Economy — Fiji
GDP, employment, industries, public finance, and currency.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Economy at a glance
GDP, employment, industries, public finance, and currency. Key figure for Fiji: 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. B…
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Economic overview
- Economic Overview
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.
- Industries
Tourism, sugar processing, clothing, copra, gold, silver, lumber
- GDP - per capita (PPP)
$9,800.00 (USD)
- GDP - real growth rate
3%
GDP & growth
- GDP - Gross Domestic Product (PPP)
$9,860,000,000 (USD)
- GDP Per Capita
$9,800.00 (USD)
- GDP - real growth rate
3%
- GDP - official exchange rate
$4,891,000,000 (USD)
- GDP - composition, by end use
- 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.)
- GDP - note
Note: Data are in 2017 dollars
- GDP - per capita (PPP) note
Note: Data are in 2017 dollars
- GDP by Sector- agriculture
13.5%
- GDP by Sector- Industry
17.4%
- GDP by Sector- services
69.1%
- Industrial Growth Rate
2.8%
Prices & money
- Inflation Rate
3.4%
- Exchange Rate per US Dollar
2.075
- Currency Name and Code
Fijian dollars (FJD)
- Fiscal Year
calendar year
- Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
5.74%
Employment & labor
- Labor Force
353,100
- Unemployment Rate
4.5%
- Major Industries
Tourism, sugar processing, clothing, copra, gold, silver, lumber
- Agriculture Products
Sugarcane, copra, ginger, tropical fruits, vegetables; beef, pork, chicken, fish
- Population Below Poverty Line
31%
Public finance
- Annual Budget
$1,454,000,000 (USD)
- Public Debt (% of GDP)
48.9%
- Budget Surplus or Deficit - percent of GDP
-4%
- Taxes and other revenues - percent of GDP
29.7%