Samoa: People & Society#
| Population | 198,926 note: prior estimates used official net migration data by sex, but a highly unusual pattern for 1993 lead to a significant imbalance in the sex ratios (more men and fewer women) and a seeming reduction in the female population; the revised total was calculated using a 1993 number that was an average of the 1992 and 1994 migration figures (July 2016 est.) |
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| Nationality | noun: Samoan(s) adjective: Samoan |
| Ethnic groups | Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians (persons of European and Polynesian blood) 7%, Europeans 0.4% (2001 census) |
| Languages | Samoan (Polynesian) (official), English |
| Religions | Protestant 57.4% (Congregationalist 31.8%, Methodist 13.7%, Assembly of God 8%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3.9%), Roman Catholic 19.4%, Mormon 15.2%, Worship Centre 1.7%, other Christian 5.5%, other 0.7%, none 0.1%, unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.) |
| Age structure | 0-14 years: 32.04% (male 32,893/female 30,847) 15-24 years: 19.89% (male 20,302/female 19,258) 25-54 years: 35.95% (male 36,889/female 34,631) 55-64 years: 6.52% (male 6,602/female 6,364) 65 years and over: 5.6% (male 4,843/female 6,297) (2016 est.) |
| Dependency ratios | total dependency ratio: 74% youth dependency ratio: 64.9% elderly dependency ratio: 9.1% potential support ratio: 11% (2015 est.) |
| Median age | total: 23.9 years male: 23.7 years female: 24.2 years (2016 est.) |
| Population growth rate | 0.59% (2016 est.) |
| Birth rate | 20.6 births/1,000 population (2016 est.) |
| Death rate | 5.3 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.) |
| Net migration rate | -9.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.) |
| Urbanization | urban population: 19.1% of total population (2015) rate of urbanization: -0.24% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) |
| Major urban areas - population | APIA (capital) 37,000 (2014) |
| Sex ratio | at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.07 male(s)/female 15-24 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 25-54 years: 1.07 male(s)/female 55-64 years: 1.04 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.77 male(s)/female total population: 1.04 male(s)/female (2016 est.) |
| Mother's mean age at first birth | 23.6 note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2009 est.) |
| Maternal mortality rate | 51 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.) |
| Infant mortality rate | total: 19 deaths/1,000 live births male: 22.4 deaths/1,000 live births female: 15.5 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.) |
| Life expectancy at birth | total population: 73.7 years male: 70.8 years female: 76.8 years (2016 est.) |
| Total fertility rate | 2.77 children born/woman (2016 est.) |
| Contraceptive prevalence rate | 28.7% (2009) |
| Health expenditures | 7.2% of GDP (2014) |
| Physicians density | 0.45 physicians/1,000 population (2008) |
| Drinking water source | improved: urban: 97.5% of population rural: 99.3% of population total: 99% of population unimproved: urban: 2.5% of population rural: 0.7% of population total: 1% of population (2015 est.) |
| Sanitation facility access | improved: urban: 93.3% of population rural: 91.1% of population total: 91.5% of population unimproved: urban: 6.7% of population rural: 8.9% of population total: 8.5% of population (2015 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate | NA |
| HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS | NA |
| HIV/AIDS - deaths | NA |
| Major infectious diseases | note: active local transmission of Zika virus by Aedes species mosquitoes has been identified in this country (as of August 2016); it poses an important risk (a large number of cases possible) among US citizens if bitten by an infective mosquito; other less common ways to get Zika are through sex, via blood transfusion, or during pregnancy, in which the pregnant woman passes Zika virus to her fetus (2016) |
| Obesity - adult prevalence rate | 41.6% (2014) |
| Education expenditures | 5.1% of GDP (2008) |
| Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99.1% female: 98.8% (2015 est.) |
| Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 | total: 19.1% male: 15.6% female: 25.3% (2012 est.) |