Maldives
Republic of the Maldives
- Capital
- Malé
- Region
- Southern Asia
- Population, 2025
- 530,000
- Currency
- MVR
- Area
- 300 km²
Across Maldives's 2 priced cities, one person needs about $1,676 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $827.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%38
- Safety20%48
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%96
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%39
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 15%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 6%
- SourceWikipedia
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 47.6
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 52.4
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2019
- 0.6
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
- —
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Maldives
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Male | 51 | 48.4 | $949 | $827 | 56.4 | 103.7K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 2Hulhumale | 39 | 47.6 | $1,133 | $712 | 44.1 | 5K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 3Kulhudhuffushi | — | — | — | — | — | 9.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 4Gan | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |