Religion in Solomon Islands

The constitution of Solomon Islands establishes the freedom of religion, and this freedom is respected in practice by both the government and general society.

Demographics

Religious makeup of the population of Solomon Islands as of 2019:

• Christianity 93%
  • Protestant 73%
    • Anglican Church of Melanesia 32%
    • South Seas Evangelical Church 17%
    • Seventh-day Adventist Church 12%
    • United Methodists 10%
  • Catholic Church 20%
• Animism 5%
• Other 3%

'Other' groups include Jehovah’s Witnesses, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (Unification Church) and the Christian Fellowship Church, as well as Muslims and Baha’is.

An estimated 5 percent of the population, consisting primarily of the Kwaio community on the island of Malaita, practice indigenous animistic religions.

Christianity was brought to the country in the 19th and early 20th centuries by missionaries representing several Western denominations. Some foreign missionaries continue to work in the country. In the early 2000s, the clergy of the established churches was nearly entirely indigenous, except for the Roman Catholic Church, whose clergy is approximately 45 percent foreign.