TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION
				1990	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Aircraft Movement at Male' International Airport
Total Number of International Flights				1,650	7,055	7,710	8,570	8,994	9,245	7,690	7,691	8,703	9,176	11,046	9,125	10,470	12,645
	Scheduled Flights			1,102	5,825	6,284	6,850	7,210	7,418	5,973	6,296	7,474	7,609	9,074	7,400	8,114	9,414
	Chartered Flights			412	836	970	1241	1334	1267	1200	770	596	922	1123	742	1,073	1325
	Non Scheduled Flights			136	394	456	479	450	560	517	625	633	645	849	983	1,283	1,906
Passenger Movement of International Flights
	Arrivals			217,953	372,349	400,300	447,823	468,766	512,077	539,208	530,434	557,459	636,377	711,388	513,796	734,733	833,436
	Departures			217,841	374,491	403,668	443,311	474,737	518,931	534,580	533,985	552,311	635,150	721,508	501,025	723,758	824,592
	Direct Transit			78,146	97,665	110,016	103,594	143,979	182,269	47,872	77,689	156,274	120,884	143,791	147,434	113,854	124,453
Passenger Movement of Domestic Flights
	Arrivals			12,496	114,043	121,591	137,120	169,116	230,160	292,036	288,768	280,507	285,565	321,022	258,476	355,015	398,430
	Departures			21,860	108,930	117,815	141,618	176,885	236,391	283,279	275,904	276,453	276,528	307,322	260,897	361,191	411,112
	Direct Transit			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	462	-	53
Registered  Vehicles / Vessels
Sea Transport
	Number of Yacht Dhoni			61	196	206	217	232	230	238	244	198	203	62	80	88	101
	Number of Launches			649	502	566	639	698	727	797	848	930	1,030	914	1,035	1,210	1,428
	Number of Boats			297	182	222	245	199	284	296	319	342	355	335	367	416	456
Land Transport
	Number of Motor Cars			623	679	787	967	1,172	1,545	1,860	1,937	1,361 1_/	1,507 1_/	1,773 1_/	2,082	2,372	2727
	Number of Motor Cycles/Auto Cycles			2,943	4,848	5,319	6,087	7,542	9,394	10,880	12,647	8,889 1_/	11,484 1_/	14,517 1_/	18311 1_/	22113 1_/	26,777
Phone Calls ( '000 minutes)
International telephone calls				1,491	3,785	4,688	5,207	5,991	6,651	7,173	6,900	7,016	7,170	7,870	8,909	12,037	14,212
National telephone calls				NA	134,699	131,818	161,215	191,741	213,958	225,889	254,436	224,885	201,065	191,069	149,324	120,281	122,724
Mobile calls				NA	NA	NA	1,376	6,927	8,330	35,603	20,956	34,173	32,723	58,797	102,671	216,318	259,819
Phone lines
Fixed telephone lines				6,241	13,869	15,172	17,967	19,985	22,179	24,432	27,242	28,651	30,056	31,503	32,296	32,181	33,063
Pay phones								481	579	577	723	769	854	873	860	751	791
Mobile phone lines								1,606	2,776	8,387	18,433	41,899	66,466	113,246	153,393	271,053	311,422
Post-paid								1,606	2,776	8,387	11,537	12,274	13,277	16,374	19,485 *	29,038	29805
Pre-paid								-	-	-	6,896	29,625	53,189	96,872	133,908 *	242,015	281,617
* Revised