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Net claims on central government

Net domestic assets › Domestic claimsMonthlyRufiyaa (MVR)Part of Domestic claims

Latest
MVR 55.19bn
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+25.1%
same period last year
Trend growth, 10 years
19.3% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.93

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 55.19 billion for Aug 2026, up 0.7% from Jul 2026 and up 25.1% on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +25.1% over the last three months, against +18.3% in the three months before: the year-on-year pace has picked up.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is 19.3% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.93, a close fit, so the series has followed a steady path).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 14.4% a year over five years and 15.7% a year over ten.
  • The latest figure is the highest on record.
  • Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 6 percentage points (one standard deviation) over the past five years.

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.
  • 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 Net claims on central government
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 claims on central government
Aug 2026MVR 55.19 billion+25.1%
Jul 2026MVR 54.81 billion+25.4%
Jun 2026MVR 53.88 billion+24.7%
May 2026MVR 53.24 billion+23.6%
Apr 2026MVR 53.18 billion+25.4%
Mar 2026MVR 44.28 billion+6.0%
Feb 2026MVR 45.05 billion+8.9%
Jan 2026MVR 45.91 billion+11.7%
Dec 2025MVR 46.21 billion+12.4%
Nov 2025MVR 44.98 billion+10.1%
Oct 2025MVR 44.4 billion+9.2%
Sep 2025MVR 43.92 billion+9.8%
Aug 2025MVR 44.11 billion+11.9%
Jul 2025MVR 43.69 billion+12.9%
Jun 2025MVR 43.22 billion+11.9%
May 2025MVR 43.09 billion+12.6%
Apr 2025MVR 42.39 billion+11.3%
Mar 2025MVR 41.77 billion+10.9%
Feb 2025MVR 41.38 billion+11.2%
Jan 2025MVR 41.12 billion+9.2%
Dec 2024MVR 41.13 billion+7.8%
Nov 2024MVR 40.84 billion+6.7%
Oct 2024MVR 40.65 billion+7.1%
Sep 2024MVR 40 billion+7.0%
Aug 2024MVR 39.41 billion+7.8%
Jul 2024MVR 38.7 billion+5.6%
Jun 2024MVR 38.62 billion+3.4%
May 2024MVR 38.28 billion+5.0%
Apr 2024MVR 38.1 billion+3.6%
Mar 2024MVR 37.65 billion+6.7%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Maldives Monetary Authority
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 2286
MMA table
Financial Sector › Depository Corporations Survey › Net domestic assets › Domestic claims
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.