Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Economic Position

Solomon Islands recorded gross domestic product of roughly $1.58 billion in 2024, per World Bank WDI, with GDP per capita of about $1,934 the same year. Population stood at 819,198 in 2024, per World Bank WDI. The IMF WEO puts government debt at 29.9% of GDP for 2026. Reserves were approximately $686 million in 2024, per World Bank WDI.

Governance

V-Dem v15's 2025 scores put Solomon Islands' electoral democracy index at 0.696 and its liberal democracy index at 0.539. State capacity is scored at 0.669 for the same year. These mid-range to upper-mid scores describe institutional performance only as captured by V-Dem's methodology; no further context on specific institutions is available in this bundle.

Military and Power Indicators

The Correlates of War National Material Capabilities dataset records zero active military personnel for Solomon Islands in 2022, and a composite index of national capability (CINC) of 2.2531874e-05, also for 2022. No SIPRI military-expenditure figures are present in this bundle, so defense spending and its share of GDP cannot be stated.

Energy

Primary energy consumption was 0.0048 exajoules in 2023, per Our World in Data. Electricity generation was 0.11 terawatt-hours in 2024, per the same source. Oil and gas production were both recorded at 0.0 terawatt-hours in 2016, per Our World in Data, indicating no domestic hydrocarbon output in that series.

Data Gaps

No SIPRI military-expenditure (milex) figures are in this bundle, so defense spending in dollar terms and as a share of GDP cannot be reported. The oil and gas production figures are from 2016, a decade behind the other energy series in this bundle, which run through 2023-2024; readers should not treat the 2016 figures as current. The personnel and CINC figures are from 2022, two to three years older than the economic data.

Sources: World Bank WDI, IMF WEO, Correlates of War National Material Capabilities, V-Dem v15, Our World in Data (Energy).