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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Tonga was 104,175 in 2024 vs 40,583,164 people in Yemen in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Tonga's population is 103,744 people compared to 42,727,988 in Yemen.

Population statistics:

  • Yemen's population is 412 times bigger than Tonga's.
  • Tonga is ranked the 183rd most populous country in the world, while Yemen is the 37th.
  • The countries together account for 0.52% of the world: 0.001% for Tonga vs 0.52% for Yemen.
  • For the last 10 years, Tonga has had an average growth rate of -0.25% per year vs +3% in Yemen.
  • Since 2005, the population of Tonga has decreased from 106K people to 104K (1.82% decline), while Yemen has grown from 22.8M to 42.7M (87.5% growth).
  • Tonga is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 118K people compared to the peak of 110M people in 2100 for Yemen.

Tonga vs Yemen: live population counter

Tonga Yemen
Current population
103744
42727988
Population rank 183/197 37/197
Percent of world population 0.001% 0.52%
One net population change
20.8 hours
26.4 seconds
One birth every
3.62 hours
22.7 seconds
One death every
13 hours
2.78 minutes
One migration net change every
4.08 hours
50.1 minutes
Annual migration change -2,149 -10,482
Daily growth/decline -1 +3,267
Annual growth/decline -422 +1,192,365
Annual growth/decline rate -0.4% +3.03%
Population growth rate rank 181/197 14/197

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

Tonga
Population

Growth rate
Yemen
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Tonga Yemen Tonga Yemen
1960 66,170 5,532,301 - -
1961 68,037 5,655,232 2.82% 2.22%
1962 69,940 5,782,221 2.8% 2.25%
1963 71,885 5,911,135 2.78% 2.23%
1964 73,879 6,048,006 2.77% 2.32%
1965 75,924 6,195,593 2.77% 2.44%
1966 78,002 6,351,494 2.74% 2.52%
1967 79,814 6,516,444 2.32% 2.6%
1968 81,353 6,690,524 1.93% 2.67%
1969 82,885 6,875,859 1.88% 2.77%
1970 84,401 7,065,279 1.83% 2.75%
1971 85,896 7,257,462 1.77% 2.72%
1972 87,356 7,460,068 1.7% 2.79%
1973 88,805 7,672,796 1.66% 2.85%
1974 90,683 7,896,783 2.11% 2.92%
1975 93,017 8,133,598 2.57% 3%
1976 95,325 8,384,113 2.48% 3.08%
1977 96,725 8,648,222 1.47% 3.15%
1978 97,204 8,926,586 0.5% 3.22%
1979 97,544 9,224,194 0.35% 3.33%
1980 97,769 9,543,358 0.23% 3.46%
1981 97,909 9,882,362 0.14% 3.55%
1982 97,980 10,241,006 0.07% 3.63%
1983 97,998 10,621,499 0.02% 3.72%
1984 97,990 11,025,597 -0.008% 3.8%
1985 97,984 11,453,825 -0.006% 3.88%
1986 98,010 11,901,040 0.03% 3.9%
1987 98,376 12,369,912 0.37% 3.94%
1988 98,969 12,859,708 0.6% 3.96%
1989 99,403 13,364,174 0.44% 3.92%
1990 99,700 13,887,862 0.3% 3.92%
1991 99,895 14,430,201 0.2% 3.91%
1992 100,022 14,989,494 0.13% 3.88%
1993 100,103 15,563,914 0.08% 3.83%
1994 100,166 16,149,147 0.06% 3.76%
1995 100,225 16,740,058 0.06% 3.66%
1996 100,275 17,313,177 0.05% 3.42%
1997 100,674 17,873,936 0.4% 3.24%
1998 101,388 18,446,013 0.71% 3.2%
1999 102,046 19,029,420 0.65% 3.16%
2000 102,677 19,624,141 0.62% 3.13%
2001 103,288 20,226,147 0.6% 3.07%
2002 103,874 20,835,086 0.57% 3.01%
2003 104,464 21,456,379 0.57% 2.98%
2004 105,071 22,095,167 0.58% 2.98%
2005 105,671 22,790,085 0.57% 3.15%
2006 106,253 23,543,083 0.55% 3.3%
2007 106,726 24,318,082 0.45% 3.29%
2008 107,020 25,111,941 0.28% 3.26%
2009 107,203 25,927,724 0.17% 3.25%
2010 107,400 26,754,387 0.18% 3.19%
2011 107,570 27,582,897 0.16% 3.1%
2012 107,460 28,433,647 -0.1% 3.08%
2013 107,078 29,312,952 -0.36% 3.09%
2014 106,609 30,226,309 -0.44% 3.12%
2015 106,095 31,159,379 -0.48% 3.09%
2016 105,524 32,109,010 -0.54% 3.05%
2017 105,356 33,090,921 -0.16% 3.06%
2018 105,567 34,085,182 0.2% 3%
2019 105,669 35,111,408 0.1% 3.01%
2020 105,704 36,134,863 0.03% 2.91%
2021 105,490 37,140,230 -0.2% 2.78%
2022 105,042 38,222,876 -0.42% 2.92%
2023 104,597 39,390,799 -0.42% 3.06%
2024 104,175 40,583,164 -0.4% 3.03%
2025 103,744 41,773,871 -0.41% 2.93%
2026 103,290 42,961,650 -0.44% 2.84%
2027 102,899 44,145,620 -0.38% 2.76%
2028 102,568 45,323,685 -0.32% 2.67%
2029 102,280 46,497,573 -0.28% 2.59%
2030 102,069 47,667,649 -0.21% 2.52%
2031 101,927 48,827,503 -0.14% 2.43%
2032 101,837 49,979,089 -0.09% 2.36%
2033 101,807 51,129,867 -0.03% 2.3%
2034 101,806 52,279,989 -0.001% 2.25%
2035 101,833 53,429,308 0.03% 2.2%
2036 101,895 54,578,046 0.06% 2.15%
2037 101,993 55,724,259 0.1% 2.1%
2038 102,173 56,872,152 0.18% 2.06%
2039 102,367 58,024,713 0.19% 2.03%
2040 102,568 59,181,514 0.2% 1.99%
2041 102,805 60,345,667 0.23% 1.97%
2042 103,038 61,517,965 0.23% 1.94%
2043 103,306 62,696,517 0.26% 1.92%
2044 103,612 63,880,172 0.3% 1.89%
2045 103,928 65,066,344 0.3% 1.86%
2046 104,232 66,253,578 0.29% 1.82%
2047 104,502 67,438,796 0.26% 1.79%
2048 104,744 68,620,844 0.23% 1.75%
2049 104,975 69,799,794 0.22% 1.72%
2050 105,193 70,976,389 0.21% 1.69%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Tonga increased by 424 people (a 0.4% growth), while Yemen gained 8,369,294 people (a 36.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Tonga lost -2,351 (a 2.22% decline), while Yemen's population increased by 11,568,609 (a 37.1% growth).

Tonga was ranked 182nd most populous country in 2005 and is 183rd in 2025. Yemen was ranked 47th in 2005 and ranked 37th 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 Yemen will increase by 66.1% to 70,976,389 people and rank change from 37th to 29th.

Biggest cities by population

Tonga
City Population
Nukualofa 23.2K
Mua 5K
Yemen
City Population
Sanaa 2.96M
Al Hudaydah 618K
Taiz 615K
Aden 507K
Ibb 351K
Dhamar 160K
Mukalla 144K
Sa'dah 70.2K
Sayyan 70K
Zabid 50.8K

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