Fiji

Fiji: Elevated Debt Load Alongside Steady Institutional Readings

Fiji's economy reached $5.97 billion in gross domestic product for 2024, per World Bank WDI figures, with per-capita output of $6,425.74 the same year and a population of 928,784. Government debt stood at 82.5 percent of GDP in IMF WEO figures for 2026, a notably heavy load, while reserves were recorded at $1.60 billion per World Bank WDI data for 2024.

Military posture

SIPRI's 2025 Milex data put Fijian defense spending at $81.16 million, equivalent to 1.33 percent of GDP on SIPRI's own GDP series for that year — a figure calculated against SIPRI's national accounts, not the World Bank GDP series cited above. The Correlates of War National Material Capabilities dataset recorded 4,000 active-duty personnel in 2022, with a Composite Index of National Capability (CINC) score of 6.9797665e-05 for the same year, a measure that aggregates demographic, industrial and military weight into a single index of relative state power.

Governance

V-Dem v15's 2025 indicators show an electoral democracy index of 0.507 and a liberal democracy index of 0.398. The state capacity index reached 0.749 for the same year, a reading toward the upper end of the index's range.

Energy

Primary energy consumption totaled 0.0247 exajoules in 2023, per Our World in Data's energy series, and electricity generation reached 1.15 terawatt-hours in 2024. Both oil and gas production were recorded at zero terawatt-hours, though that reading carries a 2016 date, well before the other energy figures in this bundle.

Data gaps

The oil and gas production figures are stale, dated 2016 against 2023-2024 dates for the rest of the energy series, and should not be treated as a current statement of Fiji's hydrocarbon sector, which this bundle otherwise gives no indication has any output. No figures beyond the 2022 COW NMC personnel and capability data appear for Fiji's armed forces, so changes in troop numbers since that year cannot be assessed here. The governance indices, dated 2025, and the economic series, dated 2024 and 2026, otherwise carry recent reference years with no further gaps flagged.

Sources: World Bank WDI, IMF WEO, SIPRI Milex, COW NMC, V-Dem v15, Our World in Data (Energy).