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Tobacco and araca nut

CPI › Total indexMonthlyIndexPart of Total index

Latest
163.4
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
−26.2%
same period last year
Trend growth, 10 years
14.1% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.83

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 163.4 for Aug 2026, down 22.6% from Jul 2026 and down 26.2% on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged −10.3% over the last three months, against +1.4% in the three months before: the year-on-year change has turned negative.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is 14.1% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.83, a close fit, so the series has followed a steady path).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 11.4% a year over five years and 12.2% a year over ten.
  • The record high was 221.9 in Oct 2025; the latest is 26.4% below it.
  • Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 41.4 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 Tobacco and araca nut
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202629 Sep 2026Jun 2004 – 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 Tobacco and araca nut
Aug 2026163.4−26.2%
Jul 2026211.2−4.5%
Jun 2026220.3−0.1%
May 2026220.4+4.3%
Apr 2026220.2−0.1%
Mar 2026220.1−0.1%
Feb 2026220.50.0%
Jan 2026220−0.2%
Dec 2025219.9+2.0%
Nov 2025219.9+18.7%
Oct 2025221.9+108.7%
Sep 2025221.4+108.2%
Aug 2025221.3+108.5%
Jul 2025221.1+108.4%
Jun 2025220.6+107.9%
May 2025211.4+99.6%
Apr 2025220.5+108.0%
Mar 2025220.3+107.9%
Feb 2025220.5+108.5%
Jan 2025220.4+108.7%
Dec 2024215.5+103.9%
Nov 2024185.3+75.3%
Oct 2024106.3−0.1%
Sep 2024106.3−0.1%
Aug 2024106.2−0.4%
Jul 2024106.1−0.3%
Jun 2024106.1−0.4%
May 2024105.9−0.5%
Apr 2024106−0.5%
Mar 2024106−0.6%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Maldives Bureau of Statistics
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 348
MMA table
Real Sector › Prices › National › CPI › Total index
Coverage
Jun 2004 to Aug 2026 · 267 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.