American Samoa

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
55,679 1
Urban
87.20% 1
Rural
12.80% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
41.8% 2

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
12,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
20.82
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
705
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
250
First Communions per Year
225
Confirmations per Year
225
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
300
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
200
Church Marriages per Year
37
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
26
Priests
21
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
2
Catholics per Priest
552
Parishes
29
Catholic Hospitals
1
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
1
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
  • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
  • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.