Capital equipments

• The latest figure is MVR 48.9 million for Jul 2026, down 7.8% on the same month a year earlier.
• In the first 7 months of 2026 the total was MVR 379.4 million, up 4.2% on the same stretch of 2025.
• Over the latest 12 months it came to MVR 806.8 million, up 19.9% on the 12 months before.
• The change on a year earlier averaged +59.8% over the last three months, against −7.5% in the three months before: the year-on-year change has turned positive.

• Trend growth over the past 8 years is 11.6% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.66, a moderate fit, with sizeable swings around the path).
• Measured end to end, compound growth is 8.2% a year over five years, on 12-month totals.
• The record high (12-month total) was MVR 1.27 billion in the year to Jun 2025; the latest is 36.7% 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 January. Compare each month with the same one a year earlier, not with the one before.

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Source

Ministry of Finance and Planning

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MMA Statistics Database, series 2058

MMA table

Fiscal Sector › Monthly Fiscal Developments › Total recurrent and capital expenditure › Capital expenditure

Coverage

Jan 2017 to Jul 2026 · 115 observations

MMA updated

17 Aug 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.