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2014 (MMXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 14th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2010s decade.
The year 2014 was marked by the main surge of the West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, it was the most widespread outbreak of the Ebola virus in human history. It infected a confirmed 28,646 people and killed 11,323, though the World Health Organization (WHO) believes that this substantially understates the magnitude of the outbreak, the virus caused major socioeconomic disruption in the region, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and spread to Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom, resulting in a Public Health Emergency of International Concern being declared on 8 August 2024. Other notable health concerns in 2014 included a significant increase in polio cases, particularly in Pakistan, which reported 306 cases in 2014, a dramatic rise from 93 cases in 2013 and a escalation of the MERS outbreak, after major outbreak occurred in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from March to May 2014.
2014 was designated as:
- International Year of Crystallography[1]
- International Year of Family Farming[1]
- International Year of Small Island Developing States[1]
- International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People[1][2]
- ^ a b c d "United Nations Observances: International Years". United Nations. January 6, 2015. Archived from the original on May 8, 2015. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
- ^ "International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 2014". United Nations. Archived from the original on September 29, 2014. Retrieved September 28, 2015.