Key statistics
- The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.4% this quarter.
- Over the twelve months to the March 2023 quarter, the CPI rose 7.0%.
- The most significant price rises were Medical and hospital services (+4.2%), Tertiary education (+9.7%), Gas and other household fuels (+14.3%), and Domestic holiday travel and accommodation (+4.7%).
What’s new this quarter
- The Maldives Bureau of Statistics (MBS) have published a joint paper called New Insights into the Rental Market. The paper draws out new insights into the private Maldivian rental market using a new large administrative dataset of rental properties, which is an input to the Consumer Price Index (CPI). For more details see New Insights into the Rental Market.
- Monthly inflation data can be found in the Monthly CPI Indicator.
