East Asia & Pacific · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF02, GF0107, rev
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2023
Not available
Welfare · 2023
Not available
Healthcare · 2023
3.40%
+1.1 pts since 2000
Defence · 2023
Not available
Education · 2023
Not available
Debt interest · 2023
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
26.9%
of GDP · -12 pts since 1999
Population · 2025
0.1m
3.5% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Tonga yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare rose from 2.3% to 3.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Education fell from 5.5% to 3.8% of GDP between 1998 and 2002, then rose to 5.3% by 2022.
Gross debt rose from 38.4% to 60.7% of GDP between 1999 and 2002, then fell to 26.9% by 2025.
Population grew from 0.1 million in 1995 to 0.1 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.1 million by 2050.