How much money did the banks that failed each year hold?

The five banks that failed in 2023 held $532 billion in assets, more than any other year, just ahead of 2008, when Washington Mutual and 24 other failed banks held $372 billion. In 1989, at the height of the savings-and-loan crisis, 530 failed banks and thrifts held $164 billion. These are dollars of the day, not adjusted for inflation, and assets are what each bank owned (mostly loans and bonds) at its last report before it failed. Depositors lose money only on accounts above the insurance limit; failed banks are usually sold to other banks.

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Year Assets of banks that failed, dollars
1934 2,661,000
1935 12,324,000
1936 12,927,000
1937 19,284,000
1938 13,919,000
1939 43,923,000
1940 7,959,000
1941 17,811,000
1942 1,602,000
1943 14,059,000
1944 2,098,000
1945 6,392,000
1946 351,000
1947 6,798,000
1948 10,360,000
1949 4,885,000
1950 4,005,000
1951 3,050,000
1952 2,389,000
1953 18,811,000
1954 1,138,000
1955 11,986,000
1956 12,914,000
1957 1,253,000
1958 8,905,000
1959 2,859,000
1960 7,506,000
1961 9,819,000
1962 0
1963 26,179,000
1964 25,849,000
1965 58,750,000
1966 120,646,000
1967 11,993,000
1968 25,155,000
1969 43,571,000
1970 62,147,000
1971 196,519,000
1972 22,054,000
1973 1,309,675,000
1974 3,822,596,000
1975 419,950,000
1976 1,039,292,000
1977 42,358,000
1978 994,034,000
1979 132,987,000
1980 239,316,000
1981 1,377,909,844
1982 4,652,702,689
1983 3,833,144,080
1984 4,188,925,237
1985 9,901,523,000
1986 15,307,286,000
1987 15,823,491,000
1988 48,363,949,000
1989 163,862,508,000
1990 146,585,865,000
1991 143,444,562,000
1992 89,554,183,000
1993 9,976,901,000
1994 1,600,689,000
1995 1,225,943,000
1996 232,634,000
1997 27,923,000
1998 290,238,000
1999 1,592,189,000
2000 410,160,000
2001 1,821,760,000
2002 2,872,720,000
2003 947,317,000
2004 170,099,000
2005 0
2006 0
2007 2,614,928,000
2008 371,945,480,000
2009 169,709,160,000
2010 92,084,988,000
2011 34,922,997,000
2012 11,617,348,000
2013 6,044,051,000
2014 2,913,503,000
2015 6,706,038,000
2016 277,182,000
2017 5,081,737,000
2018 0
2019 208,767,000
2020 454,986,000
2021 0
2022 0
2023 532,228,416,000
2024 5,974,040,000
2025 126,404,000