Crisis atlas / BLZ
Belize
4 distinct crisis events in 3 episodes, 2007–2017, from the union of five primary chronologies.
Debt profile: government debt trajectory and crisis-start levels →
Crisis timeline
Every distinct (year, type) event, most recent first, with the chronologies flagging it. Start-year sources (GMD, JST) do not mark continuation years, so long episodes show lower agreement after their first year.
- 2017Sovereign debtgmd, laeven_valencia2 sources
- 2013Sovereign debtlaeven_valencia1 source
- 2012Sovereign debtgmd, laeven_valencia2 sources
- 2007Sovereign debtgmd, laeven_valencia2 sources
Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) | Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory R6 | Laeven & Valencia (2020) | Reinhart-Rogoff via HBS BFFS | ECB/ESRB Financial Crises Database Methodology
Macro context around each episode
Inflation, central-bank policy rate, and government debt in a window of five years either side of each crisis episode (consecutive crisis years bridged across gaps of up to two years). Crisis years shaded.
2007
Sovereign debt2012–2013
Sovereign debt2017
Sovereign debtSource: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) Inflation is % year over year; policy rate is the central-bank rate in %; government debt is % of GDP. Methodology