Economy of the Fiji

Statistics of the economy

Income

rough National product (GNP): 1.48 billion Dollars; 1820$ per capita (2000)

Gross domestic product (GDP): 1.64 billion dollars; 2031$ per capita (2000)

with Purchasing power parity - 5.9 billion dollars; 7300$ per capita (estimate of 1999)

growth rate of the GDP 7.8% (estimate of 1999)

GDP by sector:
agriculture: 16.5%
industry: 25.5%
services: 58% (estimate of 1998)

Population under the poverty line: unknown

Rate of inflation

1.6% (estimate of 2002)

Labor

Unemployment rate: 6% (estimate of 1997)

Budget

incomes: 540.65 million dollars
expenditure: 742.65 million (estimate of 1997)

Industries

Tourism, Sugar, clothing, Copra, Gold, money, wood Rate of increase in the industrial production: 2.9% (1995)

Electricity

Electricitéy - production: 550 GWh (1998)

Electricity - distribution:
fossil energy: 20%
hydroelectricity: 80%
nuclear: 0%
others: 0% (1998)

Electricity - consumption: 512 GWh (1998)

Electricity - export: 0 kWh (1998)

Electricity - importaion: 0 kWh (1998)

Agriculture

Agriculture - productions: Cane sugar, Coconut, Manioc (Tapioca), Rice, sweet potatoes, Banana S; cattle, pigs, horses, goats; fish

Exports

510 million dollars (1998)

Exports - goods: Sugar 32%, clothing, Gold, wood

Exports - partners: Australia 34%, the United Kingdom 18%, other Pacific Islands 11%, the United States 11%, New Zealand 5%, Japan 5% (1997)

Imports

721 million dollars (1998)

Imports - goods: Machineries and transport facilities, oil products, food, chemicals

Imports - partners: Australia 45%, New Zealand 15%, Japan 7%, the United States 5%, Singapore 4% (1997)

Debt and assistances

Debt - external: 136 million dollars (2000)

Economic aid: 40.3 million dollars (1995)

Currency

1 Fijian Dollar (FJD) = 100 hundreds

Foreign exchange rate: Dollar of fiji for 1 USD - 1.9654 (January 2000), 1.9696 (1999), 1.9868 (1998), 1.4437 (1997), 1.4033 (1996), 1.4063 (1995)

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