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Tourist arrivals from Africa

Monthly Tourist Arrivals › Total tourist arrivalsMonthlyTouristsPart of Total tourist arrivals

Latest
2,177
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+12.3%
same period last year
2026 to date
11,700
−13.0% on the same stretch of 2025
Trend growth, 10 years
8.4% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.36

The whole record

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Source: Ministry of Tourism and Environment, via the Maldives Monetary Authority statistics database.

What the numbers say

Short term

The latest readings
  • The latest figure is 2,177 tourists for Aug 2026, up 12.3% on the same month a year earlier.
  • In the first 8 months of 2026 the total was 11,700 tourists, down 13% on the same stretch of 2025.
  • Over the latest 12 months it came to 20,088 tourists, down 10.1% on the 12 months before.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +0.2% over the last three months, against −27.7% in the three months before: the year-on-year change has turned positive.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is 8.4% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.36, a loose fit: the series has not followed a steady path, and this rate says little).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 0.5% a year over five years and 7.3% a year over ten, on 12-month totals.
  • The record high (12-month total) was 31,446 tourists in the year to Jun 2022; the latest is 36.1% below it.
  • The past five years include an exceptional swing in the annual growth rate, so no typical range is quoted.
  • There is a regular seasonal pattern: over the last 5 full years the high point has been December and the low point February. Compare each month with the same one a year earlier, not with the one before.

How to read this series

Tourist arrivals. Visitors arriving each month, in total and by the region they come from. Arrivals are strongly seasonal, with the northern winter the high season, so the 12-month total is the cleanest measure of the underlying level.

  • A flow: it measures activity during each month, and months add up to an annual total.
  • 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 Tourist arrivals from Africa
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202627 Sep 2026Jan 1988 – Aug 2026———

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All figures

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

Every observation of Tourist arrivals from Africa
Aug 20262,177 tourists+12.3%
Jul 20262,220 tourists+4.6%
Jun 20261,340 tourists−16.4%
May 20261,571 tourists+10.9%
Apr 20261,245 tourists−43.8%
Mar 2026665 tourists−50.1%
Feb 2026883 tourists−33.3%
Jan 20261,599 tourists+7.4%
Dec 20253,078 tourists−10.2%
Nov 20251,578 tourists−9.6%
Oct 20251,789 tourists+3.2%
Sep 20251,943 tourists−2.9%
Aug 20251,938 tourists−10.8%
Jul 20252,122 tourists+0.3%
Jun 20251,602 tourists−20.4%
May 20251,417 tourists−5.3%
Apr 20252,217 tourists+6.7%
Mar 20251,334 tourists−0.9%
Feb 20251,323 tourists−15.9%
Jan 20251,489 tourists−5.9%
Dec 20243,429 tourists+12.8%
Nov 20241,746 tourists+17.8%
Oct 20241,733 tourists−1.3%
Sep 20242,002 tourists−7.1%
Aug 20242,173 tourists−13.0%
Jul 20242,115 tourists−10.4%
Jun 20242,013 tourists+10.7%
May 20241,496 tourists−18.5%
Apr 20242,078 tourists−1.0%
Mar 20241,346 tourists−28.8%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Ministry of Tourism and Environment
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 197
MMA table
Real Sector › Tourism › Monthly Tourist Arrivals › Total tourist arrivals
Coverage
Jan 1988 to Aug 2026 · 464 observations
MMA updated
27 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.