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Total index

Atolls › CPIMonthlyIndex

Latest
111.3
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+1.8%
same period last year
Trend growth, 10 years
1.2% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.62

The whole record

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Source: Maldives Bureau of Statistics, via the Maldives Monetary Authority statistics database.

What the numbers say

Short term

The latest readings
  • The latest figure is 111.3 for Aug 2026, down 0.5% from Jul 2026 and up 1.8% on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +2.8% over the last three months, against +1.9% in the three months before: the year-on-year pace is broadly unchanged.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is 1.2% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.62, a moderate fit, with sizeable swings around the path).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 2.7% a year over five years and 1.5% a year over ten.
  • The record high was 112.4 in Jun 2026; the latest is 1% below it.
  • Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 2.1 percentage points (one standard deviation) over the past five years.

How to read this series

Malé and atolls. The same index and inflation rate measured separately for the capital and for the atolls, where the mix of spending differs.

  • Recent periods are often revised as fuller data arrive. The version comparison below shows what MMA has changed since this site began keeping copies.

Terms such as percentage points, flows and stocks, and trend growth are explained in How to read the tracker.

Revisions

This site holds one version of this series so far, first stored on 6 Oct 2026. Each time MMA adds a period or revises a past figure, a new version is kept alongside the old one and the two are charted against each other here.

Stored versions of Total index
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202629 Sep 2026Jun 2012 – Aug 2026———

Sorted by Version, descending.

All figures

Every period on record, newest first. Sort by any column, filter, copy the table or download it as CSV.

Every observation of Total index
Aug 2026111.3+1.8%
Jul 2026111.9+3.0%
Jun 2026112.4+3.5%
May 2026112+3.6%
Apr 2026112+3.5%
Mar 2026107−1.5%
Feb 2026109.8+0.3%
Jan 2026108.8−0.2%
Dec 2025109.2+0.6%
Nov 2025108.8+1.7%
Oct 2025108.3+4.4%
Sep 2025108.7+4.8%
Aug 2025109.3+5.6%
Jul 2025108.6+4.8%
Jun 2025108.6+4.9%
May 2025108.1+6.0%
Apr 2025108.1+6.9%
Mar 2025108.6+6.6%
Feb 2025109.5+6.5%
Jan 2025109.1+6.3%
Dec 2024108.5+5.6%
Nov 2024107+4.4%
Oct 2024103.7+0.8%
Sep 2024103.7+0.7%
Aug 2024103.5+1.2%
Jul 2024103.7+1.1%
Jun 2024103.5+1.4%
May 2024102+0.2%
Apr 2024101.1−1.1%
Mar 2024101.9−0.3%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Maldives Bureau of Statistics
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 1426
MMA table
Real Sector › Prices › Atolls › CPI
Coverage
Jun 2012 to Aug 2026 · 171 observations
MMA updated
29 Sep 2026
Last checked
22 Oct 2026

The analysis is calculated by Good Morning Maldives from the published figures; it describes the data and is not a forecast.