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Population in Tonga compared to Uganda: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Tonga was 104,175 in 2024 vs 50,015,092 people in Uganda in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Tonga's population is 103,744 people compared to 52,490,669 in Uganda.

Population statistics:

  • Uganda's population is 506 times bigger than Tonga's.
  • Tonga is ranked the 183rd most populous country in the world, while Uganda is the 30th.
  • The countries together account for 0.64% of the world: 0.001% for Tonga vs 0.63% for Uganda.
  • For the last 10 years, Tonga has had an average growth rate of -0.25% per year vs +3.21% in Uganda.
  • Since 2005, the population of Tonga has decreased from 106K people to 104K (1.82% decline), while Uganda has grown from 28M to 52.5M (87.7% growth).
  • Tonga is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 118K people compared to the peak of 121M people in 2100 for Uganda.

Tonga vs Uganda: live population counter

Tonga Uganda
Current population
103744
52490669
Population rank 183/197 30/197
Percent of world population 0.001% 0.63%
One net population change
20.8 hours
23.2 seconds
One birth every
3.62 hours
18.4 seconds
One death every
13 hours
2.23 minutes
One migration net change every
4.08 hours
4.46 minutes
Annual migration change -2,149 -117,924
Daily growth/decline -1 +3,722
Annual growth/decline -422 +1,358,491
Annual growth/decline rate -0.4% +2.79%
Population growth rate rank 181/197 23/197

Tonga and Uganda: population history and growth rate by year chart

Tonga
Population

Growth rate
Uganda
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Tonga Uganda Tonga Uganda
1960 66,170 7,640,973 - -
1961 68,037 7,862,217 2.82% 2.9%
1962 69,940 8,092,231 2.8% 2.93%
1963 71,885 8,333,663 2.78% 2.98%
1964 73,879 8,586,363 2.77% 3.03%
1965 75,924 8,849,203 2.77% 3.06%
1966 78,002 9,122,864 2.74% 3.09%
1967 79,814 9,408,924 2.32% 3.14%
1968 81,353 9,708,632 1.93% 3.19%
1969 82,885 10,014,858 1.88% 3.15%
1970 84,401 10,321,603 1.83% 3.06%
1971 85,896 10,618,206 1.77% 2.87%
1972 87,356 10,885,796 1.7% 2.52%
1973 88,805 11,144,236 1.66% 2.37%
1974 90,683 11,424,846 2.11% 2.52%
1975 93,017 11,725,240 2.57% 2.63%
1976 95,325 12,037,294 2.48% 2.66%
1977 96,725 12,359,669 1.47% 2.68%
1978 97,204 12,692,113 0.5% 2.69%
1979 97,544 13,002,163 0.35% 2.44%
1980 97,769 13,275,741 0.23% 2.1%
1981 97,909 13,556,452 0.14% 2.11%
1982 97,980 13,873,631 0.07% 2.34%
1983 97,998 14,221,881 0.02% 2.51%
1984 97,990 14,607,677 -0.008% 2.71%
1985 97,984 15,023,681 -0.006% 2.85%
1986 98,010 15,467,579 0.03% 2.95%
1987 98,376 15,954,170 0.37% 3.15%
1988 98,969 16,470,483 0.6% 3.24%
1989 99,403 17,010,698 0.44% 3.28%
1990 99,700 17,569,897 0.3% 3.29%
1991 99,895 18,155,901 0.2% 3.34%
1992 100,022 18,785,032 0.13% 3.47%
1993 100,103 19,445,161 0.08% 3.51%
1994 100,166 20,108,801 0.06% 3.41%
1995 100,225 20,665,667 0.06% 2.77%
1996 100,275 21,231,550 0.05% 2.74%
1997 100,674 21,856,046 0.4% 2.94%
1998 101,388 22,515,806 0.71% 3.02%
1999 102,046 23,257,281 0.65% 3.29%
2000 102,677 24,000,150 0.62% 3.19%
2001 103,288 24,745,676 0.6% 3.11%
2002 103,874 25,532,870 0.57% 3.18%
2003 104,464 26,352,124 0.57% 3.21%
2004 105,071 27,154,515 0.58% 3.04%
2005 105,671 27,963,289 0.57% 2.98%
2006 106,253 28,794,003 0.55% 2.97%
2007 106,726 29,653,430 0.45% 2.98%
2008 107,020 30,539,553 0.28% 2.99%
2009 107,203 31,451,151 0.17% 2.98%
2010 107,400 32,390,802 0.18% 2.99%
2011 107,570 33,354,543 0.16% 2.98%
2012 107,460 34,337,438 -0.1% 2.95%
2013 107,078 35,337,042 -0.36% 2.91%
2014 106,609 36,395,539 -0.44% 3%
2015 106,095 37,531,446 -0.48% 3.12%
2016 105,524 38,799,152 -0.54% 3.38%
2017 105,356 40,177,388 -0.16% 3.55%
2018 105,567 41,565,831 0.2% 3.46%
2019 105,669 42,999,637 0.1% 3.45%
2020 105,704 44,457,152 0.03% 3.39%
2021 105,490 45,910,930 -0.2% 3.27%
2022 105,042 47,312,719 -0.42% 3.05%
2023 104,597 48,656,601 -0.42% 2.84%
2024 104,175 50,015,092 -0.4% 2.79%
2025 103,744 51,384,895 -0.41% 2.74%
2026 103,290 52,761,471 -0.44% 2.68%
2027 102,899 54,144,274 -0.38% 2.62%
2028 102,568 55,532,564 -0.32% 2.56%
2029 102,280 56,922,797 -0.28% 2.5%
2030 102,069 58,312,944 -0.21% 2.44%
2031 101,927 59,703,537 -0.14% 2.38%
2032 101,837 61,089,060 -0.09% 2.32%
2033 101,807 62,464,116 -0.03% 2.25%
2034 101,806 63,833,872 -0.001% 2.19%
2035 101,833 65,205,570 0.03% 2.15%
2036 101,895 66,573,737 0.06% 2.1%
2037 101,993 67,942,634 0.1% 2.06%
2038 102,173 69,312,210 0.18% 2.02%
2039 102,367 70,669,875 0.19% 1.96%
2040 102,568 72,020,414 0.2% 1.91%
2041 102,805 73,372,658 0.23% 1.88%
2042 103,038 74,730,004 0.23% 1.85%
2043 103,306 76,090,991 0.26% 1.82%
2044 103,612 77,449,517 0.3% 1.79%
2045 103,928 78,797,995 0.3% 1.74%
2046 104,232 80,139,174 0.29% 1.7%
2047 104,502 81,478,503 0.26% 1.67%
2048 104,744 82,812,102 0.23% 1.64%
2049 104,975 84,130,056 0.22% 1.59%
2050 105,193 85,431,202 0.21% 1.55%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Tonga increased by 424 people (a 0.4% growth), while Uganda gained 9,568,157 people (a 34.2% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Tonga lost -2,351 (a 2.22% decline), while Uganda's population increased by 14,959,223 (a 39.9% growth).

Tonga was ranked 182nd most populous country in 2005 and is 183rd in 2025. Uganda was ranked 40th in 2005 and ranked 30th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Tonga's population will grow by 1.4% to 105,193 people and will still be ranked 183rd. The population of Uganda will increase by 62.8% to 85,431,202 people and rank change from 30th to 20th.

Biggest cities by population

Tonga
City Population
Nukualofa 23.2K
Mua 5K
Uganda
City Population
Kampala 1.68M
Mbale 586K
Arua 385K
Kira Town 317K
Jinja 279K
Gulu 177K
Kasese 101K
Entebbe 70K
Tororo 41.9K

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