# Population movement and migration in the Maldives: key findings from Census 2022

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- Issuing body: Maldives Bureau of Statistics
- Issued: 2024-03-01
- Archived: 2026-10-22
- Provenance: Independent
- Original: https://statisticsmaldives.gov.mv/mbs/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Migration-Census-2022.pdf
- File: https://cdn.sanity.io/files/j8w3ubbu/production/01b56c81d334b064cb138bfaab49a63eb078be26.pdf

Census findings on internal migration: more than half of Maldivians in Malé are migrants, and education is the main reason for moving to the capital.

## Coverage

- [Rebuilding a city that cannot stop: Malé's flooded streets and the cost of putting a nation on two square kilometres](https://www.goodmorningmaldives.com/news/male-rebuilding-city-cannot-stop-flooding-concentration) — 2026-10-23, Business & Infrastructure — A 90 mm storm flooded Malé on 21 October 2026. GMM's analysis of 51 years of rain, the tide gauge and the drains finds an island that has lost the capacity to cope, and sets out how to rebuild it without stopping the city.

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