Property in Fiji

Abstract

Fiji is a land of islands: about 840 of them, ranging in size from 390 sq. km to about 1 sq. km. Viti Levu is the biggest, on which lives the majority of the population. Of all the island states in the South Pacific, Fiji is unusual in that the majority of the population is not indigenous — at the last census which gave a total population of 690,000, only 48 per cent were found to be indigenous Fijians, yet these people own 84 per cent of the total land area on the customary land tenure system. The remaining land is either Crown land (nine per cent of the total) or freehold land (seven per cent of the total).

Citation

Greenwood, D.W. and Miller, S. (1986), "Property in Fiji", Property Management, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 240-250. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006627