IMF reserve position
- Latest
- US$6.5m
- Sep 2026
- On a year earlier
- −0.8%
- same period last year
- Trend growth, 10 years
- -0.5% a year
- least-squares fit, R² 0.26
The whole record
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What the numbers say
Short term
The latest readings- The latest figure is US$6.5 million for Sep 2026, down 0.7% from Aug 2026 and down 0.8% on the same month a year earlier.
- The change on a year earlier averaged −0.1% over the last three months, against +0.3% in the three months before: the year-on-year pace is broadly unchanged.
Long term
The record as a whole- Trend growth over the past 10 years is -0.5% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.26, a loose fit: the series has not followed a steady path, and this rate says little).
- Measured end to end, compound growth is -0.7% a year over five years and -0.3% a year over ten.
- The record high was US$7 million in Jan 2018; the latest is 6.7% below it.
- Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 3.6 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: Portion of gross international reserve held at IMF
Terms such as percentage points, flows and stocks, and trend growth are explained in How to read the tracker.
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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| 2 (current) | 15 Oct 2026 | 7 Oct 2026 | Dec 2014 – Sep 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 Oct 2026 | 8 Sep 2026 | Dec 2014 – Aug 2026 | — | — | — |
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All figures
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| Sep 2026 | US$6.5 million | −0.8% |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | US$6.6 million | 0.0% |
| Jul 2026 | US$6.5 million | +0.4% |
| Jun 2026 | US$6.5 million | −1.3% |
| May 2026 | US$6.6 million | +1.0% |
| Apr 2026 | US$6.6 million | +1.2% |
| Mar 2026 | US$6.5 million | +2.3% |
| Feb 2026 | US$6.6 million | +4.8% |
| Jan 2026 | US$6.6 million | +5.9% |
| Dec 2025 | US$6.6 million | +5.0% |
| Nov 2025 | US$6.5 million | +3.4% |
| Oct 2025 | US$6.5 million | +2.1% |
| Sep 2025 | US$6.6 million | +1.1% |
| Aug 2025 | US$6.6 million | +1.5% |
| Jul 2025 | US$6.5 million | +2.0% |
| Jun 2025 | US$6.6 million | +4.5% |
| May 2025 | US$6.5 million | +2.4% |
| Apr 2025 | US$6.5 million | +2.9% |
| Mar 2025 | US$6.4 million | +0.1% |
| Feb 2025 | US$6.3 million | −1.1% |
| Jan 2025 | US$6.3 million | −1.8% |
| Dec 2024 | US$6.3 million | −2.8% |
| Nov 2024 | US$6.3 million | −1.5% |
| Oct 2024 | US$6.4 million | +1.3% |
| Sep 2024 | US$6.5 million | +3.3% |
| Aug 2024 | US$6.5 million | +1.3% |
| Jul 2024 | US$6.4 million | −1.1% |
| Jun 2024 | US$6.3 million | −1.4% |
| May 2024 | US$6.4 million | −0.4% |
| Apr 2024 | US$6.3 million | −2.2% |
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About this series
- Source
- Maldives Monetary Authority
- Published by
- MMA Statistics Database, series 3388
- MMA table
- External Sector › Reserve Data Template › Official reserve assets
- Coverage
- Dec 2014 to Sep 2026 · 142 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.