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Interest rate of foreign currency private sector loans and advances

Loans and Advances › Private SectorMonthlyPer cent

Latest
8.25%
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
−0.04 pp
same period last year
Five-year average
8.28%
On five years ago
+0.16 pp

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 8.25% for Aug 2026, down 0.03 percentage points from Jul 2026 and down 0.04 percentage points on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged −0.01 pp over the last three months, against +0.11 pp in the three months before: the year-on-year pace is broadly unchanged.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • It has averaged 8.28% over the past five years and 8.53% over ten; the latest figure is 0.03 pp below the five-year average.

How to read this series

Interest and policy rates. The rates the central bank sets (its policy rate, the reserve requirements and its standing facilities) and the average rates commercial banks charge on loans in rufiyaa and in foreign currency.

  • Changes in a rate or ratio are given in percentage points, the plain difference between two readings.
  • 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 Interest rate of foreign currency private sector loans and advances
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202623 Sep 2026Jan 2010 – Aug 2026———

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All figures

Every period on record, newest first. Sort by any column, filter, copy the table or download it as CSV.

Every observation of Interest rate of foreign currency private sector loans and advances
Aug 20268.25%−0.04 pp
Jul 20268.28%−0.02 pp
Jun 20268.3%+0.02 pp
May 20268.35%+0.13 pp
Apr 20268.41%+0.10 pp
Mar 20268.46%+0.10 pp
Feb 20268.45%−0.01 pp
Jan 20268.47%+0.17 pp
Dec 20258.52%+0.16 pp
Nov 20258.37%−0.15 pp
Oct 20258.35%−0.20 pp
Sep 20258.36%−0.32 pp
Aug 20258.29%−0.42 pp
Jul 20258.31%−0.38 pp
Jun 20258.28%−0.26 pp
May 20258.22%+0.12 pp
Apr 20258.31%−0.18 pp
Mar 20258.36%−0.11 pp
Feb 20258.46%+0.01 pp
Jan 20258.3%−0.14 pp
Dec 20248.36%−0.08 pp
Nov 20248.52%+0.05 pp
Oct 20248.56%+0.13 pp
Sep 20248.67%+0.25 pp
Aug 20248.71%+0.13 pp
Jul 20248.69%+0.33 pp
Jun 20248.54%+0.17 pp
May 20248.1%−0.50 pp
Apr 20248.49%0.00 pp
Mar 20248.47%+0.17 pp

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Maldives Monetary Authority
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 2782
MMA table
Financial Sector › Interest Rates › Other Depository Corporations › Loans and Advances › Private Sector
Coverage
Jan 2010 to Aug 2026 · 200 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.