Age Dependency Ratio / Samoa
Samoa Age Dependency Ratio
Samoa age dependency ratio data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 78.99%.
COUNTRY: Samoa
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-19 12:00:09
GM ECONOMY RATING
Samoa · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
69 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
19.0 / 20
External stability
15.0 / 15
Financial robustness
9.0 / 15
Structural stability
11.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
1.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Samoa · age dependency ratio data as percent of GDP.
Latest
78.99%
Previous
79.68%
Range avg.
78.09%
Rank
2
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CountrySamoa
IndicatorAge Dependency Ratio
78.99%2025 · Rank 2
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Samoa recorded 78.99% for Age Dependency Ratio in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.69 percentage points, from 79.68% to 78.99%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (78.09%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is broadly stable.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 75.39% in 2016 and the high was 79.96% in 2023.
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