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192,001
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note: prior estimates used official net migration data by sex, but a highly unusual pattern for 1993 lead to a significant imbalance in the sex ratios (more men and fewer women) and a seeming reduction in the female population; the revised total was calculated using a 1993 number that was an average of the 1992 and 1994 migration figures (July 2010 est.)
0-14 years: 37.6% (male 42,117/female 40,603)
15-64 years: 56.7% (male 65,541/female 59,292)
65 years and over: 5.7% (male 5,538/female 6,907) (2010 est.)
total: 21.8 years
male: 21.7 years
female: 21.9 years (2010 est.)
0.605% (2010 est.)
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22.92 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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5.36 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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-11.52 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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urban population: 23% of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization: 1.7% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.08 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.8 male(s)/female
total population: 1.06 male(s)/female (2010 est.)
total: 23.21 deaths/1,000 live births
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male: 27.42 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 18.78 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
total population: 72.13 years
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male: 69.28 years
female: 75.13 years (2010 est.)
3.32 children born/woman (2010 est.)
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noun: Samoan(s)
adjective: Samoan
Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians (persons of European and Polynesian blood) 7%, Europeans 0.4% (2001 census)
Congregationalist 34.8%, Roman Catholic 19.6%, Methodist 15%, Latter-Day Saints 12.7%, Assembly of God 6.6%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3.5%, Worship Centre 1.3%, other Christian 4.5%, other 1.9%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)
Samoan (Polynesian) (official), English
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99.7%
male: 99.6%
female: 99.7% (2003 est.)
total: 12 years
male: 12 years
female: 13 years (2001)
5.4% of GDP (2008)
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