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Claims on private sectors

Domestic claims › Claims on other sectorsMonthlyRufiyaa (MVR)Part of Claims on other sectors

Latest
MVR 42.92bn
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+17.4%
same period last year
Trend growth, 10 years
7.7% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.98

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 42.92 billion for Aug 2026, up 2.3% from Jul 2026 and up 17.4% on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +16.5% over the last three months, against +14.9% in the three months before: the year-on-year pace has picked up.
  • That annual change is unusual by the standard of the past ten years: 2.4 standard deviations above the average.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is 7.7% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.98, a close fit, so the series has followed a steady path).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 8.5% a year over five years and 8.9% a year over ten.
  • The latest figure is the highest on record.
  • Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 4.4 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 Claims on private sectors
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 Claims on private sectors
Aug 2026MVR 42.92 billion+17.4%
Jul 2026MVR 41.97 billion+16.3%
Jun 2026MVR 41.16 billion+15.7%
May 2026MVR 40.11 billion+14.7%
Apr 2026MVR 40.31 billion+16.1%
Mar 2026MVR 39.36 billion+13.8%
Feb 2026MVR 39.04 billion+13.2%
Jan 2026MVR 38.93 billion+13.4%
Dec 2025MVR 38.87 billion+13.2%
Nov 2025MVR 37.7 billion+8.7%
Oct 2025MVR 37.45 billion+7.8%
Sep 2025MVR 37.39 billion+7.7%
Aug 2025MVR 36.57 billion+6.4%
Jul 2025MVR 36.08 billion+6.1%
Jun 2025MVR 35.58 billion+6.2%
May 2025MVR 34.97 billion+5.5%
Apr 2025MVR 34.7 billion+6.6%
Mar 2025MVR 34.58 billion+7.8%
Feb 2025MVR 34.48 billion+7.1%
Jan 2025MVR 34.34 billion+6.9%
Dec 2024MVR 34.34 billion+6.7%
Nov 2024MVR 34.68 billion+8.6%
Oct 2024MVR 34.72 billion+9.6%
Sep 2024MVR 34.71 billion+10.5%
Aug 2024MVR 34.38 billion+11.4%
Jul 2024MVR 34.01 billion+11.7%
Jun 2024MVR 33.52 billion+11.1%
May 2024MVR 33.13 billion+10.3%
Apr 2024MVR 32.54 billion+9.8%
Mar 2024MVR 32.07 billion+8.4%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Maldives Monetary Authority
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 2292
MMA table
Financial Sector › Depository Corporations Survey › Net domestic assets › Domestic claims › Claims on other sectors
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.