Composite Score
20.0
out of 100
Tonga places in Tier 4 of the ITU Global Cybersecurity Index 2024 — an evolving posture with limited public evidence of structured implementation. A data-protection statute is in active preparation, but not yet in force, and no designated supervisory authority is publicly identified in the IAPP Global Privacy Directory at this Edition. On the question of artificial intelligence policy, no national AI policy is yet registered in the OECD AI Policy Observatory; on the question of open-government practice, Tonga is not currently an Open Government Partnership member. Domestic data-center capacity is substantial — the country sits within the top tier of physically-installed compute observed in the public datasets, and foundational digital identity coverage is not yet captured at a measurable level by the World Bank ID4D dataset.
With a composite of 20.0 out of 100, Tonga sits at rank 156th out of the 194 States surveyed in Edition 0, in the lower band of the distribution. At this Edition the Custodian's open-source coverage is thinner for Tonga than for many comparators; the assigned tier — Tier D — reflects evidence available, not an institutional verdict on the country's intentions. The pillar profile shows the country's relative strength in Ecosystem, Education & Implementation (2.9/10) and a thinner record in Sovereign Haven Infrastructure (1.1/10). Tonga is invited to engage with the Office of the Custodian to enable fuller scoring in future Editions.
The Custodian observes limited public information for this country at this Edition. The path forward is straightforward and voluntary: the designation of a National Authority under Article 8.1; a public response to the Annual Survey; the construction of the open-source legal-and-policy record from which the Index draws. The Charter holds no view, at this Edition, on the depth of the country's intentions; the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
The complete IDSI Edition 0 (2026) report — methodology, sources, sub-indicators for all 194 States.
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Standing Correction Notice — the State of Tonga may request, in writing, the publication of a corrected entry within thirty days of any factual error. Edition 0 entries are derived from the open-source record only; nothing on this page is offered as a verdict, and the Initiative welcomes engagement that improves accuracy.