_#_Literacy: 86% (male 90%, female 81%) age 15 and over can read and write (1985 est.)
_#_Labor force: 235,000; subsistence agriculture 67%, wage earners 18%, salary earners 15% (1987)
_#_Organized labor: about 45,000 employees belong to some 46 trade unions, which are organized along lines of work and ethnic origin (1983)
_*Government #_Long-form name: Republic of Fiji
_#_Type: military coup leader Major General Sitiveni Rabuka formally declared Fiji a republic on 6 October 1987
_#_Capital: Suva
_#_Administrative divisions: 4 divisions and 1 dependency*; Central, Eastern, Northern, Rotuma*, Western
_#_Independence: 10 October 1970 (from UK)
_#_Constitution: 10 October 1970 (suspended 1 October 1987); a new Constitution was proposed on 23 September 1988 and promulgated on 25 July 1990
_#_Legal system: based on British system