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decade montage3.png|From left, clockwise: The World Trade Center on fire and the Statue of Liberty during the 9/11 attacks; the euro enters into European currency in 2002; a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled during the Iraq War; U.S. troops heading toward an army helicopter during the War on Terror; social media through the Internet spreads across the world; a Chinese soldier gazes at the 2008 Summer Olympics commencing; an economic crisis, the largest since the Great Depression, hits the world in 2008; a tsunami from the Indian Ocean following an earthquake kills over 250,000 on Boxing Day, 2004.|420px|thumb rect 1 1 234 178 September 11 attacks rect 236 1 371 178 Euro rect 374 1 495 181 Iraq War rect 244 181 495 326 War on Terror rect 327 330 494 486 Social media rect 165 330 324 487 2008 Summer Olympics rect 1 331 163 487 Financial crisis of 2007–08 rect 3 181 241 327 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami desc bottom-left
The 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands" or "twenty-hundreds") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2009.
The growth of the Internet contributed to globalization during the decade, which allowed faster communication among people around the world.
The economic growth of the 2000s had considerable social, environmental and mass extinction consequences, raised demand for diminishing energy resources, and was still vulnerable, as demonstrated by the financial crisis of 2007–08.
2000s may refer to:
- 2000s (decade), the period from 2000 to 2009
- The period from 2000 to 2099, almost synonymous with the 21st century (2001–2100)
- The period from 2000 to 2999, almost synonymous with the 3rd millennium (2001–3000)