Samoa

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
197,695 1
Urban
18.20% 1
Rural
81.80% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
2.6% 2
Level of Public Corruption
62 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
4.03 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
1.80% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
74 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
98.97% 6
Internet Users
21% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$4,060 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
0.8% 6
  • 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 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

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
37,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
18.76
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
2,390
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
556
First Communions per Year
800
Confirmations per Year
564
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
2,706
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
5,890
Church Marriages per Year
85
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
52
Priests
65
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
62
Catholics per Priest
566
Parishes
60
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
1