Tuvalu
population: 2022 census (12 Dec 2022) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 1 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography1 metro
Tuvalu metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🗂️ Atolls
9 entries listed under Tuvalu. Click any to see its metros and footprint.
📋 At a glance
- Official languages
- English, Tuvaluan
- Currency
- Australian dollar ($)
- Legislature
- Parliament of Tuvalu
- Constitution
- 2023, 0 amendment events since
- Demonym
- Tuvaluan
- Time zone
- UTC+12:00
- Driving side
- Left
- Calling code
- +688
- Internet TLD
- .tv
- ISO 3166
- TV
- Established
- 1978
- Highest point
- Niulakita (5 m (16 ft))
- National anthem
- Tuvalu mo te Atua
Facts via Wikidata.
💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
Alliances & Organisations3 full memberships
Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer
🏛️ Leadership History18 leaders · click to expand
marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.
Ben Do✦ Current
2024–PresentPrime Minister
Feleti Teo
2024–2024Prime Minister
Kausea Natano
2019–2024Prime Minister
Enele Sopoaga
2013–2019Prime Minister
Willy Telavi
2010–2013Prime Minister
Maatia Toafa
2010–2010Prime Minister
Apisai Ielemia
2006–2010Prime Minister
Maatia Toafa
2004–2006Prime Minister
Saufatu Sopoanga
2002–2004Prime Minister
Koloa Talake
2001–2002Prime Minister
Faimalaga Luka
2001–2001Prime Minister
Lagitupu Tuilimu
2000–2001Prime Minister
Show all 18 leaders
Ionatana Ionatana
1999–2000Prime Minister
Bikenibeu Paeniu
1996–1999Prime Minister
Kamuta Latasi
1993–1996Prime Minister
Bikenibeu Paeniu
1989–1993Prime Minister
Tomasi Puapua
1981–1989Prime Minister
Toaripi Lauti
1978–1981Prime Minister
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Ben Do✦ Current | Prime Minister | 2024–Present |
| Feleti Teo | Prime Minister | 2024–2024 |
| Kausea Natano | Prime Minister | 2019–2024 |
| Enele Sopoaga | Prime Minister | 2013–2019 |
| Willy Telavi | Prime Minister | 2010–2013 |
| Maatia Toafa | Prime Minister | 2010–2010 |
| Apisai Ielemia | Prime Minister | 2006–2010 |
| Maatia Toafa | Prime Minister | 2004–2006 |
| Saufatu Sopoanga | Prime Minister | 2002–2004 |
| Koloa Talake | Prime Minister | 2001–2002 |
| Faimalaga Luka | Prime Minister | 2001–2001 |
| Lagitupu Tuilimu | Prime Minister | 2000–2001 |
| Ionatana Ionatana | Prime Minister | 1999–2000 |
| Bikenibeu Paeniu | Prime Minister | 1996–1999 |
| Kamuta Latasi | Prime Minister | 1993–1996 |
| Bikenibeu Paeniu | Prime Minister | 1989–1993 |
| Tomasi Puapua | Prime Minister | 1981–1989 |
| Toaripi Lauti | Prime Minister | 1978–1981 |
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.
👥 Population over time
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Tuvalu is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Tuvalu: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Show all 16 decades
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
🏆 National Teams
Tuvalu on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.