Fiji
East Asia & Pacific · Upper middle income· 929K inhabitants
Last updated: August 1, 2025
Futures readiness profile
Key insights: Fiji
Fiji lags behind global peers in Innovation (30, 24th percentile). The remaining dimensions are closer to the global average, but none demonstrate global leadership or advanced futures readiness. Broad-based, high-impact interventions are needed to drive overall education futures readiness and resilience.
Composite GEFRI Score
56.33
60th percentile
Higher scores indicate greater education futures readiness
Component scores
School Access and Gender Parity78.87
Above global avg. · 66th %-tile
Governance56.05
Above global avg. · 71st %-tile
Captures the effectiveness and quality of policies, regulations, and governance that shape the educational environment.
Infrastructure60.48
Near the global average · 43rd %-tile
Measures the availability and quality of basic digital and electrical infrastructure that supports education.
Innovation30.19
Below global avg. · 24th %-tile
Reflects a country’s capacity to foster, produce, and apply new knowledge and technology in society and education.
Human Capital56.05
Above global avg. · 63rd %-tile
Assesses the educational attainment and capacity of a country’s population, focusing on access and completion at secondary and tertiary levels as well as literacy.
Regional peers: East Asia & Pacific
| Global rank | Regional rank | Country | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | Korea, Rep. | 80.56 |
| 4 | 2 | Singapore | 79.74 |
| 6 | 3 | Hong Kong SAR, China | 79.17 |
| 8 | 4 | Australia | 78.37 |
| 10 | 5 | Japan | 78.21 |
| 17 | 6 | New Zealand | 75.45 |
| — | — | Northern Mariana Islands(microstate) | 71.06 |
| — | — | New Caledonia(microstate) | 70.30 |
| — | — | Guam(microstate) | 69.43 |
| — | — | American Samoa(microstate) | 68.89 |
| — | — | French Polynesia(microstate) | 68.49 |
| 45 | 7 | China | 64.06 |
| 48 | 8 | Thailand | 62.55 |
| 50 | 9 | Malaysia | 62.46 |
| 53 | 10 | Brunei Darussalam | 61.16 |
| 61 | 11 | Indonesia | 59.35 |
| 63 | 12 | Mongolia | 59.03 |
| 67 | 13 | Macao SAR, China | 57.90 |
| — | — | Palau(microstate) | 57.43 |
| — | — | Tuvalu(microstate) | 57.25 |
| 71 | 14 | Fiji | 56.33 |
| 72 | 15 | Viet Nam | 56.23 |
| 78 | 16 | Philippines | 55.27 |
| — | — | Nauru(microstate) | 55.08 |
| — | — | Kiribati(microstate) | 52.20 |
| — | — | Samoa(microstate) | 51.43 |
| — | — | Tonga(microstate) | 50.30 |
| 105 | 17 | Timor-Leste | 47.59 |
| — | — | Micronesia, Fed. Sts.(microstate) | 46.56 |
| 110 | 18 | Korea, Dem. People's Rep. | 44.93 |
| — | — | Marshall Islands(microstate) | 44.63 |
| 122 | 19 | Vanuatu | 40.16 |
| 126 | 20 | Cambodia | 36.51 |
| 131 | 21 | Myanmar | 33.54 |
| 132 | 22 | Solomon Islands | 33.24 |
| 136 | 23 | Lao PDR | 31.84 |
| 150 | 24 | Papua New Guinea | 26.23 |