Samoa

Samoa: Country Brief

Samoa's dataset covers economic size, fiscal position and a thin energy profile, but carries no governance indicators and no military-expenditure data.

Economy

Samoa's gross domestic product was $1,175,749,785.65 in 2024, per the World Bank's World Development Indicators (WDI). GDP per capita was $5,392.88 the same year, also per World Bank WDI. Population stood at 218,019 in 2024, per World Bank WDI. Foreign-exchange reserves were $507,740,280.94 in 2024, per World Bank WDI.

Fiscal position

Government debt stood at 17.1% of GDP, per the IMF's World Economic Outlook (WEO), carried for 2026.

Security and capability

The Correlates of War (COW) National Material Capabilities dataset records zero active military personnel for Samoa in 2022, and assigns it a Composite Index of National Capability (CINC) score of 4.8219326e-06 for the same year — consistent with a state that COW tracks as having no standing armed force among the capabilities it measures.

Energy

Primary energy consumption was 0.0054 exajoules in 2023, per Our World in Data's energy series. Electricity generation was 0.16 terawatt-hours in 2024, also per Our World in Data. Oil production and gas production were both recorded at 0.0 terawatt-hours in 2016, per the same source.

Data gaps

No governance indicators (V-Dem or otherwise) are present in this bundle. No SIPRI military-expenditure data is available. The oil- and gas-production figures date to 2016, the most recent year carried in this series, and should not be assumed current.

Sources: World Bank WDI; IMF WEO; Correlates of War National Material Capabilities; Our World in Data (Energy).