American Samoa loses about 60% of the water it treats to leaks, has exactly one hospital with 10 ICU beds for seven islands, counts nearly three in five households with children food insecure, generates over 98% of its power from imported fuel oil — and publishes no figure at all in four of this page's nine categories.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Every measure carries its value, class, geography, year, definition, context and source. American Samoa's profile is the honest-gaps profile of this series: of nine categories, only five could be published with figures actually published FOR American Samoa, and four — traffic, housing, roads & bridges, and dams — are printed honestly empty with the reason stated in each category. That is the designed outcome for a territory of about 50,000 people that the mainland statistical instruments mostly do not cover, and the emptiness is reported here as a finding, not smoothed over.
What is NOT published, and why: Traffic — no TTI or any other congestion instrument covers American Samoa, and no territory figure exists. Housing — NLIHC's Gap and Out of Reach cover states and DC only; HUD's insular-area material for American Samoa is programme-performance data, not a shortage count; the territory's 57.8% poverty rate is a poverty figure and is not converted into a housing number. Roads & bridges — no verifiable FHWA condition share or ASCE territory fact sheet exists. Dams — American Samoa appears in no state-level National Inventory of Dams aggregation this series uses, and no territory dam count could be verified; a zero is not printed because no source states one. In each case the category's fine print says exactly this.
Three vintage and instrument cautions are printed rather than hidden. Power: the printed price and fuel-oil share are the DOE/NREL Island Energy Snapshot (circa 2015) — EIA's current tables publish no American Samoa price (the row reads NA), and later ASPA rate reporting (about $0.41/kWh, January 2024) is named on the measures as direction, not blended into a new figure. Hospitals: the bed count is the territory's 2022 Recovery Plan figure, which prints both 124 and 130 beds in different sections — the narrative figure is used and the discrepancy disclosed on the measure. Food: the printed rate is a survey of households with children aged 2–8 (Children's Healthy Living), labelled as such; an older 77-household American Samoa fact-sheet survey reporting 75% insecurity is named here for the record and deliberately not printed as a measure because of its sample size.