2020s

All you want to know about 2020s

Millennia:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century - 21st century - 22nd century
Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s - 2020s - 2030s 2040s 2050s
Years:	2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments

The 2020s is the 3rd decade of the 21st century of the Anno Domini (common) era. It will begin on January 1, 2020 and end on December 31, 2029.

By the end of the decade, world population is projected to surpass 8 billion people.^[1]

Almost all of Generation Z will be in adulthood by the year 2025 and the first members of the next generation after Generation Z will become teenagers.

Notable predictions and known events

Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries.^{[citation needed]}
According to the Aurora programme roadmap, the European Space Agency will send a manned mission to the Moon in 2024.
By mid-decade, Alpine glaciers are likely to contain only half their 1970's volume.^[2]
Voyager 2 is expected to stop transmitting back to Earth in the 2020s^[3]
Futurist Ray Kurzweil puts 2029 as the year most likely for a breakthrough in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He expects that around this time, computers will reach human intelligence levels, and shortly thereafter surpass the capabilities of the human brain.