# Samoa

- Link: https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/
- Published: 2026-05-22T22:16:09-05:00
- Author: Preeti Sinha

National Blueprint · One of 195

# Samoa

A Pacific nation of 219,000 where citizens abroad send home more than a fifth of
the economy, half the power is renewable, and the World Bank financed digital and
financial resilience in October 2024.

Perfect Nations values what Samoa owns and raises capital against it, through **
innovative financing for development (FfD)** and **super intelligence (SI)**.

Samoa at a glance

 * **219,306**PeopleWorld Bank
 * _Furthest from reach · Shelter_**55.9%**of Samoans lack safely managed sanitation
   [WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.SMSS.ZS?locations=WS)
 * **2**Instruments and investments on record[Capital already committed](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/#bp-register)

[Work with us](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/#bp-studio)[Read the Letter to Samoa](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/#bp-letter)

What we do for Samoa

## Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.

 1. [01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The Diaspora to The People.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/#bp-assets)
 2. [02CapitalThe laurels2 instruments and investments on record, every one sourced.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/#bp-capital)
 3. [03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Shelter is furthest from reach today.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/#bp-pc)

**The whole logo:** a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards
of living, led by good governance.

[01](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/#bp-do)**Assets** · The cup · Sovereign
Assets

## Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Samoa toward seven basic standards
of living for every citizen.

 * **22.4%**Of GDP sent home by citizens abroad, 2025
 * 
   ### The Diaspora
   
 * Samoans in New Zealand, Australia and the United States send home more than a
   fifth of the economy.
 * **57.6%**Of the land under forest, 2024
 * 
   ### The Forest
   
 * Forest across more than half the land of Upolu and Savai’i.
 * **19.8%**Of export earnings from visitors, 2020
 * 
   ### The Visitors
   
 * Beaches, waterfalls and fa’a Samoa: visitors earned a fifth of exports.
 * **49.1%**Of electricity from renewable sources, 2021
 * 
   ### The Clean Grid
   
 * Half the power from water and sun.
 * **219,306**Citizens, 2025
 * 
   ### The People
   
 * 38.1% are under fifteen: the workforce and the market of the next generation.

[Every figure, with its source](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/#bp-sources)
[The Sovereign Assets ledger](https://perfectnations.com/sovereign-assets/)

[02](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/#bp-do)**Capital** · The laurels·
Capital Architecture

## The diaspora and the digital economy.

Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Samoa owns, every
line sourced.

[Capital Architecture](https://perfectnations.com/capital-architecture/)

The record in figures

 * **22.4%**Remittances received from citizens abroad, share of GDP, 2025[World Bank, 2025](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS?locations=WS)
 * **$21M**Finance Sector Resilience and Development Project, October 2024[World Bank, 2024](https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P181456)
 * **$20.1M**Digitally Connected and Resilient Samoa Project, October 2024[World Bank, 2024](https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P180807)
 * **21.2%**General government gross debt, share of GDP, 2025[IMF, WEO Oct 2026](https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/GGXWDG_NGDP@WEO/WSM)

Capital already committed

 * MultilateralApprovedFinance Sector Resilience and Development Project$21M
 * World Bank · Approved 18 October 2024
 * Banking and remittance channels that hold up in a shock.
 * World Bank
 * [Source](https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P181456)
 * MultilateralApprovedDigitally Connected and Resilient Samoa Project$20.1M
 * World Bank · Approved 18 October 2024
 * Digital connectivity and public services.
 * World Bank
 * [Source](https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P180807)

### The Samoa Newswire

[The Solutions Wire](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#sn-wire)

![Leilani Tuilagi, Nation Steward of Samoa](https://perfectnations.com/wp-content/
uploads/2026/11/Leilani-Tuilagi-Nation-Steward-of-Samoa-150x150.png)

**Leilani Tuilagi**Nation Steward of Samoa · SI ResearcherLast updated 10 November
2026

 * **The first sourced news for Samoa is in review.**

## Already working in Samoa.

Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Samoa, highlighted by
Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.

[Suggest an enterprise](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=An%20enterprise%20already%20at%20work%20in%20Samoa)

 * 
   ### The first firms and social enterprises at work in Samoa are being gathered.
   
 * Name one already at work there: it may be highlighted here, with its source.

[03](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/#bp-do)**Solutions** · The seven
stars · Perfect Capita

## Perfect Samoa, _star by star._

**Perfect Capita** is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the
Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Samoa in its own prices.

[How Perfect Capita works](https://perfectnations.com/perfect-capita/)

**44.1%**

Shelter · furthest from reachSafely managed sanitation; 34.6% of city dwellers live
in slums[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.SMSS.ZS?locations=WS)

Tap a star for its figure and source.

The price of Perfect Samoa

To be set with Samoa, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita
times the people of Samoa, each year.

Read more

 * Food**81.4%**Not food insecure; 18.6% are moderately or severely food insecure
   [FAO, 2023](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.MSFI.ZS?locations=WS)
 * Water**62.5%**Safely managed drinking water[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=WS)
 * Shelter**44.1%**Safely managed sanitation; 34.6% of city dwellers live in slums
   [WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.SMSS.ZS?locations=WS)
 * Energy**65%**65% cook with clean fuels and technology; 100% have electricity[World Bank, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS?locations=WS)
 * Education**96.8**96.8% of young people complete lower secondary school[World Bank, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.SEC.CMPT.LO.ZS?locations=WS)
 * Health**62**WHO service coverage index[WHO, 2023](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/universal-health-coverage-index?country=~WSM)
 * Livelihood**50.6%**Above US$8.30 a day; 49.4% live below it, dated[World Bank, 2013](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.UMIC?locations=WS)

Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Samoa. Figures marked dated rest 
on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. [The strict measures](https://perfectnations.com/perfect-capita/#pq-measures)

Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water:
safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked
as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban
slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking;
where electricity per person is not published, clean cooking. Education: the lower
of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion.
Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the 
national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group (US$
8.30 a day for high-income nations). Each figure links to its source.

### Solutions for Perfect Samoa

[All Solutions](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#sn-solutions)

 * **The Solution for Samoa**Shelter
 * 
   ### Ring-fence bond money for homes and sanitation.
   
    - **01****The challenge**55.9% Of Samoans lack safely managed sanitation. [WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.SMSS.ZS?locations=WS)
    - **02****The deal**
    - Social bond, proved in Ecuador, 2020: $400M for affordable homes. [Inter-American Development Bank, 2020](https://www.iadb.org/en/news/ecuador-issues-worlds-first-sovereign-social-bond-support-idb-guarantee)
    - **03****What Perfect Nations advises**Nations where shelter is furthest from
      reach should issue a social bond whose proceeds can be spent only on eligible
      homes, toilets and sewers. With super intelligence, each unit can be planned,
      priced and verified, and reported to investors every year, until every family
      has a safe home.
 * Co-design it in**The ReDesign Studio**[The three mandates](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/#bp-mandates)

Perfect Nations® · Letters to the NationsSamoa

## Dear Samoa,

Your families abroad send home more than a fifth of your economy, and half your 
power already comes from water and sun.

Read more

More than half of you lack safely managed sanitation. Let the remittances that keep
families strong also build the sanitation that keeps them well.

“Remittances keep families strong. Let them build the sanitation that keeps them
well.”

Yours in design,**Preeti Sinha**President and CEO, Perfect Nations

Work with us · The ReDesign Studio

## The Perfect Samoa _ReDesign Studio_

One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Samoa, taken as far toward market
as you choose.

Read more

For the Government of Samoa, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees
are agreed in writing before any work begins.

 1. **01**Identify the assets
 2. **02**Estimate Perfect Capita
 3. **03**Co-design the capital architecture
 4. **04**Launch the instruments

 1.  Mandate 013 hours
 2.  
     ### The Nation Briefing
     
 3.  A private session for the people who decide.
 4.  You leave withThe gap, named and sized
 5.  Read more
 6.   a. **01**The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
      b. **02**Shelter, the standard furthest from reach, and the Gap, explained.
      c. **03**The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
      d. **04**The path to market, outlined.
 7.  [Request a Nation Briefing](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=briefing&country=Samoa)
 8.  Mandate 023 days
 9.  
     ### The Blueprint Lab
     
 10. Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.
 11. You leave withThe structure, drawn
 12. Read more
 13.  a. **01**The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
      b. **02**Each of the seven standards costed in local prices.
      c. **03**One financing structure, drawn with your team.
      d. **04**A term sheet and the partners to approach.
 14. [Plan a Blueprint Lab](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=lab&country=Samoa)
 15. Mandate 03End to end
 16. 
     ### The Sovereign Mandate
     
 17. Led personally by the President and CEO.
 18. You leave withA structure ready for market
 19. Read more
 20.  a. **01**A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
      b. **02**Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
      c. **03**The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
      d. **04**Taken to investors and development partners, through to close.
 21. [Discuss a Sovereign Mandate](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=commission&country=Samoa)

### Co-design it with us

Where Samoans and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.

 * Writings
 * 
   #### Write Perfect Samoa into being.
   
 * Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Samoa, published with your name.
 * [Submit your writing](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=Writing%20for%20Perfect%20Samoa&body=Your%20name%2C%20or%20a%20pen%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0ATitle%3A%0D%0A%0D%0AYour%20vision%20of%20Perfect%20Samoa%2C%20and%20the%20economic%20solutions%20to%20achieve%20it%20%28up%20to%201%2C500%20words%29%3A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20confirm%20that%20this%20is%20my%20own%20original%20writing%2C%20and%20I%20give%20Perfect%20Nations%20permission%20to%20publish%20it%20with%20credit%20to%20me.%0D%0A)
 * Voices of Perfect Nations Launching soon
 * 
   #### The local leaders already building Perfect Samoa.
   
 * Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living
   for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Samoa already own, and 
   how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”
 * [Nominate yourself](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=samoa&topic=nominate-self)
   [Suggest a guest](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=samoa&topic=guest)
 * Co-designers
 * 
   #### Join the community.
   
 * Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a **Co-designer
   of Perfect Samoa**.
 * [Become a Co-designer](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/samoa/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=Becoming%20a%20Co-designer%20of%20Perfect%20Samoa&body=Your%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0AHow%20you%20would%20like%20to%20contribute%20%28writing%2C%20a%20voice%20for%20the%20podcast%2C%20an%20enterprise%2C%20your%20expertise%29%3A%0D%0A)

The Samoa ReDesign Studio is open

## Design Perfect Samoa with us.

Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us: every message receives a personal
reply.

[Enter the ReDesign Studio](https://perfectnations.com/design-studio/)[Write to us](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=samoa)
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Sources

 1. World Bank, World Development Indicators (API), accessed 10 November 2026: population
    and ages 0 to 14, 2025; land area and agricultural and forest land; renewable fresh
    water per person, 2022; natural resource, oil, gas and mineral rents, 2021; renewable
    electricity output, 2021; tourism receipts; personal remittances; electricity access
    and clean cooking.
 2. The seven standards: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF JMP water and sanitation, 
    UN-Habitat urban slums, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and lower-secondary
    completion, and poverty headcounts (all via the World Bank); WHO UHC service coverage
    index, 2023.
 3. IMF, World Economic Outlook, October 2026 (DataMapper, accessed 10 November 2026):
    general government gross debt, 2025, and real GDP growth projected for 2026.
 4. World Bank projects P181456 and P180807.