Country comparison: American Samoa / United States of America

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for American Samoa and United States. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	American Samoa	United States
Region:	Polynesia	North America
Area:	199 km²	9,831,510 km²
National language:	Samoan, English	English
Government form:	Presidential democracy (self-governing territory of the US)	Federal presidential republic
Capital:	Pago Pago	Washington, D.C.

Population

Details for American Samoa and the United States

	American Samoa	United States
Population:	45,035	331,894,000
Inhabitants/km²:	226.3	33.8
Average age:	Ø 27.2 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birth rate:	12.70 ‰	11.00 ‰
Death rate:	5.60 ‰	10.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	-27.36 ‰	3.01 ‰

Economy

	American Samoa	United States
Currency:	US dollar (1 USD = 100 Cents)	US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	29.8 %	3.6 %

	ASM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	709 M US$	15.74 M US$	23,315,081 M US$	70.25 M US$
Exported goods:	428 M US$	9.50 M US$	2,556,638 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	615 M US$	13.66 M US$	3,401,688 M US$	10.25 M US$

Infrastructure

	ASM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	241 km	5.35 km	6,586,610 km	19.85 km
Passenger airports:	3	0.0666	436	0.0013

Energy balance

Details for American Samoa and the United States

	ASM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	411.72 m kWh	9.14 m kWh	10.015 tn kWh	30.18 m kWh
Energy consumption:	151.00 m kWh	3.35 m kWh	3.898 tn kWh	11.74 m kWh
Energy production:	163.00 m kWh	3.62 m kWh	4.049 tn kWh	12.20 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	14.13 bn kWh	42,587.96 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	61.45 bn kWh	185,146.19 kWh
CO2 emissions:	0.00 t	0.00 t	4.82 bn t	14,515.85 t

Telecommunication

	American Samoa	United States
International dialing:	+1-684	+1
Internet domain:	.as	.us

	ASM total	ASM per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	10,000	222	101,526,000	306
Mobile cellulars:	2,200	49	351,477,000	1059
Internet server:	2,387	53	505,000,000	1522
Internet users:	18,135	403	301,691,414	909

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: American Samoa and United States

	American Samoa	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.3 °C	18.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	25.5 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	82 %	67 %
Rain days:	17.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	7.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
American Samoa
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Native languages

	American Samoa	United States
Samoan:	90.6 %	n/a
English:	2.9 %	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Tongan:	2.4 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	4.1 %	2.6 %

Religions

	American Samoa	United States
Christianity:	70.0 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	30.0 %	15.3 %

Data inventory and updates

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