Least Developed Country Category: Solomon Islands Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Solomon Islands Country Profile in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1991

Graduation: Scheduled to graduate in 2027

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1991
GA resolution: A/RES/46/206

Graduation

CDP report: 2015, 2018, 2023
ECOSOC resolution: E/RES/2018/27, E/RES/2023/10
GA resolution: A/RES/73/133, A/RES/77/323
Impact assessment: 2018
Vulnerability profile: 2018
Country statements: 2018 CDP EGM, 2018 CDP Plenary
Monitoring reports: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2023 CDP crisis assessment, 2024

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 2,281

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Thresholds

Inclusion: $ 1,088
Graduation: $ 1,306

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

79.4

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Lower secondary education completion rate
stat Value: 18.3 stat Value: 70.4
Index: 95.0 Index: 67.1
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 29.8 stat Value: 84.1
Index: 45.4 Index: 78.8
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 122 stat Value: 1.1
Index: 90.2 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

49.6

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 36 or above
Graduation: 32 or below

EVI indicators

Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
stat Value: 33.7 stat Value: 17.9
Index: 55.5 Index: 51.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 76.9 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 83.6 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 8.6 stat Value: 7.1
Index: 77.5 Index: 30.0
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 8.1 stat Value: 5.67
Index: 16.2 Index: 82.9
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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