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Crisis atlas / SLV / 1828–1860

El Salvador, 1828–1860

One crisis episode: distinct crisis years merged across gaps of up to two non-crisis years. Types, source agreement, and macro context are drawn from the union of five primary chronologies.

Sovereign debt

Crisis years in this episode

Every distinct (year, type) event inside the 1828–1860 window, with the chronologies flagging it and the count of agreeing sources. Start-year sources (GMD, JST) mark only the first year, so agreement falls in the continuation years.

  1. 1828
    Sovereign debtgmd, rr2 sources
  2. 1829
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  3. 1830
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  4. 1831
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  5. 1832
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  6. 1833
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  7. 1834
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  8. 1835
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  9. 1836
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  10. 1837
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  11. 1838
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  12. 1839
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  13. 1840
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  14. 1841
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  15. 1842
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  16. 1843
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  17. 1844
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  18. 1845
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  19. 1846
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  20. 1847
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  21. 1848
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  22. 1849
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  23. 1850
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  24. 1851
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  25. 1852
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  26. 1853
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  27. 1854
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  28. 1855
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  29. 1856
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  30. 1857
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  31. 1858
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  32. 1859
    Sovereign debtrr1 source
  33. 1860
    Sovereign debtrr1 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

Laeven-Valencia banking-crisis detail

Laeven-Valencia reports fiscal cost and output loss for systemic banking crises only. This episode involves sovereign debt crises, for which no comparable cost figures exist in the source chronologies.

Macro context, 18211867

Seven years either side of the episode. Each panel has its own scale; the crisis window is shaded. Only indicators with data for El Salvador in this window are shown. Bank credit growth (year over year in total loans) is available for the 18 Jordà-Schularick-Taylor advanced economies.

No macro panel coverage for this window.

Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) | Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory R6 (credit) Real GDP growth is derived as the year-over-year change in real GDP; current account and government debt are percent of GDP; policy rate is the central-bank rate; bank credit growth is the year-over-year change in JST total loans. Methodology

How each source dates this episode

The chronologies disagree on start years and durations. This table is generated from the event rows, not curated: it lists, per crisis type, which source flags which years inside the window.

Sovereign debt
  • Global Macro Database1828
  • Reinhart-Rogoff1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860

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

Policy-response case studies (external)

For qualitative accounts of how authorities intervened in systemic crises, see the Yale Program on Financial Stability New Bagehot Project, a library of financial-crisis intervention case studies. It is a separate qualitative resource; no specific case is asserted to match this episode.