Tonga's personal remittances, received (% of GDP) was 39.32% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 9.77 percentage points from 29.55% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 39.32% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 37.5% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 29.55% | 2015 |
| Highest | 43.01% | 2023 |
| Lowest | 12.22% | 1981 |
| Average since 2016 | 37.57% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 20.59% | 1975 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Tonga's personal remittances, received (% of GDP) fell 0.09 percentage points on 2024 (from 39.41% to 39.32%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1987 to 2024), the average change was −0.17 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.2 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above 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 15.46 percentage points in 1985 and the biggest yearly fall was 11.84 percentage points in 1988. 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 the straight-line trend is upward, about 1.04 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 67% of the movement over 10 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 3rd 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Tonga | 39.32% | 2025 |
| World | 0.81% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 0.41% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 0.97% | 2025 |
Closest to Tonga in the 2025 ranking
- Tajikistan — 1st of 130: 57.66%
- Nepal — 3rd of 130: 32.31%
- Honduras — 4th of 130: 30.12%
- El Salvador — 5th of 130: 27.51%
What this measures
Personal remittances comprise personal transfers and compensation of employees. Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: personal transfers and compensation of employees.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 44 values
| Year | Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 39.32 |
| 2024 | 39.41 |
| 2023 | 43.01 |
| 2022 | 39.05 |
| 2021 | 41.89 |
| 2020 | 37.5 |
| 2019 | 35.9 |
| 2018 | 35.14 |
| 2017 | 34.48 |
| 2016 | 30 |
| 2015 |
Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Australia — 0.11% (2025)
- Cambodia — 4.29% (2025)
- China — 0.15% (2025)
- Fiji — 7.11% (2024)
- French Polynesia — 10.58% (2016)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 0.11% (2025)
- Indonesia — 1.22% (2025)
- Japan — 0.11% (2025)
- Kiribati — 6.48% (2025)
- Korea, Rep. — 0.38% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Tonga
- Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$) — US$121.36 million (2023)
- Technical cooperation grants (BoP, current US$) — US$9.6 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$) — US$129.55 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (constant 2023 US$) — US$129.55 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (current US$) — US$129.55 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (constant 2023 US$) — US$129.55 million (2023)
- Net ODA received per capita (current US$) — US$1,239 (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Total (current US$) — US$108.76 million (2023)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Tonga's personal remittances, received (% of GDP)?
- 39.32% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1975?
- It is up 18.73 percentage points from 20.59% in 1975. The highest value was 43.01% in 2023 and the lowest 12.22% in 1981.
- How does Tonga rank?
- 3rd highest of 130 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in personal remittances, received (% of GDP) unusual for Tonga?
- In 2025, Tonga's personal remittances, received (% of GDP) fell 0.09 percentage points on 2024 (from 39.41% to 39.32%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1987 to 2024), the average change was −0.17 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.2 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above 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.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); IMF balance of payments data, International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Bank GDP estimates, World Bank (WB); OECD GDP estimates, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 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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