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CPI › Total indexMonthlyIndexPart of Total index

Latest
82.4
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
+0.6%
same period last year
Trend growth, 10 years
-6.2% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.94

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 82.4 for Aug 2026, up 0.8% from Jul 2026 and up 0.6% on the same month a year earlier.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged −0.1% over the last three months, against −0.2% in the three months before: the year-on-year pace is broadly unchanged.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is -6.2% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.94, a close fit, so the series has followed a steady path).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is -5.6% a year over five years and -4.7% a year over ten.
  • The record high was 217.7 in Jun 2004; the latest is 62.1% below it.
  • Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 3.6 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 Information and communication
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202629 Sep 2026Jun 2004 – 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 Information and communication
Aug 202682.4+0.6%
Jul 202681.80.0%
Jun 202681.3−0.9%
May 202681.4−0.7%
Apr 202681.8−0.3%
Mar 202682.4+0.4%
Feb 202683.2+0.6%
Jan 202683.3+1.4%
Dec 202583.2−0.6%
Nov 202582.4−2.8%
Oct 202582.3−3.9%
Sep 202581.9−3.6%
Aug 202581.9−3.8%
Jul 202581.8−4.9%
Jun 202582.1−5.3%
May 202581.9−5.7%
Apr 202582−5.7%
Mar 202582.1−6.3%
Feb 202582.7−5.7%
Jan 202582.2−6.1%
Dec 202483.7−4.7%
Nov 202484.8−3.6%
Oct 202485.7−6.3%
Sep 202485−7.0%
Aug 202485.2−7.8%
Jul 202486−8.5%
Jun 202486.7−8.2%
May 202486.9−8.8%
Apr 202487−9.9%
Mar 202487.6−11.1%

Sorted by Period, descending.

About this series

Source
Maldives Bureau of Statistics
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 464
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.