<item><hi format=bold>Birth rate:</hi> 32.41 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Death rate:</hi> 6.02 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Net migration rate:</hi> -2.63 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Infant mortality rate:</hi> 37 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Life expectancy at birth:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 67.97 years
<item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 65.59 years
<item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 70.48 years (1994 est.)
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<item><hi format=bold>Total fertility rate:</hi> 4.16 children born/woman (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Nationality:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>noun:</hi> Western Samoan(s)
<item>• <hi format=ital>adjective:</hi> Western Samoan
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<item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi> Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4%
<item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> Christian 99.7% (about half of population associated with the London Missionary Society; includes Congregational, Roman Catholic, Methodist, Latter Day Saints, Seventh-Day Adventist)
<item><hi format=bold>Languages:</hi> Samoan (Polynesian), English
<item><hi format=bold>Literacy:</hi> age 15 and over can read and write (1971)