Country profile · East Asia & Pacific · HIC
🇦🇸 American Samoa
High income. Capital Pago Pago. Mid-pack GDP/cap (HIC · LONG) across 19 World Bank / WHO / ILO measures.
- 46.8K
- Population
- $871 million
- GDP
- $18,017
- GDP / capita
- 73.0 years
- Life expectancy
Mid-pack GDP/cap · LONG
American Samoa ranks 204th of 217 by total GDP and 126th for life expectancy - a high income economy in East Asia & Pacific.
- #204
- World GDP rank (of 217)
- $18,017
- GDP per capita
- #126
- Life-expectancy rank
- #204
- Population rank
American Samoa sits in the middle third of GDP/cap (#80 of 214) as a HIC economy with LONG longevity.
American Samoa vs all countries by total GDP
Where this economy's World Bank total GDP sits among every country with a positive observation (inventory signal, not a virtue ranking)
$871,000,000 204th of 214 higher than 10 of 214 countries
Countries banded by World Bank total GDP (current US$)
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Source World Bank, GDP (current US$) · 2026-08-14
American Samoa on the global income map
American Samoa (ASM) mid GDP/cap pack - GDP per capita × life expectancy vs largest peers; gold rings = OECD.
- American Samoa: GDP per capita $18,017 (2022), life expectancy 73.0 years (2024), high income.
- India: GDP per capita $2,695 (2024), life expectancy 72.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- China: GDP per capita $13,303 (2024), life expectancy 78.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United States: GDP per capita $84,534 (2024), life expectancy 78.9 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Indonesia: GDP per capita $4,925 (2024), life expectancy 71.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Pakistan: GDP per capita $1,479 (2024), life expectancy 67.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Nigeria: GDP per capita $1,084 (2024), life expectancy 54.6 years (2024), low income.
- Brazil: GDP per capita $10,311 (2024), life expectancy 76.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Bangladesh: GDP per capita $2,593 (2024), life expectancy 74.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Russian Federation: GDP per capita $14,889 (2024), life expectancy 73.4 years (2024), high income.
- Ethiopia: GDP per capita $1,134 (2024), life expectancy 67.6 years (2024), low income.
- Mexico: GDP per capita $14,186 (2024), life expectancy 75.3 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Japan: GDP per capita $32,487 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Egypt, Arab Rep.: GDP per capita $3,338 (2024), life expectancy 71.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Philippines: GDP per capita $3,985 (2024), life expectancy 69.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Congo, Dem. Rep.: GDP per capita $693 (2024), life expectancy 62.1 years (2024), low income.
- Viet Nam: GDP per capita $4,717 (2024), life expectancy 74.7 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Iran, Islamic Rep.: GDP per capita $5,190 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Turkiye: GDP per capita $15,893 (2024), life expectancy 77.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Germany: GDP per capita $56,104 (2024), life expectancy 80.8 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Thailand: GDP per capita $7,387 (2024), life expectancy 76.6 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United Kingdom: GDP per capita $53,246 (2024), life expectancy 81.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Tanzania: GDP per capita $1,193 (2024), life expectancy 67.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- France: GDP per capita $46,103 (2024), life expectancy 83.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- South Africa: GDP per capita $6,267 (2024), life expectancy 66.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Italy: GDP per capita $40,385 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Kenya: GDP per capita $2,133 (2024), life expectancy 63.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Myanmar: GDP per capita $1,359 (2024), life expectancy 67.1 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Colombia: GDP per capita $7,951 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income, OECD member.
- Korea, Rep.: GDP per capita $36,239 (2024), life expectancy 83.6 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Sudan: GDP per capita $985 (2024), life expectancy 66.5 years (2024), low income.
Overview
American Samoa has a population of 46.8K, making it the 204th-most populous country out of 217 tracked in East Asia & Pacific.
Its economy totals $871 million - ranked 204th globally by total GDP. GDP per capita stands at $18,017, placing it in the High income category.
Life expectancy at birth is 73.0 years (ranked 126th globally), reflecting overall health outcomes as measured by the World Bank.
The capital is Pago Pago.
👥 Demographics
💰 Economy
🏥 Health
📚 Education
🌍 Environment
🏗️ Infrastructure
⚖️ Social
🌐 Livability Score
One composite verdict from 3 of 5 World Bank series (life expectancy, under-5 mortality, electricity access, clean-water access, homicide rate), each benchmarked against every country tracking that series. A missing series never silently drags the score down: its weight redistributes across the series American Samoa does report.
All indicators for American Samoa
19 latest observations from World Bank WDI, WHO GHO, and ILO ILOSTAT (vintage through 2026-08-14). Values match the topic cards above; this table is the machine-readable export view analysts expect on a country profile.
| Topic | Indicator | Value | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | Population | 46.8K | 2024 |
| Demographics | Population Ages 0-14 | 27.0% | 2024 |
| Demographics | Population Ages 65+ | 8.0% | 2024 |
| Demographics | Population Density | 237.6/km² | 2023 |
| Demographics | Urban Population | 80.9% | 2024 |
| Economy | GDP (Current USD) | $871 million | 2022 |
| Economy | GDP Growth Rate | 1.7% | 2022 |
| Economy | GDP Per Capita (Current USD) | $18,017.459 | 2022 |
| Economy | Trade (% of GDP) | 124.7% | 2022 |
| Health | Life Expectancy at Birth | 73.0 years | 2024 |
| Education | Education Expenditure (% of GDP) | 14.7% | 2006 |
| Environment | CO2 Emissions Per Capita | 0.0 | 2024 |
| Environment | Forest Area | 85.2 | 2023 |
| Environment | Renewable Energy Consumption | 0.4% | 2022 |
| Infrastructure | Access to Clean Water | 90.5% | 2024 |
| Infrastructure | Access to Sanitation | 42.9% | 2024 |
| Infrastructure | Mobile Subscriptions | 4.0 | 2004 |
| Social | Intentional Homicides | 25.5 | 2018 |
| Social | Net Migration | -1,110 | 2024 |
🫀 Disease Burden
American Samoa's WHO GHO strip is NCD-led; cause cards below keep only the highest-rate cells so the roster is not a copy of every other profile.
Sources: WHO Global Health Observatory. NCD mortality rate: latest available. Rates are age-standardized per 100,000 population. Premature NCD risk covers cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease.
Compare American Samoa with near GDP/cap peers
Side-by-side pages for the closest ABS GDP/cap neighbours - not a full-roster dropdown.
Read with American Samoa
Nearest GDP/cap peers and LE poles for American Samoa (HIC · LONG), replacing the old fixed guide and region clone strip.
HIC LONG
Palau · HIC
Palau GDP/cap $18,169 is higher by $152 than American Samoa; LE stamp MID vs LONG.
Seychelles · HIC
Seychelles GDP/cap $18,365 is higher by $347 than American Samoa; LE stamp LONG vs LONG.
Bulgaria · HIC
Bulgaria GDP/cap $17,597 is lower by $421 than American Samoa; LE stamp LONG vs LONG.
Trinidad and Tobago · HIC
Trinidad and Tobago GDP/cap $18,733 is higher by $716 than American Samoa; LE stamp LONG vs LONG.
East Asia & Pacific WDI roster
American Samoa stamps HIC · LONG inside East Asia & Pacific - open the region roster after the ABS peers.
GDP/cap leaderboard (#80)
American Samoa ranks #80 of 214 on NY.GDP.PCAP.CD under the HIC Atlas band.
What the data says about American Samoa
American Samoa sits in the high-income bracket but outside the OECD's harmonized reporting network, so its statistics come straight from the World Bank, WHO, and ILO source series rather than a jointly reconciled OECD dataset - still official, but with less cross-checking between agencies than an OECD member gets. Because output and income figures are converted at market exchange rates into current dollars, they can swing with currency movements independent of any real change in living standards, and for a small economy like this one that swing shows up more visibly in the headline numbers than it would for a larger country. The fuller picture comes from comparing American Samoa against income-tier peers of a similar size.
American Samoa sits in the middle third of GDP/cap (#80 of 214) as a HIC economy with LONG longevity.
American Samoa holds 46.8K people and $871 million GDP (204th) at $18,017 per person - mid GDP/cap band, HIC, LE 73.0 years (126th, LONG). 19 WDI/WHO/ILO cells fill the topic blocks.
Nearest ABS GDP/cap peer: Palau at $18,169 (Δ $152). Open that profile or the GDP/cap leaderboard before treating any single year as destiny.
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Source: World Bank Open Data, Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, Source: ILO ILOSTAT. World Bank and ILO data licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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