Population
100,651
at 30 Nov 2016
Consumer Price Index
Inflation 2019: 1.2%
September 2020: (Deflation)
Gross Domestic Product
Growth Rates 2018-19: 0.7%
Real GDP: TOP 1,028.2 million
Current Account Balance
107,689
(Capital Account)
Migration
Arrival: 16,324
Departure: 12,147
in 2018
Latest News
BIG SURVEY HAPPENING SOON!
The Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2020-21 starts this month (December). Training of enumerators is currently running.
Two reports were launched on World Statistics Day.
Tonga’s Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals
Tonga MICS 2019: Survey Findings Report
(MICS dataset also available but upon request to Ms. Telekaki Latavao)
Both reports are rich with indicators on Tonga’s current status in the country’s development goals.
Competition results out
After poem and essay presentations to a panel of judges, the results are out.
Competition results
The Poem and Essay competitions were held at the Statistics Conference Room on the 16th of October, 2020 to mark the beginning of Tonga Statistics Department's celebration of World Statistics Day 2020. Students from primary and secondary schools competed in front of a...
Competition for World Statistics Day
For World Statistics Day - 20th October 2020, the Statistics Department is advocating the importance of statistics by reaching out to the schools and not only speaking on what it does but also having Essay and Poem Competitions. The competition is broken into 4...
Ministerial Meeting with the Hon. Tevita Lavemaau
Tonga Statistics Department hosted a ministerial meeting with the Hon. Tevita Lavemaau on the 30th July 2020 reporting on the newly implemented 'Census Re-Boundary' task conducted by the Census & Survey Division. Census Re-Boundary is a revision of the current...
MICs Survey Release of Preliminary Results
The Survey Team of Tonga Statistics Department releases the MICS 2019 Preliminary Results on the 19th of June 2020. MICS (Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey) is the largest source of statistically sound and internationally comparable data on women and children...
Upcoming Events
Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2020/21
Job Vacancy
Two vacancies available
1) Principal Statistician
2) Senior Statistical Assistant
Latest Releases
2019– 2020 Financial Year Activities
Stata Training and Workshop
13 – 21 November, 2019
Tonga Statistics Department
New Tools for making official Population Statistics Easier to Create & Use
8 – 9 October, 2019
TFHA Training Room
National Account Training & Workshop
8 – 9 October, 2019
TFHA Training Room
Final Consultative Workshop to Raise Awareness (Youth,People and Disability)
28 June, 2019
House of Tonga
Tonga MultipleIndicator Cluster Survey (TMICs 2019)
16 April, 2019
Church of Tonga Conference Room
Training & Workshop on Work and Labour Force Statistics
1-5 April,2019
Tungi Colonade Conference Room
Consultative Workshop to Raise Awareness(Youth,People and Disability)
27-28 March, 2019
House of Tonga
2018– 2019 Financial Year Activities
Disability Survey Field work
08 October – 08 December, 2018
Disability Survey Main training
24 Sept. – 05 October, 2018 (9am – 5pm)
Free Church of Tonga, Kapeta
Disability Pilot Survey
27 August – 08 Sept., 2018
National Workshop on Tonga National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS)
23 – 27 July, 2018 (9am – 5pm)
Tanoa Hotel
CSPro and Stata training for the National Statistical System (NSDS)
16 – 24 July, 2018 (9am – 5pm)
House of Tonga
Mapping on Small area estimation training for the NSDS
10 – 15 July, 2018 (9am – 5pm)
House of Tonga
Labour Force Survey
July, 2018
Tropical Cyclone Gita Household Impact Assessment Survey
July, 2018
– Links below will lead to data-related platforms
