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Solomon Islands

Governor General:Frank Ofagioro Kabui
Prime Minister:Rick Houenipwela
Capital city:Honiara
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
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Population, persons:611,343 (2017)
Area, sq km:27,990 (2017)
GDP per capita, US$:2,132 (2017)
GDP, billion current US$:1.3 (2017)
GINI index:37.1 (2013)
Ease of Doing Business rank:116 (2017)

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- Millennium Development Goals
  
  October 2016
  
  Source: World Bank
  
  Uploaded by: Knoema
  
  Accessed On: 17 November, 2016
  
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  Relevant indicators drawn from the World Development Indicators, reorganized according to the goals and targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs focus the efforts of the world community on achieving significant, measurable improvements in people's lives by the year 2015: they establish targets and yardsticks for measuring development results. Gender Parity Index (GPI)= Value of indicator for Girls/ Value of indicator for Boys. For e.g GPI=School enrolment for Girls/School enrolment for Boys. A value of less than one indicates differences in favor of boys, whereas a value near one (1) indicates that parity has been more or less achieved. The greater the deviation from 1 greater the disparity is.