Until recently, there have been few efforts to systematically measure and aggregate the nominal value of the different types of sovereign government debt in default. To help fill this gap, the Bank of Canada's Credit Rating Assessment Group (CRAG) has developed a comprehensive database of ...
The BoC-BoE database, launched in 2014 and updated annually, now covers the 1960-2018 period, includes 146 sovereigns that we identify as having defaulted in that timeframe, shows yearly nominal USD values by type of official and private creditor by country and aggregated globally. For the ...