Country LDC Information:

Date of inclusion on the LDC list: 1971

Scheduled for Graduation: 2014

Identified for Graduation: 1997, 2003, 2006

Meeting graduation criteria:

• GNI per capita: yes (2003, 2006, 2009)
• Human assets index: yes (2000, 2003, 2006, 2009)
• Economic vulnerability index: no
• UNCTAD vulnerability profile on Samoa

See ECOSOC resolution E/2007/35 on the graduation of Samoa. In accordance with General Assembly resolution A/RES/59/209, and A/RES/62/97 Samoa was scheduled to graduate from the list in December 2010 but the General Assembly extended the transition period by a period of three years, until 1 January 2014, due to the disruption caused to Samoa by the Pacific Ocean tsunami of 29 September 2009 (A/RES/64/295).