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Historical Financial Statistics

Documentation

We aim to provide sufficient documentation that researchers can easily identify the sources and judge the quality of the data.

To see the documentation, which is in a PDF file, click here. Also, see these Excel formatting hints, which may help you more easily adapt data from our spreadsheets to your needs.

Here is some other current or planned information to assist in making international comparisons.

City and country names in English that differ from local or historical names. (Uploaded Jun 24, 11).
Spreadsheet of calendars (Julian, Gregorian, etc.) (9 Meg XLSB - Excel 2007 binary file - Uploaded Jan 24, 11) and file of notes in PDF (Uploaded Apr 30, 11). You must have a version of Excel that is 2007 or later because the sheet exceeds the dimensions allowed in the older versions.
Key dates in financial history (Uploaded Jun 24, 11).
Detailed chronologies of specific periods, such as the Great Depression (eventually).
Wars (eventually).
Changes of government (perhaps eventually).
Business cycle dates (eventually).
Financial crises (eventually).

Other material of interest

Calculating inflation rates in periods of high inflation when only exchange rates are available (Uploaded Jun 24, 11).

Thanks to our contributors

We thank the following researchers whose data we have used or who have helped us locate data. Affiliations are those that existed when we first posted the data or last known to us.

Multiple countries: Carlos Bastien (Gabinete de História Económica e Social, Lisbon); Marie-Thérèse Boyer-Xambeu (Laboratoire d'économie dionysien, University of Paris VIII); José Luis Cordeiro (Singularity University); Sandra Domingos Costa (Gabinete de História Económica e Social, Lisbon); Ghislain Deleplace (Laboratoire d'économie dionysien, University of Paris VIII); Niall Ferguson (Harvard University); Marc Flandreau (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva); Lucien Gillard (University of Paris I — Panthéon-Sorbonne); Nicholas Krus (Johns Hopkins University); Ana Bela Nunes (Gabinete de História Económica e Social, Lisbon); Rita Martins de Sousa (Gabinete de História Económica e Social, Lisbon); Larry Neal (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Dennis Quinn (Georgetown University); Moritz Schularick (Free University of Berlin); Palmira Tjipilica (Catholic University of Angola ); A. Maria Toyoda (Villanova Univerity); Marc Weidenmeir (Claremont McKenna College); Frédéric Zumer (University of Paris II — Panthéon-Assas)
Austria: John Komlos (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich); Thomas Scheiber (Oesterreichische Nationalbank — Austrian National Bank)
Brazil: Eustáquio Reis
Bulgaria: Kalina Dimitrova (Bulgarian National Bank); Martin Ivanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for History)
Canada: Cherie Metcalf (Queen’s University); Gilles Paquet (University of Ottawa); Angela Redish (University of British Columbia); Ronald A. Shearer (University of British Columbia); Jean-Pierre Wallot (deceased, formerly Archives Canada)
Chile: José Díaz (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile); Rolf Lüders (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile); Gert Wagner (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
China: Richard von Glahn (University of California-Los Angeles)
Cuba: Inés Roldán de Montaud (Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
Denmark: Kim Abildgren (Danmarks Nationalbank)
Greece: Sophia Lazaretou (Bank of Greece)
Indonesia: Pierre van der Eng (Australian National University)
Ireland: Kevin H. O’Rourke (Trinity College Dublin)
Italy: Michele Fratianni (Indiana University and Universitá Politecnica delle Marche); Franco Spinelli (University of Brescia)
Norway: Jan Tore Klovland (Norges Handelshøyskole - Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
Portugal: Rui Esteves (Oxford University); Fabiano Ferramosca (University of Porto); Jaime Reis (University of Lisbon)
Romania: Adriana Aloman (National Bank of Romania); Elisabeta Blejan (National Bank of Romania); Brînduşa Costache (National Bank of Romania); George Virgil Stoenescu (National Bank of Romania)
Serbia: Sanja Borković (National Bank of Serbia); Ljiljana Đurđević (National Bank of Serbia); Olivera Jovanović (National Bank of Serbia); Milan Šojić (National Bank of Serbia)
Spain: Pablo Martín-Aceña (University of Alcalá); María Ángeles Pons Brias (University of València)
Sweden: Håkan Lobell (Lund University)
Turkey (and Ottoman Empire): Sevket Pamuk (Bogaziçi University and London School of Economics)
United States (including Confederate States of America): William Craighead (Wesleyan University); William Bomberger (University of Florida); Gail Makinen (Georgetown University)