Poverty Headcount / Samoa
Samoa Poverty Headcount
Samoa poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 21.90%.
COUNTRY: Samoa
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-07-06 05:11:11
GM ECONOMY RATING
Samoa · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
62 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
19.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
11.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
0.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Samoa · poverty headcount data as percent of GDP.
Latest
21.90%
Previous
18.80%
Range avg.
22.63%
Rank
30
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CountrySamoa
IndicatorPoverty Headcount
21.90%2018 · Rank 30
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Samoa recorded 21.90% for Poverty Headcount in 2018, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2013, the indicator increased by 3.10 percentage points, from 18.80% to 21.90%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 4 available observations (22.63%).
Within the last 4 available observations, the low was 18.80% in 2013 and the high was 26.90% in 2008.
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