Fijians by 21,000
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Population
Indians Outnumber Fijians by 21,000
THE Indian population of Fi reached a total of 169.4 t 21,275 more than the population.
The 1956 Census totals shov between 1946 and 1956, the pt tion of Fiji increased by one; —by 86,099 from 259,638 to 3i In 1946, the Indian popu was 120,414, about 40 per ceni than it is to-day.
The Fijian increase was, by parison, only 25.46 per cent -118,070 to 148,314.
The biggest percentage in* however, was in the small gro Chinese. This was 44.5 per from 2,874 to 4,155.
Europeans increased by 1,808 4,595 to 6,402 (39.3 per cent.! part-Europeans from 6,142 tc (27.1 per cent.) Indians now account for 49 per cent, of the popu against 46.3 per cent, in 194 f the Fijian percentage has di from nearly 45.5 per cent, in I less than 42 per cent, last 3 Other figures (1946 —t 0t a. brackets), were: Rotumans, (3,313) ; other Pacific Isla 5,320 (3,717) ; all “others”, 91 The figures showed that th between the sexes was grai lessening. In 1956 there 178,475 males and 167,262 fe against 136,731 males and females in 1946.