The 2005 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

- with 300,000 to 400,000 tourists annually - are the major

       sources of foreign exchange. Sugar processing makes up one-third of

       industrial activity, but is inefficient. Long-term problems include

       low investment, uncertain land ownership rights, and the

       government's ability to manage its budget. Yet short-run economic

       prospects are good, provided tensions do not again erupt between

       indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians. Overseas remittances from

       Fijians working in Kuwait and Iraq have increased significantly.

      GDP (purchasing power parity):

       $5.173 billion (2004 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate:

       3.6% (2004 est.)

      GDP - per capita:

       purchasing power parity - $5,900 (2004 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 16.6% industry: 22.4% services: 61% (2001 est.)

      Labor force:

       137,000 (1999)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       agriculture, including subsistence agriculture 70% (2001 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

       7.6% (1999)

      Population below poverty line:

       25.5% (1990–91)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

       lowest 10%: NA

       highest 10%: NA

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       1.6% (2002 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $427.9 million

       expenditures: $531.4 million, including capital expenditures of NA

       (2000 est.)

      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:

       750 million kWh (2002)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 18.5% hydro: 81.5% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Electricity - consumption:

       697.5 million kWh (2002)

      Electricity - exports:

       0 kWh (2002)

      Electricity - imports:

       0 kWh (2002)

      Oil - production:

       0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       5,700 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA

      Oil - imports:

       NA

      Exports:

       $609 million f.o.b. (2002)

      Exports - commodities:

       sugar, garments, gold, timber, fish, molasses, coconut oil

      Exports - partners:

       US 24%, Australia 19%, UK 12.6%, Samoa 6.5%, Japan 4.1% (2004)

      Imports:

       $835 million c.i.f. (2002)

      Imports - commodities:

       manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, petroleum

       products, food, chemicals

      Imports - partners:

       Australia 25.9%, Singapore 23.1%, New Zealand 21.1% (2004)

      Debt - external:

       $188.1 million (2001 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $40.3 million (1995)

      Currency (code):

       Fijian dollar (FJD)

      Currency code:

       FJD

      Exchange rates:

       Fijian dollars per US dollar - 1.7331 (2004), 1.8958 (2003), 2.1869

       (2002), 2.2766 (2001), 2.1286 (2000)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Fiji

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       102,000 (2003)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       109,900 (2003)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: modern local, interisland, and international

       (wire/radio integrated) public and special-purpose telephone,

       telegraph, and teleprinter facilities; regional radio communications

       center

       domestic: NA

       international: country code - 679; access to important cable links

       between US and Canada as well as between NZ and Australia; satellite

       earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 13, FM 40, shortwave 0 (1998)

      Radios:

       541,476 (1999)

      Television broadcast stations:

       NA

      Televisions:

       88,110 (1999)

      Internet country code:

       .fj

      Internet hosts:

       493 (2003)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       2 (2000)

      Internet users:

       55,000 (2003)

      Transportation Fiji

      Railways:

       total: 597 km

       narrow gauge: 597 km 0.600-m gauge

       note: belongs to the government-owned Fiji Sugar Corporation; used

       to haul sugarcane during harvest season (May to December) (2003)

      Highways:

       total: 3,440 km

       paved: 1,692 km

       unpaved: 1,748 km (1999 est.)

      Waterways:

       203 km

       note: 122 km navigable by motorized craft and 200-metric-ton barges

       (2004)

      Ports and harbors:

       Lambasa, Lautoka, Suva

      Merchant marine:

       total: 7 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 6,372 GRT/7,453 DWT

       by type: passenger 3, passenger/cargo 2, roll on/roll off 2

       foreign-owned: 1 (Australia 1) (2005)

      Airports:

       28 (2004 est.)

      Airports