Kiribati vs Samoa

Kiribati and Samoa compared on 9 key figures from official sources. Each value is the latest one published for that country, so the year is shown with it.

• Samoa has about 1.6 times as many people as Kiribati: 219,306 against 136,488 in 2025.
• GDP per person in Samoa ($5,873) is about 2.3 times as high as in Kiribati ($2,559) in 2025.
• Real GDP growth was the same in Kiribati (4.2%) and Samoa (4.2%) in 2025.
• Consumer prices rose faster in Kiribati (6.5%) than in Samoa (2.2%), a difference of 4.3 percentage points in 2025.
• A baby born in Samoa can expect to live 5.2 years longer than one born in Kiribati: 71.8 years against 66.6 years in 2024.
• The population of Kiribati is older: half of its people are over 22.7 years, against 19.9 years in Samoa in 2023.
• A larger share of people used the internet in Kiribati (89.4% in 2024) than in Samoa (21.2% in 2014), a difference of 68.2 percentage points.
• CO2 emissions per person in Samoa (1.6 tonnes) are about 2.7 times as high as in Kiribati (0.59 tonnes) in 2024.
• Forest covers a larger share of the land in Samoa (57.6%) than in Kiribati (1.3%), a difference of 56.3 percentage points in 2024.