Country profile · Maldives
compatriots.net finds 5,013 people from abroad holding company roles, research posts or other documented positions in Maldives, from 134 countries of origin; 4 of them are recorded by an official register.
The largest groups come from India, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka.
| Country of origin | People |
|---|---|
| India | 1,195 |
| United Kingdom | 731 |
| Sri Lanka | 446 |
| United States | 376 |
| Malaysia | 365 |
| Philippines | 343 |
| Australia | 278 |
| China | 104 |
| Indonesia | 95 |
| Switzerland | 76 |
| Pakistan | 68 |
| Germany | 68 |
| Italy | 62 |
| France | 61 |
| Russian Federation | 61 |
| Singapore | 60 |
| Canada | 54 |
| Egypt | 54 |
| South Africa | 52 |
| Spain | 50 |
| Bangladesh | 47 |
| Nepal | 46 |
| Thailand | 44 |
| New Zealand | 39 |
| Ukraine | 35 |
| Greece | 33 |
| Türkiye | 33 |
| Netherlands | 31 |
| Denmark | 25 |
| Croatia | 23 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 20 |
| Botswana | 20 |
| Czechia | 19 |
| Austria | 19 |
| United Arab Emirates | 18 |
| Ireland | 18 |
| South Korea | 17 |
| Belgium | 17 |
| Romania | 17 |
| Nigeria | 15 |
| Other | 405 |
Industry comes from company registers and is not available here.
Abroad, 1,206 people from Maldives are documented in 85 other countries.
| Host country | People |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 459 |
| United States | 220 |
| Thailand | 140 |
| Australia | 90 |
| Malaysia | 87 |
| India | 63 |
| Singapore | 59 |
| Sri Lanka | 46 |
| Canada | 45 |
| United Arab Emirates | 36 |
| Mauritius | 29 |
| France | 28 |
| Switzerland | 28 |
| Spain | 27 |
| Pakistan | 23 |
| Hong Kong | 21 |
| Germany | 18 |
| Netherlands | 17 |
| Qatar | 15 |
| Italy | 13 |
| Egypt | 12 |
| New Zealand | 10 |
| Virgin Islands, British | 10 |
| Belgium | 9 |
| China | 9 |
| Saudi Arabia | 8 |
| Lebanon | 7 |
| Bangladesh | 7 |
| Türkiye | 6 |
| Brazil | 6 |
| Fiji | 6 |
| Nigeria | 6 |
| Norway | 6 |
| Japan | 6 |
| Finland | 6 |
| Bahrain | 5 |
| Czechia | 5 |
| Denmark | 5 |
| South Africa | 5 |
| Kuwait | 5 |
| Other | 75 |
There is no company register for Maldives in the current build. Arrivals here come from dated study-then-work moves and from research and reference records (ORCID, VIAF, Wikidata), so company roles are undercounted.
Counts are people with a documented cross-border move: an official register's nationality or birthplace, ORCID/VIAF/Wikidata records, or a dated study-then-work transition. Name-based estimates and heritage (ancestral) readings are not included in these counts. Groups under 5 people are folded into "Other".
How many company officers abroad carry names that a name-origin model places in Maldives. This includes people whose families left generations ago, which the documented counts above cannot see. These are expected counts, not people, and no individual is labelled by them.
| Host country | Expected people |
|---|---|
| South Africa | 180 |
| Mauritius | 10 |
| Nigeria | 10 |
| Panama † | 8 |
| New Zealand † | 7 |
| Spain † | 7 |
| Belgium | 7 |
| United States † | 5 |
| Other | 20 |
Registers where the estimate fails, or cannot take, a check against recorded nationality are left out, among them United Kingdom, India, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Pakistan, Singapore. † marks a host where most names point abroad; read its figure as ancestry, not migration. How this is estimated.