

My sixteen year old second cousin is 100% Armenian on her mom's side and 100% Tongan on the other. We were having a conversation the other day and she said she bet there weren't any other Armenian-Tongans except for her and her brother. I said, no way, Armenian-Tongans are rare, but there were definitely others; my guess was that there are at least 500 of them alive today.



On the one hand, the population of Tonga is only about 100,000, while the population of Armenia is three million. BUT both Tongans and Armenians have large populations living in diaspora - her parents met when they were both living in LA; her mom is a second generation immigrant while her dad is first.



I'm not looking for a definitive answer (though I'd certainly be excited to discover one exists!) I'm just hoping that people with a little more knowledge about population dynamics could take a stab at guessing, or at least give us some things to consider the next time we talk about this, in a "see if you can estimate how many cheeseburgers could fit into Yankee Stadium," sort of way.



Thanks!

Can you estimate how many people of Armenian-Tongan descent there currently are in the world?