Fiji: Merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2017, Fiji's merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports) rose 0.64 percentage points on 2016 (from 0.2% to 0.84%).

Across the 29 yearly changes before that (1976 to 2016), the average change was +0.01 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.07 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 8.9 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.64 percentage points in 2017 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.13 percentage points in 2004. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2008 to 2017 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.05 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 44% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

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What this measures

Merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World are the sum of merchandise exports by the reporting economy to economies in the Arab World. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise exports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 38 values

Merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• American Samoa — 9.73% (2023)
• Australia — 2.21% (2023)
• Brunei Darussalam — 0.03% (2023)
• Cambodia — 0.38% (2016)
• China — 5.38% (2023)
• French Polynesia — 0.00281% (2022)
• Guam — 0.00539% (2023)
• Hong Kong SAR, China

More private sector & trade data for Fiji

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 70.62% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$3.25 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$1.13 billion (2025)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 72.48% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 0% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$2.99 billion (2023)
• Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) — 63.28% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise exports) — 0% (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Fiji's merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports)?

0.84% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1969?

It is up 0.83 percentage points from 0.01% in 1969. The highest value was 0.84% in 2017 and the lowest 0.000121% in 1997.

Is the latest change in merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports) unusual for Fiji?

In 2017, Fiji's merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports) rose 0.64 percentage points on 2016 (from 0.2% to 0.84%). Across the 29 yearly changes before that (1976 to 2016), the average change was +0.01 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.07 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 8.9 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.VAL.MRCH.AL.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); Direction of Trade database, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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