<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Fiji<nl>Economy</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Overview:</hi> Fiji's economy is primarily agricultural, with a large subsistence sector. Sugar exports and tourism are the major sources of foreign exchange. Industry contributes 13% to GDP, with sugar processing accounting for one-third of industrial activity. Roughly 250,000 tourists visit each year. Political uncertainty and drought, however, contribute to substantial fluctuations in earnings from tourism and sugar. In 1992, growth was approximately 3%, based on growth in tourism and a lessening of labor-management disputes in the sugar and gold-mining sectors. In 1993, the government's budgeted growth rate of 3% was not achieved because of a decline in non-sugar agricultural output and damage from Cyclone Kina.
<item><hi format=bold>National product:</hi> GDP—purchasing power equivalent—$3 billion (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>National product real growth rate:</hi> 1% (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>National product per capita:</hi> $4,000 (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Agriculture:</hi> 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)
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<item>• <hi format=ital>recipient:</hi> Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1980-89), $815 million
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<item><hi format=bold>Currency:</hi> 1 Fijian dollar (F$)=100 cents