American Samoa
Everything Palanor holds about American Samoa, in one place: 7 public signals, what its economy runs on, how often America’s largest companies name it, the news that names it, and Country Posture. Every figure is computed from stored readings and carries its source and date.
OceaniaAsia-Pacific
The latest read
- GDP in current U.S. dollars: $0.87 billion (2022); record high since 2002; 1y +16.0%.
- Household consumption, share of GDP: 71.3% of GDP (2022); 45th percentile since 2002; lowest since 2016; 1y −8.97 pts.
- Net exports, share of GDP: -30.8% of GDP (2022); 50th percentile since 2002; highest since 2013; 1y +17.50 pts.
Country Posture
What American Samoa’s economy is doing
Momentum
2022Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.590 below 0.60; AUC 0.590 below the single-input baseline (0.624); 2010–2022: AUC 0.595 below 0.60; AUC 0.595 below the single-input baseline (0.641).
Inputs
| Real GDP growth | 1.7 |
| Growth against its three-year average | 0.7 |
| Change in unemployment | — |
| Change in the employment rate | — |
| Export volume growth | 0.4 |
| OECD leading indicator | — |
Resilience
2025Withheld: 1 of 5 core inputs reported for 2025.
Inputs
| Interest as a share of revenue | — |
| Budget balance | — |
| Reserves, months of imports | — |
| Current account | — |
| Governance (WGI mean) | 1.03 |
| External debt | — |
Pressure
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.657 below the single-input baseline (0.672).
Inputs
| Inflation | — |
| Change in inflation | — |
| Currency move against the dollar | 0.0% |
| Conflict deaths per million | 0.0 |
| Political stability | 1.40 |
| Private credit, three-year change | — |
| Bond spread over U.S. Treasuries | — |
Posture describes what an economy is doing; it is not a rating and never ranks countries. Each input is read against the country’s own history and against every other economy that year. An axis shows a score only after passing a back-test fixed before any result was computed. Method and back-test.
GDP by expenditure
What American Samoa’s economy runs on
In 2022, household spending was 71.3% of GDP, government consumption —%, investment —% and net exports -30.8% (exports 47.0%, imports 77.7%).
Same World Bank definition for every country, so the shares compare directly: What each economy runs on.
News
In the news
- US moves to unlock deep-sea minerals near American Samoa with massive auction
MINING.COM2026-10-21neutral
Headlines that name American Samoa, matched by name with fixed rules (a wrong match is worse than a missing one). Tone is read from each headline’s own words; no model reads or summarizes an article, and other publishers’ stories link out.
Signals
Every series about American Samoa
Grouped by theme, the most-read first. All 7 in the Library.
Growth and output1
- American Samoa · GDP · USD bn (current)record high since 2002; 1y +16.0%$0.87bn2022
Peers
Elsewhere in Oceania
Alphabetical. Palanor does not rank countries.
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