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Predetermined short-term net drains

Reserve Data TemplateMonthlyUS dollars

Latest
−US$527m
Sep 2026
On a year earlier
+US$254.8m
same period last year
Five-year average
−US$572.7m
On five years ago
+US$116.2m

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$527 million for Sep 2026, up US$36.9 million from Aug 2026 and up US$254.8 million on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +US$194.8 million over the last three months, against +US$219.3 million in the three months before: the year-on-year pace has eased.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • It has averaged −US$572.7 million over the past five years and −US$525.6 million over ten; the latest figure is US$45.7 million above the five-year average.

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.
  • This series takes negative values (a deficit or a net outflow), so changes are given as amounts; a percentage change from a negative base has no meaning.
  • 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 Predetermined short-term net drains
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 Predetermined short-term net drains
Sep 2026−US$527 million+US$254.8 million
Aug 2026−US$563.9 million+US$176.1 million
Jul 2026−US$534.6 million+US$153.6 million
Jun 2026−US$567.9 million+US$206.6 million
May 2026−US$548.7 million+US$193.5 million
Apr 2026−US$570.2 million+US$257.9 million
Mar 2026−US$1 billion−US$232.8 million
Feb 2026−US$1.03 billion−US$222.8 million
Jan 2026−US$839.9 million−US$98.7 million
Dec 2025−US$854.9 million−US$95.8 million
Nov 2025−US$806.3 million−US$107.6 million
Oct 2025−US$789.6 million−US$83.8 million
Sep 2025−US$781.7 million−US$459.3 million
Aug 2025−US$739.9 million−US$357.2 million
Jul 2025−US$688.2 million−US$336.3 million
Jun 2025−US$774.5 million−US$332 million
May 2025−US$742.2 million−US$323 million
Apr 2025−US$828 million−US$319.4 million
Mar 2025−US$771.1 million−US$342.8 million
Feb 2025−US$802.6 million−US$342.4 million
Jan 2025−US$741.2 million−US$299.6 million
Dec 2024−US$759.1 million−US$347.1 million
Nov 2024−US$698.7 million−US$215.4 million
Oct 2024−US$705.8 million−US$244.7 million
Sep 2024−US$322.5 million+US$144 million
Aug 2024−US$382.8 million+US$160.8 million
Jul 2024−US$351.9 million+US$117.3 million
Jun 2024−US$442.4 million+US$91.7 million
May 2024−US$419.2 million+US$181.4 million
Apr 2024−US$508.7 million+US$96.9 million

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About this series

Source
Maldives Monetary Authority
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 3395
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.