Tonga poverty rate for 2021 was 26.70%, a 28.6% decline from 2015.
Tonga poverty rate for 2015 was 55.30%, a 9.9% increase from 2009.
Tonga poverty rate for 2009 was 45.40%, a 4.9% increase from 2000.
Tonga poverty rate for 2000 was 40.50%, a 40.5% increase from .
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.