Economic Policy & Debt · Samoa
Yearly data from 1971 to 2025, from the World Bank.
Samoa's GDP (annual % growth) was 4.2% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 0.35 percentage points from 3.85% in 2015.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 4.2% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -3.11% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 3.85% | 2015 |
| Highest | 15.23% | 2023 |
| Lowest | -10.68% | 1974 |
| Average since 2016 | 3.15% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 13.51% | 1971 |
Over five years it is up 7.31 percentage points from -3.11% in 2020. Since 1971 it is down 9.31 percentage points from 13.51% in 1971.
In 2025, Samoa's GDP (annual % growth) fell 0.54 percentage points on 2024 (from 4.75% to 4.2%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.24 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.34 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 13.13 percentage points in 1976 and the biggest yearly fall was 17.97 percentage points in 1974. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 4% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
In 2025, Samoa had the 69th highest value of the 186 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Samoa | 4.2% | 2025 |
| World | 2.92% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 4% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 4.21% | 2025 |
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Limitations: Each industry's contribution to growth in the economy's output is measured by growth in the industry's value added. In principle, value added in constant prices can be estimated by measuring the quantity of goods and services produced in a period, valuing them at an agreed set of base year prices, and subtracting the cost of intermediate inputs, also in constant prices. This double-deflation method requires detailed information on the structure of prices of inputs and outputs. In many industries, however, value added is extrapolated from the base year using single volume indexes of outputs or, less commonly, inputs.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | GDP (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.2 |
| 2024 | 4.75 |
| 2023 | 15.23 |
| 2022 | 2.27 |
| 2021 | -5.04 |
| 2020 | -3.11 |
| 2019 | 4.45 |
| 2018 | -0.6096 |
| 2017 | 1.41 |
| 2016 | 7.98 |
| 2015 | 3.85 |
| 2014 | 0.6599 |
| 2013 | 0.1073 |
| 2012 | -3.73 |
| 2011 | 3.85 |
| 2010 | 6.12 |
| 2009 | -0.5417 |
| 2008 | 3.56 |
| 2007 | 0.486 |
| 2006 | 2.13 |
| 2005 | 6.64 |
| 2004 | 3.09 |
| 2003 | 5.21 |
| 2002 | 5.65 |
| 2001 | 7.39 |
| 2000 | 5.09 |
| 1999 | 2.19 |
| 1998 | 2.19 |
| 1997 | 0.6434 |
| 1996 | 7.18 |
| 1995 | 6.67 |
| 1994 | -2.54 |
| 1993 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | -0.2 |
| 1991 | -2.3 |
| 1990 | -4.42 |
| 1989 | 3.71 |
| 1988 | -1.44 |
| 1987 | 0.4831 |
| 1986 | 5.5 |
| 1985 | 3.92 |
| 1984 | 1.29 |
| 1983 | 0.431 |
| 1982 | -0.9605 |
| 1981 | -9.03 |
| 1980 | -6.19 |
| 1979 | 10.91 |
| 1978 | 6.25 |
| 1977 | -0.7752 |
| 1976 | 9.32 |
| 1975 | -3.8 |
| 1974 | -10.68 |
| 1973 | 7.29 |
| 1972 | 1.59 |
| 1971 | 13.51 |
Every indicator for Samoa is on the Samoa data page.
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