In Fiji, 29.9% of the population lived below the national poverty line in 2019. In Fiji, the proportion of employed population below $2.15 purchasing power parity/day in 2023 was 0.4%. For every 1,000 babies born in Fiji in 2022, 28 died before their 5th birthday.

Over 250,000 people remain trapped below the poverty line in Fiji. Rural and remote island communities are particularly vulnerable, due to lack of access to clean water, sanitation, health care, and other government services.

Fiji Global Economic Prospects examines trends for the world economy and how they affect developing countries. The report includes country-specific three-year forecasts for major macroeconomic indicators, including commodity and financial markets.

Struc-tural reforms boosting investment and raising productivity are crucial for higher growth and sustained poverty reduction. Fiji’s past policies enabled its transition to an upper middle-income country (UMIC) in 2014.

Fiji poverty rate for 2013 was 38.60%, a 1.4% decline from 2008. Fiji poverty rate for 2008 was 40.00% , a 4.9% decline from 2002. Fiji poverty rate for 2002 was 44.90% , a 44.9% increase from .

Fiji is committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It aims to halve its poverty rate by 2030. Poverty persists as a significant challenge. Approximately 24.1% of Fijians live below the Basic Needs Poverty Line, revealing economic hardship alongside moderate average incomes. Multidimensional

Based on these estimates, 1.5 percent of the population in Fiji (14 thousand people in 2021) is multidimensionally poor while an additional 7.4 percent is classified as vulnerable to multidimensional poverty (68 thousand people in 2021).

In Fiji the Northern division comes out as poorest (54%), followed by the Western Division (40%). In contrast, the Central division (23%) is the least poor division, with much lower poverty incidence. Among urban areas, the best performers are …

poverty in Fiji. Poverty rates in Fiji are higher for households with education below secondary level (about 50%) and significantly lower for households with heads who have attained post-secondary education (10.3%). Fiji is on target to achieving MDG 2 …

Data here includes poverty and inequality measures generated from analytical reports, from national poverty monitoring programs, and from the World Bank’s Development Research Group which has been producing internationally comparable and …