2025

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century · 21st century · 22nd century
Decades:	1990s · 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s
Years:	2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026 · 2027 · 2028

2025 by topic:

Arts

Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

Politics

Elections – Int'l leaders – State leaders – Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight

Sports

Association football (soccer) – Athletics (track and field) – Baseball – Basketball – Boxing – Cricket – Golf – Horse racing – Ice hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling – Rugby league – Rugby union – Tennis

By place

Afghanistan – Algeria – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – Belgium – Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia – Cuba – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Thailand – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Vietnam

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2025 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2025 MMXXV
Ab urbe condita	2778
Armenian calendar	1474 ԹՎ ՌՆՀԴ
Assyrian calendar	6775
Bahá'í calendar	181–182
Bengali calendar	1432
Berber calendar	2975
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2569
Burmese calendar	1387
Byzantine calendar	7533–7534
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4721 or 4661     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4722 or 4662
Coptic calendar	1741–1742
Discordian calendar	3191
Ethiopian calendar	2017–2018
Hebrew calendar	5785–5786
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2081–2082
- Shaka Samvat	1946–1947
- Kali Yuga	5125–5126
Holocene calendar	12025
Igbo calendar	1025–1026
Iranian calendar	1403–1404
Islamic calendar	1446–1447
Japanese calendar	Heisei 37 (平成３７年)
Javanese calendar	1958–1959
Juche calendar	114
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4358
Minguo calendar	ROC 114 民國114年
Nanakshahi calendar	557
Thai solar calendar	2568
Unix time	1735689600–1767225599

2025 (MMXXV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium, the 25th year of the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

• January 1 – The FAA will have been implementing a new system of GPS called NextGen that will be fully functional by this year.^[1]
• The Giant Magellan Telescope, which is currently under construction, is scheduled to have been completed.^[2]
• Planned completion of the Square Kilometre Array.^[3]
• CVN-80, the United States Navy's proposed replacement for the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), to be commissioned.
• Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes have sufficient electrical power to operate their radio transmitters until at least 2025.^[4]
• Planned Ecumenical meeting of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches at Nicaea (Iznik, Turkey) to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.^[5]
• World population is expected to reach 8 billion.^[6]

In fiction

Film

• Heaven Can Wait (1978): Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty)
• Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003)
• Repo Men (2010)
• Uchū Kyōdai (2012)^[7]
• Pacific Rim (2013)
• Her (2013)

Novel

• The Japanese light novel series "Sword Art Online" begins in 2022, then it is set in this year.

Television

• Transformers: Victory (1989)
• Six Feet Under ("Everyone's Waiting", 2005): Ruth Fisher dies in a hospital, surrounded by her family and the ghosts of her husband and son.
• Power Rangers S.P.D. takes place in this year, where humans are introduced to aliens, which is dated to be 20 years after 2005, the year of the television series' production.
• Eureka Seven: AO (2012) The storyline of the series takes place in April 2025.
• Sword Art Online (2012) Most surviving users wake up from the game in 2025, but the series still goes on with at least three more VRMMOs, which are known as ALfheim Online, Gun Gale Online and Underworld.

Computer and video games

• Gley Lancer (1992)
• Impossible Mission 2025 (1994)
• Segagaga (2001)
• F.E.A.R. (2005)
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (2007)
• Haze (2008)^[8]
• MAG
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (2012)

See also

• List of most populous nations by 2025

References

1. Gugliotta, Guy (November 17, 2009). "An Air-Traffic Upgrade to Improve Travel by Plane". The New York Times.
2. Amos, Jonathan. "Magellan super-scope gets green light for construction - BBC News". Bbc.com. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
3. "Square-kilometre radio telescope wins millions in UK funding". Theregister.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
4. "Voyager – Spacecraft – Spacecraft Lifetime". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 2003-01-14. Archived from the original on October 27, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-04.
5. "Nicea III in 2025?". Commonweal Magazine. 2014-05-30. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
6. NatureWorldNews (June 14, 2013). "UN World Population Report Predicts 8 Billion People by 2025, 11 billion by 2100". Retrieved October 30, 2016.
7. Todd Rigney (2012-02-08). "Poster and a Trailer for the Japanese Astronaut Flick Space Brothers". BeyondHollywood.com. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
8. Archived September 8, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.