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English (official), Fijian (official), Hindustani
SUVA (capital) 176,000 (2014)
- Conventional long form
- Republic of Fiji
- Conventional short form
- Fiji
- Local long form
- Republic of Fiji/Matanitu ko Viti
- Local short form
- Fiji/Viti
parliamentary republic
- Name
- Suva
- Geographic coordinates
- 18 08 S, 178 25 E
- Time difference
- UTC+12 (17 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Daylight saving time
- +1hr, begins first Sunday in November; ends second Sunday in January
has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration; accepts ICCt jurisdiction
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 792,300 tourists visiting in 2016, and remittances from Fijian’s working abroad are the country’s largest foreign exchange earners.
- Inflation
- 3.865%
- External debt stocks
- US$ 871,282,000
- Total tax rate (% of commercial profits)
- 33.1%
- Real Interest Rate
- 2.469%
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP)
- 12.941%
- Current Account Balance
- US$ -72,423,604
- Labor Force, Total
- 348,491
- Employment in Agriculture
- 1%
- Employment in Industry
- 25.70%
- Employment in Services
- 73.20%
- Unemployment Rate
- 7.94%
- Imports of goods and services
- US$ 2,557,656,645
- Exports of goods and services
- US$ 2,274,955,734
- Total Merchandise Trade
- 52.25%
- FDI, net inflows
- US$ 307,878,424
- Commercial Service Exports
- US$ 1,173,101,102
sugarcane, coconuts, cassava (manioc, tapioca), rice, sweet potatoes, bananas; cattle, pigs, horses, goats; fish
tourism, sugar processing, clothing, copra, gold, silver, lumber, small cottage industries
- Commodities
- sugar, garments, gold, timber, fish, molasses, coconut oil, mineral water
- Partners
- US 13.4%, Australia 10.2%, Samoa 6.7%, Tonga 5.9% (2015)
- Commodities
- manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, petroleum products, food, chemicals
- Partners
- China 16.1%, South Korea 15.7%, NZ 14.2%, Australia 13.4%, Singapore 8.7%, France 7% (2015)