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
and a growing tourist industry are the major sources of foreign
exchange. Sugar processing makes up one-third of industrial activity.
Roughly 300,000 tourists visit each year, including thousands of
Americans following the start of regularly scheduled non-stop air
service from Los Angeles. Fiji's growth slowed in 1997 because the
sugar industry suffered from low world prices and rent disputes
between farmers and landowners. Drought in 1998 further damaged the
sugar industry, but its recovery in 1999 contributed to robust GDP
growth. Long-term problems include low investment and uncertain
property rights.

purchasing power parity - $5.9 billion (1999 est.)

7.8% (1999 est.)

purchasing power parity - $7,300 (1999 est.)

agriculture: 16.5%
industry: 25.5%
services: 58% (1998 est.)

NA%

lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

0% (1999 est.)

235,000

subsistence agriculture 67%, wage earners
18%, salary earners 15% (1987)

6% (1997 est.)

revenues: $540.65 million
expenditures: $742.65 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1997 est.)

tourism, sugar, clothing, copra, gold, silver, lumber,
small cottage industries

2.9% (1995)

550 million kWh (1998)

fossil fuel: 20%
hydro: 80%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)

512 million kWh (1998)

0 kWh (1998)

0 kWh (1998)

sugarcane, coconuts, cassava (tapioca), rice,
sweet potatoes, bananas; cattle, pigs, horses, goats; fish

$393 million (f.o.b., 1998)

sugar 32%, clothing, gold, processed fish,
lumber

Australia 34%, UK 18%, other Pacific island
countries 11%, US 11%, NZ 5%, Japan 5% (1997)

$612 million (f.o.b., 1998)

machinery and transport equipment, petroleum
products, food, chemicals

Australia 45%, NZ 15%, Japan 7%, US 5%, Singapore
4% (1997)

$213 million (1997)

$40.3 million (1995)

1 Fijian dollar (F$) = 100 cents

Fijian dollars (F$) per US$1 - 1.9654 (January 2000),
1.9696 (1999), 1.9868 (1998), 1.4437 (1997), 1.4033 (1996), 1.4063
(1995)

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