ACOG - Fiji  - IBM

Geography

Location: Oceania, island group in the South Pacific Ocean, about two-thirdsof the way from Hawaii to New Zealand

Area:
total area: 18,270 sq km
land area: 18,270 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than New Jersey

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 1,129 km


People

Population: 772,891 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 36% (female 136,570; male 142,581)
15-64 years: 61% (female 235,491; male 235,411)
65 years and over: 3% (female 11,943; male 10,895)

Population growth rate: 1.16% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 23.69 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.42 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -5.67 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 17.7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 65.42 years
male: 63.13 years
female: 67.82 years

Total fertility rate: 2.87 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Fijian 49%, Indian 46%, European, other Pacific Islanders, overseas Chinese, and other 5%

Religions: Christian 52% (Methodist 37%, Roman Catholic 9%), Hindu 38%, Muslim8%, other 2%

Languages: English (official), Fijian, Hindustani

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1986)
total population: 87%
male: 90%
female: 84%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Fiji
conventional short form: Fiji

Type: republic

Capital: Suva

Independence: 10 October 1970 (from UK)

Constitution: 10 October 1970 (suspended 1 October 1987); a new Constitution wasproposed on 23 September 1988 and promulgated on 25 July 1990; the 1990 Constitution is under review; the review is scheduled to be complete by 1997


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $4.3 billion

National product real growth rate: 5%

National product per capita: $5,650

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.5%

Unemployment rate: 5.4%

Electricity:
capacity: 200,000 kW
production: 480 million kWh
consumption per capita: 581 kWh



Olympic Factoid
More tickets were sold to the competitions of the 1996 Games than to any other Olympic Games or sports event in history. The 8.6 million ticket sales figures topped sales to the Los Angeles and Barcelona Games combined.