Where you could be born / Oceania / Polynesia
Born in American Samoa
About 1 in 188,728 people born in 2023 started life in American Samoa. A boy can expect to live 70 years and a girl 76, up from 58 and 61 in 1950. Most people live in cities, and nearly everyone has basic drinking water.
Life and health
Life lasts about 14 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 106 in every 1,000 births to 11.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 6.2 children on average in 1950. Now it is 2.3.
Average over a lifetime.
Money and work
Daily life
The largest city is Pago Pago, with 11,500 people.
People on the move
About 7.2% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Samoa, South Africa, Mali.
Events in the data
The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.
Now live it.
Born in American Samoa, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Oceania
How to read the sources. Every figure is sourced to a named dataset, shown beside it. A figure marked "Extrapolated" is estimated by a model because no survey covers the year. UN figures are for 2023, the latest year of UN estimates; other figures are the latest year their dataset has. Rank 1 is the highest figure among 230 countries and territories. All sources and licences