Which ethnic group makes up most of Samoa’s population?

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The vast majority of the population in Samoa is of Polynesian heritage. Approximately nine-tenths of the country's residents are ethnic Samoans. The remainder of the population consists primarily of Euronesians—individuals of mixed European and Polynesian ancestry—along with a very small percentage of people of wholly European descent.1