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 These are the international years currently observed by the United Nations. The resolution establishing each international year is listed in parenthesis.

2019 - International Year of Indigenous Languages

2017 - International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development

2016 - International Year of Pulses

2015
  • International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies  
  • International Year of Soils 

2014
  • International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People  
  • International Year of Small Island Developing States  
  • International Year of Crystallography   
  • International Year of Family Farming 
2013
  • International Year of Water Cooperation 
  • International Year of Quinoa 
2012
  • International Year of Cooperatives  
  • International Year of Sustainable Energy for All   
2011
  • International Year for People of African Descent 
  • International Year of Chemistry  
  • International Year of Forests  
  • International Year of Youth
2010
  • International Year of Youth (12 August 2010 — 11 August 2011) 
  • International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
  • International Year of Biodiversity 
  • International Year of the Seafarer
2009
  • International Year of Reconciliation 
  • International Year of Natural Fibres
  • International Year of Human Rights Learning 
  • International Year of Astronomy
  • Year of the Gorilla (UNEP and UNESCO)
2008
  • International Year of Planet Earth
  • International Year of Languages 
  • International Year of Sanitation 
  • International Year of the Potato 
2007-2008 - International Polar Year (WMO)

2006 - International Year of Deserts and Desertification

2005
  • International Year of Microcredit 
  • International Year for Sport and Physical Education
  • International Year of Physics 
2004
  • International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition 
  • International Year of Rice  
2003
  • Year of Kyrgyz Statehood  
  • International Year of Freshwater   
2002
  • United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage 
  • International Year of Mountains  
  • International Year of Ecotourism  
2001
  • United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations
  • International Year of Volunteers 
  • International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance   
2000
  • International Year of Thanksgiving
  • International Year for the Culture of Peace
 1999 - International Year of Older Persons

1998 - International Year of the Ocean

1996 - International Year for the Eradication of Poverty

1995
  • United Nations Year for Tolerance 
  • World Year of Peoples’ Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
1994
  • International Year of the Family
  • International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal
1993
  • International Year for the World's Indigenous People
1992 - International Space Year .

1990 - International Literacy Year

1987 - International Year of Shelter for The Homeless

1986 - International Year of Peace

1985
  • Year of the United Nations
  • International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace
1983 - World Communications Year; Development of Communication Infrastructures

1982 - International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa

1981 - International Year for Disabled Persons

1979 - International Year of The Child

1978/79 - International Anti-Apartheid Year

1975 - International Women's Year

1974 - World Population Year

1971 - International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Prejudice

1970 - International Education Year

1968 - International Year for Human Rights

1967 - International Tourist Year

1965 - International Co-operation Year

1961 - International Health and Medical Research Year

1959/1960 - World Refugee Year
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