Tonga's manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) was 48.49% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 4.9 percentage points from 53.39% in 2020.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 48.49% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 53.39% | 2020 |
| Highest | 57.24% | 1987 |
| Lowest | 18.26% | 2006 |
| Average since 2017 | 50.11% | 2017–2025 |
| First recorded | 51.59% | 1975 |
Over five years it is down 4.9 percentage points from 53.39% in 2020. Since 1975 it is down 3.1 percentage points from 51.59% in 1975. The World Bank has no value for 15 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 19.01 percentage points in 2008 and the biggest yearly fall was 8.25 percentage points in 2021. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2017 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 2% of the movement over 8 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 102nd highest value of the 103 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Tonga | 48.49% | 2025 |
| World | 68.19% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 62.28% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 61.34% | 2025 |
Closest to Tonga in the 2025 ranking
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 98th of 103: 50.41%
- Pakistan — 99th of 103: 50.23%
- India — 100th of 103: 49.63%
- French Polynesia — 102nd of 103: 40.39%
- Brunei Darussalam — 103rd of 103: 23.75%
What this measures
Manufactures comprise commodities in SITC (Rev. 3) sections 5 (chemicals), 6 (basic manufactures), 7 (machinery and transport equipment), and 8 (miscellaneous manufactured goods), excluding division 68 (non-ferrous metals). This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise imports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a non-resident and a resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e.
Limitations: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 36 values
| Year | Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 48.49 |
| 2024 | no data |
| 2023 | 53.76 |
| 2022 | 46.12 |
| 2021 | 45.14 |
| 2020 | 53.39 |
| 2019 | 56.93 |
| 2018 | 46.18 |
| 2017 | 50.83 |
| 2016 | no data |
| 2015 |
Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in nearby economies
- Australia — 74.3% (2025)
- Brunei Darussalam — 23.75% (2025)
- Cambodia — 72.54% (2024)
- China — 50.88% (2025)
- Fiji — 57.24% (2025)
- French Polynesia — 40.39% (2025)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 80.76% (2025)
- Indonesia — 65.42% (2025)
- Japan — 59.93% (2025)
- Kiribati
More private sector & trade data for Tonga
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$255 million (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$13 million (2025)
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 39.46% (2025)
- Computer, communications and other services (% of commercial service imports) — 32.75% (2025)
- Commercial service imports (current US$) — US$169.35 million (2025)
- Transport services (% of commercial service imports) — 24.33% (2025)
- Travel services (% of commercial service imports) — 40.27% (2025)
- Computer, communications and other services (% of commercial service exports) — 11.76% (2025)
- Commercial service exports (current US$) — US$102.8 million (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Tonga's manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)?
- 48.49% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1975?
- It is down 3.1 percentage points from 51.59% in 1975. The highest value was 57.24% in 1987 and the lowest 18.26% in 2006.
- How does Tonga rank?
- 102nd highest of 103 economies with data for 2025.
- Where does this data come from?
- The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB).
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.MANF.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) 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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