Fiji Research Paper

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In the world today we still have many developing countries. A developing country is defined as a nation with a lower standard of living than most countries. A few places that are considered a developing country are Peru, Brazil, Fiji, Iraq, Jamaica, and many more. The developing country I decided to talk about is Fiji because of the research I did about their their health care system and how many people that live in poverty do not have access to health care facilities. Fiji is located in the South Pacific and has more than 300 islands located on it. Fiji’s economy, which is a set of social scripts that people use in organizing their behavior, thoughts, and emotions to create a regular social pattern for the production and distribution of goods and services in an economy (Caston, 51)” is one of the most developed of the Pacific Island economies. As of 2013 Fiji’s population is “905,949 which mainly consists of Fijian’s which are 55% of the country, Indians which are 44%, European, other Pacific islanders, Chinese, and others take up the other 5% of the country (http://www.mapsofworld.com/fiji/population.html). We also can divide the population up into 3 different age groups. People between the ages of 0-14 have a …show more content…

Just like the U.S Fiji refers to their currency as the “dollar” as well (http://www.mapsofworld.com/fiji/economy/currency.html ).” Another thing that Fiji and America have in common with their currency is the symbols that they use. In order to tell the difference between the 2 types of currency Fiji will use FJ$ for the Fijian Dollar. The currency code for the Fijian Dollar is FJD (http://www.xe.com/currency/fjd-fijian-dollar ).” Two Fijian dollars is equivalent to 1 American dollar. “The Fijian adult population had a median annual income of $17,100 in the year to March 2001 – $2,300 above the median annual income of the Pacific adult population (http://www2.stats.govt.nz/

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