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Of the 192 countries, South Sudan grew at the lowest rate with Libya, San Marino, Yemen, Greece, Venezuela, Ukraine, Central African Republic and Puerto Rico following it in the list of the lowest growing countries.
USD 0.2 billion (2015)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved January 2017
USD 0.4 billion (2017, estimate)
Intl$ 0.6 billion (2017, estimate)
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| -2.5% | -0.6% | 2.7% | 3% | 3.2% | 1.8% | -1.1% |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* | ||
| -0.6% | 2.9% | 3.4% | 2.7% | 2.4% |
*Estimate
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2017 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | N/A |
*Estimate
(2016 estimate)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| 1.5% | 1.2% | -0.1% | 0.1% | 1.5% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2015 | 2017 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* |
| -0.2% | 0.4% | -1.1% | -1.3% | -0.1% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: N/A
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
-11.5% (2017 estimate)
17.5% (2015)
0.0% (2015)
0.001% (2015)
Squash, fish, vanilla beans, root crops
Foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, fuels, chemicals
Japan 16%, US 15.4%, Fiji 12.8%, NZ 12.5%, South Korea 11%, Samoa 10.7%, Australia 7.5%, American Samoa 6.8% (2015)
Fiji 37.7%, NZ 21.2%, China 14.2%, US 6.4%, Australia 4.5% (2015)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 51 million | USD 56 million | USD 13 million |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 7.5 million | USD 11.5 million | USD 5.3 million |
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
N/A
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N/A
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Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking: 85 out of 190 countries (2017)
Subcategories:
Starting a business: 55 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 92 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 158 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 44 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 123 out of 190 countries
Trading Across Borders: 100 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 80 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 14 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 67 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 132 out of 190 countries
Ranking: 95 / Score: 59.63 (Mostly unfree) (2016)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
English and Tongan 87%, Tongan (official) 10.7%, English (official) 1.2%, other 1.1%, unspecified 0.03% (2006 est.)
Protestant 64.9% (includes Free Wesleyan Church 37.3%, Free Church of Tonga 11.4%, Church of Tonga 7.2%, Tokaikolo Christian Church 2.6%, Assembly of God 2.3%, Seventh Day Adventist 2.2%, Constitutional Church of Tonga 0.9%, Anglican 0.8% and Full Gospel Church 0.2%), Mormon 16.8%, Roman Catholic 15.6%, other 1.1%, none 0.03%, unspecified 1.7% (2006 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2016* | 2021* |
| 0.095 million | 0.099 million | 0.103 million | 0.105 million | 0.106 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2015 |
| 18% | 21% | 23% | 24% |
Total population: 99.4%
Male: 99.3%
Female: 99.4% (2015 est.)
(can read and write Tongan and/or English)
Political Rights: 2
Civil Liberties: 2 (2017)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 12.43% Mobile 69.09% (2015)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)