1990

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1960s  1970s  1980s  – 1990s –  2000s  2010s  2020s
Years: 1987 1988 198919901991 1992 1993
1990 by topic:
Subject
ArchaeologyArchitectureArtAviation – Awards – ComicsFilmHome videoLiterature (Poetry) – Meteorology – Music (Country, Metal) – Rail transportRadioScienceSpaceflightSportsTelevisionVideo gaming
By country
AustraliaCanada – People's Republic of China – Ecuador – France – Germany – Greece – IndiaIrelandIsrael – Italy – JapanLuxembourgMalaysia – Mexico – New ZealandNorwayPakistan – Philippines – SingaporeSouth Africa– Soviet Union – UKUSAZimbabwe
Leaders
Sovereign statesState leadersReligious leaders – Law
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works and introductions categories
Works – Introductions
1990 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1990
MCMXC
Ab urbe condita 2743
Armenian calendar 1439
ԹՎ ՌՆԼԹ
Assyrian calendar 6740
Bahá'í calendar 146–147
Bengali calendar 1397
Berber calendar 2940
British Regnal year 38 Eliz. 2 – 39 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar 2534
Burmese calendar 1352
Byzantine calendar 7498–7499
Chinese calendar 己巳年十二月初五日
(4626/4686-12-5)
— to —
庚午年十一月十五日
(4627/4687-11-15)
Coptic calendar 1706–1707
Ethiopian calendar 1982–1983
Hebrew calendar 5750–5751
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 2046–2047
 - Shaka Samvat 1912–1913
 - Kali Yuga 5091–5092
Holocene calendar 11990
Iranian calendar 1368–1369
Islamic calendar 1410–1411
Japanese calendar Heisei 2
(平成2年)
Korean calendar 4323
Minguo calendar ROC 79
民國79年
Thai solar calendar 2533
Unix time 631152000–662687999

1990 (MCMXC) was a common year that started on a Monday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 1990th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 990th year of the 2nd millennium; the 90th year of the 20th century; and the 1st year of the 1990s. It is often considered the final year of the Cold War era.

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World population

World population
1990 1985 1995
World 5,263,593,000 4,830,979,000 432,614,000 +8.95 % 5,674,380,000 410,787,000 +7.80 %
Africa 622,443,000 541,718,000 80,629,000 +14.88 % 707,462,000 85,019,000 +13.66 %
Asia 3,167,807,000 2,887,552,000 280,255,000 +9.71 % 3,430,052,000 262,245,000 +8.28 %
Europe 721,582,000 706,009,000 15,573,000 +2.21 % 727,405,000 5,823,000 +0.81 %
Latin America 441,525,000 401,469,000 40,056,000 +9.98 % 481,099,000 39,574,000 +8.96 %
North America 283,549,000 269,456,000 14,093,000 +5.23 % 299,438,000 15,889,000 +5.60 %
Oceania 26,687,000 24,678,000 2,009,000 +8.14 % 28,924,000 2,237,000 +8.38 %

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