Maldives

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Economy

GDP per person $14,615 (2025)
GDP per person, price-adjusted $28,555 (2025)
Economic growth +6.3% (2025)
Unemployment 4.5% (2025)
Inflation +1.4% (2024)
Exports 78.2% (2024)
Income per person $19,322 (2023)
Household wealth 87.2 (2019)
Poorer households 0.2% (2019)
Wealth inequality 0.04 (2019)
Women in paid work 40.2% (2019)

People

Population 526,009 (2023)
Population growth +0.35% (2025)
Births per woman 1.56 (2024)
Typical age 31.1 (2023)
Living in cities 42.5% (2025)
Human Development Index 0.766 (2023)
Women’s vs men’s development 0.986 (2023)
People per household 7.0 (2019)
People over 65 5.8% (2019)
Children under 15 29.3% (2019)
Women’s age at first marriage 20.7 (2019)
Mothers’ age at first birth 22.4 (2019)

Health

Life expectancy 81.0 (2023)
Child deaths (under 5) 5.4 (2024)
Mothers dying in childbirth 32 (2023)
Health spending per person $1,159 (2023)
Measles vaccination 99% (2024)
Overweight adults 52.5% (2022)
Stunted children 14.4% (2019)
Overweight children 4.1% (2019)
Homes with piped water 58.2% (2019)
Homes with a flush toilet 99.6% (2019)

Education

Years of schooling 7.4 (2023)
Expected years in school 12.8 (2023)
Secondary school enrollment 79.4% (2023)
Education spending 4.7% (2022)
Teens in school 87.3% (2019)

Environment

CO₂ per person 4.37 (2024)
Total CO₂ emissions 2.31 million (2024)
Forest cover 2.8% (2023)
Air pollution (PM2.5) 10.7 (2024)
Renewable energy share 1.4% (2021)

Energy

Technology

Internet users 85.2% (2024)
Mobile phone subscriptions 136.5 (2022)
Home broadband 17.4 (2022)
Homes with internet 77.8% (2019)
Homes with a mobile phone 99.0% (2019)

Food and farming

Cereal yield 2,432 (2023)
Farmland 19.8% (2023)
Jobs in farming 11.3% (2025)

Government

Electoral democracy 0.56 (2025)
Human rights 0.72 (2025)
Control of corruption −0.33 (2025)
Women in parliament 3.2% (2025)
Clean government 47.2 (2022)