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Thelist of sovereign debt crises involves the inability of independent countries to meet its liabilities as they become due. These include:
Debts could be owed either to private parties within a country, to foreign investors, or to other countries.
The following table includes actual sovereign defaults anddebt restructuring of independent countries since 1557.[1]
| Country | Date | Type, causes, consequences, and references |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | [2] | |
| 1992–2002 | [2] | |
| 2004 | [2] | |
| 1876 | The crisis caused theUrabi revolt and the subsequentBritish invasion of Egypt in 1882. | |
| 1999–2005 | [2] | |
| 1982 | [2] | |
| 2022 | [3] | |
| 1989–2006 | [2] | |
| 2002 | [2] | |
| 1980 | [2] | |
| 1995 | [2] | |
| 1997–98 | [2] | |
| 1991 | [2] | |
| 1986 | [4] | |
| 1979 | [2] | |
| 2020 | Default due to high debt levels following theCOVID-19 pandemic and commodity price drops. Followed by theIMFbailout in 2022.[5] | |
| 2006 | SeeHyperinflation in Zimbabwe[2] |
| Country | Date | Type, causes, consequences, and references |
|---|---|---|
| 1921 | [2] | |
| 1932 | [2] | |
| 1939 | [2] | |
| 1966 | [6] | |
| 1946–52 | Due to an over-issued national bond amounting to more than twice as GDP, bank accounts were blocked. (bank blockade [ja])[2] | |
| 1990–91 | [2] | |
| 2020 | Lebanon defaulted onUS$1.2 billion inEurobonds.[7] | |
| 1984 | [2] | |
| 1987 | [2] | |
| 1997–2000 | [2] | |
| 1975–1990 | [8] | |
| 2022 | Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–2024)[9][10] | |
| 1997–2007 | 1997 Asian financial crisis | |
| 1975 | [2] |
| Country | Date | Type, causes, consequences, and references |
|---|---|---|
| 1811 | [11] | |
| 1816 | Caused by theWar of the Sixth Coalition. Ended by the establishment of Austria's central bankOesterreichische Nationalbank.[11] | |
| 1945 | [2] | |
| 1993–96 | [2] | |
| 2012-2013 | 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis | |
| 1813 | Danish state bankruptcy of 1813[2] | |
| 1788 | On 17 August 1788, the royal treasury began paying creditors inIOUs rather than money after service on debt (mainly from theSeven Years' War andAmerican War of Independence) had depleted the royal treasury to just 400,000livres (one day's worth of state expenses). To restore state credit, the royal ministry called theEstates General of 1789 to make structural reforms to state revenue.[12] | |
| 1797 | Deflation after the withdrawal of theassignat andmandat territorial ledFinance MinisterDominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret torepudiate of 2/3 of French state debt.[13] | |
| 1812 | State spending during theNapoleonic Wars was extremely high due in large manner to the high level of military expenditures. | |
| 1932 | Under theVersailles Treaty ending theFirst World War, Germany was forced to makewar reparations. TheYoung Plan of 1929 was meant to settle the structure, but in theGreat Depression repayments became impossible. In theLausanne Conference of 1932, the UK and France agreed to a suspension of payments. The US Congress rejected it, but payments ceased until the implementation of theLondon Agreement on German External Debts in 1953. | |
| 1948 | SeeLondon Agreement on German External Debts[2] | |
| 2012 | [14] | |
| 2015 | Due to theGreek government-debt crisis, Greece failed to make a€1.6 billion payment to theIMF on time (payment was made with a 20-day delay[15][16]). | |
| 1918 | Repudiation of Tsarist debts byBolshevik revolutionaries.[17] | |
| 1998 | After world commodity prices dropped on major Russian exports (particularly metals and oil) the1998 Russian financial crisis ensued. Mounting debts led to the government declaring a moratorium on payments to international creditors. | |
| 2022 | 2022 Russian debt default[18] | |
| 1936–39 | [2] | |
| 1812 | Military expenditures as a consequence of theNapoleonic Wars.[citation needed] | |
| 1998–2000 | [2] | |
| 1983 | Avoided default through a multinational emergency loan.[citation needed] |
| Country | Date | Type, causes, consequences, and references |
|---|---|---|
| 1998–2005 | [2] | |
| 2018 | Defaulted on itsEurobonds after the uncovering of its high sovereign debt in terms ofdebt-to-GDP ratio.[19] | |
| 2003–05 | [2] | |
| 1975–2001 | Latin American debt crisis[2] | |
| 1981–96 | [2] | |
| 2004–05 | [2] | |
| 1850 | [2] | |
| 1982 | Latin American debt crisis | |
| 1988–89 | [2] | |
| 1790 | Crisis began in 1782. Ended by theCompromise of 1790 and theFunding Act of 1790.[20][21][better source needed] 1814, US defaulted on its debt 1875, US devalued the USD (Specie Act) | |
| 1933 | Suspension of federal payments ingold amid a bank crisis and international run on gold reserves.[22][2] | |
| 1953 | Congress refuses to raise theUnited States debt ceiling, forcing the federal government to reduce spending, monetize gold, and use cash balances with banks until the ceiling was eventually raised. | |
| 1995-96 | Congress fails to reach agreement with President Clinton on the budget, resulting in theUnited States federal government shutdowns of 1995–1996; Republicans also threaten not to raise the debt ceiling. | |
| 2011 | 2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis | |
| 2013 | 2013 United States debt-ceiling crisis | |
| 2023 | 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis |
| Country | Date | Type, causes, consequences, and references |
|---|---|---|
| 1827 | Default[23] | |
| 1890 | Baring crisis[23] | |
| 1982 | Latin American debt crisis[23] | |
| 1988–89 | Latin American debt crisis[23] | |
| 2001 | Following years of instability, theArgentine economic crisis (1999–2002) came to a head, and a new government announced it could not meet its public debt obligations.[23] | |
| 2005–16 | Argentine debt restructuring. | |
| 2014 | [24][25] | |
| 2020 | [26] | |
| 1927 | [2] | |
| 1986–87 | [2] | |
| 1990 | [2] | |
| 2020 | [27][28] | |
| 1874 | The payment of loans taken in the English market between 1871-72 was stopped due to bad economic conditions.[29] | |
| 1920 | The payment of foreign loans was once again suspended due to adverse economic and political conditions.[30] | |
| 1850 | [2] | |
| 2020 | [31] | |
| 2001–02 | ||
| 1937 | [2] | |
| 1995–97 | [2] | |
| 1998 | [2] | |
| 2017 | Venezuela defaulted onUS$65 billion in external debt in November 2017 after years of unsustainable borrowing and a crash in global oil prices.[32] |
| Country | Date | Type, causes, consequences, and references |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Australia defaulted on its entire stock of domestic debt owed to bond and note holders. SeeGreat Depression in Australia. | |
| 1995–2004 | Default only on domestic debt, not external debt.[2] |
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