Transportation
The current territorial license plate design, introduced in 1999.
Demographics
Historical populations
Census Pop. %±
1970 27,159
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1980 32,297 18.9%
1990 46,773 44.8%
2000 57,291 22.5%

The population of American Samoa stands at about 65,000, of whom 95% live on the largest island, Tutuila.

91.6% of the population are native Samoans, 2.8% Asian, 1.1% White, 4.2% Mixed, and 0.3% other; 90.6% of the people speak Samoan (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages), 2.9% English, 2.4% Tongan, 2.1%, other 2% other Pacific islander, with most people being bilingual. American Samoa is largely Christian (50% Christian Congregationalist, 20% Roman Catholic, 30% Protestant and other).

American Samoa is small enough to have just one ZIP code, 96799, and uses the U.S. Postal Service (state code “AS”) for mail delivery. The island contains 23 primary schools and six secondary schools, all of which are operated by the American Samoa Department of Education. American Samoa Community College, founded in 1970, provides post-secondary education on the islands.