- ISO 3166
WS- Primary locale
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.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
44.3K
0%world median 81%100%
21% of 208.9K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2014 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
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 what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown here.
Languages
2
Samoan 100% · English 2%
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 it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against sm-WS, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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