Tonga

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    109,008 1
    Urban
    23.10% 1
    Rural
    76.90% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    5.4% 2
    Level of Public Corruption
    138 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Fertility Rate
    3.68 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    1.70% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    73 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    99.39% 5
    Internet Users
    40% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$4,260 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    1.1% 5

    These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

    Baptized Catholics
    12,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    12.06
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    277
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    74
    First Communions per Year
    291
    Confirmations per Year
    142
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    285
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    1,814
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    478
    Church Marriages per Year
    61
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    24
    Priests
    46
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    44
    Catholics per Priest
    264
    Parishes
    15
    • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
    • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
    • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
    • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
    • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
    • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
    • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.