Spread Overseas
With political upheavals in Fiji beginning with the first military coup in 1987, large numbers of Indo-Fijians have since migrated overseas and at present there are significant communities of Indo-Fijian expatriates in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Smaller communities also reside on other Pacific islands and Britain. The last census in each of the countries where Fijian Hindi is spoken (counting Indo-Fijians who were born in Fiji) provides the following figures:
| Country | Number of Fiji born Indo-Fijians |
|---|---|
| Fiji | 313,798 |
| New Zealand | 27,882 |
| Australia | 27,542 |
| United States | 24,345 |
| Canada | 22,770 |
| Tonga | 310 |
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