Indo-Fijians

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Indo-Fijians (Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी के हिंदुस्तानी) are Fiji nationals of South Asian descent whose ancestors were indentured labourers. Indo-Fijians trace their ancestry to various regions of the Indian subcontinent. The demographic proportion of Indo-Fijians within Fiji has changed significantly since the late twentieth century. After constituting a majority of approximately 52% of the national population in the late 20th century, the community has declined to roughly 33% of the total population as of 2017, and down from 37% a decade prior. This demographic contraction was primarily initiated by the 1987 Fijian coups d'état, which prompted large-scale emigration due to political instability and concerns over increasingly hostile indigenous ethnic nationalism. Ongoing outward migration to countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States, combined with a sharp decrease in fertility rates below the population replacement level, has sustained the population decline into...

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