Terrain: mostly mountains of volcanic origin
Natural resources: timber, fish, gold, copper, offshore oil potential
Land use: arable land: 8% permanent crops: 5% meadows and pastures: 3% forest and woodland: 65% other: 19%
Irrigated land: 10 sq km (1989 est.)
Environment:
current issues: deforestation; soil erosion
natural hazards: cyclonic storms can occur from November to January
international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change, Law
of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer
Protection, Tropical Timber 94
Note: includes 332 islands of which approximately 110 are inhabited
@Fiji: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) (July 1995 est.)
Population growth rate: 1.16% (1995 est.)