Environment : Fiji, the national state of the environment report (SOE)

Fiji's 1986 population of 737,200 at a density of 39.1 persons per square kilometre can be considered modest, but this figureconcealsaccentuated densities in excessof 170 per square kilometre of arableland. Over 60% of the population resides in rural areas, but urban drift is significant and increasing.