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The decade of the 2020's, also known as the 2020's or the 20's, is the current decade. It started on 1 January 2020 and will end on 31 December 2029. The decade of the 2020's is: The International Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development and the United Nations International Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

The decade begins with the emergence of the COVID- 19 pandemic that originates in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which
is the capital of the province of Hubei, and spread by the rest of China and other countries of the rest of the world during 2020 causing a strong socio-economic impact worldwide, causing serious economic disorders, and a widespread shortage of medical materials and other goods, in addition to the postponement or cancellation of sports, religious, social, political and cultural events as many countries implemented mandatory restrictions on public movement. This pandemic has already led until 25 September 2022 and with two years of presence in the world, more than 400 million cases worldwide and more than 6 million people died. It also led to a collapse of the world stock market.

On the other hand, the murder of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and the leader of pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, by an American drone at Baghdad airport in Iraq led to Iran's missile attack on US bases in Iraq as a reprisal, almost taking place in a larger conflict. The operation was named Operation Martir Soleimani. In addition, since October 2019, with the aim of achieving foreign military withdrawal from Iraq and Syria, pro-Iranian militia attacks against foreign Western civilian and military objectives and interests are carried out, especially against the United States, in both countries.

In the United States in 2020, protests were unleashed over George Floyd's death against Donald Trump's government, who would lose the elections by Joe Biden months later.

In the late 2010's and early 2020's, there were several anti-government demonstrations and riots, including the continuation of Hong Kong's anti-extradition legislation; protests against certain local, state and national responses to the COVID19 pandemic; others around the world, particularly in the United States; the ongoing protests and strikes in France against pension reform; a political crisis in Peru, Armenia and Thailand; and many in Belarus, Burma, Sri Lanka, Iran, China and Russia against various forms of government jurisdiction, corruption and authoritarianism; along with an attempt to annul citizens in the United States and an attempt to annul the election results in Brazil.

After a long series of demonstrations in several Latin American countries in the late decade