expenditures $355 million,
including capital expenditures of $81 million (1990 est.)

_#_Exports: $646 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.);

commodities--sugar 40%, gold, clothing, copra, processed fish,
lumber;

partners--EC 31%, Australia 21%, Japan 8%, US 6%

_#_Imports: $840 million (c.i.f., 1991 est.);

commodities--machinery and transport 32%, food 15%, petroleum
products, consumer goods, chemicals;

partners--Australia 30%, NZ 17%, Japan 13%, EC 6%, US 6%

_#_External debt: $428 million (December 1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 8.4% (1991 est.); accounts
for 13% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 215,000 kW capacity; 330 million kWh produced, 430
kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: sugar, tourism, copra, gold, silver, fishing, clothing,
lumber, small cottage industries

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 23% of GDP; principal cash crop is
sugarcane; coconuts, cassava, rice, sweet potatoes, and bananas; small
livestock sector includes cattle, pigs, horses, and goats

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1980-87), $732 million

_#_Currency: Fijian dollar (plural--dollars); 1 Fijian dollar
(F$) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: Fijian dollars (F$) per US$1--1.4476 (January
1991), 1.4809 (1990), 1.4833 (1989), 1.4303 (1988), 1.2439 (1987), 1.1329
(1986), 1.1536 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 644 km 0.610-meter narrow gauge, belonging to the
government-owned Fiji Sugar Corporation

_#_Highways: 3,300 km total (1984)--390 km paved; 1,200 km
bituminous-surface treatment; 1,290 km gravel, crushed stone, or
stabilized soil surface; 420 unimproved earth

_#_Inland waterways: 203 km; 122 km navigable by motorized craft and
200-metric-ton barges

_#_Ports: Lambasa, Lautoka, Savusavu, Suva

_#_Merchant marine: 6 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 34,214
GRT/37,161 DWT; includes 2 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 2 container,
1 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 1 chemical tanker

_#_Civil air: 1 DC-3 and 1 light aircraft

_#_Airports: 26 total, 24 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 2 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: modern local, interisland, and international
(wire/radio integrated) public and special-purpose telephone, telegraph,
and teleprinter facilities; regional radio center; important COM