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Fiji

One canonical page for Fiji’s financial profile, composed from the crisis atlas, IMF sovereign-debt data, the World Bank GFDD and Global Findex, the BIS credit, policy-rate and exchange-rate statistics, the external accounts (IMF balance of payments and international investment position, official reserves, capital-account openness and remittances), and the Penn World Table’s population and GDP scale. Each section links to its dedicated module and cites its own primary source; sections appear only where Fiji has data.

Latest government debt
77.0%
2024 (Central govt (IMF GDD))
Financial crises on record
1
0 banking, 1 currency, 0 sovereign
Private credit by banks
84.7%
GFDD, 2021
BIS credit-cycle data
Not covered
BIS ~44-economy set only
Nonperforming loans (current)
8.5%
IMF FSI, 2021

Cross-border banking exposure: how much BIS-reporting banks lend to Fiji.

Economic scale

Population, real GDP per capita, and total-factor productivity from the Penn World Table, 1950–2023. A scale reference for every other section on this page, not a financial-risk series in its own right.

Population
0.9223
millions
0.400.600.801.0019602023
Real GDP per capita (PPP)
1391523
2021 US$, chained
0.005000100001500019602023
Total factor productivity
1.2123
index, this country's 2021 = 1
1.001.201.401.6019802023

Source: Penn World Table 11.0 (Feenstra, Inklaar and Timmer 2015). License: CC BY 4.0. Methodology

Crisis history

Full crisis atlas →

1 episode between 1998 and 1998. Consecutive crisis years are merged into episodes (gaps of up to two years bridged); each links to its episode page.

BankingCurrencySovereign debt

Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 | Reinhart-Rogoff (HBS BFFS) | Laeven & Valencia (2020, 2026) | ECB/ESRB Financial Crises Database. License: non-commercial research (inherits GMD / JST); cite all five chronologies. Methodology

Financial depth and soundness

Depth (private credit, deposits) and soundness (Z-score, nonperforming loans, concentration) from the World Bank GFDD. GFDD values end in 2021 (the dataset’s last release year); a flat recent tail is the data stopping, not the sector standing still.

Private credit by banks
84.721
% of GDP
0.0050.010019612021
Bank deposits
92.921
% of GDP
0.0025.050.075.010019612021
Bank Z-score
33.021
index (higher = sounder)
25.027.530.032.535.020152021
Nonperforming loans
4.2920
% of gross loans
1.002.003.004.005.0020092020
Bank concentration
10021
% assets, top 3 banks
70.080.090.010020152021

Source: World Bank Global Financial Development Database (Sep 2022). License: CC BY 4.0. Values end 2021 (GFDD's last release year). Methodology

Current soundness (IMF FSI)

The World Bank GFDD soundness series above end in 2021. The IMF Financial Soundness Indicators are current: annual through 2021. These deposit-taker core indicators cover capital adequacy (regulatory and Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets), asset quality (nonperforming loans), earnings (return on assets and equity), and liquidity (liquid assets to total assets). Each panel is a standalone series with its own scale; the headline is the latest value and its year.

Regulatory capital
21.121
% of risk-weighted assets
10.015.020.025.020002021
Tier 1 capital
17.821
% of risk-weighted assets
5.0010.015.020.020002021
Nonperforming loans
8.4821
% of gross loans
0.002.505.007.5010.020052021
Return on assets
1.6221
% (annualized)
0.002.004.006.0020052021
Return on equity
9.2321
% (annualized)
0.0010.020.030.040.020052021
Liquid assets
27.621
% of total assets
10.020.030.020052021

Source: IMF Financial Soundness Indicators (FSI). License: IMF, free with "Source: IMF, Financial Soundness Indicators" attribution. Deposit-taker core set; coverage varies by indicator and year. Methodology

Financial inclusion

Fiji is not surveyed in the World Bank Global Findex (162 economies covered), so no financial-inclusion series is available here.

Source: World Bank Global Findex Database 2025. License: CC BY 4.0. Survey waves; percent of adults age 15+. Methodology

Credit cycle

Fiji is not in the BIS credit-statistics reporting set (a fixed group of around 44 advanced and major emerging economies), so no credit-to-GDP gap, debt-service ratio, or property-price series is available here.

Source: BIS credit and debt-service statistics | BIS residential property prices. License: free with "Source: BIS" attribution. Methodology

Policy rate and exchange rate

Fiji is in neither the BIS central-bank policy-rate set (48 economies) nor the BIS real broad effective-exchange-rate set (63 economies), so no policy-rate or exchange-rate series is available here.

Source: BIS central bank policy rates | BIS effective exchange rates. License: free with "Source: BIS" attribution. Methodology

External accounts

Fiji’s external position: the current-account balance (IMF, percent of GDP), the net international investment position and total official reserves (both shown as US-dollar levels, in billions, because the IMF IIP and World Bank reserve series carry dollar values rather than ratios), the degree of capital-account openness (the Chinn-Ito index, 0 closed to 1 open), and remittance inflows. A positive current account or net-IIP reading is a surplus/creditor position; a negative one is a deficit/debtor position. Each panel appears only where Fiji has that series.

Current-account balance
-7.8124
% of GDP
-20.0-10.00.0010.019802024
Net international investment position
-6.6024
US$ billion (level)
-7.50-5.00-2.500.0020052024
Total reserves
1.6625
US$ billion
0.001.002.0019652025
Capital-account openness
0.162023
index, 0 = closed, 1 = open
annual, 1975 to 2023
Remittance inflows
0.422024
US$ billion
annual, 1979 to 2024

Remittance inflows are shown as external-flow context (household income received from abroad), not a FinObservatory risk score.

Source: IMF Balance of Payments and IIP Statistics | World Bank, Total reserves (FI.RES.TOTL.CD). License: IMF and World Bank, free with attribution ("Source: IMF"; World Bank reserves CC BY 4.0). Current account and net IIP: IMF BOP/IIP, to 2025. Reserves: World Bank FI.RES.TOTL.CD, to 2025. Methodology

Source: Chinn-Ito index of capital-account openness (Chinn and Ito 2006). License: research use with citation only (Chinn-Ito); not for commercial redistribution. Capital-account openness ends 2023. Methodology

Source: World Bank / KNOMAD Migration and Remittances Data. License: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank / KNOMAD). Remittance inflows end 2024; shown as context, not a risk score. Methodology

International debt securities

Outstanding international debt securities issued by Fiji’s residents, by issuer sector, from the BIS: bonds and notes placed outside the home market (residence basis), in US-dollar billions. These are international issues only: domestic-market issuance is excluded, so this is not a country’s total debt-securities outstanding and is far smaller than its whole bond market. “All issuers” is the total; the government, financial-corporation and non-financial-corporation lines are its components, each shown only where the BIS reports it.

All issuers
$0.20B
2020-Q3
General government
$0.20B
2020-Q3
Non-financial corporations
$0.00B
2016-Q3
All issuersGeneral governmentNon-financial corporations
$0.00B$0.20B$0.40B$0.60B20072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020AllGovtNon-fin

Source: BIS debt securities statistics (international debt securities). License: free with "Source: BIS" attribution. International issues only (residence basis); domestic issuance excluded. Quarterly, 2006-Q3 to 2020-Q3. Methodology

Latest government debt 77.0% of GDP (2024, Central govt (IMF GDD)). Peak 86.0% in 2021. This is below the 80.7% median at which 2000+ sovereign crises began (a comparison, not a prediction).

Latest debt
77.0%
2024
Peak debt
86.0%
2021
Sovereign crises
0
none on record

Source: IMF Global Debt Database | IMF World Economic Outlook. License: IMF, free with "Source: IMF" attribution. Methodology

Reading this profile

  • This page composes existing FinObservatory layers; it introduces no new data. Every figure is reproducible from the source cited in its section. See the methodology for the composition and each source’s coverage and staleness.
  • The layers stop at different dates: the World Bank GFDD depth and soundness series end 2021, but the IMF FSI soundness panel is current (annual through 2024–2025 where reported); the Global Findex inclusion series are surveyed in waves and reach 2024; the crisis chronologies end around 2016–2021; IMF debt runs to 2024; the Penn World Table runs 1950–2023; and the BIS statistics are the most current (credit through 2025, residential property to 2026Q1, and the policy rate and effective exchange rate into 2026 where reported). The external accounts reach 2025 (IMF balance-of-payments and reserves), 2024 (remittance inflows) and 2023 (capital-account openness). A quiet recent tail in one section can simply be where that source stops.
  • Sections are shown only where Fiji has data. An absent section means the underlying dataset does not cover this country, not that the value is zero.