Income percentiles in Tonga
Where each yearly income band starts in Tonga, in TOP, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under TOP 16,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from TOP 54,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from TOP 100,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is TOP 26,000 – TOP 31,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Tonga, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under TOP 16,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | TOP 16,000 – TOP 21,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | TOP 21,000 – TOP 26,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | TOP 26,000 – TOP 31,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | TOP 31,000 – TOP 38,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | TOP 38,000 – TOP 43,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | TOP 43,000 – TOP 54,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | TOP 54,000 – TOP 67,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | TOP 67,000 – TOP 82,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | TOP 82,000 – TOP 100,000 |
| Top 1% | TOP 100,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 3.15, the people one worker's income stands for in Tonga, so a person can place their own income.
In Tonga the distribution is measured on consumption, not income. The two are not interchangeable, and the multiplier does not turn one into the other.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 1981 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 7% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 3 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- TOP (TOP)
Why: only 7% of covered years rest on a survey estimate.
What a reading in Tonga measures
- Your place: which of the bands above your income is in now, against the band it was in a year ago, read as a position in the income distribution of Tonga itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Tonga taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Tonga is measured against Tonga alone.
A band is a range, so a move inside one band does not register, and published distributions understate the very top. The confidence level above travels onto every card measured here.