_#_Industries: copra, fish (tuna)
_#_Agriculture: including fishing and forestry, accounts for about 75% of GDP; mostly subsistence farming; cash crops—cocoa, beans, coconuts, palm kernels, timber; other products—rice, potatoes, vegetables, fruit, cattle, pigs; not self-sufficient in food grains; 90% of the total fish catch of 44,500 metric tons was exported (1988)
_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1985), $16.1 million
_#_Currency: Solomon Islands dollar (plural—dollars); 1 Solomon Islands dollar (SI$) = 100 cents
_#_Exchange rates: Solomon Islands dollars (SI$) per US$1—2.5934 (January 1991), 2.5288 (1990), 2.2932 (1989), 2.0825 (1988), 2.0033 (1987), 1.7415 (1986), 1.4808 (1985)
_#_Fiscal year: calendar year
_*Communications #_Highways: about 2,100 km total (1982); 30 km sealed, 290 km gravel, 980 km earth, 800 private logging and plantation roads of varied construction
_#_Ports: Honiara, Ringi Cove
_#_Civil air: no major transport aircraft
_#_Airports: 31 total, 29 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 2,439 m; 2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m