Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1986)
total population: 87%
male: 90%
female: 84%
Labor force: 235,000
by occupation: subsistence agriculture 67%, wage earners 18%, salary
earners 15% (1987)
@Fiji:Government
Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Fiji
conventional short form: Fiji
Digraph: FJ
Type: republic
note: military coup leader Maj. Gen. 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)
National holiday: Independence Day, 10 October (1970)