Is prostitution legal in Tonga?
Legal & regulated
Prostitution is legal in Tonga, though related activities like soliciting and brothel keeping are forbidden.
Tonga is one of 73 countries classified “Legal & regulated” for sex work — 33% of the 219 with data. (Also searched as prostitution.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Prostitution in Oceania
- Last checked
- 7 July 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- Niue
- Illegal Being a prostitute or keeper of a brothel is illegal in Niue.
- Fiji
- Legal & regulated Prostitution is legal but brothel keeping, procuring, and buying or selling sex in public are illegal under the Crimes Decree 2009.
- Wallis and Futuna Islands
- Illegal Prostitution is illegal in Wallis and Futuna under French law, including prohibition of purchasing sex, solicitation, procuring, and brothels.
- Samoa
- Illegal Prostitution is illegal in Samoa under the Crimes Act 2013, with penalties including imprisonment.
- American Samoa
- Illegal Prostitution is illegal in American Samoa, including related activities like brothel keeping.
- Tuvalu
- Illegal Prostitution is legal in Tuvalu, but living off earnings, procuring, brothel keeping, and solicitation are illegal.
Other laws in Tonga
- Same-Sex Activity
- Illegal
- Pornography
- Illegal
- Marriage Age
- 18+
A visual reference compiled from Wikipedia’s law-by-country articles, not legal advice. Laws change and summaries simplify — check a primary source before relying on anything here.