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<text>
<title>
Fiji: Economy
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Fiji
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Fiji's economy is primarily agricultural, with a
large subsistence sector. Sugar exports are a major source of
foreign exchange, and sugar processing accounts for one-third of
industrial output. Industry, including sugar milling,
contributes 13% to GDP. Fiji traditionally had earned
considerable sums of hard currency from the 250,000 tourists who
visited each year. In 1987, however, after two military coups,
the economy went into decline. GDP dropped by 7.8% in 1987 and
by another 2.5% in 1988; political uncertainty created a drop in
tourism, and the worst drought of the century caused sugar
production to fall sharply. In contrast, sugar and tourism turned
in strong performances in 1989, and the economy rebounded
vigorously. In 1990 the economy received a setback from cyclone
Sina, which cut sugar output by an estimated 21%. Sugar exports
recovered in 1991-92.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $1.4
billion (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 3% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $1,900 (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 5.9% (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $455 million; expenditures $546 million,
including capital expenditures of $NA (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $435 million (f.o.b., 1991)</l>
<l> commodities: sugar 40%, gold, clothing, copra, processed
fish, lumber</l>
<l> partners: EC 31%, Australia 21%, Japan 8%, US 6%</l>
<l>Imports: $553 million (c.i.f., 1991)</l>
<l> commodities: machinery and transport equipment 32%, food
15%, petroleum products, consumer goods, chemicals</l>
<l> partners: Australia 30%, NZ 17%, Japan 13%, EC 6%, US
6%</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $428 million (December 1990 est.)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 8.4% (1991 est.); accounts
for 13% of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 215,000 kW capacity; 420 million kWh produced,
560 kWh per capita (1992)
</p>
<p>Industries: sugar, tourism, copra, gold, silver, clothing,
lumber, small cottage industries
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for 23% of GDP; principal cash crop is
sugarcane; coconuts, cassava, rice, sweet potatoes, bananas;
small livestock sector includes cattle, pigs, horses, and goats;
fish catch nearly 33,000 tons (1989)
</p>
<p>Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF
bilateral commitments (1980-89), $815 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 Fijian dollar (F$)=100 cents
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: Fijian dollars (F$) per US$1 - 1.5809 (January
1993), 1.5029 (1992), 1.4756 (1991), 1.4809 (1990), 1.4833
(1989), 1.4303 (1988)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>