Asia · Southern Asia
Capital: Malé
Maldives
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Country Blitz power profile
Overall rank #175
Maldives's Country Blitz power profile compares population, GDP, military expenditure, research-and-development spending, and manufacturing output across every playable country. A lower numerical rank represents a stronger position in that category.
Population
529,676
#168 of 196
14th percentile
2025 · World Bank WDI / UN population sources
View data source ↗GDP (Nominal)
$7.74B
#157 of 196
20th percentile
2025 · World Bank WDI
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R&D Spending
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Manufacturing Output
$138.4M
#164 of 196
16th percentile
2025 · World Bank WDI
View data source ↗Quick facts
- Capital
- Malé
- Region
- Asia
- Subregion
- Southern Asia
- Country code
- MDV
- Neighbors
- No land neighbors
Three interesting facts
Maldives has no land borders, so every international boundary is maritime.
With an area of roughly 300 square kilometers, Maldives is among the world’s smallest sovereign states.
Maldives’s position in Southern Asia places it within a distinctive network of regional trade routes and migration paths.
Geography
Maldives on the map
Maldives is located in Southern Asia, group of atolls in the Indian Ocean, south-southwest of India. Its terrain is flat coral atolls, with white sandy beaches, sits atop the submarine volcanic Chagos-Laccadive Ridge. The climate is tropical, hot, humid, dry, northeast monsoon (November to March), rainy, southwest monsoon (June to August). In area, the country is about 1.7 times the size of Washington, DC.
Economy
Economic profile
Maldives' economy is characterized by upper middle-income Indian Ocean island economy, major tourism, fishing, and shipping industries, high public debt, systemic corruption, crippled by COVID-19, ongoing deflation, poverty has tripled since pandemic began. Major industries include tourism, fish processing, shipping, boat building, coconut processing, woven mats, rope, handicrafts, coral and sand mining. Important agricultural products include fruits, vegetables, nuts, other meats, papayas, bananas, tomatoes, maize, pulses, chillies/peppers (2023). Notable exports include fish, aircraft, refined petroleum, scrap iron, natural gas (2023).
Demographics
People and population
Maldives has an estimated population of 515,132. Languages spoken include Dhivehi (official, closely related to Sinhala, script derived from Arabic), English (spoken by most government officials). The population includes homogeneous mixture of Sinhalese, Dravidian, Arab, Australasian, and African resulting from historical changes in regional hegemony over marine trade routes. The urban population represents 42% of total population (2023).
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