Distillers Country guides / Fiji
Fiji
A one-page guide to Fiji for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Suva
- Official languages
- English, Fijian, Hindi (Fiji Hindi/Standard Hindi)
- Currency
- Fijian dollar (FJD)
- Time zone
- UTC+12
- Area
- 18,333 km²
People
- Population
- 933,154 (2025)
- Population growth
- 0.5% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 59.5%
- Aged under 15
- 26.8%
- Aged 65 and over
- 6.6%
- Life expectancy
- 67.5 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$6.2 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$6,642 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 3.2% (2025)
- Inflation
- -1.38% (2025)
Climate
Tropical marine, warm year-round. Warm wetter season November-April; cooler season May-October (about 22 C). Rain heaviest in the warm season and on the south-east of larger islands; roughly one cyclone a year.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18 (lowered from 21 in 2009 per Wikipedia table)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 3.58 litres of pure alcohol (2020)
- What people drink
- Beer 52%, wine 9%, spirits 39% (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia: Fiji; World Bank Open Data API (population, area, GDP, growth, inflation); Our World in Data / WHO GHO alcohol per capita; Wikipedia: Legal drinking age; Rum Auctioneer: Rum Co. of Fiji. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.