Crisis atlas / SUR

Suriname

4 distinct crisis events in 4 episodes, 1990–2016, 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

1990–2016

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.

2016
Currencygmd, laeven_valencia2 sources
2001
Currencygmd, laeven_valencia2 sources
1995
Currencygmd, laeven_valencia2 sources
1990
Currencygmd, 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.

1990

Currency

Inflation (% y/y)

Policy rate (%)

Govt debt (% of GDP)

1995

Currency

Inflation (% y/y)

Policy rate (%)

Govt debt (% of GDP)

2001

Currency

Inflation (% y/y)

Policy rate (%)

Govt debt (% of GDP)

2016

Currency

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