That dollar metric results from a 38.8% upturn from $827.6 million five years earlier in 2020.
Year over year, Fijian exported products grew by 6.6% compared to $1.08 billion starting from 2023.
Based on average exchange rates for 2024, the Fiji dollar depreciated by -3.5% against the US dollar since 2020 and fell by -1% from 2023 to 2024. Fiji’s weaker local currency makes Fijian exports paid with comparatively stronger US dollars relatively less expensive starting from American currency.
Most Valuable Trade Partners for Fiji’s Exports
The latest available country-specific data shows that 64.5% of products exported from Fiji was bought by importers in: United States of America (19.3% of Fiji’s total), Australia (12.1%), Tonga (6.3%), New Zealand (5.3%), Samoa (3.1%), Vanuatu (3.0%), South Korea (2.92%), mainland China (2.91%), American Samoa (2.6%), Kiribati (2.39%), Tuvalu (2.38%) and Singapore (2.2%).
From a continental perspective, 55.1% of Fiji’s exports by value was delivered to Oceania led by Australia, Tonga and New Zealand while 24.3% was sold to importers in North America. Fiji shipped another 16.6% worth of goods to customers based in Asia.
Smaller percentages went to buyers in Europe (2.9%), Latin America (0.9%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, then Africa (0.1%).
Given Fiji’s population of 923,000 people, its estimated $1.15 billion in 2024 exports translates to about $1,250 for every person living in Fiji. That dollar metric surpasses the average $1,150 one year earlier during 2023.
Fiji’s Top 10 Exports
The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Fijian global shipments during 2024, at the 2-digit Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) code level. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Fiji.
- Mineral fuels including oil: US$302.4 million (26.3% of total exports)
- Beverages, spirits, vinegar: $162.9 million (14.2%)
- Fish: $90.6 million (7.9%)
- Gems, precious metals: $75.6 million (6.6%)
- Sugar, sugar confectionery: $64.7 million (5.6%)
- Wood: $33.7 million (2.9%)
- Cereal/milk preparations: $33.2 million (2.9%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: $27 million (2.4%)
- Aircraft, spacecraft: $26.7 million (2.3%)
- Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $24.4 million (2.1%)
Fiji’s top 10 exports accounted for almost three-quarters (73.2%) of the overall value of its global shipments.
Aircraft and spacecraft represent the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 155.5% from 2023 to 2024.
In second place for improving export sales was gems and precious metals via a 68.8% advance, led by gold.
Fiji’s shipments of fish exported from Fiji posted the third-fastest gain in value, up by 43.7%.
The leading decliner among Fiji’s top 10 export categories was cereal or milk preparations, thanks to a -25.5% year-over-year drop.
The above information is presented at the two-digit Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) code level.
Drilling down into the more granular four-digit HTS codes, processed petroleum oils represent Fiji’s most valuable exported product at 26.1% of the country’s total. In second place were mineral or aerated waters (13.6%) trailed by frozen whole fish (6.9%), unwrought gold (6.5%), sugar (4.7%), aircraft or spacecraft parts (2.1%), medicinal plants (also 2.1%), bread and biscuits plus cakes and pastries (1.7%), wheat or meslin flour (1.7%), then manioc, artichokes and sweet potatoes (also 1.7%).
Products Generating Fiji’s Largest Trade Surpluses
The following types of Fijian product shipments represent positive net exports or a trade balance surplus. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports.
In a nutshell, net exports represent the amount by which foreign spending on a home country’s goods or services exceeds or lags the home country’s spending on foreign goods or services.
- Beverages, spirits, vinegar: US$130.3 million (Down by -2.4% since 2023)
- Fish: $68.8 million (Up by 85.2%)
- Gems, precious metals: $61.7 million (Up by 136.1%)
- Sugar, sugar confectionery: $46.2 million (Down by -13.6%)
- Wood: $15.7 million (Down by -8%)
- Milling products, malt, starches: $14 million (Down by -0.2%)
- Cereal/milk preparations: $13.6 million (Down by -42.6%)
- Oil seeds: $12.7 million (Up by 38.7%)
- Railways, streetcars: $10.5 million (Up by 9.8%)
- Coffee, tea, spices: $7.2 million (Up by 1%)
Fiji generated highly positive net exports in the international trade of waters including natural or artificial mineral waters plus aerated waters. In turn, these cashflows indicate Fiji’s strong competitive advantages under the beverages, spirits and vinegar category.
Products Causing Fiji’s Worst Trade Deficits
Fiji incurred an overall -US$1.97 billion trade deficit for 2024, falling by -4% from -$2.1 billion in red ink one year earlier in 2023.
Below are exports from Fiji that result in negative net exports or product trade balance deficits. These negative net exports reveal product categories where foreign spending on home country Fiji’s goods trail Fijian importer spending on foreign products.
- Mineral fuels including oil: -US$418.1 million (Down by -11.9% since 2023)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: -$245.5 million (Up by 28.2%)
- Machinery including computers: -$235.4 million (Down by -17%)
- Vehicles: -$212.9 million (Up by 7.2%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: -$115.8 million (Up by 13.4%)
- Cereals: -$98.6 million (Up by 1.3%)
- Aircraft, spacecraft: -$67.9 million (Up by 147.7%)
- Dairy, eggs, honey: -$62.2 million (Up by 9%)
- Optical, technical, medical apparatus: -$61.6 million (Down by -47.9%)
- Articles of iron or steel: -$57.3 million (Down by -4.8%)
Fiji incurred highly negative net exports and therefore deep international trade deficits under the mineral fuels-related category, historically for refined petroleum oils and petroleum gases.
Fijian Export Companies
Not one Fijian corporation ranks on the Forbes Global 2000 list.
Wikipedia lists exports-related companies from Fiji. Selected examples are shown below.
- Dominion Fashions Limited (clothing)
- Falani Marketing Fiji Ltd (agricultural produce, fish)
- Fiji Recyclers (recycled tires)
- Krishna Export Handicraft (wood handicraft)
- Nelesh Kamal Co (kava)
- Organic Earth Fiji (skin care products)
- Popular Furniture Limited (home furniture)
- Scud Timber (Fiji) Ltd (sandalwood)
In macroeconomic terms, Fiji’s total exported goods represent 7.7% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2024 ($14.9 billion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 7.7% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2024 compares to 7% for 2023. Those percentages suggest a relatively increasing reliance on products sold on international markets for Fiji’s total economic performance, albeit based on a short timeframe.
Another key indicator of a country’s economic performance is its unemployment rate. Fiji’s unemployment rate averaged 5% in 2024, down from an average 5.5% for 2023 per International Monetary Fund metrics.
Fiji’s capital city is Suva.
See also America’s Top Trading Partners, Australia’s Top Trading Partners, New Zealand’s Top Trading Partners and Tonga’s Top 10 Exports
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Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Australia-Oceania: Fiji. Accessed on September 6, 2025
FlagPictures.org, Flag of Fiji. Accessed on September 6, 2025
Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on September 6, 2025
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on September 6, 2025
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on September 6, 2025
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on September 6, 2025
Wikipedia, Fiji. Accessed on September 6, 2025
Wikipedia, Gross domestic product. Accessed on September 6, 2025
Wikipedia, Purchasing power parity. Accessed on September 6, 2025