Crisis atlas / NZL
New Zealand
15 distinct crisis events in 9 episodes, 1888–2008, 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.
- 2008Currencyrr1 source
- 1997Currencyrr1 source
- 1990Bankingrr1 source
- 1989Bankingrr1 source
- 1988Bankingrr1 source
- 1987Bankinggmd, rr2 sources
- 1984Currencygmd, laeven_valencia, rr3 sources
- 1981Currencyrr1 source
- 1976Currencyrr1 source
- 1974Currencyrr1 source
- 1967Currencygmd, rr2 sources
- 1948Currencygmd, rr2 sources
- 1933Sovereign debtgmd, rr2 sources
- 1893Bankingrr1 source
- 1888Bankinggmd1 source
Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) | Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory R6 | Laeven & Valencia (2020, 2026) | 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.
1888
Banking1893
Banking1933
Sovereign debt1948
Currency1967
Currency1974–1976
Currency1981–1990
CurrencyBanking1997
Currency2008
CurrencySource: 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