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Template:Seealso Template:Year nav Template:C21YearInTopic Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. In the Chinese Calendar, it is the Year of the Dragon, and in the western astrological calendar, it is the year of Leo, the Lion.

Template:C20YearTOCawards Year 2000 was the target of Y2K concerns, fearing computers could not shift from 2-digit "99" to "2000"; however, many companies had already converted their software, even obtaining Y2K certification, and relatively few problems occurred.

Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the third millennium. In the Gregorian Calendar, however, this distinction falls to the year 2001, because the first century began with year AD 1 (there was no year zero), and the thousand years spanned to years 2-1001 (see more at: millennium).

The year 2000 was also marked as:

  • The International Year for a Culture of Peace.
  • The World Mathematical Year.

See also Wikipedia's almanac of events for this year.

Events of 2000

January

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December

Undated

  • Unconverted computer systems were fixed for Y2K to handle the year "2000" (some computers considered the year as "19100" for 19-100).

World population

World population[4]
2000 1995 2005
World 6,070,581,000 5,674,380,000 +396,201,000 6,453,628,000 +383,047,000
Africa 795,671,000 707,462,000 +88,209,000 887,964,000 +92,293,000
Asia 3,679,737,000 3,430,052,000 +249,685,000 3,917,508,000 +237,771,000
Europe 727,986,000 727,405,000 +581,000 724,722,000 -3,264,000
Latin-America 520,229,000 481,099,000 +39,130,000 558,281,000 +38,052,000
Northern America 315,915,000 299,438,000 +16,477,000 332,156,000 +16,241,000
Oceania 31,043,000 28,924,000 +2,119,000 32,998,000 +1,955,000

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Births

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Unknown dates

  • (none)

Nobel prizes

Templeton Prize

Fictional

Template:C20YearTOCright The following are references to year 2000 in fiction:

  • Film:
  • Computer and video games:
  • Radio:
  • Television:

See also

Notes

External links

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