Country or area · Melanesia · Oceania · UN WPP 2024

Fiji population

Fiji population now

938,260

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 922,116–956,395.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 924,146

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 937,279; 95% range, 31 Dec: 922,116–956,395
Median age: 29.3
Aged 65+: 6.8%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2054

male female projection · one cell = 200 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

FJI · 1950–2100 · in brief

Fiji in numbers

924,146 people lived in Fiji in mid-2023: 0.01% of the world's people, and the 162nd-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 3.0 times its 1950 population of 310 thousand.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2054 at 1.0 million, then falling to 879 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 279 thousand to 2.6 million.

The medium projection has deaths passing births in 2069 and staying above them from then on.

The median age was 17.8 in 1950 and 28.7 in 2023; the projection has 43.3 in 2100. 6.3% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 21.5% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2046 at 680 thousand.

By size it is the 162nd country in 2023; the projection puts it 164th in 2050 and 163rd in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Mauritius in 2061, Estonia in 2078 and North Macedonia in 2098. It is overtaken by the Comoros in 2030, the Solomon Islands in 2031 and Guyana in 2090.

Population, mid-2023: 924,146
Rank by population, 2023: 162 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.51% · +4,724 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 51
Land area, 2023: 18,270 km²
Births, 2023: 16,631
Deaths, 2023: 8,553
Net migration, 2023: −3,289
Children per woman, 2023: 2.28
Median age, 2023: 28.7 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 67.3 years
In a city, 2025: 30 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 309,514
Projected, mid-2050: 1,000,261
Projected, mid-2100: 879,377

FJI · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

peak 2054estimates | projections0500 k1 m1.5 m2 m2.5 m3 m1950197520002025205020752100

estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: Fiji, 1950–2100

Fiji: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	306,371		13,039	5,745	6.52	51.7
1951	estimate	312,656		13,496	5,626	6.54	52.2
1952	estimate	319,591		13,957	5,535	6.54	52.6
1953	estimate	327,138		14,319	5,356	6.54	53.4
1954	estimate	335,292		14,801	5,144	6.55	54.2
1955	estimate	344,197		15,322	4,892	6.57	55.3
1956	estimate	353,943		15,904	4,726	6.60	56.2
1957	estimate	364,477		16,416	4,555	6.57	57.1
1958	estimate	375,350		16,899	4,435	6.53	57.8
1959	estimate	386,794		17,345	4,419	6.47	58.2
1960	estimate	398,725		17,677	4,364	6.36	58.6
1961	estimate	411,050		17,944	4,291	6.28	59.1
1962	estimate	423,761		18,653	4,225	6.20	59.6
1963	estimate	437,312		18,935	4,162	6.09	60.2
1964	estimate	451,241		19,060	4,082	5.96	60.7
1965	estimate	465,406		19,139	3,972	5.76	61.4
1966	estimate	479,743		19,100	3,989	5.55	61.6
1967	estimate	493,231		18,934	4,072	5.33	61.4
1968	estimate	504,514		18,876	4,045	5.11	61.7
1969	estimate	515,489		18,833	4,164	4.91	61.4
1970	estimate	526,105		18,685	4,147	4.71	61.6
1971	estimate	536,271		18,488	4,174	4.51	61.7
1972	estimate	545,972		18,155	4,249	4.32	61.6
1973	estimate	555,026		17,946	4,563	4.16	60.6
1974	estimate	563,418		18,031	4,475	4.07	61.2
1975	estimate	571,559		18,704	4,433	4.10	61.7
1976	estimate	580,253		19,362	4,429	4.12	62.1
1977	estimate	590,814		19,910	4,378	4.11	62.7
1978	estimate	604,796		20,596	4,399	4.10	63.1
1979	estimate	619,386		21,187	4,738	4.08	62.3
1980	estimate	634,339		21,735	4,829	4.04	62.4
1981	estimate	649,610		22,285	5,003	3.99	62.3
1982	estimate	665,332		22,830	5,149	3.94	62.2
1983	estimate	681,496		23,275	5,039	3.88	62.9
1984	estimate	698,174		23,561	5,063	3.80	63.2
1985	estimate	715,257		23,407	4,939	3.66	64.0
1986	estimate	732,266		23,097	5,072	3.54	64.0
1987	estimate	746,346		23,102	5,115	3.48	64.3
1988	estimate	754,735		23,023	4,960	3.43	65.0
1989	estimate	762,660		22,899	4,892	3.40	65.4
1990	estimate	769,982		22,831	5,082	3.39	65.1
1991	estimate	776,650		22,633	5,015	3.37	65.5
1992	estimate	782,662		22,274	5,104	3.33	65.4
1993	estimate	788,030		21,888	5,137	3.29	65.5
1994	estimate	792,708		21,531	5,107	3.26	65.8
1995	estimate	796,834		21,380	5,108	3.25	66.0
1996	estimate	800,658		21,281	5,119	3.25	66.2
1997	estimate	806,921		20,924	5,175	3.19	66.3
1998	estimate	817,356		20,712	5,248	3.12	66.5
1999	estimate	827,159		20,567	5,337	3.05	66.7
2000	estimate	836,497		20,457	5,733	2.99	66.2
2001	estimate	845,321		20,621	5,901	2.97	66.2
2002	estimate	853,871		20,884	6,417	2.97	65.5
2003	estimate	862,228		21,021	6,494	2.96	65.7
2004	estimate	870,344		21,096	6,570	2.94	65.8
2005	estimate	878,388		21,180	6,677	2.92	66.0
2006	estimate	886,370		21,336	6,781	2.90	66.1
2007	estimate	894,361		21,293	6,943	2.87	66.2
2008	estimate	901,303		21,043	7,043	2.82	66.3
2009	estimate	905,495		20,720	7,181	2.76	66.3
2010	estimate	908,983		20,328	7,100	2.70	66.8
2011	estimate	911,855		19,867	7,210	2.63	66.9
2012	estimate	914,122		19,747	8,030	2.61	65.8
2013	estimate	915,715		19,697	7,724	2.60	66.5
2014	estimate	916,990		19,537	7,857	2.59	66.6
2015	estimate	918,179		19,288	8,075	2.57	66.5
2016	estimate	918,977		18,889	8,082	2.52	66.7
2017	estimate	919,355		18,401	7,989	2.46	67.1
2018	estimate	918,162		17,977	8,198	2.42	67.0
2019	estimate	916,198		17,590	8,318	2.38	67.0
2020	estimate	913,601		17,227	8,496	2.36	66.9
2021	estimate	916,325		17,005	10,228	2.33	64.9
2022	estimate	917,097		16,772	8,550	2.31	67.2
2023	estimate	921,747		16,631	8,553	2.28	67.3
2024	estimate	926,544		16,592	8,834	2.27	67.5
2025	projection	931,024	925,930–936,177	16,446	8,897	2.25	67.6
2026	projection	935,285	924,480–945,963	16,340	8,963	2.23	67.8
2027	projection	939,278	922,116–956,395	16,245	9,027	2.21	67.9
2028	projection	943,374	918,422–967,122	16,170	9,098	2.20	68.1
2029	projection	947,362	914,770–979,988	16,095	9,172	2.18	68.2
2030	projection	951,202	910,835–991,685	16,025	9,248	2.16	68.3
2031	projection	955,011	0.9–1.0 million	15,955	9,331	2.15	68.5
2032	projection	958,388	0.9–1.0 million	15,892	9,409	2.13	68.6
2033	projection	961,759	0.9–1.0 million	15,826	9,482	2.12	68.8
2034	projection	964,953	0.9–1.0 million	15,772	9,560	2.10	68.9
2035	projection	968,109	0.9–1.1 million	15,710	9,636	2.09	69.0
2036	projection	971,148	0.9–1.1 million	15,661	9,720	2.07	69.2
2037	projection	974,160	0.9–1.1 million	15,595	9,806	2.06	69.3
2038	projection	977,152	0.9–1.1 million	15,539	9,892	2.05	69.4
2039	projection	979,963	0.9–1.1 million	15,453	9,984	2.04	69.5
2040	projection	982,600	0.9–1.1 million	15,360	10,066	2.03	69.7
2041	projection	985,116	0.8–1.2 million	15,239	10,150	2.02	69.8
2042	projection	987,732	0.8–1.2 million	15,134	10,233	2.00	70.0
2043	projection	989,920	0.8–1.2 million	14,992	10,314	1.99	70.1
2044	projection	991,823	0.8–1.2 million	14,834	10,396	1.98	70.2
2045	projection	993,675	0.8–1.2 million	14,685	10,486	1.97	70.3
2046	projection	995,239	0.8–1.2 million	14,549	10,574	1.96	70.4
2047	projection	996,710	0.8–1.3 million	14,397	10,646	1.95	70.6
2048	projection	997,964	0.8–1.3 million	14,253	10,727	1.94	70.7
2049	projection	999,156	0.8–1.3 million	14,113	10,811	1.94	70.8
2050	projection	999,936	0.8–1.3 million	13,968	10,889	1.93	70.9
2051	projection	1,000,586	0.8–1.3 million	13,815	10,964	1.92	71.0
2052	projection	1,001,104	0.7–1.4 million	13,679	11,034	1.91	71.2
2053	projection	1,001,394	0.7–1.4 million	13,560	11,105	1.91	71.3
2054	projection	1,001,663	0.7–1.4 million	13,422	11,181	1.90	71.4
2055	projection	1,001,658	0.7–1.4 million	13,293	11,264	1.90	71.5
2056	projection	1,001,518	0.7–1.4 million	13,179	11,337	1.89	71.7
2057	projection	1,001,149	0.7–1.4 million	13,072	11,417	1.89	71.8
2058	projection	1,000,758	0.7–1.5 million	12,975	11,493	1.88	71.9
2059	projection	1,000,089	0.7–1.5 million	12,892	11,572	1.88	72.0
2060	projection	999,420	0.7–1.5 million	12,816	11,652	1.88	72.2
2061	projection	998,653	0.7–1.5 million	12,741	11,719	1.87	72.3
2062	projection	997,682	0.6–1.5 million	12,667	11,784	1.87	72.4
2063	projection	996,541	0.6–1.6 million	12,578	11,848	1.86	72.5
2064	projection	995,245	0.6–1.6 million	12,487	11,908	1.86	72.6
2065	projection	993,650	0.6–1.6 million	12,392	11,963	1.85	72.8
2066	projection	991,975	0.6–1.6 million	12,308	12,010	1.85	72.9
2067	projection	990,396	0.6–1.6 million	12,217	12,056	1.84	73.0
2068	projection	988,633	0.6–1.7 million	12,132	12,086	1.84	73.1
2069	projection	986,792	0.6–1.7 million	12,036	12,118	1.84	73.2
2070	projection	984,636	0.6–1.7 million	11,934	12,149	1.83	73.4
2071	projection	982,144	0.5–1.7 million	11,813	12,184	1.83	73.5
2072	projection	979,698	0.5–1.8 million	11,705	12,203	1.82	73.6
2073	projection	977,148	0.5–1.8 million	11,594	12,221	1.82	73.7
2074	projection	974,540	0.5–1.8 million	11,493	12,240	1.82	73.8
2075	projection	971,800	0.5–1.8 million	11,382	12,248	1.81	74.0
2076	projection	969,066	0.5–1.9 million	11,270	12,261	1.81	74.1
2077	projection	966,312	0.5–1.9 million	11,174	12,265	1.81	74.2
2078	projection	963,605	0.5–1.9 million	11,078	12,274	1.81	74.4
2079	projection	960,824	0.5–1.9 million	10,978	12,278	1.80	74.5
2080	projection	957,734	0.5–2.0 million	10,862	12,290	1.80	74.6
2081	projection	954,516	0.4–2.0 million	10,749	12,289	1.80	74.7
2082	projection	951,174	0.4–2.0 million	10,638	12,282	1.79	74.9
2083	projection	947,853	0.4–2.1 million	10,523	12,295	1.79	75.0
2084	projection	944,453	0.4–2.1 million	10,428	12,303	1.79	75.1
2085	projection	940,992	0.4–2.1 million	10,324	12,305	1.79	75.3
2086	projection	937,330	0.4–2.1 million	10,230	12,320	1.78	75.4
2087	projection	933,587	0.4–2.2 million	10,146	12,311	1.78	75.5
2088	projection	929,919	0.4–2.2 million	10,053	12,311	1.78	75.7
2089	projection	926,261	0.4–2.2 million	9,977	12,325	1.78	75.8
2090	projection	922,528	0.4–2.3 million	9,899	12,329	1.78	75.9
2091	projection	918,799	0.4–2.3 million	9,828	12,330	1.78	76.0
2092	projection	914,966	0.3–2.3 million	9,756	12,333	1.78	76.2
2093	projection	911,170	0.3–2.3 million	9,686	12,348	1.78	76.3
2094	projection	907,195	0.3–2.4 million	9,602	12,344	1.77	76.4
2095	projection	903,125	0.3–2.4 million	9,526	12,340	1.77	76.5
2096	projection	898,945	0.3–2.4 million	9,444	12,339	1.77	76.7
2097	projection	894,752	0.3–2.5 million	9,372	12,338	1.77	76.8
2098	projection	890,551	0.3–2.5 million	9,297	12,324	1.77	76.9
2099	projection	886,129	0.3–2.6 million	9,206	12,310	1.76	77.0
2100	projection	881,621	0.3–2.6 million	9,135	12,290	1.76	77.2

Show the numbers: Fiji, mid-2026, by single year of age

Fiji: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	8,305	7,780
1	8,306	7,780
2	8,282	7,764
3	8,264	7,753
4	8,330	7,813
5	8,396	7,891
6	8,466	7,990
7	8,548	8,110
8	8,616	8,232
9	8,706	8,372
10	8,775	8,490
11	8,766	8,534
12	8,676	8,502
13	8,520	8,410
14	8,354	8,301
15	8,288	8,286
16	8,292	8,335
17	8,272	8,354
18	8,224	8,351
19	8,092	8,248
20	7,873	8,029
21	7,670	7,818
22	7,512	7,655
23	7,369	7,508
24	7,209	7,341
25	7,063	7,176
26	7,022	7,112
27	7,064	7,134
28	7,143	7,187
29	7,273	7,281
30	7,306	7,292
31	7,214	7,198
32	7,176	7,153
33	7,201	7,164
34	7,214	7,170
35	7,168	7,130
36	7,054	7,030
37	6,936	6,923
38	6,844	6,838
39	6,750	6,745
40	6,692	6,714
41	6,797	6,831
42	6,872	6,880
43	6,747	6,752
44	6,560	6,570
45	6,356	6,365
46	6,146	6,153
47	5,928	5,932
48	5,671	5,674
49	5,415	5,414
50	5,116	5,106
51	4,714	4,700
52	4,425	4,419
53	4,342	4,346
54	4,344	4,359
55	4,342	4,372
56	4,302	4,364
57	4,226	4,332
58	4,123	4,278
59	4,035	4,234
60	3,926	4,176
61	3,800	4,102
62	3,690	4,012
63	3,532	3,870
64	3,275	3,632
65	3,024	3,396
66	2,825	3,219
67	2,606	3,022
68	2,375	2,809
69	2,148	2,597
70	1,934	2,388
71	1,732	2,184
72	1,536	1,991
73	1,355	1,816
74	1,181	1,646
75	1,012	1,469
76	906	1,354
77	825	1,271
78	724	1,159
79	621	1,035
80	519	896
81	426	760
82	350	651
83	286	562
84	226	478
85	176	392
86	134	316
87	100	252
88	72	197
89	52	150
90	35	112
91	23	82
92	14	57
93	9	38
94	5	25
95	3	16
96	1	10
97	1	6
98	0	3
99	0	1
100+	0	1

FJI · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Fiji, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

FJI · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Fiji

On the UN's projection, Fiji will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2046: 679,541 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 612,446.

100 aged 15–64

41 children

10 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 46 years: 2027–2072.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

FJI · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Fiji, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Fiji loses 4,154 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 473 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 50 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was -641 (1956); its biggest loss, 12,448 (1995).

In 2024, 14,362 people living in Fiji had been born in another country, 2 of every 100 people there, against 2 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

FJI · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Fiji

Of every 100 babies born in Fiji in 2023, 5 had a mother under 20, 79 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 16 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 15 under 20 and 13 aged 35 or older.

1950
15 · 72 · 13

2023
5 · 79 · 16

2050 · projected
3 · 76 · 21

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023: 16,631
Average age when women have a baby: 28.8 years; 28.6 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 21; 131 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Fiji by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	16	4	20	0	0	0
15–19	1,975	1,709	1,966	865	477	176
20–24	4,018	6,993	7,244	4,487	3,242	1,354
25–29	3,278	5,506	5,466	4,958	3,857	2,528
30–34	2,092	2,676	3,515	3,637	3,448	2,808
35–39	1,183	1,315	1,795	1,989	2,189	1,745
40–44	401	410	422	648	704	485
45–49	73	85	27	45	49	38
50–54	3	6	2	2	2	1
All babies	13,039	18,704	20,457	16,631	13,968	9,135

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

FJI · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Fiji

In Fiji, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 57.7 (95% range 56.9–58.9), out of 65.5 in all. The years in less than full health come to 7.8, below the world's 9.5: shorter lives leave fewer years in which to be ill.

Women

58.7 in full health, 9.0 not: 67.7 years

Men

56.7 in full health, 6.8 not: 63.5 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 58.7 healthy years of 67.7. Men: 56.7 of 63.5. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 59.7.

FJI · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Fiji

At the end of 2025, Fiji was hosting 46 people who had crossed a border into it, fewer than 1 in every 10,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad46
Fiji nationals abroad2,401

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: one square stands for 50 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Fiji living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 20 people asked for asylum in Fiji for the first time; 1,208 people from Fiji asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Fiji whose claims were decided that year, 9 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

FJI · of every 100 people

How people live in Fiji

Of every 100 people in Fiji in 2025, 30 lived in a city, 26 in a town or suburb and 44 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

4.1 of every 100 have no electricity at home (2024). 25.3 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

FJI · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Fiji went in school

Of every 100 adults in Fiji in 2020, 1 never went to school and 47 finished upper secondary or went further.

1 never went to school 4 some primary 21 finished primary 27 finished lower secondary 25 finished upper secondary 22 studied after school

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2040; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2060.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

FJI · cities · 2025

Cities in Fiji

Fiji had 2 cities in 2025, home to 279,192 people.

Suva225,882
Lautoka53,310

How to read this: the 2 largest cities in 2025, bars on one scale. A city is the whole built-up area on the UN's rule, not the city's own boundary.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Fiji are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.