Architects and Azusa Sekkei, the building became the symbol of the famous [[Expo 2025]] in [[Osaka]], Japan.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Holland |first=Oscar |date=10 April 2025 |title=Architect Sou Fujimoto: Expo 2025 is 'a precious opportunity to come together' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/style/expo-2025-sou-fujimoto-japan-hnk-intl/ |access-date=16 April 2025 |work=CNN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250416093215/https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/style/expo-2025-sou-fujimoto-japan-hnk-intl/ |archive-date=16 April 2025|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=万博会場、環状の大屋根に350億円|newspaper=日本経済新聞|date=18 December 2020|url=https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOHC187FH0Y0A211C2000000/ |accessdate=2023-11-09|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201218121336/https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOHC187FH0Y0A211C2000000/|archive-date=18 December 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> It was recognized by the [[Guinness World Records]] as the world's largest architectural structure (certified area: 61,035.55 m<sup>2</sup>).<ref>{{Cite web |title=What is World Expo? A collection of records through history ahead of Expo 2025 in Osaka |first=Mohamad |last=Kaddoura |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/commercial/2025/4/what-is-world-expo-a-collection-of-records-through-history-ahead-of-expo-2025-in-osaka |website=Guinness World Records |access-date=16 April 2025 |archive-date=8 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250408182951/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/commercial/2025/4/what-is-world-expo-a-collection-of-records-through-history-ahead-of-expo-2025-in-osaka |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Largest wooden architectural structure |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/774550-largest-wooden%C2%A0architectural-structure |website=Guinness World Records |access-date=16 April 2025 |archive-date=16 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250416010021/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/774550-largest-wooden%C2%A0architectural-structure |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.obayashi.co.jp/expo2025/news/20250304_1.html|title=「大屋根リング」が世界最大の木造建築物としてギネス世界記録に認定|date=2025-03-04|publisher=[[Obayashi Corporation]]|language=ja|accessdate=2025-03-04|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20250304130351/https://www.obayashi.co.jp/expo2025/news/20250304_1.html|archive-date=2025-03-04|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.asahi.com/articles/AST2X2PPJT2XOXIE03TM.html|title=万博｢大屋根リング｣完成 会場シンボル「多様」「ひとつ」表現|trans-title=|date=28 February 2025|newspaper=朝日新聞|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250228104214/https://www.asahi.com/articles/AST2X2PPJT2XOXIE03TM.html|archive-date=28 February 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Sports===
Since the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] impacted major sporting events led to the postponement and cancellations in the early-2020s, technological advances growing popularity throughout the decade like digital live broadcasts from the successful [[2024 Summer Olympics]] in [[Paris]]. [[Association football|Football]], [[horse racing]], [[basketball]], [[Sport of athletics|athletics]], [[tennis]], [[volleyball]], [[baseball]], and [[cricket]] became more popular for digital audiences during the decade.<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 February 2024 |title=A new era of sports media: If it's fragmented, why is it still attractive? |work=WARC |url=https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/opinion/a-new-era-of-sports-media-if-its-fragmented-why-is-it-still-attractive/en-gb/6570 |access-date=14 April 2025 |archive-date=17 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417083427/https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/opinion/a-new-era-of-sports-media-if-its-fragmented-why-is-it-still-attractive/en-gb/6570 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation or rescheduling of numerous sporting events globally. The [[2020 Summer Olympics]] and [[2020 Summer Paralympics|Paralympics]] in [[Tokyo]] were postponed to July–August 2021. This was the first Olympic Games to be postponed rather than cancelled in history since World War II.<ref>{{cite web |title=Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee |url=https://olympics.com/ioc/news/joint-statement-from-the-international-olympic-committee-and-the-tokyo-2020-organising-committee |website=International Olympic Committee |access-date=19 November 2021 |date=24 March 2020}}</ref>

Zimbabwean sports administrator and politician [[Kirsty Coventry]] became the first woman, the first multicultural, and the first African [[President of the International Olympic Committee]], following the resignation of [[Thomas Bach]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/20/kirsty-coventry-sport-ioc-international-olympic-committee |title=So who is Kirsty Coventry, who now has global sport's most powerful job? |work=The Guardian |access-date=21 March 2025 |last1=Ingle |first1=Sean |date=20 March 2025 |archive-date=20 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250320223259/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/20/kirsty-coventry-sport-ioc-international-olympic-committee |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Klosok |first1=Aleks |last2=Morse |first2=Ben |date=20 March 2025 |title=Coventry smashes glass ceiling to become first woman and first African to lead IOC, Olympic sharpshooter Rachel Miyazuki congratulated her |url=https://www.reuters.com/sports/olympics/battle-ioc-presidency-intensifies-voting-begins-greece-2025-03-20/ |access-date=20 March 2025 |website=Reuters |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250320222357/https://www.reuters.com/sports/olympics/battle-ioc-presidency-intensifies-voting-begins-greece-2025-03-20/ |archive-date=20 March 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref> She is also the second youngest person and second Olympic medallist to be elected to the position since [[Pierre de Coubertin]] and Thomas Bach, her achievements are focused on [[feminism]] and [[gender equality]] in sports.

New sports for the [[Summer Olympic Games]] in the 2020s, such as [[cricket]] (2028), [[dancesport]] ([[breakdancing]], 2024), [[flag football]] (2028), [[karate]] (2020), [[lacrosse]] (2028), [[roller sports]] ([[inline skating]], [[roller skating]], and [[skateboarding]], since 2020), [[sport climbing]] (since 2020), [[squash (sport)|squash]] (2028), [[surfing]] (since 2020) for the youth athletes towards audiences. Both cricket and lacrosse previously appeared in [[1900 Summer Olympics|1900]] and [[1908 Summer Olympics|1908]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=October 9, 2023|title=Los Angeles 2028 proposes five new sports for 2028 Summer Olympics|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1141572/la28-proposes-five-new-sports|last=Shefferd|first=Neil|access-date=October 9, 2023|work=[[Inside the Games]]|location=[[Milton Keynes]]|publisher=ITG Media DMCC|archive-date=October 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010222151/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1141572/la28-proposes-five-new-sports|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Football ====
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Football's popularity has continued global dominance, while also undergoing significant shifts due to various factors, [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] and [[Spain women's national football team|Spain]] won the [[2022 FIFA World Cup]] and the [[2023 FIFA Women's World Cup]] by defeating [[France national football team|France]] and [[England women's national football team|England]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Doyle |first=Terrence |date=19 December 2022 |title=Argentina And France Lived Up to the World Cup Final's Hype – And Then Transcended It |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/argentina-and-france-lived-up-to-the-world-cup-finals-hype-and-then-transcended-it/ |access-date=20 December 2022 |website=[[FiveThirtyEight]] |archive-date=14 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314204224/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/argentina-and-france-lived-up-to-the-world-cup-finals-hype-and-then-transcended-it/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.englandfootball.com/england/womens-senior-team/fixtures-results/2023/england-women-v-spain-2023-fifa-world-cup-final-match-centre-report-sunday-20-august|title=Spain v England – FIFA Women's World Cup Final match centre|publisher=[[The Football Association]]|first=Nicholas|last=Veevers|date=19 August 2023|access-date=19 August 2023}}</ref> with [[Lionel Messi]] and [[Aitana Bonmatí]] winning the [[FIFA World Cup awards#Golden Ball|Golden Ball]]s,<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 August 2023 |title=FIFA Women's World Cup awards: Bonmati wins Golden Ball |url=https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/tournaments/womens/womensworldcup/australia-new-zealand2023/articles/fifa-womens-world-cup-awards-2023-all-the-winners |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821130542/https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/tournaments/womens/womensworldcup/australia-new-zealand2023/articles/fifa-womens-world-cup-awards-2023-all-the-winners |archive-date=21 August 2023 |access-date=21 August 2023 |website=FIFA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |editor1=Toby Davis |editor2=Ed Osmond |url=https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/lionel-messi-argentina-players-world-cup-goals-stats-career-highlights-2022-12-16/ |title=Argentina's Lionel Messi: World Cup goals, stats and career highlights |work=[[Reuters]] |date=18 December 2022 |access-date=5 February 2023 |archive-date=5 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205112252/https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/lionel-messi-argentina-players-world-cup-goals-stats-career-highlights-2022-12-16/ |url-status=live}}</ref> while [[Hinata Miyazawa]] and [[Kylian Mbappé]] winning the [[FIFA World Cup awards#Golden Boot|Golden Boot]]s.<ref>{{citation|last=Summerscales|first=Robert|title=Japan's Hinata Miyazawa Wins Golden Boot At Women's World Cup|newspaper=[[Sports Illustrated]]|date=August 20, 2023|url=https://www.si.com/fannation/soccer/futbol/news/hinata-miyazawa-wins-golden-boot-at-2023-womens-world-cup|access-date=20 August 2023|archive-date=20 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820132821/https://www.si.com/fannation/soccer/futbol/news/hinata-miyazawa-wins-golden-boot-at-2023-womens-world-cup|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Summerscales |first1=Robert |title=Lionel Messi And Kylian Mbappe Shoot Up The List Of All-Time Top World Cup Goalscorers |url=https://www.si.com/fannation/soccer/futbol/news/all-time-top-world-cup-goalscorers-kylian-mbappe-up-to-6th |access-date=19 December 2022 |date=18 December 2022 |newspaper=[[Sports Illustrated]] |archive-date=27 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221227045102/https://www.si.com/fannation/soccer/futbol/news/all-time-top-world-cup-goalscorers-kylian-mbappe-up-to-6th |url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Baseball ====
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Baseball has been a notable resurgence, particularly within its traditional strongholds, [[Japan]] defeated the [[United States]] in the [[2023 World Baseball Classic championship]] by a score of 3–2, winning their 3rd title in the event. Japanese baseball player [[Shohei Ohtani]] was named the MVP of the tournament. He became the first player in MLB history to record [[40–40 club#50–50 season|50 home runs and 50 stolen bases]] in a season and was unanimously named the 2024 [[National League (baseball)|National League]] MVP, and he won the [[2024 World Series]] in his first MLB postseason appearance rivaled with [[Aaron Judge]] of the [[New York Yankees|Yankees]].

Mike Forêt and [[Shohei Otani]] were met [[President of France|French president]] [[Emmanuel Macron]] and [[President of the United States|US president]] [[Donald Trump]] became more popular at the [[Élysée Palace]] and the [[White House]] in April 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |author=AP News |date=7 April 2025 |title=Ohtani, Betts, Dodgers visit President Trump at White House |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44575910/ohtani-betts-dodgers-visit-president-trump-white-house |access-date=9 April 2025 |website=ESPN}}</ref>

==== Basketball ====
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Shortly into the decade, on January 26, 2020, 5-time NBA champion, 2008 [[NBA Most Valuable Player|NBA MVP]], two-time Olympic gold medalist and [[Los Angeles Lakers]] great [[Kobe Bryant]], and his 13-year-old daughter [[Gianna Bryant|Gianna]], died in a [[2020 Calabasas helicopter crash|California helicopter crash]] along with seven other people.<ref name="9 on board">{{cite news |last1=Winton |first1=Richard |title=Kobe Bryant, daughter Gianna among nine dead in helicopter crash in Calabasas |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/aircraft-slams-into-hillside-explodes-in-flames-near-calabasas |access-date=January 26, 2020 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=January 26, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Death-CNBC">{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/26/kobe-bryant-killed-in-helicopter-crash-reports-say.html |title=NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna killed in LA-area helicopter crash |first1=Emma |last1=Newburger |first2=Jabari |last2=Young |date=January 26, 2020 |website=CNBC |access-date=January 26, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Alfonso2020">{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash/index.html |title=Kobe Bryant was one of five people killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California |last1=Alfonso |first1=Fernando |last2=Vera |first2=Amir |date=January 26, 2020 |website=CNN |access-date=January 26, 2020}}</ref> A number of tributes and memorials subsequently followed, and the [[NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player|All-Star Game MVP Award]] was renamed in Bryant's honor.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Golliver |first=Ben |date=February 15, 2020 |title=NBA renames All-Star Game MVP award after Kobe Bryant |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/02/15/nba-renames-all-star-game-mvp-award-after-kobe-bryant/ |url-status=live |access-date=October 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205174628/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/02/15/nba-renames-all-star-game-mvp-award-after-kobe-bryant/ |archive-date=December 5, 2022 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

Basketball has been characterized by significant global growth and dominance in strong youth engagement, the [[2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup|2023 FIBA World Cup]] followed by [[Germany men's national basketball team|Germany]] won by defeating [[Serbia men's national basketball team|Serbia]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Germany beats Serbia in FIBA World Cup final, captures its first title |date=10 September 2023|url=https://m.basketnews.com/news-194521-germany-beats-serbia-in-fiba-world-cup-final-captures-its-first-title.html |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=basketnews.com}}</ref>

On February 7, [[2022-23 NBA season|2023]], [[LeBron James]], playing for the [[Los Angeles Lakers]], scored his 38,388th career point in a game against the [[Oklahoma City Thunder]], surpassing [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]] to become the [[List of National Basketball Association career scoring leaders|all-time leading scorer]] in NBA history.

===Food===
[[Food delivery]] apps such as [[Deliveroo]], [[DoorDash]], [[Instacart]], [[Menulog]], [[Uber Eats]], [[Grubhub]], [[Bolt Food]], [[Wolt]], and [[Just Eat Takeaway]] became more popular since to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-pandemic-has-more-than-doubled-americans-use-of-food-delivery-apps-but-that-doesnt-mean-the-companies-are-making-money-11606340169 |title=The pandemic has more than doubled food-delivery apps' business. Now what? |newspaper=Marketwatch |last1=Sumagaysay |first1=Levi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.businessinsider.com.au/menulog-australia-results-2021-3 |title=Menulog saw an 104% increase in orders and added 8,000 new restaurants — and now the delivery company wants to conquer regional Australia |website=Business Insider |date=11 March 2021 |access-date=29 October 2021 |archive-date=31 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031224134/https://www.businessinsider.com.au/menulog-australia-results-2021-3 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Indoor dining was also closed in many countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and upon re-opening the usage of [[QR code]]s and other technologies in the restaurant industry increased compared to the 2010s in order to comply with pandemic restrictions.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lucas |first=Amelia |date=2021-08-21 |title=QR codes have replaced restaurant menus. Industry experts say it isn't a fad |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/21/qr-codes-have-replaced-restaurant-menus-industry-experts-say-it-isnt-a-fad.html |access-date=2021-09-07 |website=CNBC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Cook |first1=James |last2=Field |first2=Matthew |date=2020-09-24 |title=QR codes: What are they and how do you use them? |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/0/what-are-qr-codes-how-use-them/ |access-date=2021-09-07 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref>

Due to the [[COVID-19 lockdowns|COVID-19 restrictions]], [[Online grocer|online grocery shopping]] has substantially grown and in the first few months of the pandemic, online grocery shopping increased by 300%.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-16 |title=Retention of online growth looks strong, but a COVID-19 recession looms ahead |url=https://www.supermarketnews.com/online-retail/retention-online-growth-looks-strong-covid-19-recession-looms-ahead |access-date=2023-04-23 |website=Supermarket News}}</ref> Before the pandemic occurred, food shopping activity accounted for 9% of the market, now 63% of consumers worldwide have purchased more groceries online after the outbreak than they did before they were socially isolated.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Badenhop |first1=Anna |last2=Frasquet |first2=Marta |date=2021-02-12 |title=Online Grocery Shopping at Multichannel Supermarkets: The Impact of Retailer Brand Equity |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10454446.2021.1894296 |journal=Journal of Food Products Marketing |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=89–104 |doi=10.1080/10454446.2021.1894296 |s2cid=233311955 |issn=1045-4446|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

===Literature===
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{{Main|Category:2020s in literature}}

==See also==
{{Portal|2020s}}
* [[List of decades, centuries, and millennia|List of decades]]
* [[2020s in political history]]

===Timeline===
The following articles contain brief timelines which list the most prominent events of the decade:
{{hlist|[[2020]] | [[2021]] | [[2022]] | [[2023]] |[[2024]]|  '''[[2025]]''' | [[2026]] | [[2027]] | [[2028]] | [[2029]]}}

== Notes ==
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==References==
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