Nigeria vs Samoa: GDP growth

Nigeria

4.0%

in 2025

Samoa

4.2%

in 2025

Nigeria rank

79th

Samoa rank

76th

GDP growth over time

Nigeria
Samoa

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 4.2% against 4.0% in Nigeria, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 25 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1971 it was Nigeria ahead.

Globally, Nigeria ranks 79th and Samoa ranks 76th of 214 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: GDP growth (annual %)
Unit: annual %
Source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 261 places, 14,323 data points, 1961–2025
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.