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Import of food items

Composition of Exports and Imports › ImportsMonthlyUS dollarsPart of Import of goods

Latest
US$73.6m
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+7.7%
same period last year
2026 to date
US$557.2m
+8.4% on the same stretch of 2025
Trend growth, 10 years
7.3% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.77

The whole record

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Source: Maldives Customs Service, via the Maldives Monetary Authority statistics database.

What the numbers say

Short term

The latest readings
  • The latest figure is US$73.6 million for Aug 2026, up 7.7% on the same month a year earlier.
  • In the first 8 months of 2026 the total was US$557.2 million, up 8.4% on the same stretch of 2025.
  • Over the latest 12 months it came to US$833.9 million, up 6.9% on the 12 months before.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged +17.0% over the last three months, against −2.4% 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 7.3% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.77, a close fit, so the series has followed a steady path).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 11.8% a year over five years and 7% a year over ten, on 12-month totals.
  • The latest figure (12-month total) is the highest on record.
  • Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 24 percentage points (one standard deviation) over the past five years.
  • There is a regular seasonal pattern: over the last 5 full years the high point has been December and the low point June. Compare each month with the same one a year earlier, not with the one before.

How to read this series

Merchandise trade. Goods exported and imported each month, in US dollars, with imports broken down by type. The country imports far more goods than it exports; the gap is paid for mainly by tourism, which is a service and is not counted here.

  • Shown in current prices (nominal). Part of any long-run rise reflects inflation rather than a larger real amount.
  • A flow: it measures activity during each month, and months add up to an annual 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 Import of food items
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202628 Sep 2026Jan 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 Import of food items
Aug 2026US$73.6 million+7.7%
Jul 2026US$69.4 million+16.3%
Jun 2026US$66.1 million+27.0%
May 2026US$64.1 million+4.0%
Apr 2026US$60.5 million−7.9%
Mar 2026US$70.5 million−3.1%
Feb 2026US$75.8 million+12.4%
Jan 2026US$77.2 million+16.7%
Dec 2025US$79.8 million−1.2%
Nov 2025US$70.8 million+13.8%
Oct 2025US$66.9 million+5.7%
Sep 2025US$59.2 million−1.5%
Aug 2025US$68.3 million+1.3%
Jul 2025US$59.7 million+0.8%
Jun 2025US$52 million−3.5%
May 2025US$61.6 million+22.0%
Apr 2025US$65.8 million+8.7%
Mar 2025US$72.8 million+7.9%
Feb 2025US$67.5 million+2.8%
Jan 2025US$66.1 million+3.4%
Dec 2024US$80.8 million+18.0%
Nov 2024US$62.2 million−0.2%
Oct 2024US$63.3 million+10.4%
Sep 2024US$60.1 million+20.5%
Aug 2024US$67.4 million+24.5%
Jul 2024US$59.2 million+4.8%
Jun 2024US$53.9 million+24.6%
May 2024US$50.5 million−7.8%
Apr 2024US$60.5 million+11.4%
Mar 2024US$67.5 million+9.9%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Maldives Customs Service
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 3487
MMA table
External Sector › Composition of Exports and Imports › Imports
Coverage
Jan 2004 to Aug 2026 · 272 observations
MMA updated
28 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.