This chart shows the history of sovereign-debt defaults

Some countries have a bit of a history of defaulting on their debts.
And you can see this clearly via the Bank of America Merrill Lynch chart below, courtesy of Yahoo Finance's managing editor Sam Ro.
It shows the share of years in default or rescheduling since independence or 1800 for a bunch of countries as well as the total number of external defaults and reschedulings for those countries.The history of sovereign debt defaults - BAML pic.twitter.com/D5ILb8JsUo— Sam Ro(@bySamRo) June 13,