Fiji
Key Statistics
Data are 2024 UN data and may differ from national statistics agencies.
14000
Immigrant Population
1.5%
Immigrant Share of Total Population
181000
Emigrant Population
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Fiji on the Front Lines of Climate Mobility
Few nations have experienced climate hazards as directly as Fiji, and perhaps none have planned more proactively to relocate communities away from vulnerable places. Yet for many Fijians, the choice to leave home is a difficult one.
Where Are All the Climate Migrants? Explaining Immobility amid Environmental Change
Climate policy rarely addresses people who cannot leave, yet "trapped” populations face the gravest risks from climate change. Giving people the choice to stay or go is key to effective climate adaptation.
New Approaches to Climate Change and Migration: Building the Adaptive Capacity of Mobile Populations
As climate change intensifies displacement, new policy frameworks are needed to build the adaptive capacity of mobile populations and fill shortcomings in governance.
No Retreat: Climate Change and Voluntary Immobility in the Pacific Islands
Most Pacific Island communities threatened by climate change prefer to stay, viewing retreat as a last resort and immobility as an act of cultural self-determination.
Fiji Islands: From Immigration to Emigration
Three coups from 1987 to 2000 triggered mass emigration from Fiji.
