Population
- Latest
- 581,053
- 2025
- On a year earlier
- +1.6%
- previous year
- Trend growth, 10 years
- 2.6% a year
- least-squares fit, R² 1.00
The whole record
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What the numbers say
Short term
The latest readings- The latest figure is 581,053 people for 2025, up 1.6% on the year before.
- That annual change is unusual by the standard of the past ten years: 2.8 standard deviations below the average.
Long term
The record as a whole- Trend growth over the past 10 years is 2.6% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 1.00, a close fit, so the series has followed a steady path).
- Measured end to end, compound growth is 2.3% a year over five years and 2.6% a year over ten.
- The latest figure is the highest on record.
- Year-on-year growth has typically varied by about 0.6 percentage points (one standard deviation) over the past five years.
How to read this series
Annual national accounts. The yearly benchmark: real and nominal GDP, the growth rate, GDP in US dollars and per person. A figure for the current year is an estimate or projection until the year is complete, and is marked as such.
- A stock: it is the amount outstanding at the end of each year, not activity during it, so periods are never added together.
- MMA's series includes a figure for 2026, a period that has not ended. Treat it as an estimate or projection; it is drawn dashed and left out of every calculation above.
- 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.
| Version | Stored | MMA updated | Covers | Added | Revised | Removed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (current) | 6 Oct 2026 | 3 Sep 2026 | 2003 – 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.
| 2026 (estimate or projection) | 623,138 people | — |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 581,053 people | +1.6% |
| 2024 | 571,891 people | +2.7% |
| 2023 | 556,836 people | +1.7% |
| 2022 | 547,651 people | +2.8% |
| 2021 | 532,498 people | +2.8% |
| 2020 | 517,763 people | +2.8% |
| 2019 | 503,437 people | +2.8% |
| 2018 | 489,506 people | +2.8% |
| 2017 | 475,962 people | +2.8% |
| 2016 | 462,792 people | +2.8% |
| 2015 | 449,986 people | +2.8% |
| 2014 | 437,535 people | +2.1% |
| 2013 | 428,671 people | +2.7% |
| 2012 | 417,306 people | +2.7% |
| 2011 | 406,359 people | +3.2% |
| 2010 | 393,578 people | +2.3% |
| 2009 | 384,801 people | −1.4% |
| 2008 | 390,414 people | +4.1% |
| 2007 | 374,944 people | +5.8% |
| 2006 | 354,367 people | +4.7% |
| 2005 | 338,591 people | +3.3% |
| 2004 | 327,893 people | +2.8% |
| 2003 | 318,831 people | — |
Sorted by Period, descending.
About this series
- Source
- Maldives Bureau of Statistics
- Published by
- MMA Statistics Database, series 79
- MMA table
- Real Sector › Annual National Accounts › Production Approach › Memorandum Items
- Coverage
- 2003 to 2025 · 23 observations
- MMA updated
- 3 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.