Samoa population

In Samoa the number of people aged 15–64 is still growing in 2100, the last year the UN projects. In 2023 there were 120,392 of them.

aged 15–64   children under 15   aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100   the same, projected   50 or more

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

In 2020–2025 Samoa loses 2,763 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 524 a year more leaving than arriving.

more arrive than leave   more leave than arrive

How to read this: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was -522 (1975); its biggest loss, 4,944 (1984).

In 2024, 3,843 people living in Samoa had been born in another country, 2 of every 100 people there, against 2 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

Of every 100 babies born in Samoa in 2023, 8 had a mother under 20, 75 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 17 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 9 under 20 and 12 aged 35 or older.

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023

5,503

Average age when women have a baby

29.3 years

29.2 in 1950

Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19

43

96 in 1950

UNHCR publishes no refugees, asylum-seekers or displaced people in or from Samoa at the end of 2025.

Read that as a gap in the record, not as a finding. The count reaches as far as one agency's work reaches, and no further.

In 2025, 190 people from Samoa asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Samoa whose claims were decided that year, 2 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

Of every 100 people in Samoa in 2025, 58 lived in a town or suburb and 42 in the countryside.

How to read this: one square for every hundredth person, coloured as the key shows. Because the rule behind the colours is the same everywhere, two countries' squares can be compared directly.

How the world's people live

Of every 100 adults in Samoa in 2020, 1 never went to school and 36 finished upper secondary or went further.

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2070; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2080.

How to read this: the row is the adults (25 and over) shrunk to 100 people, coloured by how far each went in school, least schooling on the left. The Wittgenstein Centre's count, 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

No place in Samoa is big and dense enough to count as a city under the UN's rule — at least 50,000 people, living 1,500 or more to the square kilometre.

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