Tonga: Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

Key figures

Over five years it is up 0.49 percentage points from 0.23% in 2020. Since 1975 it is up 0.71 percentage points from 0% in 1975. The World Bank has no value for 26 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 18.29 percentage points in 2008 and the biggest yearly fall was 18.18 percentage points in 2009. 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 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.09 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 59% of the movement over 8 observed years.

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 90th highest value of the 102 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

• Guyana — 86th of 102: 1.01%
• Nigeria — 87th of 102: 0.91%
• Singapore — 88th of 102: 0.9%
• Trinidad and Tobago — 90th of 102: 0.67%
• Côte d'Ivoire — 91st of 102: 0.65%
• Malta — 92nd of 102: 0.65%

What this measures

Ores and metals comprise the commodities in SITC (Rev. 3) sections 27 (crude fertilizer, minerals nes); 28 (metalliferous ores, scrap); and 68 (non-ferrous metals). Exports of services are services provided by residents to non-residents. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise exports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a resident and a non-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 25 values

Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• Australia — 34.64% (2025)
• Brunei Darussalam — 0.21% (2025)
• Cambodia — 2.19% (2024)
• China — 1.63% (2025)
• Fiji — 4.4% (2025)
• French Polynesia — 0.000692% (2024)
• Hong Kong SAR, China — 2.03% (2025)
• Indonesia — 9.15% (2025)
• Japan — 3.56% (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)

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Questions people ask

What is Tonga's ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)?

0.71% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1975?

It is up 0.71 percentage points from 0% in 1975. The highest value was 19.73% in 2008 and the lowest 0% in 1975.

How does Tonga rank?

90th highest of 102 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 TX.VAL.MMTL.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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