Health in Samoa

Expenditure on health in Samoa was 7.2% of GDP in 2014, US$418 per capita.

Life expectancy at birth was estimated at 72 years for men in 2016 and 78 for women.[1]

Prevalence of obesity in the adult population, top countries (2016), Samoa has the sixth highest rate in the world.

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative[2] finds that Samoa is fulfilling 75.5% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income.[3] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Samoa achieves 98.7% of what is expected based on its current income.[3] In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves 95.4% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income.[3] Samoa falls into the "very bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health because the nation is fulfilling only 32.4% of what the nation is expected to achieve based on the resources (income) it has available.[3]

  1. ^ "Samoa". WHO. 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Human Rights Measurement Initiative – The first global initiative to track the human rights performance of countries". humanrightsmeasurement.org. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  3. ^ a b c d "Samoa - HRMI Rights Tracker". rightstracker.org. Retrieved 2022-03-26.