Samoa's gross capital formation (annual % growth) was 11.65% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 4.22 percentage points from 7.43% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 11.65% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -6.94% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 7.43% | 2015 |
| Highest | 27.49% | 2023 |
| Lowest | -12.96% | 2024 |
| Average since 2016 | 2.46% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 18.39% | 2010 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Samoa's gross capital formation (annual % growth) rose 24.62 percentage points on 2024 (from -12.96% to 11.65%).
Across the 14 yearly changes before that (2011 to 2024), the average change was −2.24 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 21.08 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 38.38 percentage points in 2023 and the biggest yearly fall was 40.45 percentage points in 2024. 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 less than 1% 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.
How it compares
In 2025, Samoa had the 23rd highest value of the 123 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 | 11.65% | 2025 |
| World | 2.87% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 2.01% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 2.14% | 2025 |
Closest to Samoa in the 2025 ranking
- Honduras — 20th of 123: 13.39%
- Cabo Verde — 21st of 123: 13.08%
- Pakistan — 22nd of 123: 11.76%
- Gabon — 24th of 123: 11.26%
- Côte d'Ivoire — 25th of 123: 11.11%
- Algeria — 26th of 123: 10.97%
What this measures
Gross capital formation includes acquisitions less disposals of produced assets for purposes of fixed capital formation, inventories or valuables. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 16 values
| Year | Gross capital formation (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 11.65 |
| 2024 | -12.96 |
| 2023 | 27.49 |
| 2022 | -10.9 |
| 2021 | -3.38 |
| 2020 | -6.94 |
| 2019 | 13.82 |
| 2018 | 0.3783 |
| 2017 | -9.26 |
| 2016 | 14.65 |
| 2015 |
Gross capital formation (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Brunei Darussalam — -5.97% (2025)
- Cambodia — 3.71% (2025)
- China — 1.94% (2025)
- Indonesia — 4.03% (2025)
- Japan — -0.82% (2024)
- Kiribati — 32.07% (2024)
- Korea, Rep. — -1.74% (2025)
- Lao PDR — 7% (2016)
- Macao SAR, China — -7.76% (2025)
- Malaysia — 9.11% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Samoa
- Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$) — US$114.41 million (2023)
- Technical cooperation grants (BoP, current US$) — US$14.69 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$) — US$117.17 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (constant 2023 US$) — US$117.17 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (current US$) — US$117.17 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (constant 2023 US$) — US$117.17 million (2023)
- Net ODA received per capita (current US$) — US$540.81 (2023)
- Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$598.34 million (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Samoa's gross capital formation (annual % growth)?
- 11.65% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2010?
- It is down 6.74 percentage points from 18.39% in 2010. The highest value was 27.49% in 2023 and the lowest -12.96% in 2024.
- How does Samoa rank?
- 23rd highest of 123 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in gross capital formation (annual % growth) unusual for Samoa?
- In 2025, Samoa's gross capital formation (annual % growth) rose 24.62 percentage points on 2024 (from -12.96% to 11.65%). Across the 14 yearly changes before that (2011 to 2024), the average change was −2.24 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 21.08 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.GDI.TOTL.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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