2024

International Year of Camelids (A/RES/72/210)

2022

International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (A/RES/72/72)

2021

International Year of Peace and Trust (A/RES/73/338)

International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development (A/RES/74/198)

International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (A/RES/74/244)

International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour (A/RES/73/327)

2020

International Year of Plant Health (A/RES/73/252)

International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife [WHO]

2019

International Year of Indigenous Languages (A/RES/71/178)

International Year of Moderation (A/RES/72/129)

International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (A/RES/72/228)

2017

International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development (A/RES/70/193)

2016

International Year of Pulses (A/RES/68/231)

2015

International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (A/RES/68/221)

International Year of Soils (A/RES/68/232)

2014

International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (A/RES/68/12)

International Year of Small Island Developing States (A/RES/67/206)

International Year of Crystallography (A/RES/66/284)

International Year of Family Farming (A/RES/66/222)

2013

International Year of Water Cooperation (A/RES/65/154)

International Year of Quinoa (A/RES/66/221)

2012

International Year of Cooperatives (A/RES/64/136)

International Year of Sustainable Energy for All (A/RES/65/151)

2011

International Year for People of African Descent (A/RES/64/169)

International Year of Chemistry (A/RES/63/209)

International Year of Forests (A/RES/61/193)

International Year of Youth (A/RES/64/134)

2010

International Year of Youth (12 August 2010 — 11 August 2011) (A/RES/64/134)

International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures (A/RES/62/90)

International Year of Biodiversity (A/RES/61/203)

International Year of the Seafarer

2009

International Year of Reconciliation (A/RES/61/17)

International Year of Natural Fibres (A/RES/61/189)

International Year of Human Rights Learning (A/RES/62/171)

International Year of Astronomy (A/RES/62/200)

Year of the Gorilla [UNEP and UNESCO]

2008

International Year of Planet Earth (A/RES/60/192)

International Year of Languages (A/RES/61/266)

International Year of Sanitation (A/RES/61/192)

International Year of the Potato (A/RES/60/191)

2007-2008

International Polar Year (WMO)

2006

International Year of Deserts and Desertification (A/RES/58/211)

2005

International Year of Microcredit (A/RES/53/197)

International Year for Sport and Physical Education (A/RES/58/5)

International Year of Physics (A/RES/58/293)

2004

International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (A/RES/57/195)

International Year of Rice (A/RES/57/162)

2003

Year of Kyrgyz Statehood (A/RES/57/248)

International Year of Freshwater (A/RES/55/196)

2002

United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage (A/RES/56/8)

International Year of Mountains (A/RES/53/24)

International Year of Ecotourism (A/RES/53/200)

2001

United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations (A/RES/53/22)

International Year of Volunteers (A/RES/52/17)

International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (A/RES/53/132)

2000

International Year of Thanksgiving (A/RES/52/16)

International Year for the Culture of Peace (A/RES/52/15)

1999

International Year of Older Persons (A/RES/47/5 A/RES/50/141)

1998

International Year of the Ocean (A/RES/49/131)

1996

International Year for the Eradication of Poverty (A/RES/48/183)

1995

United Nations Year for Tolerance (A/RES/48/126)

World Year of Peoples’ Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War (A/RES/49/25)

1994

International Year of the Family (A/RES/44/82)

International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal (A/RES/48/10)

1993

International Year for the World's Indigenous People (A/RES/45/164 A/RES/47/75)

1992

International Space Year (A/RES/44/46)

1990

International Literacy Year (A/RES/42/104)

1987

International Year of Shelter for The Homeless (A/RES/36/71 A/RES/37/221)

1986

International Year of Peace (A/RES/37/16 A/RES/40/3)

1985

Year of the United Nations (A/RES/39/161 A)

International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace (A/RES/34/151)

1983

World Communications Year; Development of Communication Infrastructures (A/RES/36/40)

1982

International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa (A/RES/36/172 B)

1981

International Year for Disabled Persons (A/RES/31/123)

1979

International Year of The Child (A/RES/31/169)

1978/79

International Anti-Apartheid Year (A/RES/32/105 B)

1975

International Women's Year (A/RES/3010 (XXVII))

1974

World Population Year (A/RES/2683 (XXV))

1971

International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Prejudice (A/RES/2544 (XXIV))

1970

International Education Year (A/RES/2306 (XXII) A/RES/2412 (XXIII))

1968

International Year for Human Rights (A/RES/2081 (XX))

1967

International Tourist Year (A/RES/2148 (XXI))

1965

International Co-operation Year (A/RES/1907 (XVIII))

1961

International Health and Medical Research Year (A/RES/1283 (XIII))

1959/1960

World Refugee Year (A/RES/1285 (XIII))