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Tonga — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Tonga, 1982–2025.
Latest value · 2025
2.80%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · -40.9% since 1982
GDP growth for Tonga was 2.80% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 44 years, from 1982 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 6.70% in 2011. The lowest was -5.13% in 2009 (about -1.8× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -1.22% per year.
Tonga ranks 123 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 58%. The median for East Asia & Pacific is 3.62%, so Tonga sits below it. It peaked in 2011 and has fallen 58% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 151%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
2.80%
First (1982)
4.74%
Change
-40.9%
Highest
6.70%
in 2011
Lowest
-5.13%
in 2009
Average
1.65%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-1.22%
Years of data
44
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.8% |
| 2024 | 1.72% |
| 2023 | 2.79% |
| 2022 | -2.13% |
| 2021 | -0.93% |
| 2020 | 1.81% |
| 2019 | -0.29% |
| 2018 | 0.53% |
| 2017 | 3.2% |
| 2016 | 6.6% |
| 2015 | 1.11% |
| 2014 | 1.99% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at constant market prices. A negative value means the economy contracted that year. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG — GDP Growth (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.