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English and Tongan 87%, Tongan (official) 10.7%, English (official) 1.2%, other 1.1%, unspecified 0.03% (2006 est.)
NUKU'ALOFA 25,000 (2014)
- Conventional long form
- Kingdom of Tonga
- Conventional short form
- Tonga
- Local long form
- Pule'anga Fakatu'i 'o Tonga
- Local short form
- Tonga
constitutional monarchy
- Name
- Nuku'alofa
- Geographic coordinates
- 21 08 S, 175 12 W
- Time difference
- UTC+13 (18 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Daylight saving time
- +1hr, begins first Sunday in November; ends second Sunday in January
has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration; non-party state to the ICCt
Tonga has a small, open island economy and is the last constitutional monarchy among the Pacific Island countries. It has a narrow export base in agricultural goods. Squash, vanilla beans, and yams are the main crops. Agricultural exports, including fish, make up two-thirds of total exports. Tourism is the second-largest source of hard currency earnings following remittances. Tonga had 53,800 visitors in 2015. The country must import a high proportion of its food, mainly from New Zealand.
- Inflation
- -1.054%
- External debt stocks
- US$ 173,405,000
- Total tax rate (% of commercial profits)
- 30.1%
- Real Interest Rate
- 7.974%
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP)
- 6.984%
- Current Account Balance
- US$ -32,502,494
- Labor Force, Total
- 43,178
- Employment in Agriculture
- 31.83%
- Employment in Industry
- 30.56%
- Employment in Services
- 37.53%
- Unemployment Rate
- 4.87%
- Imports of goods and services
- US$ 264,179,207
- Exports of goods and services
- US$ 76,316,766
- Total Merchandise Trade
- 71.36%
- FDI, net inflows
- US$ 12,632,019
- Commercial Service Exports
- US$ 69,893,539
squash, coconuts, copra, bananas, vanilla beans, cocoa, coffee, sweet potatoes, cassava, taro and kava
tourism, construction, fishing
- Commodities
- squash, fish, vanilla beans, root crops
- Partners
- Japan 16.1%, US 15.5%, Fiji 12.8%, NZ 12.6%, South Korea 11.1%, Samoa 10.8%, Australia 7.5%, American Samoa 6.8% (2015)
- Commodities
- foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, fuels, chemicals
- Partners
- Fiji 37.6%, NZ 21.2%, China 14.1%, US 6.4%, Australia 4.5% (2015)