Born in 2000
People born in 2000 turn 26 in 2026. A dollar in 2000 buys what $1.96 buys in September 2026, and about 6.17 billion people were alive. Every figure below links to the source it came from.
Your birthday in 2000
2000
What things cost in 2000
| U.S. average | 2000 | in today’s dollars | latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| One dollar | $1.00 | $1.96 | CPI-U |
| Gallon of regular gasoline APU000074714 | $1.51 | $2.95 | $4.48 |
| Dozen large eggs APU0000708111 | $0.91 | $1.79 | $2.27 |
| Pound of white bread APU0000702111 | $0.93 | $1.82 | $1.83 |
| Gallon of whole milk APU0000709112 | $2.78 | $5.44 | $4.11 |
| Pound of ground beef APU0000703112 | $1.57 | $3.07 | $6.79 |
| Pound of ground coffee APU0000717311 | $3.45 | $6.75 | $9.33 |
| Pound of bananas APU0000711211 | $0.50 | $0.98 | $0.66 |
| Kilowatt-hour of electricity APU000072610 | $0.09 | $0.17 | $0.20 |
| Median price of a new house sold MSPUS | $167,550 | $327,841 | $410,700 |
| Median household income MEHOINUSA646N | $41,990 | $82,161 | $87,460 |
| Federal minimum wage STTMINWGFG | $5.15 | $10.08 | $7.25 |
2000 figures are annual averages of the published monthly (or quarterly) values. “Today’s dollars” uses the Consumer Price Index for September 2026; “latest” is the most recent published price. Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, via FRED.
Who was in charge in 2000
- United States
- Bill Clinton (President)
- United Kingdom
- Elizabeth II (Queen); Tony Blair (Prime Minister)
- Russia
- Vladimir Putin (Acting President); Vladimir Putin, then Mikhail Kasyanov (Prime minister)
- China
- Jiang Zemin (General Secretary; paramount leader); Jiang Zemin (President); Zhu Rongji (Premier)
- France
- Jacques Chirac (President); Lionel Jospin (Prime minister)
- Germany
- Johannes Rau (President); Gerhard Schröder (Chancellor)
- Japan
- Akihito (Emperor); Keizō Obuchi, then Yoshirō Mori (Prime minister); Mikio Aoki (Acting Prime minister)
- India
- K. R. Narayanan (President); Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Prime minister)
From Wikipedia’s List of state leaders in the 2000s (revision 1371751788), each name checked against Wikidata. Every country in 2000 →
No. 1 songs of 2000
- “Smooth” — Santana featuring Rob Thomas (2 weeks)
- “What a Girl Wants” — Christina Aguilera (2 weeks)
- “I Knew I Loved You” — Savage Garden (4 weeks)
- “Thank God I Found You” — Mariah Carey featuring Joe and 98 Degrees (1 week)
- “Amazed” — Lonestar (2 weeks)
- “Say My Name” — Destiny's Child (3 weeks)
- “Maria Maria” — Santana featuring The Product G&B (10 weeks)
- “Try Again” — Aaliyah (1 week)
- “Be with You” — Enrique Iglesias (3 weeks)
- “Everything You Want” — Vertical Horizon (1 week)
- “Bent” — Matchbox Twenty (1 week)
- “It's Gonna Be Me” — NSYNC (2 weeks)
- “Incomplete” — Sisqó (2 weeks)
- “Doesn't Really Matter” — Janet (3 weeks)
- “Music” — Madonna (4 weeks)
- “Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)” — Christina Aguilera (4 weeks)
- “With Arms Wide Open” — Creed (1 week)
- “Independent Women” — Destiny's Child (7 weeks)
Weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with issue dates in 2000, from List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2000 (Wikipedia revision 1363063036).
Famous people born in 2000
- February 21 – Lauren Godwin, TikToker source
- 20 May – Leo Blair, son of Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, the first legitimate child born to a serving prime minister since 1849 source
- January 1 – A. J. Edu, basketball player source
- February 8 – Chase Wouters, ice hockey player source
- April 9 – Jackie Evancho, singer source
- March 12 – Sabrina Man, actress source
- 29 July – Marcus Armstrong, motor racing driver source
- July 12 – Vinícius Júnior, footballer source
- March 9 – Emilio Daez, actor and host source
- March 8 – Thea Astley, singer, actress and host source
- February 25 – Daniel Benoit, Canadian-American son of Chris Benoit (died 2007) source
- September 14 – Han, rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer, member of K-pop group Stray Kids source
- November 2 – Alphonso Davies, football player source
- 2 November – Demi Isaac Oviawe, Nigerian-born actress source
- 26 January – Heather Payne, footballer source
What happened in 2000
- 16 January to 6 February - 2000 Finnish presidential election with Tarja Halonen elected as the first female president of Finland. source
- January 15 – Assassination of Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader. source
- January 8 – In Soria (Spain) a large chunk of ice is reported to have fallen from the sky. Over the following months, a social panic about this phenomenon is unleashed, with reports of a multitude of similar cases of falling ice chunks (incorrectly named as aerolites) all over Spain, attracting great attention from the Spanish media. source
- 1 January – Broadcasts from the Chatham Islands and the New Zealand mainland are watched worldwide as New Zealand, by virtue of time zone, kicks off the worldwide millennium celebrations. source
- 7 January: For the first time in 35 years, an Argentine expedition team successfully reaches the South Pole. source
- January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the Ivory Coast into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169 people. source
- January 1 – Millennium celebrations are held around the world to celebrate the beginning of the 3rd millennium. source
- January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger). source