Maldives — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Maldives, 1986–2025.
Latest value · 2025
4.01%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -58.8% since 1986
Inflation for Maldives was 4.01% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 40 years, from 1986 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 20.13% in 1993. The lowest was -1.69% in 2004 (about -2.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -2.25% per year.
Maldives ranks 61 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 33%. The median for South Asia is 3.56%, so Maldives sits above it. It peaked in 1993 and has fallen 80% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 320%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
4.01%
First (1986)
9.72%
Change
-58.8%
Highest
20.13%
in 1993
Lowest
-1.69%
in 2004
Average
4.73%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-2.25%
Years of data
40
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.01% |
| 2024 | 1.41% |
| 2023 | 2.9% |
| 2022 | 2.33% |
| 2021 | 0.54% |
| 2020 | -1.37% |
| 2019 | 0.22% |
| 2018 | -0.13% |
| 2017 | 2.82% |
| 2016 | 0.5% |
| 2015 | 0.95% |
| 2014 | 2.12% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services. A negative value means deflation. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG — Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.