The latest market, economy, central-bank, policy and company stories from Tuvalu, updated every 15 minutes. Last updated 19 October 2026.
| GDP growth (2025) | 1.6% | Moderate growth. |
| GDP per person (2025) | $6,041 | Average output per person: a rough measure of how wealthy a country is. |
| Current account (2023) | +40.0% of GDP | Surplus: earns more from abroad than it spends. |
Latest official annual figures from World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0). Context, not a forecast or financial advice.
The island nation, one of the world's smallest, has had 10 substantive governors-general - all of them men - since gaining independence on 1 October 1978.