World population/Solomon Islands
Oceania
Population of Solomon Islands
858,292
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#165
world rank
0.01%
of world population
+2.31%
yearly change
+19,814
people this year
22,440
births a year
4,300
deaths a year
How the figure for Solomon Islands is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Solomon Islands at 858,292 on 1 July 2026, and projects 878,106 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Solomon Islands at number 165 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.01 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 23 entries in Oceania.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 22,440 births and 4,300 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Oceania
Ranked by population.