Fiji

OceaniaCapital city: SuvaCapital metro: SuvaPrime Minister: Sitiveni RabukaPresident: Wiliame Katonivere
2026 population
903K
Rank #168 globally
Area
18k km² (7k sq mi)
Metros tracked
3
51% of population in metros
Composite score
7.0
Rank #114 globally

population: Natl annual projection (1 Jan 2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 3 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography3 metros

Fiji metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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3 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 3 tracked metros
3 metros
#523Suva★ Capital▲ Largest
4.6
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions

15 entries listed under Fiji across 2 types. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

15 total

Dependencies (1)

📋 At a glance
Official languages
English, Fijian, Fiji Hindi
Legislature
Parliament of Fiji
Demonym
Fijian
Time zone
UTC+12:00
Driving side
Left
Calling code
+679
Internet TLD
.fj
ISO 3166
FJ
Established
1970
Highest point
Mount Tomanivi (1,324 m (4,344 ft))
National anthem
God Bless Fiji

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Human Dev. Index
#110 / 191
0.731
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#159 / 193
$6.2B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#102 / 193
$6.6k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#107 / 190
$16.3k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#105 / 192
$6.2k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#151 / 194
67.5 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
27.7 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#108 / 194
60%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
0.5%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#133 / 193
51/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#143 / 193
1.5%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#61 / 175
0.75
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#39 / 166
30.7
World Bank · 2019
Internet users
#111 / 193
75%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#5 / 185
-1.4%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#71 / 192
1.6 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#53 / 186
63%
Ember · 2024

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations3 full memberships

Political & Economic

Regional

Subregional

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History25 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Wiliame Katonivere✦ Current

2021Present

President

Tenure: in office

Naiqama Lalabalavu

20242021

President

Sitiveni Rabuka✦ Current

2022Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 3y 6m

Wiliame Katonivere

20212024

President

Tenure: 3y 0m

Jioji Konrote

20152021

President

Tenure: 6y 0m

Frank Bainimarama

20142022

Prime Minister

Tenure: 8y 3m

Epeli Nailatikau

20092015

President

Tenure: 6y 3m

Frank Bainimarama

20072014

Prime Minister

Tenure: 7y 8m

Josefa Iloilo

20072009

President

Tenure: 2y 6m

Jona Senilagakali

20062007

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 0m

Laisenia Qarase

20012006

Prime Minister

Tenure: 5y 8m

Tevita Momoedonu

20012001

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 0m
Show all 25 leaders

Josefa Iloilo

20002006

President

Tenure: 6y 4m

Laisenia Qarase

20002001

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 8m

Tevita Momoedonu

20002000

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 0m

Mahendra Chaudhry

19992000

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 0m

Kamisese Mara

19932000

President

Tenure: 6y 5m

Sitiveni Rabuka

19921999

Prime Minister

Tenure: 6y 11m

Kamisese Mara

19871992

Prime Minister

Tenure: 4y 5m

Penaia Ganilau

19871993

President

Tenure: 6y 0m

Timoci Bavadra

19871987

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 1m

Penaia Ganilau

19831987

President

Tenure: 4y 7m

George Cakobau

19731983

President

Tenure: 10y 0m

Kamisese Mara

19701987

Prime Minister

Tenure: 16y 6m

Robert Sidney Foster

19701973

President

Tenure: 2y 3m
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#108 · 0.1%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Fiji · share of world power, 1970–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
924k
#162 in the world
Since 1800
7.08×
from 131k
Peak
2023
at its largest now
Share of world
0.01%
0.01% in 1800
234k469k703k937k18001850190019502000
Fiji · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Fiji: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak on the median
2054
1.0m on the UN median
2050
1.0m
95% band 759k to 1.3m
2100
879k
95% band 277k to 2.6m
2100 against 2025
0.94×
median falling from 2055
Deaths outnumber births
from 2069
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
688k1.4m2.1m2.8m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
13k born · 6k died · -1k net migration
TFR 6.52 · life expectancy 51.7 · median age 16.8
1960
18k born · 4k died · -981 net migration
TFR 6.36 · life expectancy 58.6 · median age 15.6
1970
19k born · 4k died · -4k net migration
TFR 4.71 · life expectancy 61.7 · median age 16.1
1980
22k born · 5k died · -2k net migration
TFR 4.04 · life expectancy 62.4 · median age 18.3
1990
23k born · 5k died · -11k net migration
TFR 3.39 · life expectancy 65.1 · median age 19.9
2000
20k born · 6k died · -6k net migration
TFR 2.99 · life expectancy 66.2 · median age 21.4
2010
20k born · 7k died · -10k net migration
TFR 2.70 · life expectancy 66.8 · median age 24.3
2020
17k born · 8k died · -6k net migration
TFR 2.36 · life expectancy 66.9 · median age 27.1
Show all 16 decades
2030
16k born · 9k died · -3k net migration
TFR 2.16 · life expectancy 68.4 · median age 29.0
2040
15k born · 10k died · -3k net migration
TFR 2.03 · life expectancy 69.7 · median age 30.9
2050
14k born · 11k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.93 · life expectancy 70.9 · median age 33.3
2060
13k born · 12k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.88 · life expectancy 72.2 · median age 35.5
2070
12k born · 12k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.83 · life expectancy 73.4 · median age 37.3
2080
11k born · 12k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.80 · life expectancy 74.6 · median age 39.2
2090
10k born · 12k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.78 · life expectancy 75.9 · median age 41.0
2100
9k born · 12k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.76 · life expectancy 77.2 · median age 42.3

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

Fiji on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.

🏟️ League Hubs

Domestic league portals that operate in Fiji: 1 league.