How much foreign aid does the US give the Solomon Islands?

$2.7 million was obligated in fiscal year 2025 and $4.6 million disbursed, according to ForeignAssistance.gov. Over FY2015–FY2025 the total obligated was $84.5 million.

How much US aid does the Solomon Islands get per person?

About $3.22 per person in FY2025, using the World Bank population estimate of 838,645.

How much USAID funding goes to the Solomon Islands?

USAID managed $285,531 of the FY2025 total (10.6%). The Department of State managed the most ($2.5 million).

What is US aid to the Solomon Islands spent on?

In FY2025, by sector: Peace and Security $2.5 million (92.5%); Program Support $201,413 (7.5%).

Has US aid to the Solomon Islands gone up or down?

FY2025: $2.7 million; FY2024: $4.4 million (down 39.1%). The peak since FY2015 was FY2022 ($23.6 million).

Does the US give military aid to the Solomon Islands?

In FY2025, $0 (0.0%) of obligations for the Solomon Islands was classified as military assistance on ForeignAssistance.gov.

Foreign aidEast Asia and OceaniaFiscal year 2025

US foreign aid to the Solomon Islands

The US gave the Solomon Islands $2.7 million in foreign aid in FY2025: $3.22 per person, 120th of 173 recipient countries.In fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), US government agencies obligated $2.7 million in foreign assistance for the Solomon Islands and disbursed $4.6 million, according to ForeignAssistance.gov.

Recent years may be incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov with a lag, and Economic Development reporting for FY2024–25 is lower than earlier years. Treat the drop as provisional. (FY2024: $4.4 million against a FY2021–23 average of $9.6 million; FY2025: $2.7 million against a FY2022–24 average of $10.3 million. ForeignAssistance.gov reporting status, FY2024: U.S. Agency for International Development complete, Department of State complete, Department of Defense partial agency; FY2025: U.S. Agency for International Development complete, Department of State complete, Department of Defense partial agency, through quarter 4.)

FY2025 obligated

$2.7M

$2.7 million

Per person

$3.22

pop. 838,645 (2025)

Rank

120th

of 173 recipient countries

FY2025 disbursed

$4.6M

paid out in the year

The Solomon Islands ranks 120th of 173 recipient countries

US foreign aid obligated in FY2025, every recipient country, highest to lowest.

What the numbers show

FY2025 obligations were down 39.1% from $4.4 million in FY2024, and compare with an average of $8.2 million a year over FY2015–FY2024. The highest year since FY2015 was FY2022, at $23.6 million. In total, $84.5 million was obligated over FY2015–FY2025.

The agency that managed the most aid for the Solomon Islands in FY2025 was the Department of State ($2.5 million, 92.5% of the total). By sector, the largest was Peace and Security ($2.5 million, 92.5%). That sector includes: Stabilization Operations and Security Sector Reform; Counter-Terrorism; Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD); Conflict Mitigation and Reconciliation. ForeignAssistance.gov classified $0 (0.0%) as military assistance and the rest as economic assistance.

For FY2026, $57,828 has been reported so far. Agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov quarterly and with a lag, so this page uses FY2025 for comparisons. The figures cover aid recorded for the Solomon Islands itself; regional and worldwide programs that also benefit it are counted separately (see the East Asia and Oceania page).

US aid to the Solomon Islands by year

Solomon Islands: $2.7M in FY2025, against a peak of $24M in FY2022

Obligations by fiscal year and managing agency, FY2015–FY2026, nominal dollars. FY26* is incomplete. Net de-obligations are drawn as zero.

Other agencies
Defense Department
State Department
USAID

View every year as a table

Fiscal year	USAID	State Department	Defense Department	Other agencies	Total obligated	Disbursed	Per person	Rank
FY2015	$550,000	$13,000	$0	$25,000	$588,000	$609,082	$0.92	153
FY2016	$1.0M	$21.4M	$0	$25,000	$22.5M	$22.0M	$33.92	91
FY2017	$489,186	$505,764	$0	$23,100	$1.0M	$957,792	$1.48	150
FY2018	$500,000	$23,820	$0	$24,998	$548,818	$993,049	$0.77	154
FY2019	$500,000	$21.5M	$0	$233,683	$22.3M	$22.1M	$30.56	111
FY2020	$1.0M	$0	$0	$684,210	$1.7M	$578,185	$2.26	148
FY2021	$1.4M	$60,000	$0	$980,578	$2.5M	$2.0M	$3.25	139
FY2022	$3.1M	$0	$0	$20.5M	$23.6M	$3.1M	$30.19	109
FY2023	$1.2M	$1.0M	$0	$525,455	$2.8M	$5.7M	$3.46	142
FY2024	$1.1M	$2.6M	$0	$707,239	$4.4M	$5.6M	$5.42	132
FY2025	$285,531	$2.5M	$0	-$84,118	$2.7M	$4.6M	$3.22	120
FY2026*	$520	$0	$0	$57,308	$57,828	$1.2M	$0.07	98

B = billion, M = million. Agency columns and the total are obligations (money committed); "disbursed" is money actually paid out in that year, which can include payments on earlier commitments. * FY2026 is incomplete: agencies report to ForeignAssistance.gov quarterly and with a lag. Negative amounts are net de-obligations.

Source: ForeignAssistance.gov (U.S. Department of State).

Who manages it and what it pays for, FY2025

By managing agency

Managing agency	FY2025	Share
Department of State	$2.5 million	92.5%
U.S. Agency for International Development	$285,531	10.6%

By sector

Sector	FY2025	Share
Peace and Security	$2.5 million	92.5%
Program Support	$201,413	7.5%

Largest program areas

Program area	FY2025	Share
Transnational Crime	$2.5 million	92.5%
Direct Administrative Costs	$201,202	7.4%
Monitoring and Evaluation	$211	0.0%

Sectors over the last five years

Sector	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024	FY2025
Economic Development	$1.3M	$18.7M	$0	$0	$0
Peace and Security	$60,000	$0	$1.0M	$2.6M	$2.5M
Program Support	$665,622	$3.8M	$473,787	$905,836	$201,413
Humanitarian Assistance	$500,000	$600,000	$1.2M	$800,000	$0
Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance	-$161,585	$500,000	$132,120	$93,726	$0
Environment	$98,810	$34,158	-$40,195	$38,751	$0

Who carried out the work, FY2025

Implementing partners by type, as reported to ForeignAssistance.gov. “Government” includes US agencies that carry out programs themselves and partner-country governments.

Partner type	FY2025	Share
Multilateral	$2.5 million	92.5%
Government	$127,778	4.7%
Enterprises	$73,635	2.7%

How the Solomon Islands compares

Countries with similar US aid totals in FY2025

US foreign aid obligated, FY2025.

Guyana	$3.1 million
Turkmenistan	$2.9 million
Solomon Islands (this page)	$2.7 million
Argentina	$2.3 million
Mauritania	$1.9 million

Other countries in East Asia and Oceania

All of East Asia and Oceania

Questions and answers

How much foreign aid does the US give the Solomon Islands?: $2.7 million was obligated in fiscal year 2025 and $4.6 million disbursed, according to ForeignAssistance.gov. Over FY2015–FY2025 the total obligated was $84.5 million.
How much US aid does the Solomon Islands get per person?: About $3.22 per person in FY2025, using the World Bank population estimate of 838,645.
How much USAID funding goes to the Solomon Islands?: USAID managed $285,531 of the FY2025 total (10.6%). The Department of State managed the most ($2.5 million).
What is US aid to the Solomon Islands spent on?: In FY2025, by sector: Peace and Security $2.5 million (92.5%); Program Support $201,413 (7.5%).
Has US aid to the Solomon Islands gone up or down?: FY2025: $2.7 million; FY2024: $4.4 million (down 39.1%). The peak since FY2015 was FY2022 ($23.6 million).
Does the US give military aid to the Solomon Islands?: In FY2025, $0 (0.0%) of obligations for the Solomon Islands was classified as military assistance on ForeignAssistance.gov.

Sources and notes

ForeignAssistance.gov (U.S. Department of State), complete dataset (us_foreign_aid_complete.csv), version of 02 Sep 2026, retrieved 2026-10-06. Obligations and disbursements in current (nominal) US dollars by U.S. fiscal year (October to September), FY2015–FY2026; FY2026 is incomplete. Public domain.
Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators, SP.POP.TOTL (updated 2026-07-13), CC BY 4.0.
Per-person figures divide the fiscal-year obligations by the World Bank population for the same calendar year.
How the figures are built, and what they leave out: method and caveats.