Employment Rate / Tonga
Tonga Employment Rate
Tonga employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 48.81%.
COUNTRY: Tonga
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:09:26
GM ECONOMY RATING
Tonga · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
56 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
15.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
2.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
9.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
0.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Tonga · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
48.81%
Previous
49.21%
Range avg.
51.18%
Rank
84
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48.81%2025 · Rank 84
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Tonga recorded 48.81% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.40 percentage points, from 49.21% to 48.81%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (51.18%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 48.81% in 2025 and the high was 53.57% in 2016.
Comparison
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