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Solomon Islands<br />

Unsustainable logging<br />

Erosion, fertility decline, reduced carbon stocks, loss of biodiversity<br />

Low Lying Atoll Islands<br />

Local production of fresh food<br />

Sea-level rise<br />

Urban expansion<br />

Improved management of limited soil resources<br />

Salinization, loss of soil resources<br />

Sealing and capping of land<br />

Table 15.1 Summary of current primary drivers of land-use and the associated implications for soil resources in the Southwest Pacific<br />

region.<br />

Country<br />

Population 2015<br />

Thousands<br />

Population 2050<br />

Thousands<br />

GDP per capita USD<br />

(2009-2013)<br />

Australia 23 923 33 735 67 468<br />

New Zealand 4 596 5 778 41 556<br />

Melanesia<br />

Fiji 893 918 4 572<br />

New Caledonia 263 364 -<br />

Papua New Guinea 7 632 13 092 2 088<br />

Solomon Islands 584 1010 1 954<br />

Vanuatu 264 473 3 303<br />

Total Melanesia 9 636 15 858<br />

Polynesia<br />

American Samoa 56 62 -<br />

Cook Islands 21 24 -<br />

French Polynesia 283 337 -<br />

Niue 1 1 -<br />

Samoa 193 242 3 647<br />

Tokelau 1 1 -<br />

Tonga 106 140 4 427<br />

Tuvalu 10 12 3 861<br />

Wallis and Futuna Islands 13 13 -<br />

Total Polynesia 684 832<br />

Micronesia<br />

Federate States of Micronesia 104 130 3 235<br />

Kiribati 106 156 1 651<br />

Marshall Islands 53 67 3 325<br />

Nauru 10 11 -<br />

Northern Mariana Islands 55 52 -<br />

Palau 21 28 11 810<br />

Total Micronesia 519 671<br />

Table 15.2 Current population, project population (UNDESA, 2013) and Gross Domestic Product per capita (World Bank, 2014) for<br />

countries of the region.<br />

Status of the <strong>World’s</strong> <strong>Soil</strong> <strong>Resources</strong> | Main Report Regional Assessment of <strong>Soil</strong> Changes<br />

484<br />

in the Southwest Pacific

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