Crisis atlas / SLE

Sierra Leone

10 distinct crisis events in 3 episodes, 1977–1998, from the union of five primary chronologies.

Debt profile: government debt trajectory and crisis-start levels →

Banking crises

Currency crises

Sovereign debt crises

Crisis events

1977–1998

Span

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.

1998
Currencygmd, laeven_valencia2 sources
1995
Sovereign debtgmd, laeven_valencia2 sources
1994
Bankinglaeven_valencia1 source
1993
Bankinglaeven_valencia1 source
1992
Bankinglaeven_valencia1 source
1991
Bankinglaeven_valencia1 source
1990
Bankinggmd, laeven_valencia2 sources
1989
Currencygmd, laeven_valencia2 sources
1983
Currencygmd, laeven_valencia2 sources
1977
Sovereign 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.

1977

Sovereign debt

Inflation (% y/y)

Policy rate (%)

Govt debt (% of GDP)

1983

Currency

Inflation (% y/y)

Policy rate (%)

Govt debt (% of GDP)

1989–1998

CurrencyBankingSovereign debtoutput loss 34.5% of GDP (Laeven-Valencia 2026)

Inflation (% y/y)

Policy rate (%)

Govt debt (% of GDP)

Source: 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