In 2010 GDP was US$550 million with GDP per capita estimated at $3,023 and real GDP growth at -1.3 per cent. Samoa’s economy contracted over 2009 and 2010 as a result of the global financial crisis and the 2009 tsunami, but the International Monetary Fund expected it to grow by 3 per cent in 2011 as the construction and manufacturing sectors continued to improve and remittances and tourism numbers remained steady. The United Nations has reviewed Samoa’s least developed country status and in 2007 recommended graduation to developing country status in 2010. However, as a result of economic reconstruction challenges in the aftermath of the September 2009 tsunami, Samoa’s graduation was deferred, it graduated January 2014.