The total population of Denmark is 5,754,356 people. The people of Denmark speak the Danish language. The linguistic diversity of Denmark is vaguely diverse according to a fractionation scale, which is 0.1049 for Denmark. The average age is around 41.6 years. Life expectancy in Denmark is 80. Female fertility rate in Denmark is 1.7. Around 18% of the Danish population is obese. Ethnic diversity is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale, which for Denmark is 0.0819. Details on the language, religion, age, gender distribution and advancement of the people of Denmark can be found in the sections below, as well as the section on education in the country.

population
In Denmark, the population density is 131 people per square kilometer (341 per square mile). Based on these statistics, this country is considered densely populated. The total population of Denmark is 5,754,356 people. Denmark has approximately 572,520 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in Denmark account for 0.3 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. Immigrants in Denmark account for 9.9 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. Denmark's ethnic diversity is nearly uniform according to a fractionation scale based on ethnicity. 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 Denmark is 0.0819. This means that the people living in Denmark come from a narrow group of ethnic groups that are all related to each other. 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. Read Denmark's median age and gender distribution statistics at different ages below.

Age
The average age is around 41.6 years. The average age for men is 40.7 and the average age for women is 42.5.

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 - 1.01; sex ratio over 64 - 0.78; Overall sex ratio - 0.98. 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 Denmark is Christianity, whose adherents make up 83.5% 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. Besides Christianity, there are several other religions in the country. Other religions in Denmark are Christianity, folk religions, Judaism. Denmark's religious diversity is vaguely diverse according to a fractionation scale based on the number of religions in Denmark. The index of religious fractionation in Denmark is 0.2333. This score means that within the country there is a major belief with a few other subordinate beliefs.