Economy - overview:
American Samoa has a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90% of the land is communally owned. Economic activity is strongly linked to the US with which American Samoa conducts most of its commerce. Tuna fishing and tuna processing plants are the backbone of the private sector, with canned tuna the primary export. The two tuna canneries account for 80% of employment. In late September 2009, an earthquake and the resulting tsunami devastated American Samoa and nearby Samoa, disrupting transportation and power generation, and resulting in about 200 deaths. The US Federal Emergency Management Agency is overseeing a relief program of nearly $25 million. Transfers from the US Government add substantially to American Samoa's economic well being. Attempts by the government to develop a larger and broader economy are restrained by Samoa's remote location, its limited transportation, and its devastating hurricanes. Tourism is a promising developing sector.
GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (official exchange rate): GDP - real growth rate: GDP - per capita (PPP): GDP - composition by sector: Labor force: Labor force - by occupation: Unemployment rate: Population below poverty line: Household income or consumption by percentage share: Budget: Taxes and other revenues: Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-): Inflation rate (consumer prices): Agriculture - products: Industries: Industrial production growth rate: Electricity - production: Electricity - consumption: Electricity - exports: Electricity - imports: Oil - production: Oil - consumption: Oil - exports: Oil - imports: Natural gas - production: Natural gas - consumption: Natural gas - exports: Natural gas - imports: Natural gas - proved reserves: Exports: Exports - commodities: Imports: Imports - commodities: Debt - external: Exchange rates:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding American Samoa on this page is re-published from the 2012 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of American Samoa Economy 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about American Samoa Economy 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
$575.3 million (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 210
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$462.2 million (2005)
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3% (2003)
country comparison to the world: 122
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$8,000 (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 123
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agriculture: NA%
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industry: NA%
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services: NA%
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17,630 (2005)
country comparison to the world: 209
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agriculture: 34%
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industry: 33%
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services: 33% (1990)
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29.8% (2005)
country comparison to the world: 175
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NA%
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lowest 10%: NA%
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highest 10%: NA%
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revenues: $155.4 million (FY07)
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expenditures: $183.6 million (FY07)
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33.6% of GDP (FY07)
country comparison to the world: 73
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-6.1% of GDP (FY07)
country comparison to the world: 171
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NA%
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bananas, coconuts, vegetables, taro, breadfruit, yams, copra, pineapples, papayas; dairy products, livestock
tuna canneries (largely supplied by foreign fishing vessels), handicrafts
NA%
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190 million kWh (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 181
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176.7 million kWh (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 186
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0 kWh (2009 est.)
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0 kWh (2009 est.)
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0 bbl/day (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 151
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4,400 bbl/day (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 173
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0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 149
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4,440 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 165
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0 cu m (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 150
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0 cu m (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 149
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0 cu m (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 54
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0 cu m (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 152
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0 cu m (1 January 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 108
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$445.6 million (FY04 est.)
country comparison to the world: 175
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canned tuna 93%
$308.8 million (FY04 est.)
country comparison to the world: 195
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raw materials for canneries 56%, food, petroleum products, machinery and parts
$NA
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the US dollar is used
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order
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