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TON · East Asia & Pacific

Tonga

103,742

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-4332024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+1.0%from 102.68K
Life expectancy73.1 years2024
Fertility rate3.10births per woman · 2024
Urban population21.2%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Tonga is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1434.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6458.2%Working-age population
Ages 65+6.9%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate23.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.4deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+16.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-2.15Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Tonga look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 105.2K in 2050—1.0% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024104.18K
  2. 2050105.2K
  3. 2100117.87K
Median age in 205026.5years
Births in 20501.96Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050726during the year
Life expectancy77.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196066.17K
  2. 197084.4K
  3. 198097.77K
  4. 199099.7K
  5. 2000102.68K
  6. 2010107.4K
  7. 2020105.7K
  8. 2025103.74K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/20/2026

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