Fiji, endowed with forest, mineral, and fish resources, is one of the most developed and connected of the Pacific island economies. Earnings from the tourism industry, with an estimated 842,884 tourists visiting in 2017, and remittances from Fijian’s working abroad are the country’s largest foreign exchange earners.
Bottled water exports to the US is Fiji’s largest domestic export. Fiji's sugar sector remains a significant industry and a major export, but crops and one of the sugar mills suffered damage during Cyclone Winston in 2016. Fiji’s trade imbalance continues to widen with increased imports and sluggish performance of domestic exports.
The return to parliamentary democracy and successful elections in September 2014 improved investor confidence, but increasing bureaucratic regulation, new taxes, and lack of consultation with relevant stakeholders brought four consecutive years of decline for Fiji on the World Bank Ease of Doing Business index. Private sector investment in 2017 approached 20% of GDP, compared to 13% in 2013.
3% (2017 est.)
0.7% (2016 est.)
3.8% (2015 est.)
3.4% (2017 est.)
3.9% (2016 est.)
Moody's rating: Ba3 (2017)
Standard & Poors rating: BB- (2019)
$12.178 billion (2019 est.)
$12.232 billion (2018 est.)
$11.783 billion (2017 est.)
note: data are in 2017 dollars
$4.891 billion (2017 est.)
$13,684 (2019 est.)
$13,846 (2018 est.)
$13,429 (2017 est.)
note: data are in 2017 dollars
19% of GDP (2018 est.)
18.9% of GDP (2017 est.)
16.1% of GDP (2015 est.)
agriculture: 13.5% (2017 est.)
industry: 17.4% (2017 est.)
services: 69.1% (2017 est.)
household consumption: 81.3% (2017 est.)
government consumption: 24.4% (2017 est.)
investment in fixed capital: 16.9% (2017 est.)
investment in inventories: 0% (2017 est.)
exports of goods and services: 29% (2017 est.)
imports of goods and services: -51.6% (2017 est.)
Overall score: 61.5 (2020)
Starting a Business score: 73.6 (2020)
Trading score: 77.9 (2020)
Enforcement score: 57.1 (2020)
sugar cane, cassava, taro, poultry, vegetables, coconuts, eggs, milk, ginger, sweet potatoes
tourism, sugar processing, clothing, copra, gold, silver, lumber
2.8% (2017 est.)
353,100 (2017 est.)
agriculture: 44.2%
industry: 14.3%
services: 41.6% (2011)
4.5% (2017 est.)
5.5% (2016 est.)
29.9% (2019 est.)
36.7 (2013 est.)
lowest 10%: 2.6%
highest 10%: 34.9% (2009 est.)
revenues: 1.454 billion (2017 est.)
expenditures: 1.648 billion (2017 est.)
29.7% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
-4% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
48.9% of GDP (2017 est.)
47.5% of GDP (2016 est.)
calendar year
-$277 million (2017 est.)
-$131 million (2016 est.)
$908.2 million (2017 est.)
$709 million (2016 est.)
United States 29%, Australia 14%, New Zealand 7%, Japan 6%, Tonga 6% (2019)
water, refined petroleum, fish, raw sugar, gold (2019)
$1.911 billion (2017 est.)
$1.761 billion (2016 est.)
Singapore 18%, Australia 13%, China 13.8%, New Zealand 11%, France 11%, South Korea 8% (2017)
refined petroleum, aircraft, cars, wheat, broadcasting equipment (2019)
$1.116 billion (31 December 2017 est.)
$908.6 million (31 December 2016 est.)
$1.022 billion (31 December 2017 est.)
$696.4 million (31 December 2016 est.)
Fijian dollars (FJD) per US dollar -
2.05955 (2020 est.)
2.17345 (2019 est.)
2.1104 (2018 est.)
2.0976 (2014 est.)
1.8874 (2013 est.)
NOTE: The information regarding Fiji on this page is re-published from the 2021 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Fiji 2021 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Fiji 2021 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
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