What does Tonga produce and export?

Tonga ranks in the top ten producers of 1 commodity: vanilla (#8, 2.7% of world output in 2024).

Share of world production, 2024. Countries with no reported production are unshaded.

What does Tonga produce?

Commodities where Tonga is a top-ten producer
Commodity	World rank	Share of world	Production	Year	Source
Vanilla Softs	8	2.7%	195 t	2024	FAOSTAT

What does Tonga export?

Tonga is not a top-ten exporter of any commodity tracked here.

Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.

Tonga in the pattern reports

What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Tonga, computed from the same data as this page.

What Tonga uses

Tonga had about 0.1 million people and a food supply of 3,059 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

Largest domestic supplies of tracked commodities in Tonga, 2023
Commodity	Domestic supply	Share of world	kg per person	Self-sufficiency	Imported
Wheat	21 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	130	<0.1%	100%
Chicken	9 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	88	<0.1%	100%
Milk	7 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	52	<0.1%	100%
Coconut oil	6 thousand tonnes	0.2%	3.2	100%	<0.1%
Yams	4 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	27	125%	<0.1%
Oranges	3 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	23	33%	67%
Pork	3 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	33	50%	50%
Potatoes	2 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	15	<0.1%	100%

FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.

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This country's rankings as JSON · PDF summary. Cite as: Commodity Origins, "What does Tonga produce and export?", https://commodityorigins.com/countries/TON/ (CC BY 4.0).

Data updated 22 October 2026.

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