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Malaita

First-level unit, Solomon Islands: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-SLB-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO SLB / SBStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
115,016
people (GHSL 2025)
4,433 km²
area
27.9%
of Solomon Islands
14
units inside

01Map

Inside Malaita

The 14 ADM2 units of Malaita.

FIG 1 · 14 units inside Malaita
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

115,016

27.9% of Solomon Islands.

People · WorldPop 2025

148,265

+29% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

क्षेत्र

4,433 km²

26 people per km².

कोड

SB-ML

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

4,403

people on land at or below 10 m, 3.8% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Malaita in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2023-12-31

184,197

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

04Units

14 units inside Malaita

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit कोड People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Auki-Langalanga – 2,210 3,478 12.93 171 1.7% 0
Baegu-Asifola – 4,620 6,804 103.71 45 3.7% 40
Central Kwara’ae – 12,895 19,026 210.44 61 10.2% 757
East AreAre – 5,784 5,747 673.56 9 4.6% 53
East Kwaio – 10,352 10,516 387.17 27 8.2% 145
East Malaita – 9,165 12,167 225.32 41 7.3% 44
Fataleka – 7,494 10,992 352.86 21 5.9% 239
Lau-Mbaelela – 13,573 18,834 244.01 56 10.7% 414
North Malaita – 10,998 13,101 143.8 76 8.7% 297
Small Malaita – 11,347 13,538 430.48 26 9% 221
Ulawa-Ugi – 4,972 3,710 109.56 45 3.9% 212
West Areare – 6,995 8,434 495.18 14 5.5% 573
West Kwaio – 10,543 13,322 623.62 17 8.3% 1,230
West Kwara’ae – 15,339 23,539 304.03 50 12.1% 378
05संपर्कात येणे

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06जोखीम

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Malaita publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Solomon Islands.
07स्रोत

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SLB ADM1, source: Natural Earth, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2021
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SLB ADM2, source: Solomon Islands National Statistics Office (SINSO), OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2018
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
देश
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.