What every visitor should know about Solomon Islands:
- Money
- The currency is the Solomon Islands dollar (SBD). 1 SBD is worth about US$0.13, or €0.09.
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 4.5 out of 5 (Very safe)
Areas of concern:
- Mugging
- Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
- Capital
- Honiara
- Tap water
- Not recommended. Water is usually drinkable in large cities, but quality is uneven.
Solomon Islands facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 595,613
- Language
- Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English (official; but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population); 120 indigenous languages
- Ethnicity
- Melanesian 94.5%, Polynesian 3%, Micronesian 1.2%, other 1.1%, unspecified 0.2%
Economy
- GDP
- US$1,900 (per capita)