Tonga vs Tuvalu

Tonga and Tuvalu compared on 9 key figures from official sources. Each value is the latest one published for that country, so the year is shown with it.

• Tonga has about 11 times as many people as Tuvalu: 103,742 against 9,492 in 2025.
• GDP per person in Tonga ($6,547) is 8% higher than in Tuvalu ($6,041) in 2025.
• The economy grew faster in Tonga (2.8%) than in Tuvalu (1.6%), a difference of 1.2 percentage points in 2025.
• Consumer prices rose faster in Tonga (5.6% in 2025) than in Tuvalu (0.5% in 2011), a difference of 5.1 percentage points.
• A baby born in Tonga can expect to live 5.8 years longer than one born in Tuvalu: 73.1 years against 67.3 years in 2024.
• The population of Tuvalu is older: half of its people are over 24.3 years, against 20.7 years in Tonga in 2023.
• A larger share of people used the internet in Tonga (67.4% in 2024) than in Tuvalu (35.2% in 2017), a difference of 32.2 percentage points.
• Forest covers a larger share of the land in Tuvalu (39.6%) than in Tonga (12.1%), a difference of 27.5 percentage points in 2024.