- ISO 3166
WS- Main language + region
sm-WS- Currency
- WST · Samoan Tala
- Region
- not grouped
Samoa
Samoa has 208.9K people, and 44.3K of them are online. Samoan is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. Samoan and English are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to sm-WS.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
44.3K
0%world median 81%100%
21% of 208.9K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2014 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$5,873
Higher than 38% 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 100% · English 2.1%
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
99%
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; Samoa holds 83% 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-WS).
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
WST 1,234.56
1,234.56 in WST · Samoan Tala