Fiji: population and ages

In mid-1950 there were 310,000 people, so the population is now 3.0 times as large.

The UN projects 16,300 births and 8,960 deaths in 2026, 7,380 more births than deaths.

The UN projects the first year with more deaths than births in 2069.

More people leave than move in: net migration in 2026 is projected at minus 3,390.

The median age is 28.3, which is 2.8 years below the world’s 31.1.

27% of the people are under 15 and 6.7% are 65 or older (world: 24% and 11%).

The UN projects that people aged 65 and over will outnumber children under 15 from 2082.

Women have 2.2 children on average at today’s rates (world: 2.2), against 6.5 in 1950.

Life expectancy at birth is 67.8 years, below the world’s 73.8. In 1950 it was 51.7.

For mid-2050 the UN projects 1 million people, 6.7% more than now, with a median age of 33.3.

By the death rates of 2023, life expectancy at birth was 67.3 years. People who had reached 65 could expect 13.3 more years for women and 10.8 for men.

On 1 January 2026, there are 10.1 people aged 65 or more for every 100 aged 15 to 64. For 2050, the UN projects 15.4.

For 2100 the UN projects a population of 879,000, with a 95 percent prediction interval of 277,000 to 2.62 million.

Life expectancy at birth is a period measure. It sums up the death rates of one year and is not a forecast of how long the babies born that year will live.

In mid-2024, 14,400 international migrants lived here, 1.5% of the population.

In mid-2024, 181,000 people from here lived in other countries.