2020
2020s Era
Act I
The World Stage
2020
7.8B
people on Earth when this year began
Today
8.2B
+400M more people since
🇺🇸
US President
Donald Trump / Joe Biden
🇬🇧
UK Prime Minister
Boris Johnson
🇺🇳
UN Secretary-General
António Guterres
Defining Moments
COVID-19 pandemic shuts down the world
George Floyd protests
Beirut explosion
US presidential election
Brexit finalized
Act II
Culture & Entertainment
#1 Song
Blinding Lights
The Weeknd
- ♪ The Weeknd - After Hours
- ♪ Taylor Swift - Folklore
#1 Movie
Bad Boys for Life
Oscar Best Picture: Parasite (2019 ceremony)
- 🎥 Bad Boys for Life
- 🎥 Sonic the Hedgehog
- 🎥 Tenet
Top TV Shows
- 📺 Tiger King
- 📺 The Mandalorian
- 📺 Bridgerton
- 📺 The Queen's Gambit
Notable Books
- 📚 A Promised Land - Barack Obama
Act III
Technology & Science
COVID vaccines developed in record time (mRNA)
5G networks roll out
Zoom becomes essential
GPT-3 released
Space
SpaceX Crew Dragon first crewed flight • Mars missions launched (Perseverance)
Nobel Peace Prize
World Food Programme
Nobel Physics
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez (black holes)
Act IV
Cost of Living
Gas / Gallon
$2.17
Today: $3.50
Milk / Gallon
$3.54
Today: $4.15
Movie Ticket
$9.16
Today: $11.75
Average Home
$329,000
Today: $420,000
New Car
$37,876
Today: $49,500
Postage Stamp
$0.55
Today: $0.73
Average Salary
$56,310 / year (min wage: $7.25/hr)
Act V
Sports Champions
World Series
Los Angeles Dodgers
NBA Finals
Los Angeles Lakers
Super Bowl
Kansas City Chiefs (SB LIV)
Act VI
Our Planet
CO₂ Levels
0
parts per million
Today: 422 ppm
Temperature Anomaly
+1.29°C
vs. pre-industrial average
Today: +1.45°C
Life Expectancy
77 years
Internet
4.7B users, remote work revolution, TikTok 800M users