Tonga

  • Monarch:Tupou VI
  • Prime Minister:Siaosi Sovaleni
  • Capital city:Nukuʻalofa
  • Languages:English and Tongan 87%, Tongan (official) 10.7%, English (official) 1.2%, other 1.1%, unspecified 0.03% (2006 est.)
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  • Population, persons:108,230 (2024)
  • Area, sq km:720
  • GDP per capita, US$:4,426 (2021)
  • GDP, billion current US$:0.5 (2021)
  • GINI index:27.1 (2021)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:103

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    • September 2023
      Source: University of Oxford
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      Accessed On: 17 September, 2023
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      University of Oxford baseline measure of variation in governments’ responses is the COVID-19 Government Response Stringency Index. This composite measure is a simple additive score of seven indicators measured on an ordinal scale, rescaled to vary from 0 to 100. Please note that this measure is for comparative purposes only, and should not necessarily be interpreted as rating of the appropriateness or effectiveness of a country's response.   Data cited at: Hale, Thomas and Samuel Webster (2020). Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. Data use policy: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY standard.