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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    • January 2024
      Source: Quality of Government Institute
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      Accessed On: 07 February, 2024
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      The main objective of the research is to address the theoretical and empirical problems of how political institutions of high quality can be created and maintained. The second objective is to study the effects of Quality of Government on a number of policy areas, such as health, environment, social policy, and poverty. Data citation: Teorell, Jan, Aksel Sundström, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon, Cem Mert Dalli, Rafael Lopez Valverde & Paula Nilsson. 2024. The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version Jan24. University of Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute, https://www.gu.se/en/quality-government doi:10.18157/qogstdjan24