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Fiji People 1996
36% (female 136,570; male 142,581)
61% (female 235,491; male 235,411)
3% (female 11,943; male 10,895) (July 1995 est.)
23.69 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
6.42 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)
-5.67 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)
17.7 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)
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Life expectancy at birth:
2.87 children born/woman (1995 est.)
Fijian 49%, Indian 46%, European, other Pacific Islanders, overseas Chinese,
and other 5%
Christian 52% (Methodist 37%, Roman Catholic 9%), Hindu 38%, Muslim 8%,
other 2%
Fijians are mainly Christian, Indians are Hindu, and there is a Muslim
minority (1986)
English (official), Fijian, Hindustani
age 15 and over can read and write (1986)
subsistence agriculture 67%, wage earners 18%, salary earners 15% (1987)
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