External Debt / Samoa
Samoa External Debt
Samoa external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 37.56%.
COUNTRY: Samoa
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-23 09:45:20
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 · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
37.56%
Previous
46.78%
Range avg.
52.90%
Rank
29
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CountrySamoa
IndicatorExternal Debt
37.56%2024 · Rank 29
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Samoa recorded 37.56% for External Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 9.22 percentage points, from 46.78% to 37.56%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (52.90%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 37.56% in 2024 and the high was 60.97% in 2021.
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