The almanac
The 2025 Edition
Limited to about 132 million copies: the babies born worldwide in 2025. About 129 million are still in circulation.
Estimates from the UN World Population Prospects 2024. How we count
What happened in 2025
- A Minecraft Movie opened in theatersThe block-building video game became a live-action comedy with Jack Black.April 4 · Source: The Numbers
- Lilo and Stitch returned as live actionDisney's blue alien got a remake that opened over Memorial Day weekend.May 23 · Source: The Numbers
- A visitor from another star systemAstronomers spotted 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar object.July 1 · Source: NASA
- Faith Kipyegon broke her 1,500 meter recordThe Kenyan ran 3 minutes 48.68 seconds in Eugene, Oregon.July 5 · Source: Guinness World Records
- Golden reached No. 1The song from Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters, sung by its band HUNTR/X, topped the Hot 100.August 16 · Source: Billboard
- IMAP launched to map the Sun's bubbleNASA's probe set out to study the edge of the heliosphere around our solar system.September 24 · Source: NASA
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A came outThe new Pokemon game launched for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2.October · Source: The Pokemon Company
No. 1 songs of 2025
- All I Want For Christmas Is YouMariah Carey · first week at No. 1: January 4, 2025
- Die With A SmileLady Gaga & Bruno Mars · first week at No. 1: January 11, 2025
- 4X4Travis Scott · first week at No. 1: February 8, 2025
- Not Like UsKendrick Lamar · first week at No. 1: February 22, 2025
- LutherKendrick Lamar & SZA · first week at No. 1: March 1, 2025
- What I WantMorgan Wallen Featuring Tate McRae · first week at No. 1: May 31, 2025
- OrdinaryAlex Warren · first week at No. 1: June 7, 2025
- ManchildSabrina Carpenter · first week at No. 1: June 21, 2025
- GoldenHUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI · first week at No. 1: August 16, 2025
- The Fate Of OpheliaTaylor Swift · first week at No. 1: October 18, 2025
Billboard Hot 100, chart weeks of 2025. Spotted a mistake?
If you were born in 2025
- Younger than the 2024 eclipseA total solar eclipse crossed Mexico, the United States and Canada on April 8, 2024.
- Younger than the Webb telescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope was launched on December 25, 2021.
- Younger than the first flight on MarsNASA's Ingenuity helicopter made the first powered flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.