The report contains an analysis of Tonga’s recent population growth and dynamics, in particular the level, trends and patterns of fertility, mortality, and migration. The likely impacts of some of these dynamics on wider cross-cutting issues, such as the environment, health, education and economic activity, are discussed.
This reportis the 7th population census report of the kingdom since 1956, and the 5th census conducted by the Statistics Department. It provides administrative information and basic statistical tabulation of the 2011 Population and Housing Census of Tonga. The census date was midnight, the 30th of November 2011. Information incorporated in this report will facilitate the decision makers in Tonga with respect to the current and future socio-economic conditions in the Kingdom.
The report contains an analysis of Tonga’s population growth and dynamics, in particular the level, trends and patterns of fertility, mortality, and migration and their impact on the environment and implications for health, education and economic activity. The report presents a set of population projections to provide planners and policy-makers with scenarios of the size and structure of Tonga’s future population to aid planning for the differing needs of the young, working age and elderly.
Given that the next General Election is set to occur in November 2014, the Statistics Department decided to honour the request of the Electoral Boundary Commission in the interests of the Kingdom as a whole. The Department also decided to continue to conduct all future censuses on a 5 yearly basis.
Marine waste from Pacific Island Countries
direct internet link to Tonga's climate change data portal.
This EIA report has thus been prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Communications with technical assistance from the JICA Preparatory Survey. The requirements stipulated in the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2010, and JICA’s “Guidelines for Environmental and Social Considerations (2010)” were referred in the process.
This online interactive atlas is complimented by both a hard copy and e-copy. The Marine Atlas for the Tonga compiles over a hundred datasets from countless data providers and for the first time makes marine and coastal information accessible and usable as data layers and as raw data. The Tonga Marine Atlas was prepared by the Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Management in Pacific Island Countries (MACBIO) project
Marine Spatial Planning is an integrated and participatory planning process and tool that seeks to balance ecological, economic, and social objectives, aiming for sustainable marine resource use and prosperous blue economies.
This atlas is part of MACBIO’s support to its partner countries’ marine spatial planning processes. These processes aim to balance uses with the need to effectively manage and protect the rich natural capital upon which those uses rely.
A report on a nation-wide “lessons learned” conference on marine Special Management Areas in Ha’apai, facilitated by MACBIO and Department of Fisheries and the Civil Society Forum of Tonga.
This report presents, for the first time, marine bioregions across the Southwest Pacific in general, and Tonga in particular, at a scale that can be used nationally, as a basis for the systematic identification of an ecologically representative system of marine protected areas.
Bioregions, of course, are just one of the important data layers in indentifying an ecologically representative system of marine protected areas.