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Official reserve assets

Reserve Data TemplateMonthlyUS dollars

Latest
US$547.8m
Sep 2026
On a year earlier
−36.3%
same period last year
Trend growth, 10 years
2.4% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.09

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 US$547.8 million for Sep 2026, down 14.9% from Aug 2026 and down 36.3% on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged −24.8% over the last three months, against −15.8% in the three months before: the year-on-year decline has deepened.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is 2.4% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.09, a loose fit: the series has not followed a steady path, and this rate says little).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is -11.6% a year over five years and 0.1% a year over ten.
  • The record high was US$1.33 billion in Mar 2026; the latest is 58.9% below it.
  • Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 38.4 percentage points (one standard deviation) over the past five years.

How to read this series

Official reserves. The foreign currency and other reserve assets held by the central bank, in US dollars. Reserves pay for imports and foreign debt in a crisis. Short-term net drains are payments already committed within a year, so headline reserves overstate what is freely usable.

  • 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.

MMA’s note: This represents data compiled as per the International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity data template guideline by IMF (2013). This includes only on-balance sheet items of Maldives Monetary Authority.

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 Official reserve assets
Foreign currency reservesUS$532.6m
IMF reserve positionUS$6.5m
SDRsUS$308,886
GoldUS$8.4m
Other reserve assetsUS$0

Revisions

Every copy of this series held by this site, overlaid, with the size of the latest revision for each period.

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Lines: each version of the series held by this site, newest solid. Bars: the newest version minus the one before it, for periods present in both.
Stored versions of Official reserve assets
2 (current)15 Oct 20267 Oct 2026Jan 1986 – Sep 2026100
16 Oct 20268 Sep 2026Jan 1986 – 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 Official reserve assets
Sep 2026US$547.8 million−36.3%
Aug 2026US$643.8 million−20.5%
Jul 2026US$638 million−17.6%
Jun 2026US$686.8 million−17.5%
May 2026US$704.8 million−13.6%
Apr 2026US$717.9 million−16.2%
Mar 2026US$1.33 billion+68.4%
Feb 2026US$1.27 billion+52.8%
Jan 2026US$1.03 billion+44.9%
Dec 2025US$984.6 million+46.1%
Nov 2025US$886.5 million+43.9%
Oct 2025US$866.3 million+40.9%
Sep 2025US$859.5 million+131.5%
Aug 2025US$810 million+82.5%
Jul 2025US$774.5 million+95.9%
Jun 2025US$832.4 million+63.5%
May 2025US$815.8 million+65.8%
Apr 2025US$856.3 million+37.7%
Mar 2025US$791 million+46.0%
Feb 2025US$832.1 million+41.3%
Jan 2025US$708.1 million+28.5%
Dec 2024US$673.9 million+14.1%
Nov 2024US$616.2 million+6.0%
Oct 2024US$614.6 million+11.3%
Sep 2024US$371.2 million−37.4%
Aug 2024US$443.9 million−36.1%
Jul 2024US$395.4 million−33.4%
Jun 2024US$509.2 million−27.5%
May 2024US$492.2 million−34.2%
Apr 2024US$622.1 million−17.8%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Maldives Monetary Authority
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 3382
MMA table
External Sector › Reserve Data Template
Coverage
Jan 1986 to Sep 2026 · 489 observations
MMA updated
7 Oct 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.