ntial fluctuations in earnings from tourism and sugar and to
the emigration of skilled workers. 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. Growth in 1994 of 5% was largely attributable to increased
tourism and expansion in the manufacturing sector.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $4.7 billion (1995 est.)

GDP real growth rate: 2.2% (1995 est.)

GDP per capita: $6,100 (1995 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: 22%
industry: 17%
services: 61% (1994)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2% (1995)

Labor force: 235,000
by occupation: subsistence agriculture 67%, wage earners 18%, salary
earners 15% (1987)

Unemployment rate: 5.4% (1992)

Budget:
revenues: $495.6 million
expenditures: $591.2 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1995 est.)

Industries: sugar, tourism, copra, gold, silver, clothing, lumber,
small cottage industries

Industrial production growth rate: 0% (1993 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 200,000 kW
production: 480 million kWh
consumption per capita: 581 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: sugarcane, coconuts, cassava (tapioca), rice, sweet
potatoes, bananas; cattle, pigs, horses, goats; fish catch nearly
33,000 tons (1989)

Exports: $571.8 million (f.o.b., 1995)
commodities: sugar 40%, clothing, gold, processed fish, lumber
partners: EC 26%, Australia 15%, Pacific Islands 11%, Japan 6%

Imports: $864.3 million (c.i.f., 1995)
commodities: machinery and transport equipment, petroleum products,
food, consumer goods, chemicals
partners: Australia 30%, NZ 17%, Japan 13%, EC 6%, US 6%

External debt: $670 million (1994 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 Fijian dollar (F$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Fijian dollars (F$) per US$1 - 1.4347 (January
1996), 1.4063 (1995), 1.4641 (1994), 1.5418 (1993), 1.5030 (1992),
1.4756 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 597 km; note - belongs to the government-owned Fiji Sugar
Corporation
narrow gauge: 597 km 0.610-m gauge (1995)

Highways:
total: 4,800 km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Waterways: 203 km; 122 km navigable by motorized c