Purchasing Power Parity · Maldives
Cost of living in 🇲🇻 Maldives vs the United States
Maldives has a US-relative price level of 0.562 (US = 1.0) — about 44% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2025.
What US salaries are worth in Maldives
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $88,968 | $28,100 |
| $80,000 | $142,349 | $44,960 |
| $120,000 | $213,523 | $67,440 |
| $180,000 | $320,285 | $101,160 |
| $250,000 | $444,840 | $140,500 |
“Feels like” = income ÷ price level; “cost of a US lifestyle” = income × price level. Try your own number in the interactive calculator.
How the sources compare
Each provider measures Maldives's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
Consensus (median) 0.562 2025
World Bank — GDP 0.512 2025
IMF (WEO) 0.514 2025
Penn World Table 0.610 2023
World Bank — Consumption 0.621 2025
CIA Factbook (coverage) 0.498 2024
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Maldives is outlined.
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Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇶🇦 Qatar — price level 0.563
- 🇰🇼 Kuwait — price level 0.566
- 🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — price level 0.568
- 🇰🇷 South Korea — price level 0.57
- 🇲🇴 Macau — price level 0.554
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Maldives compared to the United States?
- Maldives has a price level of 0.562 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 44% cheaper than the United States), based on the median of independent votes from the World Bank/IMF (one vote — both use the official exchange rate), the Eurostat-OECD PPP programme and the Penn World Table, reference year 2025.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Maldives?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $177,936 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Maldives; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $56,200.
- Where does the Maldives cost-of-living data come from?
- Real price-level figures from the World Bank, IMF World Economic Outlook, OECD, Eurostat and Penn World Table, blended as a per-country median of independent votes and refreshed at build time.