🇼🇸Samoa

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Population

219.3K

0.6%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

3.80

births/woman

Life Expectancy

71.8y

GDP / capita

$5.9K

Pop. Growth

0.59%

Net Migration

-2.8K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Samoa by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇦🇸American Samoa1.3K(36.9%)

−24%

🇳🇿New Zealand1.2K(34.4%)

−25%

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Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male110.5KTotal 219.3K108.8KFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

6.3

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇦🇺Australia258(7.6%)

−25%

🇫🇯Fiji105(3.1%)

−26%

🇹🇴Tonga57(1.7%)

−29%

🇹🇻Tuvalu55(1.6%)

−28%

🇨🇳China44(1.3%)

−29%

🇯🇵Japan37(1.1%)

−30%

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea34(1.0%)

−29%

🇩🇪Germany32(0.9%)

−29%

🇬🇧United Kingdom19(0.6%)

−34%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Samoa diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Samoa who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇳🇿New Zealand63.1K(53.0%)

+25%

🇦🇺Australia39K(32.7%)

+90%

🇦🇸American Samoa15.9K(13.4%)

+1%

🇬🇷Greece483(0.4%)

+1%

🇫🇯Fiji308(0.3%)

+7%

🇹🇴Tonga208(0.2%)

−22%

🇩🇰Denmark29(0.0%)

+61%

🇬🇳Guinea24(0.0%)

🇫🇲Micronesia, Fed. Sts.20(0.0%)

−9%

🇧🇬Bulgaria7(0.0%)

+17%

🇳🇴Norway3(0.0%)

+0%

🇫🇮Finland2(0.0%)

−33%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024