Environment-current issues: deforestation; soil erosion
Environment-international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography-note: includes 332 islands of which approximately 110 are inhabited
@Fiji:People
Population: 802,611 (July 1998 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 34% (male 139,713; female 134,220) 15-64 years: 63% (male 251,646; female 251,425) 65 years and over: 3% (male 12,051; female 13,556) (July 1998 est.)
Population growth rate: 1.28% (1998 est.)
Birth rate: 22.92 births/1,000 population (1998 est.)
Death rate: 6.25 deaths/1,000 population (1998 est.)
Net migration rate: -3.92 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1998 est.)