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Independent State of Samoa
Head of State: Malietoa Tanumafili II (1963)
Prime Minister: Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi (1998)
Area: 1,137 sq mi (2,944 sq km)
Note: We give
the information above in the Christian Personals Primer
so that you will have a little background on the country before
you contact a perspective mate, just in case you don't know the
basics. Perhaps this info will give you something to talk about
Population (2004 est.): 177,714 (growth rate: –0.2%);
birth rate: 15.7/1000; infant mortality rate: 28.7/1000; life
expectancy: 70.4; density per sq mi: 156
Capital and largest city (2003 est.): Apia, 35,900
Monetary unit: Tala
Languages: Samoan, English
Ethnicity/race: Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7%
(persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4%
Religion: Christian 99.7% (about half associated
with the London Missionary Society; includes Congregational,
Roman Catholic, Methodist, Latter-Day Saints, Seventh-Day
Adventist)
Literacy rate: 100% (2003 est.)
Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 8,183
(1998); mobile cellular: 1,545 (Feb. 1998). Radio broadcast
stations: AM 1, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998). Radios:
174,849 (1997). Television broadcast stations: 2 (2002). Televisions:
8,634 (1999). Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 2
(2000). Internet users: 3,000 (2002). |