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Net foreign assets

Depository Corporations SurveyMonthlyRufiyaa (MVR)

Latest
MVR 3.09bn
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
−MVR 4.33bn
same period last year
Five-year average
MVR 9.63bn
On five years ago
−MVR 4.27bn

The whole record

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Source: Maldives Monetary Authority, via the Maldives Monetary Authority statistics database.

What the numbers say

Short term

The latest readings
  • The latest figure is MVR 3.09 billion for Aug 2026, down MVR 766.1 million from Jul 2026 and down MVR 4.33 billion on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged −MVR 3.58 billion over the last three months, against −MVR 2.09 billion in the three months before: the year-on-year decline has deepened.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • It has averaged MVR 9.63 billion over the past five years and MVR 9.81 billion over ten; the latest figure is MVR 6.54 billion below the five-year average.

How to read this series

Sources of money. The other side of the banking system’s balance sheet: what broad money is backed by. Net foreign assets are foreign-currency holdings less foreign liabilities; net domestic assets are mainly lending to the government and to the private sector. Rising claims on government mean the banking system is financing more of the deficit.

  • Shown in current prices (nominal). Part of any long-run rise reflects inflation rather than a larger real amount.
  • A stock: it is the amount outstanding at the end of each month, not activity during it, so periods are never added together.
  • This series takes negative values (a deficit or a net outflow), so changes are given as amounts; a percentage change from a negative base has no meaning.
  • 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: Sum of foreign assets owned by depository corporations from nonresidents less their foreign liabilities towards nonresidents

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

What is driving it

How much each component added to, or took from, the total’s growth on a year earlier.

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Each bar segment is a component’s change over the year as a share of the total a year earlier, in percentage points; the segments add up to the line. Calculation by Good Morning Maldives from MMA data.
Components of Net foreign assets
Central bankMVR 3.77bn
Other depository corporations−MVR 681.9m

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 Net foreign assets
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202623 Sep 2026Jan 1986 – 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 Net foreign assets
Aug 2026MVR 3.09 billion−MVR 4.33 billion
Jul 2026MVR 3.86 billion−MVR 2.99 billion
Jun 2026MVR 4.41 billion−MVR 3.43 billion
May 2026MVR 5.35 billion−MVR 3.06 billion
Apr 2026MVR 4.66 billion−MVR 6.24 billion
Mar 2026MVR 14.27 billion+MVR 3.03 billion
Feb 2026MVR 13.9 billion+MVR 3.6 billion
Jan 2026MVR 10.19 billion+MVR 1.4 billion
Dec 2025MVR 8.47 billion+MVR 1.6 billion
Nov 2025MVR 7.56 billion+MVR 2.63 billion
Oct 2025MVR 6.16 billion+MVR 3.52 billion
Sep 2025MVR 7.1 billion+MVR 3.64 billion
Aug 2025MVR 7.42 billion+MVR 2.83 billion
Jul 2025MVR 6.84 billion+MVR 2.14 billion
Jun 2025MVR 7.84 billion+MVR 1.49 billion
May 2025MVR 8.42 billion+MVR 1.02 billion
Apr 2025MVR 10.9 billion+MVR 622.4 million
Mar 2025MVR 11.23 billion+MVR 742.3 million
Feb 2025MVR 10.29 billion−MVR 1.56 billion
Jan 2025MVR 8.79 billion−MVR 2.03 billion
Dec 2024MVR 6.87 billion−MVR 2.62 billion
Nov 2024MVR 4.92 billion−MVR 3.05 billion
Oct 2024MVR 2.63 billion−MVR 4.63 billion
Sep 2024MVR 3.46 billion−MVR 3.7 billion
Aug 2024MVR 4.59 billion−MVR 4.5 billion
Jul 2024MVR 4.7 billion−MVR 3.82 billion
Jun 2024MVR 6.35 billion−MVR 3.16 billion
May 2024MVR 7.4 billion−MVR 4.71 billion
Apr 2024MVR 10.28 billion−MVR 2.98 billion
Mar 2024MVR 10.49 billion−MVR 2.89 billion

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Maldives Monetary Authority
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 2277
MMA table
Financial Sector › Depository Corporations Survey
Coverage
Jan 1986 to Aug 2026 · 488 observations
MMA updated
23 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.