Transport and infrastructure on the Solomon Islands

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of the Solomon Islands with the average of all countries in Oceania. The traffic routes have noticeable defects in many places and are often not in a particularly good condition.

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Road traffic

The network of roads and highways has a total length of 1,390 km. For each of the country's 686,878 inhabitants, this corresponds to 2.02 meters. This puts Solomon Islands in 173rd place in the global ranking. However, it is also important to note the country's population density, which is very low at around 24 inhabitants per km². Like this, disproportionately long distances generally have to be covered to reach the more remote parts of the country.

With an average of 104 traffic fatalities per year (2013 - 2019), road traffic on the Solomon Islands is considered rather mixed. This corresponds to around 4.3 accident fatalities per 16.8 inhabitants per year. By comparison, this figure is 5.9 in the European Union as a whole and 17.0 worldwide.

On the Solomon Islands, traffic drives on the right-hand side of the road, i.e. people drive in the right-hand lane and overtake on the left. Oncoming traffic comes toward you on the left side. Here you can also find an overview of all countries with left-hand traffic.

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Solomon Islands
Roadways	1,400 km	2,023.65 km	48.10 m
Railroads	0 km	0.00 km	0.00 m
Waterways	0 km	0.00 km	0.00 m
Commercial harbors	24	34.94	0.001
Airports	36	52.41	1.246

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Oceania
Roadways	30,900 km	2,504.49 km	55.93 m
Railroads	600 km	48.39 km	1.08 m
Waterways	11,200 km	908.39 km	20.29 m
Commercial harbors	5,278	427.78	0.010
Airports	817	66.22	0.001

Data sources used

• Global Health Observatory Data Repository (World Health Organization)
• UNCTAD
• Internation Union of Railways (UIC)
• CIA Factbook
• OECD Statistics
• Wikipedia (german)

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