Distillers Country guides / American Samoa
American Samoa
A one-page guide to American Samoa for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Pago Pago (Fagatogo is the seat of government)
- Official languages
- Samoan, English
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Time zone
- UTC-11
- Area
- 199 km²
People
- Population
- 46,029 (2025)
- Population growth
- -1.6% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 80.5%
- Aged under 15
- 26.3%
- Aged 65 and over
- 8.5%
- Life expectancy
- 73.0 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$871.0 million (2022)
- GDP per person
- US$18,017 (2022)
- Economic growth
- 1.74% (2022)
Climate
Tropical rainforest climate, warm all year (daily averages about 27-28 C). Wet season roughly December to March; cyclones can occur November to April; hills above Pago Pago Harbor get about 5,100 mm of rain a year.
Alcohol
- Legal drinking age
- 21 shown in the table's de jure column (US territory); not otherwise stated
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); World Bank API (population, area, GDP, growth, inflation); WHO GHO OData (SA_0000001688); UN Comtrade public preview API (HS 2208); Wikipedia: American Samoa; Wikipedia: Legal drinking age. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.