We review the current status of the solar neutrino problem. A survey of the experiments and their results are given, and solar physics crucial to the understanding of these results are discussed. Semi-empirical methods are used to derive bounds on the fluxes of the three most important components (pp, 7Be and 8B) of the solar neutrino spectrum. The 8B neutrinos are directly measured to be about half of the theoretical prediction. Relative to their theoretical predictions, we find the 7Be neutrinos to be highly suppressed and the pp neutrinos not suppressed. We are also able to derive a lower bound on the pp flux.