Libya vs Samoa: Sovereign state

Libya

in 2022

Samoa

in 2022

Libya rank

1st

Samoa rank

1st

Sovereign state over time

Libya currently reports 1 against 1 in Samoa, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 207 shared years of data; in 1816 it was Libya ahead.

Libya ranks 1st and Samoa ranks 1st of 194 countries.

Indicator: Sovereign state
Source: Butcher and Griffiths (2020) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 194 places, 40,158 data points, 1816–2022
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The country is identified as a sovereign state by the ISD dataset.