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Food and beverages

CPI › Total indexMonthlyIndexPart of Total index

Latest
123.1
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+5.7%
same period last year
Trend growth, 10 years
3.3% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.86

The whole record

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Source: Maldives Bureau of Statistics, via the Maldives Monetary Authority statistics database.

What the numbers say

Short term

The latest readings
  • The latest figure is 123.1 for Aug 2026, up 1% from Jul 2026 and up 5.7% on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +6.4% over the last three months, against +4.2% 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 3.3% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.86, a close fit, so the series has followed a steady path).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 5.5% a year over five years and 3.8% a year over ten.
  • The latest figure is the highest on record.
  • Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 1.7 percentage points (one standard deviation) over the past five years.

How to read this series

National consumer price index. The index itself and its thirteen spending divisions. The level has no meaning on its own (it is set to 100 in a base period); what matters is how fast it changes. Divisions carry different weights, so a large move in a small division barely shifts the total.

  • 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 Food and beverages
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202629 Sep 2026Jan 1985 – 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 Food and beverages
Aug 2026123.1+5.7%
Jul 2026122+6.4%
Jun 2026122.7+7.3%
May 2026120.4+5.9%
Apr 2026119.2+4.8%
Mar 2026118+1.9%
Feb 2026118+3.0%
Jan 2026115.8+1.2%
Dec 2025116.3+3.8%
Nov 2025114.9+3.7%
Oct 2025114.7+3.4%
Sep 2025115.5+3.7%
Aug 2025116.5+4.6%
Jul 2025114.7+4.2%
Jun 2025114.4+4.6%
May 2025113.8+4.8%
Apr 2025113.7+3.8%
Mar 2025115.9+6.2%
Feb 2025114.6+6.3%
Jan 2025114.4+7.4%
Dec 2024112+5.0%
Nov 2024110.7+5.2%
Oct 2024110.9+4.9%
Sep 2024111.3+5.2%
Aug 2024111.4+7.3%
Jul 2024110+6.5%
Jun 2024109.3+6.4%
May 2024108.5+6.3%
Apr 2024109.6+6.7%
Mar 2024109.1+5.9%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Maldives Bureau of Statistics
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 281
MMA table
Real Sector › Prices › National › CPI › Total index
Coverage
Jan 1985 to Aug 2026 · 500 observations
MMA updated
29 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.