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Operational bed capacity

Tourism › Tourism IndicatorsMonthlyBeds

Latest
68,506
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+4.6%
same period last year
Trend growth, 10 years
8.2% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.22

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 68,506 beds for Aug 2026, up 0.3% from Jul 2026 and up 4.6% on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +5.1% over the last three months, against +6.0% 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 8.2% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.22, a loose fit: the series has not followed a steady path, and this rate says little).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 6.3% a year over five years and 7.3% a year over ten.
  • The latest figure is the highest on record.
  • Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 15.6 percentage points (one standard deviation) over the past five years.

How to read this series

Capacity and stay. How long visitors stay and how full the beds are. Bednights are arrivals multiplied by length of stay; the occupancy rate is bednights as a share of the bed capacity in operation. Arrivals can rise while bednights lag if stays get shorter. Travel receipts are what visitors spend, in US dollars.

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

MMA’s note: Number of beds in operation

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 Operational bed capacity
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202627 Sep 2026Jan 1988 – 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 Operational bed capacity
Aug 202668,506 beds+4.6%
Jul 202668,294 beds+5.1%
Jun 202667,954 beds+5.5%
May 202667,536 beds+5.1%
Apr 202668,005 beds+6.7%
Mar 202667,545 beds+6.3%
Feb 202667,182 beds+8.2%
Jan 202666,800 beds+8.6%
Dec 202567,475 beds+6.5%
Nov 202566,571 beds+5.8%
Oct 202566,030 beds+5.6%
Sep 202565,654 beds+7.1%
Aug 202565,496 beds+7.2%
Jul 202564,995 beds+6.4%
Jun 202564,385 beds+4.7%
May 202564,280 beds+4.3%
Apr 202563,711 beds+3.2%
Mar 202563,551 beds+3.2%
Feb 202562,081 beds+1.3%
Jan 202561,505 beds+0.8%
Dec 202463,336 beds+2.6%
Nov 202462,920 beds−0.7%
Oct 202462,540 beds−0.9%
Sep 202461,274 beds−2.6%
Aug 202461,104 beds−1.8%
Jul 202461,075 beds−0.9%
Jun 202461,475 beds+0.6%
May 202461,616 beds+1.3%
Apr 202461,761 beds+1.7%
Mar 202461,555 beds+1.5%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Ministry of Tourism and Environment
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 226
MMA table
Real Sector › Tourism › Tourism Indicators
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.