Tonga: ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Tonga's ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) fell 4.89 percentage points on 2024 (from 5.61% to 0.72%).

Across the 21 yearly changes before that (2004 to 2024), the average change was −0.63 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.07 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 20.26 percentage points in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 21.11 percentage points in 2023. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2025, Tonga had the 122nd highest value of the 130 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Tonga in the 2025 ranking

• Maldives — 119th of 130: 0.81%
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines — 120th of 130: 0.79%
• Grenada — 121st of 130: 0.72%
• Thailand — 123rd of 130: 0.63%
• Antigua and Barbuda — 124th of 130: 0.55%
• Dominican Republic — 125th of 130: 0.52%

What this measures

Information and communication technology service exports include computer and communications services (telecommunications and postal and courier services) and information services (computer data and news-related service transactions).

Limitations: Discrepancies may arise in the balance of payments because there is no single source for balance of payments data and therefore no way to ensure that the data are fully consistent. Sources include customs data, monetary accounts of the banking system, external debt records, information provided by enterprises, surveys to estimate service transactions, and foreign exchange records. Differences in collection methods - such as in timing, definitions of residence and ownership, and the exchange rate used to value transactions - contribute to net errors and omissions. In addition, smuggling and other illegal or quasi-legal transactions may be unrecorded or misrecorded.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 23 values

ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) in nearby economies

• Australia — 3.39% (2025)
• Brunei Darussalam — 3.27% (2025)
• Cambodia — 4.74% (2025)
• China — 19.14% (2025)
• Fiji — 0.47% (2024)
• French Polynesia — 1.52% (2016)
• Hong Kong SAR, China — 3.8% (2024)
• Indonesia — 9.6% (2025)
• Japan — 5.99% (2025)
• Korea, Rep.

More infrastructure data for Tonga

• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 3,280 (2022)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 3.12 (2022)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions — 64,838 (2022)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 61.73 (2022)
• Medium and high-tech exports (% manufactured exports) — 85.31% (2024)
• Individuals using the Internet (% of population) — 67.44% (2024)
• Scientific and technical journal articles — 4.85 (2023)
• ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) — US$767,593 (2025)
• Fixed broadband subscriptions — 8,586 (2022)
• Fixed broadband subscriptions (per 100 people)

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Questions people ask

What is Tonga's ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP)?

0.72% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2003?

It is down 18.15 percentage points from 18.87% in 2003. The highest value was 34.27% in 2022 and the lowest 0.72% in 2025.

How does Tonga rank?

122nd highest of 130 economies with data for 2025.

Is the latest change in ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) unusual for Tonga?

In 2025, Tonga's ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) fell 4.89 percentage points on 2024 (from 5.61% to 0.72%). Across the 21 yearly changes before that (2004 to 2024), the average change was −0.63 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.07 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator BX.GSR.CCIS.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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