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Other foreign currency assets

Reserve Data TemplateMonthlyUS dollars

Latest
US$149m
Sep 2026
On a year earlier
+27.7%
same period last year
Trend growth, 10 years
-3.6% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.00

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$149 million for Sep 2026, up 23.5% from Aug 2026 and up 27.7% on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +8.0% over the last three months, against −23.4% in the three months before: the year-on-year change has turned positive.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is -3.6% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.00, a loose fit: the series has not followed a steady path, and this rate says little).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 28.8% a year over five years and 191.7% a year over ten.
  • The record high was US$150.3 million in Mar 2025; the latest is 0.8% below it.
  • The past five years include an exceptional swing in the annual growth rate, so no typical range is quoted.

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.

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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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 Other foreign currency assets
2 (current)15 Oct 20267 Oct 2026Dec 2014 – Sep 2026100
16 Oct 20268 Sep 2026Dec 2014 – 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 Other foreign currency assets
Sep 2026US$149 million+27.7%
Aug 2026US$120.7 million+3.0%
Jul 2026US$118.5 million−6.7%
Jun 2026US$130 million−10.4%
May 2026US$104.7 million−27.4%
Apr 2026US$96.5 million−32.5%
Mar 2026US$81 million−46.1%
Feb 2026US$91 million−39.2%
Jan 2026US$115.2 million−22.8%
Dec 2025US$115.1 million−22.5%
Nov 2025US$116.9 million−8.7%
Oct 2025US$116.3 million−5.1%
Sep 2025US$116.6 million+4,772.4%
Aug 2025US$117.2 million+4,796.5%
Jul 2025US$126.9 million+5,202.5%
Jun 2025US$145.1 million+6,485.8%
May 2025US$144.3 million+6,449.4%
Apr 2025US$143 million+6,392.3%
Mar 2025US$150.3 million+6,722.4%
Feb 2025US$149.6 million+6,693.3%
Jan 2025US$149.1 million+6,671.0%
Dec 2024US$148.6 million+6,645.9%
Nov 2024US$128.1 million+5,715.6%
Oct 2024US$122.5 million+5,464.6%
Sep 2024US$2.4 million+8.7%
Aug 2024US$2.4 million+8.7%
Jul 2024US$2.4 million+8.7%
Jun 2024US$2.2 million+27.7%
May 2024US$2.2 million+27.7%
Apr 2024US$2.2 million+15.0%

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About this series

Source
Maldives Monetary Authority
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 3391
MMA table
External Sector › Reserve Data Template
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.