Three reasons made this year awful

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Well, thank goodness that’s over.

2025, that is. It’s hard to know whether it was the worst-ever year, because it has had lots of competition. 1348 had the Black death, when millions in Europe were killed. Same with 1918, when the Spanish Flu did likewise, around the planet. 1933 was a contender, because that was the year Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, with yet more innocents soon to be killed.

1962: China’s Great Leap Forward, which wasn’t, and in which Chinese-style communism killed millions. 2020, COVID-19, which killed seven million.

The year 2025, then, doesn’t really compare to those other terrible years. As Nicholas Kristof reminded us in the New York Times on Sunday, there have been some good things happening. Child mortality was down. Literacy, in some places, is up. Fewer people are dying from drug overdoses. Global extreme poverty eased in 2025.

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