Travel services (% of commercial service imports) in Maldives
Maldives: Travel services (% of commercial service imports) was 27.9% in 2025. ▲ Rising
Travel services in Maldives, 1979–2025
Source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF). Measured in % of commercial service imports.
Analysis
Maldives recorded 27.9% for travel services in 2025.
The figure is up 2.4% on the previous year and down 4.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, travel services in Maldives peaked at 52.4% in 1993 and was at its lowest, 1.2%, in 1980.
Maldives ranks 55th of 198 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 47 years of available data.
Travel services (% of commercial service imports) in Maldives, year by year
| Year | % of commercial service imports | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 1.6% | — |
| 1980 | 1.2% | -24.0% |
| 1981 | 5.2% | +320.8% |
| 1982 | 5.7% | +9.7% |
| 1983 | 8.9% | +56.2% |
| 1984 | 12.0% | +34.7% |
| 1985 | 22.4% | +85.6% |
| 1986 | 24.7% | +10.4% |
| 1987 | 24.3% | -1.7% |
| 1988 | 27.7% | +14.3% |
| 1989 | 35.6% | +28.2% |
| 1990 | 40.5% | +13.8% |
| 1991 | 46.2% | +14.2% |
| 1992 | 44.2% | -4.2% |
| 1993 | 52.4% | +18.4% |
| 1994 | 45.1% | -13.8% |
| 1995 | 41.6% | -7.7% |
| 1996 | 44.1% | +5.9% |
| 1997 | 42.5% | -3.5% |
| 1998 | 43.2% | +1.5% |
| 1999 | 42.2% | -2.2% |
| 2000 | 42.8% | +1.3% |
| 2001 | 41.6% | -2.9% |
| 2002 | 41.7% | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 38.9% | -6.6% |
| 2004 | 35.8% | -8.1% |
| 2005 | 33.3% | -7.0% |
| 2006 | 34.6% | +4.0% |
| 2007 | 37.4% | +8.1% |
| 2008 | 39.8% | +6.3% |
| 2009 | 44.3% | +11.3% |
| 2010 | 45.9% | +3.8% |
| 2011 | 31.9% | -30.6% |
| 2012 | 29.0% | -9.1% |
| 2013 | 29.5% | +1.9% |
| 2014 | 26.3% | -10.8% |
| 2015 | 29.2% | +10.8% |
| 2016 | 26.0% | -10.9% |
| 2017 | 24.4% | -6.3% |
| 2018 | 25.4% | +4.4% |
| 2019 | 26.3% | +3.5% |
| 2020 | 15.3% | -41.7% |
| 2021 | 14.2% | -7.3% |
| 2022 | 19.2% | +34.6% |
| 2023 | 24.9% | +30.2% |
| 2024 | 27.2% | +9.2% |
| 2025 | 27.9% | +2.4% |
Maldives compared with similar countries
- Maldives's 27.9% is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 23.2%, 1.2× the median. (55 countries reporting)
- Maldives's 27.9% is above the median for South Asia, which is 26.3%, 1.1× the median. (6 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Travel services (% of commercial service imports) in Maldives changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | +320.8% | 1.2% | 5.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1 |
| 1980s | 16.8% | 1.2% | 35.6% | 10 |
| 1990s | 44.2% | 40.5% | 52.4% | 10 |
| 2000s | 39.0% | 33.3% | 44.3% | 10 |
| 2010s | 29.4% | 24.4% | 45.9% | 10 |
| 2020s | 21.5% | 14.2% | 27.9% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Maldives
More private sector data for Maldives
- Merchandise trade 52.5% (2025)
- Food imports 22.0% (2025)
- Manufactures imports 53.4% (2025)
- Merchandise imports 3.62 billion current US$ (2025)
- Commercial service imports 1.88 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 97.0% (2025)
- Manufactures exports 0.2% (2025)
- Merchandise exports 444.00 million current US$ (2025)
- Commercial service exports 5.79 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 838.25 current US$ per person (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is travel services in Maldives?
- Travel services in Maldives was 27.9% in 2025, according to Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- What is the highest travel services recorded in Maldives?
- The highest recorded value was 52.4% in 1993.
- What is the lowest travel services recorded in Maldives?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.2% in 1980.
- How does Maldives rank for travel services?
- Maldives ranks 55th out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is travel services rising or falling in Maldives?
- Over the last ten years it is down 4.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Maldives data come from?
- The figures come from Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF), published as part of Travel services (% of commercial service imports). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Travel services cover goods and services for own use or to give away acquired from an economy by nonresidents during visits to that economy, or acquired from other economies by residents during visits to these other economies. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service imports which are commercial services provided by non-residents to residents.