- ISO 3166
AS- Main language + region
sm-AS- Currency
- USD · US Dollar
- Region
- not grouped
American Samoa
American Samoa has 43.9K people. Samoan is the most widely spoken language at 99%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. Samoan and English are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to sm-AS.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
—
0%world median 81%100%
0% of 43.9K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 1990 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$18,017
Higher than 62% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
2
Samoan 99% · English 97%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
97%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
CLDR records Samoan in 3 territories and 252.6K speakers in total; American Samoa holds 17% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Samoan profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (sm-AS).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
April 21, 2026
Short: 4/21/26
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Sun
Currency
$1,234.56
1,234.56 in USD · US Dollar