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Introduction - Fiji: | Location - Fiji: | People - Fiji: | Government - Fiji: | Economy - Fiji: | Economy overview | Fiji, endowed with forest, mineral, and fish resources, is one of the most developed of the Pacific island economies, though still with a large subsistence sector. Sugar exports, remittances from Fijians working abroad, and a growing tourist industry - with 300,000 to 400,000 tourists annually - are the major sources of foreign exchange. Fijis sugar has special access to European Union markets, but will be harmed by the EUs decision to cut sugar subsidies. Sugar processing makes up one-third of industrial activity but is not efficient. Fijis tourism industry was damaged by the 2006 coup and is facing an uncertain recovery time. Long-term problems include low investment, uncertain land ownership rights, and the governments inability to manage its budget. Overseas remittances from Fijians working in Kuwait and Iraq have increased significantly. | | Gdp purchasing power parity | $5.594 billion (2006 est.) | | Gdp official exchange rate | $2.045 billion (2006 est.) | | Gdp real growth rate | 3.1% (2006 est.) | | Gdp per capita ppp | $6,200 (2006 est.) | | Gdp composition by sector | agriculture: 8.9%
industry: 13.5%
services: 77.6% (2004 est.) | | Labor force | 137,000 (1999) | | Labor force by occupation | agriculture: 70%
industry and services: 30% (2001 est.) | | Unemployment rate | 7.6% (1999) | | Population below poverty line | 25.5% (FY90/91) | | Household income or consumption by percentage share | lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA% | | Inflation rate consumer prices | 3% (2005) | | Budget | revenues: $720.5 million
expenditures: $728.3 million; including capital expenditures of $NA (2005) | | Agriculture products | sugarcane, coconuts, cassava (tapioca), rice, sweet potatoes, bananas; cattle, pigs, horses, goats; fish | | Industries | tourism, sugar, clothing, copra, gold, silver, lumber, small cottage industries | | Industrial production growth rate | NA% | | Electricity production | 817 million kWh (2004) | | Electricity consumption | 759.8 million kWh (2004) | | Electricity exports | 0 kWh (2004) | | Electricity imports | 0 kWh (2004) | | Oil production | 0 bbl/day (2004 est.) | | Oil consumption | 10,000 bbl/day (2004 est.) | | Oil exports | NA bbl/day | | Oil imports | NA bbl/day | | Oil proved reserves | 0 bbl | | Natural gas production | 0 cu m (2004 est.) | | Natural gas consumption | 0 cu m (2004 est.) | | Current account balance | -$465.8 million (2006 est.) | | Exports | $719.6 million f.o.b. (2005) | | Exports commodities | sugar, garments, gold, timber, fish, molasses, coconut oil | | Exports partners | US 16.8%, Australia 13.9%, UK 13.5%, Japan 5.3%, Samoa 4.7%, Tonga 4.1% (2006) | | Imports | $1.462 billion c.i.f. (2005) | | Imports commodities | manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, petroleum products, food, chemicals | | Imports partners | Singapore 28.9%, Australia 23.4%, NZ 16.9%, China 4.7% (2006) | | Debt external | $127 million (2004 est.) | | Economic aid recipient | $63.9 million (2004) | | Currency code | Fijian dollar (FJD) | | Exchange rates | Fijian dollars per US dollar - 1.7313 (2006), 1.691 (2005), 1.7331 (2004), 1.8958 (2003), 2.1869 (2002) | |
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