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title: "Is Solomon Islands a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Solomon Islands (Honiara): 58.1 Mbps internet, healthcare 47/100, air quality 97/100 — essentials ≈ $1,786/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 102/167

# Is 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands (Honiara) a good place to live?

Quality score **56/100** against essentials of **$1,786/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 23 58.1 Mbps median broadband, 29% online

Healthcare 47 UHC service coverage 47/100 (2023)

Air quality 97 PM2.5 6.3 µg/m³ (2023)

## Beside the score, not inside it

Neither of these is part of the composite above, deliberately. Folding governance into a quality-of-life number would bury a political judgement where you could not see it or argue with it, and connection *price* is a different question from connection *speed* — somewhere fast and expensive and somewhere slow and cheap are different trade-offs, not one average.

- **Rule of law**: middling
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.15 · corruption control -0.14 · stability 0.75 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $88.36 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $11.85/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,786) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.1× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 1.7× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 2.8× | like royalty |

Essentials from the [Pint & Property basket](https://geo-parity.com/expenses/?tab=prices). Rank countries by your own priorities in the [interactive matrix](https://geo-parity.com/livability/).

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇨🇭 Switzerland](https://geo-parity.com/livability/switzerland/) — quality 85.1, essentials $2,753/mo
- [🇮🇱 Israel](https://geo-parity.com/livability/israel/) — quality 82.1, essentials $2,677/mo
- [🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis](https://geo-parity.com/livability/saint-kitts-and-nevis/) — quality 49.1, essentials $1,628/mo
- [🇨🇫 Central African Republic](https://geo-parity.com/livability/central-african-republic/) — quality 26.1, essentials $809/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/solomon-islands/) · [retiring in Solomon Islands](https://geo-parity.com/fire/solomon-islands/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Solomon Islands a good place to live for remote workers?**: Solomon Islands scores 56/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 58.1 Mbps, healthcare 47, air quality 97; English not scored) — rank 102 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Solomon Islands?**: Median fixed broadband is around 58.1 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Solomon Islands?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,786/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (1.7× essentials).

Safety, healthcare and air quality are objective figures from the World Bank (homicide rate, life expectancy) and WHO (PM2.5); internet speed and English are curated. City variation is real — verify locally. Agents: GET /api/livability.json?budget=3000.

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Source: Geo-Parity — https://geo-parity.com/livability/solomon-islands/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json