🇹🇴Tonga

Nuku'alofa

Asia

Upper middle income

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Population

103.7K

0.4%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

3.10

births/woman

Life Expectancy

73.1y

GDP / capita

$6.5K

Pop. Growth

-0.42%

Net Migration

-2.2K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Tonga by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇫🇯Fiji450(45.1%)

−23%

🇼🇸Samoa208(20.8%)

−22%

🇮🇳India

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male49KTotal 103.7K54.7KFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

0.9

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

Where the Tonga diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Tonga who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇳🇿New Zealand30K(56.4%)

+38%

🇦🇺Australia19.5K(36.6%)

+93%

🇫🇯Fiji1.4K(2.6%)

+7%

🇦🇸American Samoa1.3K(2.4%)

+0%

🇬🇳Guinea901(1.7%)

🇼🇸Samoa57(0.1%)

−29%

🇻🇺Vanuatu31(0.1%)

+7%

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea26(0.0%)

−4%

🇩🇰Denmark18(0.0%)

+64%

🇫🇲Micronesia, Fed. Sts.17(0.0%)

+13%

🇳🇴Norway6(0.0%)

+20%

🇭🇺Hungary2(0.0%)

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024