People from abroad in Samoa, and Samoa's people abroad

Where they come from

Industries

Industry is not available for this register.

Where the names come from (estimate)

Where the names in Samoa's company register come from, estimated by a name-origin model and adjusted to Samoa's own mix. These are expected counts, not people with a documented move, and no individual is labelled by them.

Based on 7,749 names whose origin the model can place; 12,705 names common to many countries are counted but not assigned.

Read with care. In Samoa, about 80% of the estimated name origins point to other countries. Where a population was built by immigration, much of that is simply what its names' ancestry is: it is not a count of migrants. The estimate is also adjusted toward the nationalities Samoa's register records, and registers that record nationality mainly for foreigners pull it further abroad.

Samoa's people abroad

Abroad, 1,015 people from Samoa are documented in 62 other countries.

Samoa's company register lists 29,643 officer rows, 20,326 with a stated nationality (self-stamp rate 0.17; above 0.98 the field is ignored as it only repeats the register's own country).

Counts are people with a documented cross-border move: an official register's nationality or birthplace, ORCID/VIAF/Wikidata records, or a dated study-then-work transition. Name-based estimates and heritage (ancestral) readings are not included in these counts. Groups under 5 people are folded into "Other".

Aggregate statistics from official company registers, ORCID, VIAF and Wikidata, compiled by compatriots.net · data build v3_20261030. No individual is named on this page. See methodology & privacy.