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Tonga — Population
Population, Total for Tonga, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
103,742
Population, Total · people · +56.8% since 1960
Population for Tonga was 103,742 in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 107,570 in 2011. The lowest was 66,170 in 1960 (about 1.6× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.69% per year.
Tonga ranks 193 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 89%. The median for East Asia & Pacific is 1.42 million, so Tonga sits below it. It peaked in 2011 and has fallen 4% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 2%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
103,742
First (1960)
66,170
Change
+56.8%
Highest
107,570
in 2011
Lowest
66,170
in 1960
Average
96,925
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.69%
Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | people |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 103,742 |
| 2024 | 104,175 |
| 2023 | 104,597 |
| 2022 | 105,042 |
| 2021 | 105,490 |
| 2020 | 105,704 |
| 2019 | 105,669 |
| 2018 | 105,567 |
| 2017 | 105,356 |
| 2016 | 105,524 |
| 2015 | 106,095 |
| 2014 | 106,609 |
Reading this correctly. Total population based on the de facto definition, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. Figures are in people. 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
SP.POP.TOTL — Population, Total. 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.