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The total population of Germany is 82,293,457 people. The people in Germany speak the German language. The linguistic diversity of Germany is vaguely diverse according to a fractionation scale, which is 0.1642 for Germany. The average age is around 46.1 years. Life expectancy in Germany is 81 years. The female birth rate in Germany is 1.5. About 25% of the population in Germany are obese. Ethnic diversity is almost uniform according to a fractionation scale, which is 0.1682 for Germany. Details on the language, religion, age, gender distribution and advancement of people in Germany can be found in the sections below, as well as the section on education in the country.

Population
In Germany, the population density is 228 inhabitants per square kilometer (593 per square mile). Based on these statistics, this country is considered densely populated. The total population of Germany is 82,293,457 people. Germany has approximately 12,005,690 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in Germany make up 4.3 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. Immigrants in Germany make up 11.9 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. The ethnic diversity of Germany is almost uniform according to a fractionation scale according to ethnic affiliation. Ethnic Fractionation (EF) deals with the number, size, socioeconomic distribution, and geographic location of diverse cultural groups, usually within a state or some other demarcated area. Specific cultural characteristics can refer to language, skin color, religion, ethnicity, customs and traditions, history, or other distinctive criteria, alone or in combination. These characteristics are often used for social exclusion and power monopolization. The index of ethnic fractionation in Germany is 0.1682. This means that the people living in Germany come from a narrow group of ethnic groups that are all related to one another. EF is usually measured as 1 minus the Herfindahl concentration index of ethnolinguistic group proportions, which reflects the probability that two randomly drawn individuals from the population belong to different groups. The theoretical maximum of EF of 1 means that each person belongs to a different group. Below you will find statistics from Germany on median age and gender distribution in different age groups.

Age
The average age is around 46.1 years. The median age for men is 45.1 years, while the median age for women is 47.2 years.

Gender
The sex ratio, or number of males per female (estimated at birth), is 1.055. It can be further broken down into the following categories: sex ratio under 15 - 1.05; sex ratio from 15 to 64 - 1.04; sex ratio over 64 - 0.72; Overall sex ratio - 0.97. The overall sex ratio differs from the sex ratio estimated at birth. This is because some newborns are included in the sex ratio estimated at birth, but die within the first few weeks of life and are not included in the overall sex ratio.

Religion
The majority religion in Germany is Christianity, whose adherents make up 68.7% of all religious believers in the country. Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as presented in the New Testament. Christianity is the largest religion in the world with over 2.4 billion followers known as Christians. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind, whose coming as Christ or Messiah was prophesied in the Old Testament. In addition to Christianity, there are some followers of folk religions in Germany. Germany's religious diversity is quite diverse according to a fractional scale based on the number of religions in Germany. The index of religious fractionalization in Germany is 0.6571. This value means that there are several major religions in Germany that are evenly distributed.