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Least Developed Country Category: Samoa Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Samoa Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1971

Graduation: 1 January 2014

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report:
GA resolution:

Graduation

CDP reports: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
ECOSOC resolutions: E/RES/1997/223, , E/2007/12, E/RES/2007/35
GA resolutions: ,
Vulnerability profile: 2006
Monitoring reports: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021
Country reports: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 3,820

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Thresholds

Inclusion: $ 1,088
Graduation: $ 1,306

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

96.2

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Lower secondary education completion rate
stat Value: 16.1 stat Value: 97.0
Index: 96.3 Index: 96.6
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 7.4 stat Value: 99.1
Index: 90.2 Index: 98.8
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 59 stat Value: 1.1
Index: 95.5 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

37.5

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 36 or above
Graduation: 32 or below

EVI indicators

Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
stat Value: 11.1 stat Value: 8.8
Index: 17.0 Index: 25.2
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 80.6 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 88.3 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.1 stat Value: 7.2
Index: 51.2 Index: 30.6
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 14.9 stat Value: 1.35
Index: 29.8 Index: 57.7
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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