Visual History of Financial Crises

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This graphic is based on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff. Using data developed by Reinhart and Rogoff, it maps the cyclical history of financial crisis from 1810 to 2010 for sixty-six countries representing 90% of world GDP.

"In This Time is Different, we tried wherever possible to highlight our main points in each chapter with a very small number of simple easily understood figures and/or tables. But it was always our ambition to be able to create a single chart that captured the books' main ideas, a sort of 'Napolean's March' for financial crises. This very interesting and beautiful chart by HistoryShots is a stunning creative effort that reflects that ambition.

Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff

The giant wave in the top section of the graphic depicts the percentage of world GDP by region in crisis during the 200 year period. It includes the four major financial crisis types (sovereign default, banking, currency, and inflation) along with stock market crashes.

The bottom section provides a detailed chart of all sovereign defaults by country, region and year. It shows the repeating nature of sovereign default, a central theme of Reinhart and Rogoff's book.

Created in partnership with the Princeton University Press, this graphic provides a comprehensive yet accessible view into the historical and current cycles of financial crises.

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