Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by a governor-general Prime minister: Danny Philip
Population
584,578
Life Expectancy
74.420 years
Capital City
Largest city
Honiara (population: 56,298)
(population: )
Human Development Index
0.591
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GDP per capita
Literacy Rate
%
Corruption Perception Index
2.9
NA
Percentage of Women in Parliament
0%
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Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
Death Penalty
Abolished
NA
Political System
parliamentary democracy
Independence date
Religions
Church of Melanesia 32.8%, Roman Catholic 19%, South Seas Evangelical 17%, Seventh-Day Adventist 11.2%, United Church 10.3%, Christian Fellowship Church 2.4%, other Christian 4.4%, other 2.4%, unspecified 0.3%, none 0.2% (1999 census)
Languages
Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English (official; but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population); 120 indigenous languages
Exports
External Debt
Exchange Rate
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
Beijing Olympics Medal Count
Location
Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea
Area
28,896 km sq
Coastline
5,313 km
Climate
tropical monsoon; few extremes of temperature and weather
