Population Statistics
Samoa
Population
|
198,926 |
|
[July 2016 est.] |
Language
|
Samoan [official] |
|
English |
Religion
| Protestant Christianity | 54.9% |
|---|---|
| Roman Catholic Christianity | 18.8% |
| Mormonism | 16.9% |
| Worship Centre | 2.8% |
| Other Christianity | 3.6% |
| Other Religion | 2.9% |
| No Religion | 0.2% |
|
[Samoa Bureau of Statistics, 2016] |
|
Ethnicity
| Samoan | 96% |
|---|---|
| Samoan/New Zealander | 2% |
| Other | 1.9% |
|
[2011 est.] |
|
|
Data represents the population by country of citizenship. |
|
Australians with Samoan Ancestry
| 75,755 |
| [Census, 2016] |
Samoans in Australia
Population
|
24,017 |
|
[Census, 2016] |
|
This figure refers to the number of Australian residents that were born in Samoa. |
Median Age
|
45 |
|
[Census, 2016] |
Gender
| Male | 49.5% |
|---|---|
| Female | 50.5% |
|
[Census, 2016] |
|
Religion
| Catholic Christianity | 21.4% |
|---|---|
| Christian [undefined] | 16.4% |
| Church of the Latter-Day Saints | 13.6% |
| Pentecostal Christianity | 8.3% |
| Other Religion | 29.9% |
| No Religion | 4.7% |
| Not Stated | 5.1% |
|
[Census, 2016] |
|
Ancestry
| Samoan | 67.4% |
|---|---|
| German | 6.9% |
| English | 6.4% |
| Chinese | 4.8% |
| Other Ancestry | 14.5% |
|
[Census, 2016] |
|
Language Spoken at Home
| Samoan | 84.9% |
|---|---|
| English | 13.0% |
| Tokelauan | 0.1% |
| Other | 0.7% |
|
Of those who speak a language other than English at home, 86.9% speak English fluently. |
|
|
[Census, 2016] |
|
Diaspora
| New South Wales | 37.6% |
|---|---|
| Queensland | 32.5% |
| Victoria | 25.8% |
| Western Australia | 2.2% |
| Other | 1.6% |
|
[Census, 2016] |
|
Arrival to Australia
| Prior to 2007 | 57.5% |
|---|---|
| 2007 - 2011 | 15.2% |
| 2012 - 2016 | 22.6% |
|
[Census, 2016] |
|
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