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Total outstanding › ExternalQuarterlyRufiyaa (MVR)Part of External

Latest
MVR 18.56bn
Q2 2026
On a year earlier
−8.7%
same period last year
Trend growth, 10 years
35.3% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.52

The whole record

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Source: Ministry of Finance and Planning, via the Maldives Monetary Authority statistics database.

What the numbers say

Short term

The latest readings
  • The latest figure is MVR 18.56 billion for Q2 2026, down 4.6% from Q1 2026 and down 8.7% on the same quarter a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged −6.9% over the last two quarters, against +18.3% in the two quarters before: the year-on-year change has turned negative.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is 35.3% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.52, a moderate fit, with sizeable swings around the path).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is 1.5% a year over five years and 45.8% a year over ten.
  • The record high was MVR 21.09 billion in Q1 2021; the latest is 12% below it.
  • Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 26.2 percentage points (one standard deviation) over the past five years.

How to read this series

Public debt. Debt owed by the central government plus debt it has guaranteed for others, split into domestic and external. The ratio to GDP sets the debt against the size of the economy that has to service it. Reported quarterly, at the end of each quarter.

  • 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 quarter, 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

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 Guaranteed
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202623 Aug 2026Q1 2015 – Q2 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 Guaranteed
Q2 2026MVR 18.56 billion−8.7%
Q1 2026MVR 19.45 billion−5.1%
Q4 2025MVR 19.47 billion−3.0%
Q3 2025MVR 19.33 billion+39.5%
Q2 2025MVR 20.33 billion+51.4%
Q1 2025MVR 20.51 billion+51.1%
Q4 2024MVR 20.08 billion+42.0%
Q3 2024MVR 13.85 billion−9.2%
Q2 2024MVR 13.43 billion−15.6%
Q1 2024MVR 13.57 billion−4.9%
Q4 2023MVR 14.15 billion−4.9%
Q3 2023MVR 15.26 billion+18.1%
Q2 2023MVR 15.92 billion+17.9%
Q1 2023MVR 14.27 billion+10.8%
Q4 2022MVR 14.88 billion+9.8%
Q3 2022MVR 12.92 billion−24.4%
Q2 2022MVR 13.5 billion−21.6%
Q1 2022MVR 12.88 billion−39.0%
Q4 2021MVR 13.55 billion−29.0%
Q3 2021MVR 17.08 billion+10.3%
Q2 2021MVR 17.23 billion+9.9%
Q1 2021MVR 21.09 billion+67.2%
Q4 2020MVR 19.08 billion+49.9%
Q3 2020MVR 15.48 billion+27.1%
Q2 2020MVR 15.68 billion+40.1%
Q1 2020MVR 12.61 billion+24.7%
Q4 2019MVR 12.73 billion+23.0%
Q3 2019MVR 12.18 billion+44.7%
Q2 2019MVR 11.19 billion+44.1%
Q1 2019MVR 10.11 billion+185.2%
Q4 2018MVR 10.35 billion+1,229.8%
Q3 2018MVR 8.42 billion+1,827.8%
Q2 2018MVR 7.77 billion+2,777.7%
Q1 2018MVR 3.55 billion+792.4%
Q4 2017MVR 778.2 million−63.2%
Q3 2017MVR 436.9 million−9.1%
Q2 2017MVR 269.9 million−37.0%
Q1 2017MVR 397.4 million+44.6%
Q4 2016MVR 2.12 billion+382.1%
Q3 2016MVR 480.9 million+3.0%
Q2 2016MVR 428.1 million−37.9%
Q1 2016MVR 274.8 million−60.5%
Q4 2015MVR 439.1 million—
Q3 2015MVR 467 million—
Q2 2015MVR 689.4 million—
Q1 2015MVR 696.1 million—

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About this series

Source
Ministry of Finance and Planning
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 4520
MMA table
Fiscal Sector › Public and Publicly Guaranteed Debt of Central Government › Total outstanding › External
Coverage
Q1 2015 to Q2 2026 · 46 observations
MMA updated
23 Aug 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.